From Land To Sea card by Sandi MacIver

Watercolor Stamping And Bokeh Technique

• I started by Heat Embossing the images twice in white onto watercolor paper
• then I added a background wash starting at the bottom:
• Elegant Eggplant, Lost Lagoon and Mint Macaron.

How to add a wash:

• Squeeze your aqua painter in the center of the water color paper and let 2 or 3 drops fall.
• Use the brush tip to wet the entire piece of paper
• Use the ink pad lids and the brush tip to add the color letting them run together.

TIP – as it starts to dry, it will lighten, you can re-wet the section and add more color

 

• While I waited for the piece to dry, I used a Stampin Up Window Sheet and my Circle Framelits to create my own stencil.
• You want to use different sized circles to create this stencil.

TIP – and you want to clean it when you are finished, unlike mine in this photo, haha….



Next – I added the Bokeh Technique – originally a photography technique, and we carders have “borrowed” it, haha….

• place the stencil over the art piece
• add White Craft Ink with a Sponge Dauber in a circular motion.

TIP – make sure your art piece is dry before you start this or it will pick up the watercolor ink.

 

gives you this cool effect at the end.  I love how it looks like sunlight dancing off the water.


Then of course you want to mat it and frame it…..

 
I like to keep my matting and framing really simple when I have a super busy art piece and I always pick colors I used in my piece
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