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Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your weekend was a good one and your week has started well.  I was looking in my folder of backgrounds ready and waiting to be used when I found this one some stamping and embellishing were added and here is the end result …

A 148mm square card

Good to post

All the inked and painted detail

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Craft Stamper Magazine Challenge TIMI Anything Goes

Creative Fingers Challenge #143 Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers Dies Challenge 

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #68 Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge 

I’m also sharing this with 
Simon Says Stamp Happy National Craft Month Celebration 

Time Out Challenge #104 Bold 

The background was created with Brusho watercolour crystals. It has taken me a couple of goes to get this type of background with watercolours. I have definitely added too much water and too much paint in the past and now I know how to do this I can work some more and experiment more with Brusho crystals. I applied a wash of clean water and then sprinkled the green Brusho’s over the card. I controlled where the colour was going, moping up when I needed or wanted to, in this case I made sure it didn’t spread the whole way across the card. I left the green to dry for about twenty minutes before adding a little more water and then I carefully applied the blue Brusho. Twenty more minutes later was when I applied a final amount of water and yellow and red Brusho crystals. I don’t have orange Brusho crystals so I blended the red and yellow on the card. Once I had the colour where I wanted it to be I left it to completely dry overnight.

I put the card away ready and waiting to be used and here it is used today! I attached a Hero Arts stencil and applied the acrylic paint through that. The little very cute hedgehog and the sentiment stamps are both from Paperbabe Stamps. The hedgehog is great because I can make a full blown scene with him or use him like I have here. It is a simple card but I do love the end result. I love the loose look of the watercolour paints on this background and I am going to be making some more know I understand how to create a background like this. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp &/ Stencil:

Paperbabe Stamps: Whimsical Woodland Bunny & Whimsical Woodland Owl

Hero Arts SA254: Confetti stencil duo

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus die cutting machine

Spellbinders Labels 9 Dies

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; heat tool; paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette; spray bottle of water

Supplies

Card Paper:

Sheena Douglass white stamping card

Craft UK 150mm square card

Snippets: Sheena Douglass white stamping card

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Distress IP: Vintage Photo

Distress Oxide IP: Faded Jeans

Brusho Watercolour Crystals: Turquoise; Leaf Green; Red; Yellow

Americana Acrylic paint: Buff

Embellishments:

Little Things from Lucy’s Cards: sequins

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue

Collall 3D glue gel