Happy Little Stampers August Watercolor Challenge

My favorite cardmaking medium is watercolor and here's my design for this month's Anything Goes challenge:

I was excited to open a brand new stamp set from Reverse Confetti called Dog Days along with utilizing a really cool Distress inking technique that creates a watercolor appearance.

​Here's my cutie patootie card:

For the background, I laid a white cardstock panel under an acrylic block that was larger than the panel so I could see exactly where to swipe the Distress ink rows of Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Tea Die.  The acrylic block was then spritzed with water and flipped over and pressed onto the cardstock panel really well. The block was removed from the cardstock to reveal the watercolor-y results!

And that is how easy this watercolor technique is done with Distress inks!  I love how irregular the result is.  To add a little more texture to the sandy area, I smooshed a Distress Vintage Photo cube onto a kraft mat and lightly spritzed with water.  I grabbed a small-ish round brush and splattered just the sandy area.

I had so much fun painting the little dog (who doesn't love dog images?) and the surf board on watercolor paper (Strathmore).  Though you can't see it, I added black Wink of Stella (Zig) to his sun glasses for a fun reflection.  Starfish (Catherine Pooler) were stamped with Versafine ink and diecut and glittered with a Quicky Glue Pen (Tombow).  Diecut stitched circle (A Muse Studio) and Wonky (Simon Says Stamp) border added additional interest.  Sentiment was from my stash and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO

LYN