I seem to plan a lot of my challenge cards at the weekend and so I’m always sliding in under the wire if I enter the CASology challenges since they end on Mondays.

The week’s challenge cue card is rather fun because it can be interpreted in a number of ways. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a mathematician and although I’ve managed to fight my need for symmetry quite successfully, I can’t go as far as torn edges! Not so far anyway. So since I haven’t embraced torn edges on my cards, I decided to go with a sympathy card. Sadly, I think that I’ll be needing one soon.

I started by stamping the leaves from the Remarkable You set in the archival basic black ink onto watercolour paper. It’s actually the first time I’ve inked this up – I’ve used all three of the flowers though. I really love this set, it’s great for watercolouring. I then stamped the sentiment using the same ink, it’s from Thoughts and Prayers in case you were wondering. I left the watercolouring for last because it would be irritating to mess up the sentiment after finishing the rest of the card and it gave the archival black a little more time to dry.

For the watercolouring I went back to mossy meadow again. I adore this colour. I tried to put a fairly pale wash of colour all over the leaves and then make it slightly darker where there was shading. My first attempt was too harsh with not much success at blending, but this one worked out better. I really like watercolouring even though I’m not great at it and since it’s a fairly casual medium (sometimes) it doesn’t seem to matter. I’d encourage you to grab an aquapainter and have a go. It’s very rewarding. And if you don’t have it yet, Remarkable You is a great set to start playing with watercolour.

I put a very skinny mat of basic black around the watercolour paper – it really makes it pop. And then onto a mossy meadow cardbase.

See you tomorrow,

Liz