"Watercolor?"

Don't you just love watercolors?

They give handmade cards such a free and airy look.

But you don't always have to dig out your watercolor pencils.

This monochrome card was easy to create, using Memento Rich Cocoa from Imagine.

I stamped this girl on a leftover scrap of watercolor paper and blended along the outlines with a waterbrush.  For a few of the deeper areas, I stamped color directly only an acrylic block and picked it up to create shadows. 

You can't see it in this photo.....but I must confess I'd forgotten to clean my brush after painting with some Delicata Golden Glitz, so some of that showed up in my first strokes on the umbrella.

I liked the look, so I sponged it along the edges of the textured brown cardstock used for layering.

Gives the whole card just a little shine.

Supplies

5 x 6 1/2-inch pre-folded ivory card

textured brown cardstock scrap, cut to a rectangle as shown

"Beautiful You" stamp set--Stampin' Up

Memento Rich Cocoa dye ink, Delicata Golden Glitz--Imagine/Tsukineko

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