Using inkpads for watercolor: a sweet nostalgic floral card

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A favorite past time for adults to relax with is coloring. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use your stamping ink pad to paint watercolor on your cards. And it is just like coloring in that you can easily brush on washes of color with three simple tools - a paintbrush, a paper towel and water. If you would like to see the accompanying video on how to achieve this look, click here. 

Supplies

  1. Stamp a 4"X5.25" card stock rectangle with your flower image and sentiment.
  2. Cut a 4.25"X5.5" yellow card stockout rectangle.
  3. Glue the yellow card stock to the front of your A2 size folded white blank card.
  4. On a slick paint proof surface (like most craft mats or palette), smudge the ink face of your stamping ink onto your "palette" to deposit ink. 
  5. Moisten your brush tip and the deposited ink with your water spritzer.
  6. Use your brush to mop up the ink and start painting. Play around with different quantities of paint on your brush tip and pressure to get different results. Also, the more you spray water onto your ink, the more subtle the shade.
  7. Use the corresponding die for your main image and cut that out of card stock. You will be using this cut out as a mask, so you will want to save it with your stamp and die set. If you need to know what a card maker's "mask" is, check out my previous blog post here. 
  8. Place your mask over your main image. Since you will not be blending ink over the mask's edges, you can simply lay the mask over your image. 
  9. Wet the brush bristles and pick up a healthy amount of the water spritzed ink from your palette.
  10. Hold your brush horizontally over your image and tap the barrel of your brush so that ink drops fall onto the card front.

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