When I was making my card for the challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches I first made this card. I like it, but didn’t feel it had enough WOW factor to be my first Design Team card. Do pop over to the challenge site and check out the other cards and add one of your own.

I stamped the image from the retired Moon Lake set in archival basic black on watercolour paper and then used smoky slate for the body of the goose with an aquapainter. Where the water has shading I used marina mist and then pool party for more of the water and the top of the reeds. Very clean and simple. I purposely put the image in the bottom right hand side of the card leaving a lot of open space for the goose to swim into. A very thin mat of smoky slate worked as the frame – I realised that I usually use black and anytime there’s a “usually” it’s a good idea to make a change! Plus black overwhelmed the soft colours. The card base is pool party.

I find that fast fuse is the best for firmly attaching the watercolour paper to the card but I use the multipurpose liquid glue for everything else because of the extra wiggle time.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Here’s another card from the weekend – this one with watercolouring – it’s the same set as Saturday’s card but it’s quite different. I used a quarter sheet of the 6″ by 9″ water colour paper stamping the image from the Stampin’ Up! Moon Lake set in stazon black. I’m not especially fond of this black since it needs a special stamp cleaner but the water based black isn’t going to work too well with all the water!

Whilst giving the black a few moments to dry, I pulled out the stamp pads that I needed for the colouring – crumb cake, marina mist and wild wasabi. I also got out my refill for the memento black ink pad. After squishing the pads to get some ink on the lids, I started by colouring the goose in crumb cake using an aquapainter. I added extra colour onto the top of the goose’ back because (according to the picture I looked at on google) that’s how the goose is. I really like the aquapainter, it’s handy having the water in the brush although I don’t like there to be much at all or I end up with too much water on the paper.

I then coloured the tops of the reeds also using the crumb cake before moving onto the stems using wild wasabi. After that I used the marina mist for the water – I found that by going over the same areas multiple times I got a non uniform look which is what I wanted for the water. All that was left was to put a drop of the memento black refill onto a block and use that to colour in the neck and face of the goose.

I tried a number of different card bases and mats but it was a skinny black mat that really set it off along with a marina blue card base.

See you tomorrow,

Liz