The Wonder of Watercolor

I recently found a really beautiful Cuttlebug embossing folder, called Poppy, by Anna Griffin.  It is a nice big 5 X 7, too.  It looks beautiful embossed on any color of cardstock, but when I saw the Moxie Fab World's current challenge, The Wonder of Watercolor, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.  I embossed it 4 times on  card size panels, and then chose 4 different colors of distress inks: tumbled glass,  mustard seed, worn lipstick, and shaded lilac, and  pounced the pads lightly across the raised surface of the embossed areas.  Because the pads are square, you often see the marks left from the edges of the pads.  BUT when you spritz them with water fairly quickly after pouncing, everything smooths out, and pools into lighter and darker areas, and for the most part, the ink doesn't go down into the non-embossed areas.  When these panels were dry, I trimmed them in various ways and mounted them on card bases made of Tim Holtz Core'dinations Distress Collection colors to coordinate with the colors of the inks, (except for the lilac card) and embellished each one.  I think these make a nice card set, and I'm pleased with the way they turned out.

The tumbled glass one uses some flowers from Penny Black's Petal Party, also watercolored using my tumbled glass distress marker and a water brush.  The sentiment comes from Simon's Flower Friend, and I centered the flower with an MME enamel dot. 

This one I kept fairly simple, just lining it with it's coordinating solid cardstock.  The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday's Bring on the Sun, by Ali Edwards.  Love her fonts!

The worn lipstick one uses a stamp and die from Hero Arts Antique Flowers & Butterflies stamp and die set.  Again, I used my worn lipstick distress marker to color parts of the butterfly, then used a water brush to pull the color to the rest of the image.  My sentiment here is another Ali Edwards set, Simply You.

And finally, this shaded lilac version may be my favorite.....it is such a pretty shade.  Again, I used the Penny Black Petal Party flowers and watercolored them this time with my new Inktense watercolor pencils.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts Luscious Patterned Flowers set; also another lovely font.

Thanks for bearing with me for this long post!