Sightseeing with Heart2Heart

This week we are doing a little sightseeing over at Heart2Heart. I used the cute Enjoy the Ride (B1525) stamp set and the Florence paper pack to begin creating my cards for August. Trying to be a head of the game!!

To add the idea of movement, the beautiful rose gold foil tape runs underneath the squares.

I colored in the bike frame with the new thin tipped water brush. It is so easy to color with precision with this tool.

There is some added texture on the background where I tapped the waterbrush on my finger creating a spray of Peacock ink.

Enjoy the FUN artwork this week AND be sure and JOIN us at H2H Challenge blog.

Watercolor Splatter for Texture

Another of our Regatta card class cards used the watercolor splatter technique. Loading your brush with a water and picking up a little gray watercolor and holding the brush above the work, lightly tap the paint brush on your index finger of the opposite hand. This causes splatters to form on the paper. More water gives you a light color but large splatters while a more dry brushe gives you small splatters like the ones on the card.

On this card, the bottom was masked off and the watercolor splatter technique as used on both the card base and the sentiment piece.

Random stamping in second generation Slate ink using the sea shells from Treasured Friends (C1594) adds the look of pattern paper.

A first generation stamped shell cut out and added to the sentiment piece finishes this card.