Watercolouring Tutorial

Before joining Stampin' Up!, I had always admired the watercolured look on cards, but had never been brave enough to try it, thinking I just wasn't capable. After joining, I kept seeing all these great cards with people saying how easy it was, so I decided to get me some of the gorgeous SU! watercolour paper and give it a go. I'm so glad I did! It IS easy and the results always look great.

So, if you haven't tried it yet, get brave! Here's a tutorial for you to help get you started.

Step 1:

Stamp your image onto Stampin' Up! Watercolour paper in Basic Black or Staz On ink. It's important to use the watercolour paper, as it gives a much better result. The colours blend better and you don't get any pilling of the paper, as you sometimes can with standard cardstock.

Step 2:

Pick up your first colour with your aquapainter brush. You can use your aquapainter to watercolour with several mediums, including our watercolour crayons, pencils or even just our dye inks (just pick up the colour from the lid of the stamp pad). I prefer the watercolour crayons, myself.

Step 3:

Paint your colour along the lines of the image area you are colouring. For best results, start with the lines and then blend inwards. Don't worry if your colour is not darker along the lines when you blend in (as with the brown boat section in the picture), as you can come back and darken along the lines once that area is dry.

Step 4:

Continue to colour each area of your image, starting along the lines and blending in. Continue to pick up colour with your aquapainter as needed, but remember to start back at the lines each time you do, to keep the darkest areas near the lines of your image.

Step 5:

Once the image is dry, go back to the areas you want to add to. I went back to the brown boat area and the water area to darken the areas along the lines, as I wanted more definition there. Remember, it doesn't have to look perfect! In fact, I always think watercolouring looks better if it's less than perfect!

Now your image is ready to use on a card! Have fun!

Comments

[Kathleen]

Have recently discovered your blog and hope you don't mind that I've added a link back to this post on my blog.
I'm always on the lookout for tutorials to help me with my watercolouring so thanks for posting this.
Kathleen xx