Good afternoon, crafty buddies! I decided to have an hour's play at my crafty table this afternoon and wanted to find out if it is possible to watercolour a digi image...well, the answer is yes, sort of!?! Though I did break most of the rules of watercolour in the process! Firstly, printer ink is water based - not a good mix when it comes to watercolouring, but if you heatset the ink once printed and you're careful to use only the slightest amount of water on your brush, it's doable! Secondly, I don't have any watercolour card - now I'm sure this would have made my life a lot easier, but I printed my image onto the back of 250gsm linen cardstock (I'm pretty sure it had a bit of a coating on it, but what the heck!)...I know it's far from perfect...partly due to the fact that I haven't watercoloured in years, but I think it turned out okay?! Yes, the lines got a little fuzzy in places and my blending could've been better, but I just like the soft, hand painted effect that you don't get from alcohol pens...
When I'd finished my image and mounted it all onto my card, I stood it on my table and thought...'mmm, something's missing?'...now if I had half a brain, I would've thought to do a nice doodly border before I started, but no...everything was stuck down and finished - there was nothing else for it...out came the black border peel offs! Aaarghh!...
...5 minutes later, I was quite pleased with the stitchy look that the peel off borders had given and proceeded to get out my camera and take a pic to share...
Sometimes it's nice to just 'have a go' and see what happens - worst case scenario I'd have been chucking a piece of card in the recycling, best case scenario, I've ended up with a card I would be happy to send to someone...bonus!
Hope you all have a fabulous weekend - we're hoping to get final preparations done to Daisy, ready for the camping season...all we need now is a bit of nice weather and we're sorted!
Hugs,
Lisa x
5 comments:
How lovely Lisa....what fun to try something experimental and succeed. It looks great. Peel offs to the rescue and I think they look bril. Have a lovely weekend my friend. I'm glad your Daisy is fixed, I saw my human one today...LOL! Hugs xx
This is gorgeous Lisa! Your watercolours are so gentle and your blending is fab. There are so many painting programmes on TV at the moment I've been tempted to get my paints out as well! Now I know that you can watercolour a digi image, I'll have to give it a go! Those peel offs are a brilliant idea too!
Hugs, Karen xx
Your water-colouring looks beautiful here, very ingenious to use the back of linen card-stock in place of water colour paper too. It looks so delicate and pretty in these soft colours.
I have tons of peel-offs in a folder that I bought when I first started crafting and am gradually getting through them, they have their place still in card-making I think and are perfect for occasions like this.
Lorraine
A very beautiful card Lisa, the watercolouring looks amazing and I love the fab peel off borders too, really finishes it off. x
Hi Ella! It turned out absolutely GORGEOUS! Loooove the colors .. it's so perfect for Spring!
Hugs,
Elise
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