Watercolor Weekend January 5, 2019

Happy 2019!

I always feel hopeful and excited to start a brand new year.  I am ready to get back to more crafting, now that the busyness of the holidays is over, also.  I made this card for the Art Impressions Watercolor Weekend using the 5014 - WC Window Set that I stamped in sepia first, then in the African violet. I did stamp it off on paper first.  I pulled the color out of the lines then added some of the African violet to the palette to darken the windows.  Next I stamped the little pot from the 4869 - WC Small Container Set.  I added brown and sepia to the palette to color in the pot.  I added the leaves by stamping the ivy from the 4867 - WC Foliage Set 2 in olive green and the flowers from the 5009 - WC Mini Flower Set in scarlet and then added water to them.  I stamped the birds in sepia from the 4966 - WC Bird Bath Set and the stamp positioner to add the birds to the window, then added more sepia, steel blue, and a little bit of the brown to their beaks from the palette.  I used the fine tip of the sepia to darken the eyes and the legs.

I stamped the cat in sepia from the 4873 - WC Cats Set then made a mask for it and using the stamp positioner, I stamped the bench in sepia and African violet from the 5055 - WC Sitting Places Set.  I pulled the colors out of the lines on the cat and bench then used sepia from the palette to color spots on the cat.  I inked up the small grass in olive green from the 4051 - WC Foliage Set 1 and stamped the grass on the legs of the bench.  I used pine green to ink the bottom of the flowers from the 4868 - WC Flower Set 2 and I inked the tops of the flowers in the steel blue and stamped them on either side of the bench.  I used water to soften the flowers and the grasses then I used African violet from the palette to make the shadow under the bench.  Next I used a tiny amount of sepia on the palette and a lot of water to color in the background.  I used the 5063 - Double Stitched Rectangle Dies to cut out the picture, and a background piece of paper and then mounted it all to the card base.

Be sure to check out my Art Impressions Watercolor Guest Designer teammates' beautiful work! Tricia Kennedy @Triciadollkennedy and Tricia Obin @Tobin0971 You can find more inspiration by following me on my Instagram account here.