Watercolor flowers

Welcome!  It's my day to post a Project Of The Week for The House That Stamps Built. Today  I'm going to show you how to create a watercolor look (actually a couple different ways) with your RI stamps.  Here are the basic supplies you will need:

 -Watercolor paper
-stamps (I used Flower Power Backgrounds and Borders "Leaf Cluster Outline", "Flower Cluster Outline", "Flower Cluster Detail", Flower Cluster Solid" and "Birthday"
-water based inks and/or markers
-water spritzer
-an aqua blender pen (or a fine water color brush or an aqua painter)

First I made the background.  With the solid stamp, I inked it up and then spritzed it with water before I stamped it on the paper.  You can see that this technique brings more bleeding of the color.  For the outline flowers, I inked it up and stamped like normal, then I used my aqua blender pen to pull the color into the flower petals.  It gives a more colored look.  For the leaves, I achieved the soft water colored look by inking the stamp and stamping it like normal, then I used the aqua blender pen to trace along the stamped lines; it really softened everything out.

 I really like the look of the leaves, so I used that technique for my entire focal image.  I stamped the detail stamp and then used the blender pen to soften out the lines and bring color into the petals.  Then I used my a green marker to draw in the stems and used the blender pen to soften them out as well.  I finished it out by inking up only one of the leaves and stamping it once on each side and then softened with the blender pen.

 And here is the picture of the final result:

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Leaf Cluster Outline", "Flower Cluster Outline", "Flower Cluster Detail", Flower Cluster Solid" and "Birthday"

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle; PTI "Filigree Border"

Challenges:

Brown Sugar #219--think pink

Cute Card Thursday #446--anything goes

DRS Designs #247--stamp your own background

Crafty Gals #92--Punches/die cuts

Penny's Challenge #298--anything goes

Fab N Funky Challenge #321--include the word happy

Crafter's Cafe #158--use lots of pink

Crafting By Designs--anything goes

Unicorn Challenge #14--pretty pinks or halloween

Craft-Dee BowZ--anything goes with a handmade bow

Crafty Cardmakers #176--birthdays

Aud Sentiments #165--anything goes

YNS #49--sketch

Cut It Up #106--pink or breast cancer awareness

Alphabet Challenge--P if for Pretty in Pink