This was the first technique taught in the Online Card Class on watercolors. Once you've painted a watercolor background, you lay a stencil down on it, press it in, and when you lift it up here's what you see.
I absolutely love this technique and will use it again, I'm sure. Luckily it worked well on the first try!
I used my Winsor and Newton travel watercolor set with the Crafter's Workshop "Mini-herringbone" stencil on Tim Holtz watercolor paper. My favorite thing about this watercolor paper is how white it is. Both my cold press watercolor pad and my regular watercolor pads are more cream colored. I bordered the watercolor piece with a piece of Worldwin "Light Terrific Teal" cardstock. I used to be able to buy this paper locally. When the last of the local shops went out of business I stocked up on a lot of colors, but they're beginning to dwindle. I love the range of colors and it's a great weight for matting.
The sentiment ("Oh, Happy Day" by Avery Elle) was stamped on vellum, layered on another piece of cardstock and stitched down. I'll enter this in Virginia's View Challenge: Stitching, even though there's not a lot of it!
