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SUPER EASY Five Minute Watercolor Backgrounds

SUPER EASY Five Minute Watercolor Backgrounds is what we have for you today. Do you want a fun project to do that even kids can help with? This is it! Just in time for spring break! Make your own watercolor backgrounds and make it a family CREATIVE event! This is SUPER EASY clean up and SUPER EASY to do because your clean up is minimal and you only need a few supplies!

Supplies needed for the SUPER EASY Five Minute Watercolor Backgrounds Project

Acrylic Stamp Block or palette

Tim Holtz weathered wood distress ink

Water

Paint Brush

Paper**

** I used standard 60 pound card stock. If you don’t use watercolor paper, your paper will more than likely warp. Once you have completed coloring, you can place the paper between two books and that will solve the problem of warping. This also solves the issue of using expensive watercolor paper and being able to use standard card stock on your SUPER EASY Five Minute Watercolor Backgrounds Project.

Using your paint brush, add some water to your acrylic block. You will be using your acrylic stamp block as a palette for your ink.

Take your brush and lift off some of the color from the ink pad to your block. Repeat as necessary to get the desired amount of color. You can also ink the acrylic block before adding water if you wish to add more color first then add the water. Either way will work fine. On the block it doesn’t look like there is any color but there is.

Using the water and ink, brush over your paper making fluid strokes. If you like the look of the brush strokes on your paper, use less water for that effect.

Here is the finished light background on your paper for your SUPER EASY Five Minute Watercolor Backgrounds Project.

Here are both of the finished SUPER EASY Five Minute Watercolor Backgrounds Projects. Super fast! What are you going to do with this idea? I can’t wait to hear what project you plan to use this SUPER EASY Five Minute Watercolor Backgrounds technique!

For this weeks giveaway we are giving away a $15 store credit for anything in the store, including sale items! Winners announced next week so be sure to check back!

To qualify to win, you must be BOTH:

A public follower on YouTube, subscribe to our mailing list/blog posts and you may also comment on this blog post for an additional entry to win! Winners will be announced next week on our Mondays with Melissa blog post!

BE SURE TO check to see if you are a winner EVERY WEEK. If you do not contact me within two weeks of the your name being picked, you will forfeit your prize. Thank you for your understanding.

Subscribe to BOTH with MATCHING NAMES to be eligible. If I am unable to match you with your subscription to both the email list and the YouTube Channel, you will miss your chance to win a prize. If I can’t decipher if you are a matching subscriber (if your profile doesn’t show publicly who you subscribe to) and I can’t confirm you have subscribed to both, you will not be eligible.

For this weeks giveaway we are giving away the A Creative Journey with Melissa Sign Language Sentiments 2 Stamp Set !!

 The winner is Andrea !

Winner, please send me your contact information via contact page on our website, which post you are a winner from and I will get your prize out to you! Thank you so much for being a YouTube follower and subscribing to our mailing list/blog posts!

Thank you for joining us for the SUPER EASY Five Minute Watercolor Backgrounds Project. This would be fun for a crop, with friends or even a spring break craft with kids! CHECK BACK TO SEE IF YOU ARE A WINNER!

Have a wonderful week and thank you for going on A Creative Journey with Melissa.

 

 

 

Water Coloring Fun – Lessons Learned

Water Coloring Fun – Lessons Learned is what we have for you today. We have pencils and water color paints and what works and WHAT DIDN’T.. Yep, you guessed it! Lessons learned! The good news is, you will learn from my mistakes and we can learn together. I also have a few explanations to keep you from doing the same thing I did. If you have any input or suggestions, I would love to hear them. Not just with this but any video or idea you have!

Supplies Needed for Water Coloring Fun

A Creative Journey with Melissa Petals for You Stamp Set

Acrylic Stamp Block

Water Color Pencils

Paint Brushes

Paper for water coloring (or your paper may warp)

Water Color Paint

Memento Ink

Water

First, you will need to take out your stamp block, ink, stamp from your A Creative Journey with Melissa Petals for You Stamp Set and water color paper.

Here is a close up of the awesome Acrylic Stamp Block we have. They even have grid lines to help you line up your sentiments and images!

Place your first stamp on your acrylic block and ink your image.

Stamp your image on your water color paper ensuring you are on the less textured side. This will help to avoid irregularities in your stamping due to the texture.

Remove your stamp and place it back on your sheet. Place your second image on your stamp block and ink it

Stamp your image on your water color paper.

This stamp set also allows you to stamp inside of the image to get a different look and effect. You have a number of choices with this set so be sure to check it out! Now you are ready for some Water Coloring Fun!

Here is a close up of the double stamped image.

Take out your water color pencils.

I NOW INTERRUPT THIS REGULARLY SCHEDULED BLOG POST TO TELL YOU HOW COOL THIS RE-PURPOSED/RECYCLED PACKAGING IS! It came with the magnets on the right and I just had to save them for painting.. Can you believe these weren’t made for this? Now, you may just look at packaging in a different way! NOW BACK TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED BLOG POST.

To start some Water Coloring Fun, outline the inside flower with the darker of the two orange colors.

You can even exaggerate your colored lines to give a darker effect on the edges.

Outline the outside flower with the lighter orange.

The flower is outlined in exaggerated color with my water color pencils. Are you having Water Coloring Fun yet?

Take out your paint brush and place some water on it. Using the water color pencil color, pull it into the blank area with the water creating your water color effect.

Here is a close up before I really get started. As you can see, I wasn’t clean with my lines but it still turns out OK!

In between colors unless you want a very blended color, clean your brush. This will keep your creation from having a muddled look.

Here is a close up. I SHOULD HAVE STOPPED HERE, CUT IT OUT AND HAD MY IMAGE. Here comes the mistake.. creative mistake but mistake just the same. Imagine how bored you would be though if I wasn’t here to entertain you?

I wanted more color in the middle of the flower. I picked up my water color pencil and added a little squiggle of color in the middle.

It wasn’t working so I dabbed it with a paper towel and added more water. I added too much water and the paper started to flake a bit. Again, lesson learned.

Previous water color pencils I have used were quite a bit more expensive but with that, you also get a smoother creamier texture and result. I am not sure if my pencils are dried out or just older but I wasn’t able to move much around in the middle. I did press down harder than I should have though so maybe I will try it again and just use the pencil lightly?

Probably because I can’t leave well enough alone, I wanted to have more Water Coloring Fun and I thought why not try to see if it was the pencils that may be a bit harder giving a harsher look. I lightly colored some squiggles on the flower.

I cleaned my paint brush and then used the squiggle lines and water and pulled the color throughout the image.

This is what it looked like so what did I learn? Don’t do that again! LOL Be sure I am outlining images or areas that I don’t mind if there is a visable line. I do know that these pencils are a number of years old and definitely not super expensive so the creaminess in the texture of water color wasn’t there. So what do you do when you make a creative mistake? Enjoy it if you like it or what? FIX IT!

I took out my water color paints, cleaned off my brush and re wet my brush. There is more pigment with these and as long as I don’t water them down too much I should be able to salvage my mistake! I will show you that in a minute but first, let’s try another flower with the orange!

I colored the entire flower with just my water color paint. Can you feel the Water Coloring Fun in the air?

Here is a close up of the last two I did. I like the orange one but I want a little bit more color. One would have thought I learned last time and I DID!

I added more orange to my brush and painted some on in the middle of the flower image.

This is a close up of the added color. Nothing like using Water Coloring Fun to make a little bit of a mess!

I took a dry brush (no water) and brushed it across to get a more even look as well as a little bit of the texture from the bristles. I love how it came out!

Now to fix that mistake. Take the red with a bit of water.. I know it looks pink but it is definitely filling in the color nicely.

Add more color as you feel necessary as well as more water. It looks like it is working!

How do you like that? FIXED!

What did we learn? Don’t scribble in the middle of your image or press hard with your water color pencils. If the water color pencils are older and less expensive, they may not blend as well so know your material and project. Most of all HAVE FUN and make those mistakes as they are meant to happen so you LEARN!  Don’t ever give up and keep on being creative… You can do it!

Now for this weeks GIVEAWAY! We are giving away the A Creative Journey with Melissa Petals for You Stamp Set

To qualify to win, you must be BOTH:

A public follower on YouTube, subscribe to our mailing list/blog posts and you may also comment on this blog post for an additional entry to win! Winners will be announced next week on our Mondays with Melissa blog post!

If you do not contact me within two weeks of the announcement of winning, you will forfeit your prize. Thank you for your understanding.

NOTE: Be sure you are subscribed to BOTH with MATCHING NAMES. If I am unable to match you with your subscription to both the email list and the YouTube Channel, you will miss your chance to win a prize. If I can’t decipher if you are a matching subscriber (if your profile doesn’t show publicly who you subscribe to) and I can’t confirm you have subscribed to both, I won’t be able to enter you in for the prize. **DO NOT COMMENT WITH YOUR ENTIRE EMAIL ADDY. Only give me the first 6 NOT INCLUDING YOUR HOST. Just enough for me to match your name will work perfectly.

 

Now, for the GIVEAWAY from last weeks post. We are giving away the A Creative Journey with Melissa Everyday Alphabet Upper Case and Emoticon Stamp Set and the A Creative Journey with Melissa Everyday Alphabet Lower Case and Numbers Stamp Set.

The winner is Kim Miller !

 Kim,  please send me your contact information via contact page on our website, which post you are a winner from and I will get your prize out to you! Thank you so much for being a YouTube follower and subscribing to our mailing list/blog posts!

 We hope you enjoyed our Water Coloring Fun – Lessons Learned post!

Please be sure to continue to keep all of those suffering from the horrific damage they have had due to the hurricanes.

Have a wonderful week and thank you for going on A Creative Journey with Melissa.  

Pancreatic Cancer Card & Watercolor Technique with Ink!

Today I created a Pancreatic Cancer Card & Watercolor Technique with Ink! I created this card in honor of my friend Kim. She is currently battling Pancreatic Cancer and is doing a WONDERFUL job of KICKING ITS BUTT!! Truly the epitome of courage, strength and grace. Let me give you a little background about Kim as I know her. I met her when Christian was in middle school for 6th grade. I volunteered to help with the Teacher Appreciation luncheon and she was the PTA President. She was always so sweet, kind and giving of herself and her time. There was NEVER a time where I saw her not thoroughly enjoying herself. Her heart is so full of love and she is so giving. She is so gracious, uplifting, positive and strong. I am so proud of her and her amazing strength. She has an amazing group of supportive friends including Julie. Julie goes with Kim to almost EVERY SINGLE chemo appointment she has. The beautiful friendship they have is so wonderful to see <3 Chemo can be quite boring while sitting getting treatment so to have someone with you to keep you company is amazing and makes time go by so much faster!

Unlike my previous videos, I am just showing you the technique of the watercolor with ink. I am not showing you how to put the whole card I created together. I would love to hear what you prefer. If you prefer the whole created tutorial or if you prefer to just see the technique. Below are the step by step instructions for the whole card. I will add pictures when appropriate from my video. Thanks so much for visiting and be sure to come back tomorrow! We are participating in a wonderful blog hop with LOTS of prizes and amazing inspiration! TRUST ME! You won’t want to miss this! I will be posting all about it tomorrow!!!! Now onto the watercolor technique….

Supplies you will need:

Awareness Ribbon Stamp Set #1

Ink – Tim Holtz Distress Ink Dusty Concord

Water Brush or plain paint brush with water

Adhesive,Card Base

Colored paper to mat image/sentiment

Watercolor paper to stamp image/sentiment on

Embossing folder

Manual Embossing Machine (sizzix big shot or big shot pro)

Ranger Archival Ink

Twine

Stamp Blocks

Scissors

Palette or Slick surface to use for palette for ink (I used old packaging material from my embossing folder-works GREAT!)

Paper towels or baby wipes

supplies

Take out your colored paper for the background and emboss it using your manual die cut machine. Adhere your embossed paper to your card base. Set aside.

Take out your archival ink, stamp blocks, Awareness Ribbon Stamp Set #1 and watercolor paper. Ink your large ribbon stamp and stamp on your watercolor paper.

stamp ribbon

Ink and stamp your sentiment from the Awareness Ribbon Stamp Set #1 underneath your stamped ribbon.

Ink and stamp sentiment

Place ink from your ink pad on  your palette. Do this by just tapping the ink pad on the surface you chose to use.

place ink on palette

Take out your water brush. Test it on a paper towel or baby wipe to see how wet it is. Depending on what look you want, adjust your brush by dabbing off water or adding water from the brush. Pick up ink from your palette.

use waterbrush to get ink off of the palette

Color your image with the water color ink to your liking.

watercolor your ribbon image

colored ribbon

Add more ink to your palette (if needed) and color the background of your paper to your liking. Here I did more of a dry coloring whereas the example I used more water for my creation. I wanted to show you the difference in which you can use the watercolor and the different looks it can give 🙂

color background

colored background

Here are the two different variations of my water coloring. The left side has less water used and more of a dry brush look with little water. The right side has more water used for the ribbon and the background. You can get really great looks by just adding or subtracting a little water!

comparison

Adhere your colored image to your card base that has the embossed colored paper on it. Take twine and wrap around the card and tie it in a bow. Your creation is complete!!

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