Next lesson is lesson four and the challenge is Creative Watercolor Media.  After watching the videos for the lesson and reviewing the Altenew stamps that I had and I was ready to start planning.  I selected  several liquid/ re-inks- twisted citron and tumbled glass , to paint with and a half sheet of Canson watercolor paper.   The stamp set is Leaf Canopy outline. The set also has solid stamps and I have the matching dies.  I used Versamark  ink and an embossing buddy anti-static powder before stamping the outline leaf branches. Next, I applied gold embossing powder and heat set the branches. I rotated the paper to stamp another part of the paper and heat emboss the branches again.

 I used a small bubble paint palette to drop in the liquid re-inkers and added some water to the inks. Next, I used a large flat paint brush to apply  water on the paper.  The first was very light as that was okay for the background.  Next, I added more inked color to the leaves and some of the ink puddled to create some contrast and shading.  I used a heat tool to dry and move some of the  ink around.  I used  a fan brush to splatter the diluted tumbled blue glass to the background.  Next I used a curved scallop edge die from My Favorite Things to cut the bottom of the piece and then trimmed it to the quarter sheet for a horizontal card front.

Almost finished- I cut a small piece of white cardstock and covered it with the gold  stripe  wide washi tape.  I attached it to the bottom of the card front and then adhered the painted piece to the rest of the card. I stamped  hugs on a left over piece and die cut it using s small rectangle  size  I added some gold thread behind the tag and a piece owf foam tape to adhere it to the bottom of the card.

What I learned? I enjoy watercoloring  and have used many different mediums to paint.  This was the firs time I used liquid re-inkers to paint with. I was able to add depth/shading to the leaves just by adding more ‘paint’  to the leaves.  A new option to paint with and I have a small collection of re-inkers.  That’s a good thing.

Supplies

• Altenew Leaf Canopy – outline stamp
• Altenew wide gold stripe washi tape
• Ranger distress liquid re-inkers- Twisted Citron and Tumbled Glass
• Gold embossing powder
• Versamark embossing ink
• Embossing powder buddy
• Versamark blsck ink
• My Favorite Things scallop curved die and stitched rectangle
• Wide flat paint brush, round paint brush and fan brush for spalattering
• Heat gun
• Stamping platform
• Fiskars paper cutter
• Score pal scoring board
• White card stock