Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Three - Lifting Card Three

Hi, this is my third card from the lifting class, I have one more panel but I think I want to maybe frame and keep that one...

I used some string from my stash, Spellbinders Fancy Framed Tags One and Archival Jet Black ink to stamp the saying from Hero Arts Birthday Sayings.
Thanks for looking.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day One and Two - Wet On Wet Card and Varigated Wash

Here is the start of the cards I have made from class :) This one was made from well . . . rejects. I had been testing each of my paper to find one I could possibly do the wet on wet technique with before I got a pad of Arches, none of them worked properly but I was able to salvage some by cutting out the butterflies :)

I used Lifestyle Crafts nesting butterfly dies to trace to make the wet on wet butterflies, Spellbinders lace ovals and Archival ink that I stamped off with a KaiserCraft sentiment.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day 5 - Lesson 4 Mini Take 2

I have these mini Prima Bloom watercolour panels so I decided to retry this technique on a smaller scale with less leaves for a simpler look.

I used Semco and Plaid One Stroke Brushes with Windsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day 5 - Lesson 4

For this painting I've used Monte Marte 300gsm paper. I was quite surprised how well this turned out on the cheaper paper. I was able to lift colours with no problems like I've had on some other papers. This was my first attempt so wanted to try on something other than my expensive papers to start lol.

I have also used Windsor & Newton Cotman pans, with Plaid One Stroke and Semco brushes.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Three - Lifting Take 2

This is my first attempt at this Technique on Saunders Waterford cold pressed 300gsm paper.

I also used Windsor & Newton Cotman watercolours and Plaid One Stroke and Semco brushes as well as the same stamp used in class with Stampin' Up ink.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day 3 - Negative Painting Take 2

I tried this technique again using Semco paper, the first layer of colour faded out a lot, very muted colours. I did a quick test on the back and they didn't fade quite as much but still were not very vibrant. I also used a finer brush this time for a little more detail!

I used Windsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours, Plaid One Stroke Brushes and Semco brushes with a Fiskars Creepy Crawly stamp (that's not a creepy crawly lol).
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day 5 Card Example One

Hey again, I really love this technique, it's so quick and easy. I know I overwork mine but I still love how they turned out. This is all done using a simple brush stroke and a round brush!

I used Prima Bloom Watercolour paper, #12 Plaid One Stroke Round Brush,  and Royal Langnickel tubes.

For this one I used the Windsor & Newton Cotman watercolours.

I can't wait to turn these into cards. I did as Jennifer suggested and used smaller panels to make these paintings. Much less intimidating!
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Five - Expressive Florals

This is by far my most favourite day! I had a play along with the first video. I still have a lot of learning to do but these are so much fun! I am having trouble with brush points. Hopefully when I get a couple of good brushes my results will be a little better!

I used Monte Marte 180gsm as well as Arches Cold Pressed 300gsm. I also used my Windsor & Newton Cotman set and my Royal Langnickel tubes.As you an see I'm posting the good, the bad and the ugly! lol
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Four - Lost and Found Details

This was a hard one, I made some mistakes and learnt some lessons along the way :) I mixed my own custom colour here using Windsor & Newton Cotman Intense Blue and Brushos in yellow and orange. I should have just mixed a dark mix and split in parts to make lighter washes but it didn't quite work out so I had to do a lot of fiddling but I got there in the end :) This one's on Arches 300gsm Cold Pressed paper.

I only had enough time for one technique from day 4 so far but I will come back to them. Day 5 and six are amazing techniques, again possibly only one from each lol...
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Three - Lifting

Hi, I know, tonnes of posts all at once... Sorry lol. I am using my phone net to do most of this so hope I don't go over haha! Extra big bill... So again I don't have the right paper for this technique and am still using Plaid One Stroke brushes that honestly just don't cut it for these types of techniques. For the following lifting attempts I used Rangers watercolour paper and I'm not 100% sure which watercolours set lol. Attempt one.

Attempt two.

I really am seeing how paper and brushes play a big part in these techniques! Attempt three

Hopefully I'm improving! Still struggling with leaves but I think better brushes will help!
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day 2 - Wet on Dry Roses

I am really struggling with the wet on dry roses. There are a few reasons. First I don't have the right paper (this one is coming), secondly the papers I do have dry super fast which thirdly could be from how hot it is in Australia lol. Also I am using Plaid One Stroke brushes as that's all I have in a big size... While they look like roses they are not soft and pretty like they should be... This is attempts one and two.

Three

My leaves leave a lot to be desired lol. Oh well practice makes perfect.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Two - Variegated Wash

The funny thing with the washes is that I actually started doing them pre class when I was doing my colour charts. I used the leftover paint on some in a cheap Monte Marte watercolour book to use up my leftover colours. I thought I could cut them up for cards at a later date...

During class I used the colours I attempted to do my butterflies, you will see why later...

Then I switched to Arches Cold Pressed 300gsm paper.

So far I've only actually completed one card  which you will see soon, so fingers crossed I can get some more done...
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Two - Simple Round Brush Flowers

I have to say I love love love the simple round brush flowers as they are fairly easy. I had kids watching me do them and then copying :) I started with a full page Monte Marte 180gsm paper with My Cotmans... I learnt a valuable lesson. This paper was very thirsty and I ended up using quarter of a pan of paint :O

Then I used A small Prima Paper with a Semco number 3 brush... Not great for watercolour...

And another smaller go at Monte Marte with Royal Langnickel tubes paints before finally moving onto Arches Cold Pressed.

Three together,

Unfortunately my prima panel ended up with paint on a corner but I'm hoping I can still salvage it!
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day One - Wet On Wet

Hi, I struggled with not so good papers for this technique... I did make some butterflies but the papers I was testing on didn't work well for this technique so I redid when I managed to get my hands on some Arches Cold Pressed. As my arches is only a small pad and a precious commodity I did a half card front sized panel.

And some practice butterfly runs...

I actually salvaged some of the butterflies to make a card or two ;)
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Glazing Chart

I used Windsor & Newton Cotman pan watercolours for this chart on Semco paper.

I think I should have tried this on a thicker paper. May try Ranger.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Color Wheel

Hi again, for my colour wheel I cheated and painted my colours then cut them out with Lifestyle Crafts nesting circles. This was about my 4th attempt as I tried tracing objects and kept wrecking it lol.

I used Semco 230gsm paper and Windsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours with Plaid One Stroke brushes.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Preclass Color Charts

These are my colour charts for Watercolor for Cardmakers. I used Windsor & Newton  Cotman watercolours on a variety of papers.

I have used Ranger heavyweight, Aldi Baroque 150gsm, Monte Marte 300gsm, Monte Marge 150gsm, Prima Bloom Collection and Semco 230gsm watercolour papers.
Getting my paint on!
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Ps still have no net :( Working on it :)

Stretch Your Stamps 2 Ombre Effects

Onto day 2 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes and today we are doing a little ombre. I used watercolour for this but you can use any colour medium. I used Windsor & Newton Cotman watercolours in turquoise. The background stamp is from Fiskars, white embossing powder from Hero Arts, a Spellbinders die cut in my Ebosser and the sentiment is from Kaisercraft.
Happy Scrappin'
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Stretch Your Stamps 2 Multi Layer Emboss Resist Part 3 Bonus

I couldn't waste this lovely piece I had left over from Stretch You Stamps 2 over at Online Card Classes so I decided to turn it into a card too. I added some Prima flowers and a bling brad to give the card a lift. The cardstock I chose for the card base fits right in between the orange and yellow mixing :)
Happy Scrappin'
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Stretch Your Stamps 2 Multi Layer Emboss Resist Part 2

Hiya, I am doing Stretch Your Stamps 2 over at Online Card Classes, it's running right now if you want to join in. The beauty of these clsses though is that you can do them whenever you want :) This card uses all the same products as the last one so I won't repost them here. The only difference is the die is from mpress and I've added glossy accents over the top and scattered some sequins about the place lol
Happy Scrappin'
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