Sympathy Card with watercolours

Hello

This week I present to you a sympathy card.  I've always found these difficult to make as you have to find the right difference between interesting and serious.  Recently I've been watching a few videos where water colouring has been used and I decided that I will jump on board and join the trend, using the softness that watercolour provides to create a sympathy card.

Materials needed:

• Black and white card 
• Watercolour paints and brush
• Black and embossing ink
• Clear embossing powder
• Heat tool
• Large flower stamp and 'with sympathy' stamp
• Pearl and blue coloured gems

Directions:

1. Cut the black card to form a top folding base.  Cut the white card to form a panel.
2. Coat the flower stamp with embossing ink first then the black ink, stamp on to the white panel and emboss with the clear embossing powder.  Do the same for the sentiment.
3. For the watercolours, use two shades of blue and one of purple.  Beginning at the top of the panel create a wash of colour with the lightest blue over almost half the panel.  Starting from a third of the way down add the darker of the blues blending the two together while moving down the panel.  Finally from the bottom, add the purple and blend up in to the darker blue.  Aim to have a third of the panel covered in each of the colours.
4. Either wait for the panel to dry naturally or dry it with a heat tool.  Once dry, take your brush and dip it into the lightest blue again, hold the brush over the panel and tap the middle of the brush handle on to your other hand so that small drops of colour fall and land on the paper.  Repeat this with the other two colours and then finally again with just plain water.  Let dry.
5. Add the pearls to the center of the flowers and the blue gems either side of the sentiment.  Adhere the panel to your card base using lots of dimensional foam tape.

That's it folks!  While this card is a bit more time consuming than the average card, it is rewarding in that the process is relaxing and easy (no painting talent required!).  I like the way this card turned out and I will be making it again.  It would be simple to mass produce in a variety of colours if you painted all the panels at the same time and came back later to assemble or even just assemble when required.

Till next time

Stacey