Skip to main content

Watercolor Bouquet Stencil...

Hi friends, Norine from The Velvet Lemon here, back again for a 2nd day in a row!

Today I'm sharing a piece of home decor that I made using the Watercolor Bouquet Stencil from Altenew and some stamps from the Forever and Always stamp set, also from Altenew.  Oh and HEY!  Have you see the gorgeous April Mood Board that was posted back here?  It's what I used to inspire the colors for this project!



Ok, where to start.  So I laid the big part of the stencil onto the watercolor paper and then used my real brush pens to color in the openings, going section by section and lifting the stencil up between sections to wet the ink with a paint brush and move the color around a little, even dragging it out and away from the shape in some places.  For this first step I used the lighter colors of the coral and green.


Then I let that air dry.  I mostly prefer air drying with watercolors because it's a nicer, more natural look than zapping it with a heat tool, but when I need to, I do use the heat tool too!  Then I went back and laid the detail portion of the stencil overtop of what I had already colored and painted.  It's placement doesn't have to be exact; it's a pretty forgiving stencil that way.  This time, I used the bolder colors to color over the 1st layer of color and then repeated the water coloring step.  I tried not to work the paper too hard, so that it wouldn't pill up and look ragged.


When the 2nd layer was dry, I went back a 3rd time with a fine Copic Liner pen and outlined the detail portion of the stencil.  Then I lifted the stencil and added more squiggles around where the stencil outlines were.  

The next step was to stamp the various sentiments from the Forever and Always stamp set.  Whenever you stamp onto textured watercolor paper it's a good idea to use a stamping tool like the MISTI so that you can repeat your stamping and get a good impression.

The final step was to mix up puddles of the same colors I'd "painted" with and splatter them onto the dried and stamped paper.  I may look for a frame for this piece, or I may just leave it on the clipboard like it's shown.  (I bought that clipboard at Staples several years ago, spray painted it white with chalk paint, and sanded the edges to give it that vintage, shabby chic look and I display a constantly changing assortment of art projects on it.)


Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!



Comments

  1. Jaw-dropping WOW!!!! This is fantastic!!!

    ReplyDelete
  2. AMAZING!!!!!! I love this!!!!!! I would frame it and smile every time I looked at this work of art! XX

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Baby Tags featuring the We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool!

Happy Monday! This is Kim Hamilton and I am so very excited to be sharing my first post with you for Butterfly Reflections Ink! This is making my first day back to work after a two-week break a happy one! I am sharing baby gift tags today, one of my friends is expecting and not sure what she is having so I made one of each! I used my  We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool  for the first time and loved it! I cut my own  Tim Holtz watercolor paper  to the size of tag I wanted (2 3/4 x 4 1/4) and cut the edges with my trimmer.  I stamped my sentiments that are by  Lawn Fawn Hello Baby  with VersaMark ink and used white embossing powder. For the girl tag I used a mix of Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry and Abandoned Coral  Distress Inks  and for the boy tag I used Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron  Distress Inks .  I sprayed both tags with some water and dabbed it off. I then stamped my images by My Favorite Things  Snuggle Bunnies  for the girl and Magical Dragons for th

Painting backwards....

Hello, hello!  Norine here from The Velvet Lemon blog .  It's been a week for introductions hasn't it, but let me just say how delighted I am to have been invited to join such a talented group of paper crafters, and to contribute here at Butterfly Reflections Ink!   Today I'm sharing with you, some cards I made by working backwards.  What do I mean, you wonder?  Well, it's a technique I sometimes enjoy doing, where you "smoosh" your water based ink pads on a craft mat, mist the colors with water and then drag your water color paper through it to create a pretty mess of color.     For today's cards, I wanted a blend of blues and greens (always a crowd pleaser) and yellows/pinks.  You will always be happier with the results when you keep the green/blues from overlapping with the yellow/pinks, because that just produces an unappealing mud color.   I used a variety of Tim Holtz Distress Inks for this project, but any water based inks w

Altenew’s 4th Anniversary Blog Hop Day 3 + Giveaway

Hey, hey BRI friends!  We're hopping today to celebrate the 4th Birthday of Altenew , one of our favorite stamping companies!  You should have arrived here from the Altenew blog , and we're glad you're here to share the excitement! There are prizes and inspiration and it's going to be FUN! With you today, is Norine from The Velvet Lemon  creating for Butterfly Reflections Ink  and I have some projects to share today, that I made using some recently released Altenew products .   First up, are these two cards created with the Mega Succulent stamp set .   I stamped the image onto water color paper using the MISTI , then turned on the music and sat and colored.   I used Faber Castell watercolor pencils so I could more easily control where the color would sit and then painted with a water brush .  I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of vellum, heat embossed with clear embossing powder to ensure that the ink wouldn't smudge, then tore the vel