AECP - Creative Watercolor Media

In Altenew's Creative Watercolor Media class, Jennifer Rzasa, Laura Bassen, and Debby Hughes give lots of ideas about using your ink pads, ink refills, and shimmer sprays to watercolor on your cards.

Using ink pads and ink refills to watercolor has been around a long time in the stamping world but it is often a forgotten technique. This gives you more uses for you inks and you can get a great watercolor look without the expense of buying watercolor paints.

I started out my card by stamping a piece of Altenew Watercolor paper with Altenew Alluring Orchids using Versamark ink and then embossing the image with Altenew Antique Gold embossing powder.

Then using a wet-on-wet watercolor technique and Altenew Fresh Dye Ink refills I painted my image. With the wet-on-wet technique you start with wetting your paper with “clean” water and then use your brush drop on the inks and allow them to flow where the water takes them.

You can use your brush to push the inks around while they are wet to get darker and get lighter areas for shadows and highlights. Ink do stain the paper so you will only be able to lighten the image a small amount.

Supplies used:

Stamps – Altenew Alluring Orchids

Inks – Altenew Fresh Dye Inks – Frayed Leaf, Evergreen (Green Fields color family), Amethyst, Plum (Sugarplum color family), Citrus Burst, Maple Yellow (Pocketful of Sunshine color family)
Misc – Altenew Antique Gold embossing powder, Altenew Hot Press Watercolor paper, Silver Brush Black Velvet watercolor round brush #4, Simon Says Stamp Anti-Static powder