Playing Around With Watercoloring....

Sorry I haven't posted regularly.....my son (Kevin) just had tubes placed in his ears on Friday, so I have been giving him extra cuddle time!! My husband took the girls to a family friend's birthday party today. I stayed home with the patient! Here is a picture of the birthday card I made for her last night.

I had so much fun learning to watercolor at Convention that I keep playing around with different colors and techniques. I sat down with Kaitlin and Emma today and we used the aquapainters and re-inkers on different papers from my scrap box. I really like watercoloring on confetti cream and the watercolor paper of course. On Whisper White and Very Vanilla I would rather use my markers and a blender pen.

Watercoloring is easier than I thought. You don't need to be an artist to use this technique with rubber stamps, just a little time and patience. Since I began stamping, I always wanted to learn how to watercolor. I would see all of the beautiful samples in the catalogs and mini catalogs and fall in love with the stamp sets because you could watercolor with them. Then when I would try to color them in , lets just say it didn't come out the way I hoped...LOL! Anyway, there are a few sets I purchased last year that I think will be pulled out of the closet now!

I know a few other people that have purchased sets that look best when watercolored, and then didn't use it because they didn't actually know how to watercolor. If you are one of those people, send me an email so we can pick a day to get together. I would love to show you the techniques I learned at Convention. Trust me it isn't hard at all! It is definitely a technique you need demoed in person, but it is still easy to catch on to! I hope to hear from you soon....

Happy Stamping!