Welcome to week fifteen of our Art With Heart 2023-24 Colour Creations blog hop!
Cajun Craze is our colour for this week and as it’s a colour that always makes me think of terracotta pots or brick walls I decided to use the Let’s Go Shopping stamp set to make a watercolor card.
I’ve kept my colour palette fairly simple, stamping the images in Stazon Black Onk onto watercolour paper before watercolouring in Cajun Craze, Old Olive and Gray Granite.
I love the “looseness” of watercolour. Even though I’m not very proficient at watercolouring there aren’t really any mistakes with watercolour. Or at least that’s what I like to tell myself!
Watercolour is a great way to maximise your colours as you can achieve so much variety of depth from each colour. The pale pink door is Cajun Craze watered right down and the entire building is different intensities of Cajun Craze.
Although I now have the reinkers, I still find it easiest to either press my inkpad lids into the ink pad and use the lid as my palette or ink up my acrylic blocks with my ink pads and use the blocks as my palette.
Gray Granite adds shadow and grounds the entire scene.
As I didn’t use watercolour paper for the inside of my card I stamped the pots using Memento ink and coloured them in with Stampin’ Blends instead.
Now it’s time to hop on over to our next participant, the lovely Tina Gillespie – I can’t wait to see what Tina has made this week!
If at any time you find a broken link, you can find the complete list of all participants below.
Catherine Proctor – you are here!
Next Wednesday, 16th August, we’ll be back showcasing Calypso Coral or you can join us on Monday 14 August for some Christmas inspiration.
I hope you can join us then.
Yes, this is brilliant, Cathy. I absolutely love watercolour and this is stunning. The depth of colour you have managed to achieve is tremendous, so beautiful!
I love your water colouring, Cathy! I haven’t seen anyone do this with this stamp set and it looks amazing.
The texture on the building gives a delightful ‘aged’ effect, Cathy. A lovely little scene indeed.
Oh Cathy, your water-colouring is just so beautiful! I could sit and look at your card for hours and I have. All the other colours are just lovely compliments to the Cajun craze! I love your use of highlights or white spaces! Such a beautiful card!
Your watercolouring is marvellous! I love the texture you’ve given the building with the different intensities of colour. The scene you’ve created is lovely, and I especially like that you’ve carried it over to the inside of your card.
Such a lovely card Cathy. I agree I prefer to ink up the lid of the stamp pad and yes there is no right or wrong with water colouring.
This is a delightful card, Cath. I love the variations in tone you have achieved with the watercolour, and really like the limited colour palette. Beautiful job.
Cathy, I love your water-colouring of the shop. Like you, I love the varying colour intensities that you achieve through water-colouring. I love your highlights. Wonderful card. xxx