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Celebrate this day – watercolour technique card

May 19, 2014 Altenew, Clearly Besotted, Uncategorized, Watercolour technique

Hey everybody,
Sharing with you a card I made trying out freehand watercolour painting.

To be honest I did trace over the stamped image on vellum on to the cardstock to use as a guide. The stamped image is from Clearly Besotted stamp set called Happy Everything. The sentiment is from the new Super Script stamp set from Altenew. Here is my card.

Celebrate this day!
I tried my best to get some depth and shading on the flowers. Darn! it is hard because it is time consuming. I am not such a patient person. That is why my style is clean and simple 🙂  I think I like defined edges better than the softer blended edges of the image. So I stamped the image in Antique Linen distress ink after I finished my watercolouring and blended the edges a bit. I colour washed the background with blue. I finally added some shimmer with Wink of Stella pen.  
I am not completely happy with the result. When I look at it it looks out of focus. Not just in the photo above but also in real.I don’t know why it is happening?  Hey! I can now say I tried freehand watercolour technique – something out of my comfort zone lol!
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  1. Dawn Turley says

    May 19, 2014 at 10:21 am

    I really like the look you achieved Gayatri.

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  2. Mary-Anne V says

    May 19, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    I really like how this turned out…the card is so vibrant. You should try this again…it looks great.

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  3. WickedPixie says

    May 19, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    I think it is really pretty!! I especially love the way you painted the leaves! They seem to glow with sunlight! 🙂 Traci

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  4. vinita jain says

    May 19, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    Hi Gayatri

    They say that practice makes a man perfect. I think you did a pretty good job at attempting the freehand watercolouring technique.

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  5. Radhika says

    May 19, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    so pretty 🙂

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Hi! I am Gayatri. My love for creativity initiated this blog. In this blog I share all my handmade papercraft projects. I work for Simon Says Stamp and Taylored Expressions. I also design for Mudra Stamps. Apart from papercrafting, I also love gardening both indoors and outdoors, cooking vegetarian food and interior designing.
This blog is my mode of sharing my creativity with you. Hope you enjoy and get inspired.

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