The use of watercolor for card backgrounds has been really hot for several weeks now. I finally sat down on Friday night with some watercolor paper and played around. After seeing a video today by Julie Ebersole, I would do this differently next time, but I'm pretty happy with some of the samples I created. There's also a new challenge for watercolor by Virginia Lu that I've been wanting to play along with.
I started out with some Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor paper and my gelatos. I've hardly played around with them at all, and although it's hard to see in the photographs, the gelatos create a wonderful sheen to the watercolor background.
After stamping the sentiment from Papertrey's "Stylish Sentiments: Birthday," I die cut some stars from a scrap of gold metallic paper with the Simon Says "Holiday Shapes" and "Large Holiday Shapes" to use as confetti. I rounded the top edges and adhered it to a Memory Box card I've had in my stash for a long time.
This is the first of two cards I made today, and I have a couple more watercolor backgrounds to play with and a lot more ideas to try!
