This is the first card that I have really watercoloured – as in, I have coloured in the card rather than making a background. It is really fun and easier than I expected although I’m not kidding myself that I’ve mastered this. I will definitely need to get a book on watercolouring. But it is more gratifying than any colouring that I did with the blendabilities.

I used a mask that I’d previously snipped out so that I could have three lemons since the stamp only has one. I stamped the images in stazon black ink so that the lines wouldn’t run. Using the aquapainter is easier for me if I don’t have too much water in it – otherwise I seemed to be getting a bit of a lake on the paper. I coloured in the leaves using a drop wild wasabi re-inker which I put on a clear block. I put the brush into the drop and swirled it around a bit on the block so that I was diluting it and then checked the colour on scrap paper before colouring on the watercolour paper. After that I used so saffron for the lemons and did the same way. I started at the edges of the lemons and made those darker going lighter towards the middle.

The watercolour paper was 4.5″ by 3″ (a quarter sheet) which left some white space at the bottom which just didn’t seem to fit with a sentiment. So I trimmed a half an inch off it and then I was happy with it. I put a skinny mat of black around it and mounted it on a base of wild wasabi. I lined the envelope with the backgrounds DSP in wild wasabi.

See you tomorrow,

Liz