SSINK color challenge #20

Today at SSINKspiration we have a fun color challenge! I love how these three colors go together. Soft and cool colors, there are so many possibilities!

I choose to the Indescribable Gift Stamp set and wanted to challenge myself to incorporate these colors. I just love this set and get so much enjoyment over taking a little time to color it.

Here's how I colored the image on this card.

First, I stamped the main image with Soft Sky ink on Shimmer White card stock. Then, I used my Aquapainter to watercolor each flower with the Soft Sky ink. To do this with the Aquapainter you need to squeeze the stamp pad when it is closed so that the lid touches the pad. When you open up the pad you will have a little ink puddle on the lid. Pick up ink with your Aquapainter and start watercoloring. Because the water is inside the brush you can control how much water you want just by squeezing the Aquapainter to release more water when it gets dry.

Once my flowers were painted and my paper was still wet I outlined each flower with my Lost Lagoon marker and watercolored the flowers again, just adding highlighting with the Lost Lagoon ink from the pad.

For the branches and the leaves I watercolored them with Crumb cake for the branches and Pistachio pudding for the leaves. Then I did some outlining with the same markers on each adding some definition. I then watercolor washed the entire image with Lost Lagoon, avoiding going over the leaves and branches too much so as not to muddy up their colors.

For the splatter I used the ink puddle in my Crumb Cake pad and got my Aquapainter really wet, picked up a lot of color and splattered it across my still wet image, by tapping the brush against my finger.

If you look closely at the background you can see that there is a little bit of text. I very lightly inked up the Dictionary background image with Crumb Cake and Lost Lagoon ink and then very lightly stamped that over my image.

The twine at tied at the top of the card is from the White Jute Ribbon in the Occasions Catalog, you can easily separate the fibers of that ribbon and create your own twine! This twine has loose fibers and has a very soft texture. I used three of these twine pieces and tied them around the card as if they were one.

The word "GRACE" is from the Alphabet Rotary Stamp, I love this stamp. I can create my own sentiments with it and I love the not so perfect charm of it!