Watercolor

Hello & thanks for popping by to visit. My morning got started very late and it was delightful to just doze as long as I wished. Talk about lazy.

There's a water theme going on this week at Jo's Scrap Shack for the Friday Funday Challenge #12 and I wanted to play along. I also wanted to use the Rising Bubbles stamp on the project. I like the look of all the water color cards that I see done with different w/c media, so pulled out the Ranger Distress Markers to give it another go. Slightly wet the water color paper and laid down some blue, lavender & greeny shades as I saw on this video. Unfortunately my attempt didn't turn out so well as Darlene's did!  I made this card instead, with my trusty copics to submit to the FFC #12.

My usual practice with an effort that I feel was a total failure is to let it hang around on the desk for a few days. Decided to cut this watercolor attempt into pieces to see what possibly be salvaged.

 

 

The salvaged bit was from the center slice. The image was from a stamp that did not stamp out well at all, even using the stamp press. I do like the waving fronds, but the coral and shells on the sea floor, just don't show up well. I stamped this after using a water brush over the DI markers, not a lot of water all at once. Just going back over to blend in the layers.  Hunted up a little sea horse stamp to add to the scene, then used the lovely bubbles stamp - which I thought was the best feature on this effort. Still wasn't happy with what was happening. So back I go to stamp it out again, and this time I embossed the paper first, then did the DI marker layering. Added some funky looking fish  which I embossed first, then used the DI markers to color. This try was even worse than the first one. (That's when I went back to the copics).

 

After slicing the seahorse scene, I cut out the funky fish & seaweed from the 2nd attempt. Just kept redesigning and this effort is when I finally said "Forget it, go with this one". I hate to admit defeat, as I'd really like to improve my skills at water coloring... but, folks, I'm close!

 

Diecut the frame with S/Binders Curvy rectangle and layered it over the seahorse piece. Punched the corners with an MS sand dollar corner (NBUS- Never Before Used Stuff. Adhered to some green glitter paper, added the fussy cut embossed seaweed  & funky fish from attempt #2. I had another fish I planned to add top left, but decided to leave it off.

 

This is one of the Warts! I'm thinking of starting a Wart box ....which I can review later on, if I ever feel like I'm getting a handle on this water color stuff. I have to keep reminding myself that it was the same when I was learning to use copics...I had a lot of failures (still do!). It takes patience & time to become proficient with any medium. I hope sharing my attempts & failures will encourage someone who is having the same issues. If so, please share with me any insight you find that might help us both!!! Thanks for listening, and come back again when you can. Hugs

 

PS...I think I'm going to submit this to the Fun Friday Challenge anyway...what have I got to lose???