Watercolouring in card making is everywhere at the moment, so I dug out my set of
Reeves Water Soluble Wax Pastels to have a go at creating some simple watercolour style backgrounds. I simply scribbled pastels in similar shades onto a white card blank in vertical, horizontal and diagonal stripes, then used a wet paintbrush to go over the colours and blend them a little.
I used ordinary cardstock for these so the colours did not move as much as if I had used watercolour card, but I quite like that effect. The first butterfly was cut using Sizzix Thinlits die set Butterfly #3. The second used an ArtC stencil with BoBunny glitter pastes. It's much more lovely in real life.
I like the simplicity of these. The watercolour effect is a great backdrop that doesn't really need much else to make an attractive card. This would be a great technique for making men's cards; a bold sentiment and a well-chosen stamped image or die cut would be all you'd need.
