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