Thinking of You for Friends with Flair

Hey everyone!  Hope that you are all recovering from over eating yesterday!

We had a very nice, quiet Thanksgiving here at home.  Today we'll be starting to pull out the Christmas stuff, bagging leaves, and doing a whole lot of stuff that has just got to get done, but I thought I would pop in and play along with Friends with Flair this week.

A very CAS card today.  I used what I refer to as reverse watercolor.  If there's a real name for this, feel free to enlighten me. 

I took a piece of water color paper and applied two complementary shades of distress ink - one at the top and one at the bottom, blending in the middle, and stamped the image with Versafine.  Then I used a water brush to remove color from the flowers so that they are lighter than the background.  I went back a few times, until I was happy with the amount of ink that I had removed.  This can tend to dull the color of the stamped lines, so I touched some of those up with a fine journaling pen.  Also, watercolor paper is highly recommended for this.  You can use regular cardstock, but depending on how much color you take off/how many times you go over the image, the paper will start to pill and degrade.

Once the panel was dry, I adhered it to a black mat and stamped the sentiment.

This is a fun technique and really doesn't require a whole lot of skill, but I think the results are quite striking.

Have a wonderful day, and if you're shopping, good luck!

Supplied Used
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - White Daisy and Black Cardstock; Watercolor paper from Kids paper pad purchased at Target
Stamps:  Unity - Wishing You Joy Itty Bitty; Avery Elle - Modern Leaves
Ink:  Versafine; Distress Inks - Festive Berries, Pickled Raspberry
Other:  Ranger - Water Brush; American Crafts - Black 01 Journaling Pen; Tombow - Mono Adhesive