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Watercoloring mania

Hello everyone ! I have to let you in on a little secret...Yesterday I watched a live caption from Elizabeth Craft Designs designer artist, Sue Smith. Watching her watercolor I realized ''Hey ! I can do this '' She's such a great teacher and made it look so much fun and mostly, easy !!!

If you want to watch Sue's video, click here: Sue's video

I got so inspired to use my watercolors palette from ECD and here's what I came up with.

And here's the tutorial if you want to try it !

Step 1: Watercoloring

• Using the Elizabeth Craft Designs Watercolors Palette, 24 colors, create a background on a piece of waterpaper cardstock larger than 4 1/2 x 4 1/2. 
• The colors used on this card  for the yellow tones are ''Burnt Umber'', ''Raw Ocher'' and ''Wheat''; for the pink tones are '' Rust'', ''Crimson'' and ''Pink'' and for the blue; ''Prussian Blue'', ''Viridian'' and ''Payne's Gray''.

Step 2: Stamping

• Using Elizabeth Craft Designs stamps set CS137: Moments Of Life, CS145: Background Stamps 1 and CS147: Background Stamps 3, use some stamps to add texture to the background. By adding some darker pigments on the brush than the colors on the cardstock, it will make the patterns on the stamps stand out.

• When the background is dry, stamp the ''Love'' stamp (in the CS147:BackGround Stamps 3 set) using some Memento Toxedo Black Ink, in the middle of the background.

• When dry, sprinkle some gold metallic acrylic paint here and there on the background.
• Using a fine gold gel pen, enhance the letters of the word Love. (At first, I did try a white gel pen, but later, I decided it look better with gold paint and went over the white with my gold pen). 

Step 3: Die cutting

• Using Elizabeth Craft Designs Fitted Rounded Squares #1700 dies set, die cut the 2nd largest in the center of the back ground.
• Fold in half an 11'' x 5 1/2 Elizabeth Craft Designs White Soft Finish Cardstock to make a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 square card.
• Cut a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 square in some Craft Perfect Foiled Kraft Card - Golden Polkadot.
• Cut a 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 out of some Craft Perfect Mirror Card Satin Effect - Gold Pearl.
• Cut a Blue Calypso Bazzill cardstock to 4 5/8 x 4 5/8.
• Adhere each layer on top of the other using some Elizabeth Craft Designs Double Sided Adhesive Tape.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I'll see you later !

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