Watercoloured Dragonflies
Posted: June 19, 2012 Filed under: CAS, Penny Black, Social Butterfly 11 Comments
The new releases continue this week at Penny Black and one of my favourites is the set this dragonfly comes from: Social Butterfly. See the whole set here.
To create my dragonfly panel I used watercolour paper and watercolour pencils. Although I own water colour paints I have recently been using my pencils to create some “paint’ when I just want to do a small card-sized project. I colour hard on a scrap of paper with the colour I want, dip my brush in water and add some to the colouring to create a small amount of water colour paint.
I wet the panel above randomly with water then dropped both purple and blue paint randomly on the wet paper. It blended and ran as I moved the paper. The spots were created using salt, paint drops and pencil sharpenings. The dragonflies were stamped in Memento Teal Zeal & Elderberry and the edge of the panel darkened by running the Elderberry ink pad along it.
Thanks for dropping by today; I’ll be back tomorrow with the One Layer Wednesday challenge.
Supplies:
Stamps: Social Butterfly(Penny Black)
Inks: Memento Elderberry & Teal Zeal (Tsukineko)
Also: Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils, salt
Heather Telford 
Hello hesther
Stunning card as always …. Love the stamps…. Love all the new sets … Gorgeous …….
Hugs sylvie xxxx
LOVE this Heather! The colors are gorgeous, and I also like to use colors like that, just playing…
This is stunning! I love playing around with paints and watercolor paper too! You do beautiful work and thanks for sharing it!
What a gorgeous piece….I love it!!
Once again, awesome!! Can’t wait to try it!! Hugs!
So lovely and beautiful Heather and so your own style. Brilliant in one word.
Lovely greet
Marja
So pretty, Heather! I’ve been playing with watercolour and salt lately, too!
Gorgeous! Lovely watercolor techniques, I had forgotten about salt so thanks for that too! Aren’t you loving the new Memento colors? I know I am! Especially the great alternatives to black, like Espresso Truffle and Elderberry.
This card is beautiful Heather!!!! I showed your work to the Ink’ll Do Card Club I belong to…and we all decided to giive the one-layer card a try as our next card swap (make 6 cards, get back five)…we can hardly wait! Sooooo, thank you for all your tutorials!
Paper Hugs,
Jan in Salem, Oregon, USA
Gorgeous card – I have a new stamp set and was looking for an idea for it’s use. I have to pull out my new spray bottles and watercolor paper and play!
This is stunning, simply stunning!