Watercolor Wonders

Welcome to the Stampin' Addicts Technique Blog Hop!  SA is celebrating it's second birthday this week.  SA is great place to learn and share Stampin' Up related ideas.  It is free so if you have not joined just click HERE for all the info.

If you are following the hop links you just arrived from Sara's blog where she showed us the chalkboard technique.  Pretty fun, eh?

For my portion of the hop, I am featuring techniques using the Watercolor Wonder Crayons.

The first technique is using the white crayon to make highlights.  Just color the areas you would like to highlight and then dab classic colored ink over the top.  The crayoned areas remain white.  I used the Fast and Fabulous stamp set for this and it really was fast.  I hope you think it is fabulous as well!

The next technique takes a little more time but is worth the effort.  To create the abstract background piece, I very lightly sponged versamark refill on glossy white cardstock.  I heat embossed it with black Stampin' Up embossing powder then randomly scribbled watercolor crayons over the top.  I misted this with water just a tiny bit as I wanted the stroke marks to remain visible.  Pretty jazzy!  Oh and by the way the cakes are painted with the crayons as well.  The crayons are perfect for traditional watercoloring.

For this card I used the watercolor crayons to add color to the newsprint DSP.  The flowers were punched with the scallop flower and boho blossom punches.  Then I scribbled around the outside edges and spritzed with water.  While they were wet I crumpled them up and shaped the flowers.  I plan to try these in a variety of colors.  

My last technique used for the tag on the card is the result of experimenting with gesso on whisper white cardstock.  I dabbed the gesso on- leaving little ridges in it.  After is was dry I colored over top and it gave a wonderful nubby texture to the colors.  In person, it is shiny white with bright specks of color like little candy sprinkles.  Very festive for a birthday party favor set.

I hope you have enjoyed these techniques and are ready to get your Watercolor Wonder Crayons out and try them!

Next on the birthday hop is Kim who will show us the faux flocking technique.  Enjoy!