Watercolour Painting with Ink

Water Colour Painting with Inks. 

I was at my weekly card class and I had my inks and my Waterbrush—Small Round, Waterbrush—Medium Round and Waterbrush—Medium Flat but forgot to bring my Watercolor Paints palette. Never fear, I remembered that I could use my ink to PAINT!

Using the older style ink pad Thistle Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (As shown Below), I pressed them together to get ink on the lid. This is the same process with the newer ink pads as per the below Emerald Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad as well. Get some ink onto the lid of the pads to create a paint pad. 

I stamped with Black Memento™ Ink Pad with the stamp of the month Hello Foxy from June 2017 - see my blog post HERE on that month.

I used my water brushes that was filled with water and painted with Thistle Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Emerald Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (one old and one new). 

I used some Thistle embossed Cardstock (from the older Whimsy Fundamentals pack) and some LOVE paper from the new Whimsy Fundamentals pack paper to finish my card and I was really happy with this one. It was simple and effective. 

You can get 12" × 12" Thistle Cardstock in the Whimsy Cardstock Combo Pack.

Live Beautifully Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the "National Scrapbooking Month Live Beautiful" bundle. If you have arrived here from Wendy Hopper Expressions of the Heart then you are in the right place. If you landed here another way, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. Follow the links, check out all the amazing ideas and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started.

This month is National Scrapbooking Month and we have the MOST beautiful paper and has a whole set of things. 

Live Beautifully paper packet 16 – 12” × 12” sheets (2 each of 6 double-sided designs and 2 each of 2 single-sided gold foil designs) CC1212B, $23 AUD/$25.50 NZD 
My Acrylix® Live Beautifully stamp set CC1212C, $27 AUD/$30.50 NZD
Cut Above™ Layout Kit—Live Beautifully Includes materials for creating five 2-page layouts and six 12" µ 12" Memory Protectors™. CC1212A $68.50 AUD/$77.50 NZD
Live Beautifully Album Bundles Includes the Live Beautifully Cut Above™ layout kit, a My Legacy™ album (D-ring or post-bound), one Marvy® Uchida® LePen™ journaling pen, and one Tombow® permanent adhesive. CC1212 Black Post-bound album bundle CC1225 Grey D-ring album bundle Retail value: $132 AUD/$150 NZD 20%-off price: $103.95 AUD/117.95 NZD

==============================================================================I have been very Pinterest inspired to make a mixed media canvas and when I saw this stamp set I HAD to make a canvas using the title and flowers. I used the NSD Live Beautifully stamp set to stamp Memento Ink on Tissue Paper. Then I used Mod Podge to glue it onto the canvas. 

This was what it looked like on the canvas before I painted it (above). 
 This is what my canvas looked like after I painted it with some discontinued CTMH pearl paint mixed with Lagoon Re-inker and painted on with a paintbrush.   

Then I added some extra stamping in Colonial White Ink on the top left hand corner. Following the Pinterest suggestions I didn't use a block to stamp onto the canvas (just my hand). 

I made lots of cards with this paper and stamp set this week. Using an idea one of our consultants Steph Sinc shared with consultants to use the black Marvy® Uchida® LePen™ Journaling Penover the seaglass stamped flower. 
Then using two colours of the ShinHan Marker - Peacock Green & Turquoise Blue shading. My shading needs some work I feel but I do like the look. Then I fussy cut it out and popped it on the below card. 

The below is the Colonial White ink stamped onto Kraft Paper with the White/Gold ribbon tied around. 
The next two cards were from a sample we made at our last crop day and I just added titles to it.  

Remember this great set of products is ONLY available throughout May from my website or from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest projects, there is so much to make using this beautiful set of products. I'm really interested to hear what you think about them, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Lauren Moore.