Flower Sketched on Watercolor Backgrounds

I find so much inspiration online.

Fell in love with Tracee Murphy's Poppies Watercolor and Ink.

Saw it first on Pinterest, but the pin was bad. 

So I searched for the correct image and pinned it here.

On the watercolor base I tested Portfolio Binny Smith watercolors that Lynette gave me.

She found them at a garage sale!

After the watercolors dried, I used sequin waste as a stencil and sponged with broken china ink.

Added white acrylic paint to the top portion using a paint brush.

Wasn't happy with the look, so I placed sequin waste over the wet paint, 

then rubbed with a cloth to remove some white paint. 

I drew the flowers with a Sakura fine tip marker. 

Used Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers to outline them.

Stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment with Versafine black onyx ink.

Here is another background layer. I like to make multiples when I have the watercolors out. Notice the warping of the paper.

In the card above, I tried Jennifer McGuire's method to attach the watercolor layer to the card base. I cut a piece of craft foam slightly smaller than the  watercolor layer. The craft foam is about 2 mm thick. I was happy with the way the craft foam layer helped to flatten the warped watercolor layer.

Click here to see Jennifer's YouTube tutorial showing how she uses craft foam instead of foam tape to attach large layers to cards. She demonstrates how the mail processing machines added wrinkles to the large layer that had been adhered with strips of foam tape.

I used Scrapbook Adhesives super high-tack tape on both sides of the foam to attach it between the watercolor layer and the card base. Jennifer advises that any strong double sided adhesive will work. She shows a couple of methods to attach the craft foam in her video.

Materials used:

Portfolio watercolors: 620 cadmium yellow, 136 phthalo blue, 375 sap green

Distress inks: broken china, Versafine black onyx

White acrylic paint

Sequin waste

Jane Davenport mermaid markers: pirate's gold and seaweed

Sakura microperm ultra fine 05 pen

Hero Arts stamp

Craft foam, 2 mm thick

Scrapbook Adhesives super high-tack adhesive tape

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