I started making this card for the Brush It Up! Challenge (WT555 - 10/29/2015), and when I saw the Friday Free For All challenge (F4A297 - 10/30/15) to make a card with fall colors, I was able to make minor changes in the theme so it worked for both challenges. I love it when a card falls together like that!
The Brush It Up Challenge was to use a brush of some kind. Super easy to do with watercolors, so I upped the ante by using 2 different styles of watercolor brushes to vary the effect.
The leaf was colored with a regular large round watercolor brush - wet on wet technique using my new Peerless Watercolor sheets. Good golly, those paint sheets are fun to use!!!! The colors are vibrant and are amazingly easy to use, even a novice (that would be me!) can achieve an arty, cool result first time out. If you haven't checked out Peerless Watecolors, I highly recommend you scoot over to YouTube and watch some videos - prepare to be impressed!
The thanks panel was done using diluted ink from SU ink pads and a fan brush for watercoloring. It was also done wet on wet, but discovered that the dye ink wasn't as forgiving to use as the Peerless. To save the piece from total dullness, I added splatters and lines using SU Gorgeous Grunge stamps. I could have done this using the brush, but at this point I didn't want to ruin the final product. The stamps provided predictable results, this is one thing you cannot count on when doing watercolors!
Thanks for swinging by to peek at my brush-work fall leaf card. Happy Fall to you!
Date: Friday, October 30, 2015 GMT Views: 2285
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Stamps: Sentiment - SU Punch Bunch SU Gorgeous Grunge
Paper: Strathmore Watercolor paper 14#
Paper Size: A2
Ink: SU Old Olive,SU Baked Brown Sugar, Distress Ink Dried Marigol, PeerlessWatercolors(leaf)
Accessories: Peerless Watercolors, leaf Cheery Lynn Designs, table place card die Simon Says Stamps, #8 watercolor brush, fan brush, dimensionals, , Wink of Stells clear
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Sat, Oct 31, 2015 @ 1:43 AM
I tried using a fan brush when I was working on samples for this challenge...but discovered I'd need more practise!! You got great results with yours. Way to go with using two different brushes. And I hear you on stamps been ng reliable compared to brushwork and splattering. If not for the challenge, I think I'd have used. Work of Art!!
Its a lovely fall card, Susy, beautifully clean and simple, which I like to see in mixed media cards.
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Sat, Oct 31, 2015 @ 5:27 AM
Very cool! I love your salt technique, and the fall colors -- very nicely done!
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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