Word Art Wednesday! Aqua Markers Weeks and Technique # 2 : Painting on the stamp.

It is Word Art Wednesday and Challenge # 199!!  Almost at the big 200!

This week we have a beautiful verse from Karen Murray and Devotion by Karen Letchworth!

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Karen's verse for this week:

I creating another card today with my Spectrum Aqua Markers.  For today I am "painting" my Penny Black stamps - I love her brush stroke stamps I have a lot of them and they are always a pleasure to use!

I picked my colors for this floral focal point and I am using Canson watercolor paper.  This paper is very affordable.  It is a student grade paper but for card making I think it is perfect!

Just a few colors, you don't need a lot for beautiful results.

I inked directly on my stamps.  I wasn't fussy about it, I just layed the color on.

This is a big stamp for a 5x7 card focal point

Nothing fussy here, this was also my fist time using this stamp.

I thought I would need to mist the stamp as I took a couple of minutes to ink it up.

Misting might have worked, but my sprayer kinda hosed it.  You can see where the watercolor marker ink became a puddle:

Well tried it again and this time I 'huffed' on the stamp:

And that worked great!!

This only looks like it didn't have enough watercolor on the stamp- it was plenty!

Using a water pen - I really don't like the watercolor pens and I'll go back to using a brush.

I added water and painted over the image

This is the second one, I  love how brilliant the colors are.    In the past I have had a problem with my watercolors looking either washed out or too dense.  That is why I wanted to try the Spectrum Aquas, to achieve a painterly look without going through a whole pad of paper and ending up still without a  finished image.

Here is the first one with a little water'painted' onto it:

For the verse, I printed on solar white card stock and it just looked to white against the watercolor paper. So I thought wouldn't it be great if I could actually print on the water color paper.  That paper is like chip board - but nothing is gained if nothing is ventured

It worked!!!  

Here are my finished cards:

My Word Art Wednesday Card:

I made this with the first attempt:

Tommorow I'll have Technique # 3 using the Markers on Wet Watercolor paper

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Ginny M