Paper and Fiber Arts: Polychromatic Watercolor Layers on Cards

There have been many blog posts here about watercolors and cardmaking. However, they usually discuss specific media and techniques to achieve pleasing results. Today's post is a little different because the focus is on polychromatic watercolor layers on cards. Polychromatic means multiple colors. The inspiration for this card and a variation of this technique is from the Altenew Academy course: Polychromatic.

Steps for background:

Scribble watercolor pencils on watercolor paper

Spritz with water

Move paint and water with a paintbrush

Let Dry

Scribble a little more watercolor pencil onto paper

Spritz with water

Move paint and water with a paintbrush

Let Dry

Randomly stamp floral outline image from Altenew's Build-a-Flower: Primrose set with Versamark

Heat emboss with a thick, clear embossing powder such as Amazing Glaze

Roughly color the stamped/embossed images with watercolor pencils

Wet the images with a thin watercolor brush or refillable watercolor brush

Let Dry

Touch up the images with additional color if needed

Cut panel with the smaller rectangle of the Master Layouts die cutting set from Gina K. Designs

Glue to a piece of teal blue cardstock that was cut with the larger rectangle die from the same Master Layouts set

Glue fun foam to the back of the layered panel and adhere to a top-folding A4 card base

Steps for Sentiment Strip:

Cut a piece of cardstock at least 4" x 13/16" or cut it to that size after stamping and embossing

Treat with anti-static powder

Stamp sentiment - this is three separate stamps from the same Primrose set

Heat emboss with white embossing powder

Adhere foam tape to the back and pop it up onto the background piece which has already been attached to the card base

Steps for Blue Floral Images:

Stamp floral outline image from Altenew's Build-a-Flower: Primrose set with Versamark onto watercolor paper

Heat emboss with gold embossing powder

Roughly color the stamped/embossed images with watercolor pencils

Wet the images with a thin watercolor brush or refillable watercolor brush

Let Dry

Touch up the images with additional color if needed

Let Dry

Die cut images

Pop-up flowers with foam tape, one or two layers depending on the desired depth

Dot the centers of the flowers with a white gel pen or white paint

I like that there is a lot of depth and texture to the water coloring on this card. It also works well because of the high contrast in colors on the card. Please let me know if you enjoy using watercolors, too. Have a wonderful day!