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Day 20. Simply Colored

Hello Friends, How was your weekend? Today I am up on the Power Poppy blog for another guest post for “Inspire Me Monday” .
The great thing about a coloring challenge is it’s more about coloring than card making. It’s nice to have permission to not make a card and just color for the pure joy of it. For my project today I thought I would share some easy and relaxing watercoloring with distress inks.
When you love every image in a stamp set like this “Succulent Singles” it’s fun to use most of the stamps in the set by creating fun backgrounds.
For this background I arranged the stamps in the center of the misti and rotated my card so I didn’t have to keep moving the stamps. I was thrilled that my paper hanging off the edge worked. Whew!
My favorite backgrounds are one single image in a vertical row. In case you are wondering what ink I used … let’s just say next time I will use distress ink to stamp my images.
Time only permitted to paint two of the backgrounds. I taped them off with some 3m painters tape because I wanted a boarder of white along the edges plus the tape holds them in place.
I painted stripes in two shades of purple distress ink with a broad brush FIRST. Once the stripes were dry I painted with a variety of green distress ink on the succulents. It was nice to have a colorful background and not worry about painting around the images.
The parts of the succulents that had purple from the stripes were easy to paint over and gave the images more of a color range.

When everything was dry I used some glossy accents to glue them down on some green cardstock. (after glueing I pop the panel in a book so it will dry super flat)

The sentiment is from this beautiful stamp set called, “Loving Tulips” & I stamped the large hello with some black ink.

I hope you give this technique a try … it’s fun to try something different and it’s great not to spend a lot of time painting a background. Thanks for your visit today see you tomorrow. Hugs, Kathy

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Comments

  1. Deborah Kaye says

    Beautiful watercoloring. I like the idea of laying down the background first. It looks fabulous!

  2. Laura P. says

    Hi Kathy! Wow, Day 20 already!! Love what you said about the pure joy of coloring!
    Love these cards…and the stamp set greeting of “what’s up succa” is hilarious! I would love to see that card when you finish it! Today’s cards are awesome, the purples with the green plants are just perfect! Wow are you good at making stripes. I thought you jsed a stencil! Did you use distress ink to stamp the succulents? They look so crisp!

    • Kathy Racoosin says

      I recommend that you use Distress Inks, and maybe a stamp positioner, like the Misti (if your worried about it not being super crisp on the first stamping) . I hope you try this technique. Thanks for your sweet comments!!! 🙂

  6. BunnyD says

    These look so modern and fresh! I’ll have to give this a try. I was trying to use a Molotow pen over the weekend and it kept absorbing into the paper! Argh !

    • Kathy Racoosin says

      Thats a bummer Bunny. Try using a different type of paper. I have heard that some papers it will work well with and others it will tear and absorb. I do not know which papers are best, however keep trying with whatever you have.

  7. Trina Flynn says

    Hi Kathy, Hope you had a wonderful weekend! Mine was pretty relaxing. I love how this card turned out. I have learned so many ways to create with different mediums since watching your videos and reading your blog posts! Thank you for always bringing creative inspiration 🙂 Have yourself a wonderful week! Hugs xxoo

  11. Billie A says

    Great idea doing the background stripes and then color in the images and using part of that color for your image but changing it up a bit so it’s not background. I have just started making my own background with stamps and love the idea and interest it gives.

  12. Anne Sturgeon says

    These look amazing. It is definitely a sign…. I just picked up this stamp a couple of weeks ago from my local craft store. Can’t wait to give this a try. Thanks for the inspiration.

  18. Lucy Schmidt says

    Thanks for all the tips — masking off a border, using a stamp positioner as you did, the types of inks that would have been your first choice (though these look great to me)…. The finished panel is so soft looking. It’s almost as if you put lightweight vellum over it.

  19. KT Fit Kitty says

    Just beautiful, Kathy! The flowers are gorgeous but it’s the stripes that makes these extra special! I would never have thought to do this – that’s why I come here for inspiration! Thank you!

  21. Carol H. says

    My goodness that is such a cool technique!!!! Love the colors too! You always have great ideas to try and I will see if I have a stamp that will work–surely, I do! LOL!

  22. Nora says

    I like the statement that it is more about the coloring and the rest about the card making. I have been coloring but have not posted it because it has been more about ME coloring and less about the whole sharing. It has been relaxing and I know that I can post whatever I create with the image later!! Thank you for all your inspiration!! I LOVE these fun succulents and the watercolor stripes. I need to try making stripes next with watercolor.

  24. Moira OReilly says

    Another fun and awesome technique Kathy – thanks so much. I did not know Power Poppy before this edition of the challenge…. I already have a list of stamps I want LOL 🙂

  30. Lisa Tilson says

    How creative, I wouldn’t think to let the purple run through the flowers and then paint over it. I would painstakingly cut masks or use drawing gum and do the stripes over it! What a great time saver and a lovely way to add more colour into the flowers themselves. So pretty Kathy 🙂

  31. Bobbie says

    Love this card it looks delicate and light, spring like. Love it. Thanks Kathy, I am getting caught up on your post today and loving every minute of it.

  34. Milka says

    So late with leaving comments…. Amazing card and coloring, Kathy. Love how you colored stripes over background…. So cool!!! :o) xx

  36. Kirsty Georgia says

    Love that it’s a different approach I would never think of it. Also I’d like to thank you for the whole 30 day challenge itself! It has truly been an inspiration to me to try out new technique without an end goal in mind.

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