OCC Watercolor Day 2

Today was another fun day in the Online Card Classes Watercolor for Card Makers class, in which we had a second day to explore watercolored backgrounds. I’m sharing two cards based on cards shown by Debby Hughes in today’s class. I’ve substituted stamps in my stash for those she used on her cards.

DayTwoRaspberry

DayTwoPeacock

Both cards use the Hero Arts Simple Leaf background stamp.  For the top card, I inked the stamp with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, gave the stamp about ten squirts of water with a Mini Mister, and pressed Ranger watercolor paper, smooth side down, onto the stamp. For the second card, I stamped with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink using the same method. To be honest, I’ve hardly used this stamp because I got stuck on it being a leaf motif. I like the Batik-like feel it gives, stamped with this technique.

Debby is a master at adding accents to her designs, in this case, black and white with touches of gold. I stamped an Impression Obsession Thin Line background stamp with VersaMark ink on vellum and heat-embossed it with Hero Arts gold powder. I used stripes of the heat-embossed vellum on both cards for a gold accent. Both card sentiments are from Hero Arts.

15 thoughts on “OCC Watercolor Day 2”

  1. Both cards came out beautifully – I like the clean background look that you got using this technique.

  2. These are stunning, Jean! The colours are so vibrant and the cards look really crisp even with all of the misting that was involved! Love the touches of gold on vellum too 🙂

  3. Wow, Jean, these are incredibly bright and happy and gorgeous cards!! Love, love!

    Thank you for all your help with the Feedburner issues. Sorry to answer here, but I don’t see an email address for you. (Mine is on my profile page.) I mentioned Comcast, because my non-Gmail email is Comcast.net and I am not getting my own posts, nor any of the other blogs that I subscribe to using my Comcast email. So Comcast must be blocking them, too. I have certainly taken for granted getting my favorites via my inboxes and I miss that!

    Have a great day! Hugs, Darnell

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