Textured Watercolour Journal Page

Hello friends! I hope you had a great weekend! We spent it with family, which was lovely. This  week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Flora & Fauna theme. I hope you will be able to join us.

I made an art journal page in my Small Creative Journal this week and had fun experimenting with some watercolour techniques to get interesting textures. After having done a salt technique on a scrapbooking layout a few weeks ago, I wanted to play more with this technique since it was several years ago since I last used it. I also used cling wrap and I will do a tutorial on this a little later, I was in a bit of a hurry this week. 

I worked on watercolour paper and started out by laying down a wash on the background, using two shades of blue, Burnt Umber and a bit of purple. The darker colour is a mix of Ultramarine and Burnt Umber. Salt was sprinkled into the wet paint, not right away, but before it dried completely. As you can see, the effect is more dramatic than on my Watercolour Words layout, where the paint dried too quickly on the smooth paper surface.


The ground was done by first painting a hill, dropping blue paint right into the brown. I had already prepared a piece of cling wrap, and pressed it into the paint. Leave until the paint is dry. I love this technique.

When the paint was dry, I stamped my favourite bird stamp, misting the stamp with water after inking. I also stamped the corners with the Specks stamp, using Jet Black ink.

I really like this Tim Holtz sentiment stamp and have used the larger version of it before, but I don't think I had inked up this smaller version.

The Wildflowers were die cut from old book paper and from white paper, and inked slightly. I painted a shadow along the one side of the flowers.


The title was die cut from a piece left-over from experimenting, and from white paper, which was used as a shadow. Underneath, there is a piece of dyed cheesecloth that I found on my desk.

At the bottom of the page, I stamped more specks, and an alphabet border.

I hope you will join us in our Flora & Fauna challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Sizzix WILDFLOWERS Thinlits Die 661190	Winsor Newton COTMAN WATERCOLORS PLUS 12 Tube Set With Palette	Tim Holtz URBAN CHIC	Tim Holtz CRACKS & SPECKS	Tim Holtz TYPOGRAPHY
Tim Holtz MINI ORNATES	Tim Holtz Sizzix ADVENTURE WORDS SCRIPT	Tim Holtz Sizzix CELEBRATION WORDS SCRIPT	Dyan Reaveley SMALL CREATIVE JOURNAL Ranger	Canson MONTVAL SPIRAL WATERCOLOR 9x12
Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER	Tim Holtz Distress Ink GROUND ESPRESSO	Tim Holtz Distress Ink CHIPPED SAPPHIRE	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain ANTIQUE LINEN
Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain GROUND ESPRESSO	Ranger Inkssentials PIPETTE	Darice 6 WELL PAINT PALETTE Plastic Tray	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 4 x 4.5
We R Memory Keepers Cropadile CORNER CHOMPER	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix MAGNETIC PLATFORM
Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT PAPER TRIMMER

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