Watercolour Challenge

Yes thats right a watercolour challenge.  Pretty Pink Posh  (fantastic blog - you must visit) are hosting this wonderful challenge where you need to include watercoloring in your project.  I have had watercolour paints and pencils forever and never really used them on cards until last week.

Heres a sneak of a card I made a few days back.   I had tried colouring the image in pencils and then markers and just wasn't happy with it.  As I sat staring at my supplies I saw my watercolour pencils tucked away in a corner, I dusted them off and as they say the rest is history.

Then by absolute chance, luck or some other intervention I came across Kathy's (The Daily Marker) blog (another fantastic blog). Kathy did a post about the watercolour challenge and after watching a couple of her tutorials I was more than curious and in for a real treat. I was so inspired I stamped a little image called Patchwork Butterfly from Lili Of The Valley and proceeded to have another go.  I coloured him with the intention of cutting him out till I realised just how difficult that would be with all his "fluff.

I have to admit, because I was going to cut it out I wasn't overly careful with the rest of the card so had to improvise and cover a couple of splodges.   So I added (water coloured) the background and set to making the card.

I cut and stamped a little tag from a piece of card I had practiced on.  I'm actually really happy with how this turned out.  In fact I look at it and can't quite believe I did it. I think I am pretty much sold on water colouring and think its just what I have been looking for, just need to practice some more.  

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