Hello Beautiful!! -- How To Make An Easy Watercolor Background

Hello crafty Friends!  Today I'm sharing my card that features Honey Bee Stamps beautiful Floral Easel stamps and Honey Cuts!  I love red rubber stamps for the crisp images they stamp!  These are also perfect for "stamping" with water-based markers!  Read on for the details.

I began with a panel of Bristol Smooth.  (This cardstock is smoother than watercolor paper and still tolerates a good amount of moisture.)  I used my MISTI for this technique and chose the paintbrush/floral image and two small floral stamps from the Floral Easel stamp set to use for the background.  For this technique you will use the side of a brush tipped water-based dye ink pen to "color" the stamp.  I used Tombow Dual Brush pens, but I imagine that the Karin Brushmarkers or other similar pens may work as well.  

The small floral stamps were inked with a yellow and an orange ink.  The brushes are inked with a shade of pink.  I stamped the images onto the Bristol panel, then cleaned off the stamps and rearranged the stamps around the stamped images.  I then repeated these steps (use the same color for each stamp throughout) until the panel was filled.

I grabbed a couple screenshots from the video clip that I will have in a reel on my Instagram later today and hope you can check it out to see the details in action.  This shows the finished stamped panel.

Then I took a Mini-Mister filled with water and sprayed the panel a few times until the colors started to run just a bit.  Here's what it looked like before I dried it with my heat tool.

When the panel was dry I noticed that I had totally lost parts or all of the original stamped images.  I remedied that by putting each stamp, one at a time, onto a stamp block.  I used the Tombow marker to color the stamp and then stamped it over the previously stamped area.

Then I added pink, yellow, and orange splatters.  I also added some gold metallic paint splatters and set it aside to dry.

This was SO fun to create!  I trimmed the piece to 4" x 5-¼" and glued it to an A2 card base.  I set a large stamp block over the card while the glue dried.  This helps to eliminate any warping that may have happened.

Next I stamped the easel from the Floral Easel stamps onto more Bristol with clear embossing ink.  I added gold embossing powder and used my heat tool to set it.  Then I repeated the heat embossing by stamping the sentiment, also from the Floral Easel set, onto the easel.

Then I used the Tombow markers to quickly color the images.  To add some shading to the front of the easel, I used a light colored gray Tombow marker.  I felt it needed a bit more, so I used one of the stamps I used for the background and inked it with the gray marker and stamped it down onto the easel in the bottom left and also the upper right corners.

I cut the easel out with the coordinating Floral Easel die.  Then I used foam tape to adhere the easel to the card.  Then I added a bit of gold sparkle with some Back To Basics gem stickers.

This is such a fun technique and I hope I've inspired you to give this a try!  Thank you for stopping by, and I hope your day is wonderful!

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