Woodlands Embossed Watercolor Background by Sandi McIve

You can find the Stampin’ Up! Woodlands Embossing Folder on page 39 of the  Holiday catalog with a coordinating stamp set; Among the Branches. (Links below)

This month the challenge was to watercolor an Embossed Background.  We could use the “Color Me Irresistible Specialty Designer Series Paper” or we could create our own embossed image.  Now who am I to walk away from that challenge, ha-ha…
This is the first of two finished versions, which actually started last night like this:

I shared this picture with my facebook friends and had lots of “how’d you do that’s”, so I promised a video – here it is:

And here is a PDF Download with the instructions and a Supply List: Woodlands Watercolored

and this second card is the darker version – I can’t decide which one I like more!….

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