Cardmaking - Watercolours & Ink: Blue Flowers

Today we once again use a combination of watercolours and ink to produce a painting of flowers. We also use the drip technique again. However, this time we control the whole process a little more and we also make use of splattering to finish the painting. When we are done, we again turn it into a card.

I start this project by dripping three drops of water onto a sheet of sturdy watercolour paper. I manipulate the drops with my finger resemble flowers. Then I drop some blue ink onto the water puddles.

I let the ink dry completely before adding stems with a dip pen and black ink.

I add detail to the petals and centres of the flowers. I sign my name while I'm at it.

Then I use a very wet brush to pick up colour from my water palette. I splatter blue paint over the paper.

I add more splatters of paint in another shade of blue.

More splatters are added in black.

Lastly, I add white splatters from a tube of watercolour paint.

The finished painting.

When I search for coordinating papers to turn the painting into a card, I find a pre-cut frame that will work beautifully with this painting. I also find a sheet of cardboard to serve as a card.

I fold the cardboard in half to form the card.

I crop the painting to fit the frame.

I stick the frame onto the painting.

I then ink the edges of the frame.

I stick the frame with the painting onto the card.

Then I lay down a row of glue dots at the top of the card.

I stick some glitzy finishing touches onto the card.

The finished card.

You can watch a short compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/CPitRZOlpKA

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