Stenciled Day 2 - Watercolors

Dropping in today to share another stenciled card.

One of the techniques from Day 2 (yesterday) was to create a stenciled background using watercolors.

I thought I would take that a step further and make the watercolored stencil the focal point instead of just the background.

I pulled out my Inktense pencils and started by painting a light wash of blue over the entire panel.  To speed things up, I used my heat gun to dry the panel.  Then I placed this Dreamweaver's Lotus Background stencil over top.  I wanted to create a scene rather than an allover pattern, so you can see that I only colored in a portion of the stencil.



Once I had the stencil taped down, I went in with my paintbrush, pulling color directly from the Inktense pencils and colored in selected portions of the stencil to create a scene.

The sentiment, from Verve, was stamped with Versafine, and to soften the transition from the main panel to the card base I added a vellum mat.

This was so easy and really a quick card to make.  I'm going to link it up over at Dreamweaver's as their CAS challenge is still going on.

Thanks for stopping by, come back tomorrow for another Stenciled card!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Watercolor Paper from Target; Avery Elle - White Cardstock; Recollections - Vellum
Stamps:  Verve - Grace Plain Jane
Ink:  Versafine
Other:  Derwent - Inktense Pencils; Dreamweaver's - Lotus Background Stencil; Tombow - Stamp Runner