Watercolor Stamping

I hang around with some talented ladies.  At our last Cricut get-together, Kathy W and I made some cardstock stencils which she would use for the Valentines she was making.  Kathy uses Art Impression stamps and watercolor brushes (such as Tombow) to "paint" a scene.  She brushes a stamp with a watercolor marker and after stamping uses a lightly wet paint brush to pull the color out from the stamped image.  If you look at the tree trunks, Kathy stamped those using a brown water color marker to ink the image and then pulled that color into the middle of the tree trunks.  There are a number of videos on the Internet demonstrating watercoloring with Art Impressions stamps.

For today's card, Kathy covered her piece of watercolor paper with one of the heart stencils we had cut on the Cricut.  She then did her stamping/painting and when she removed the stencil the heart-shaped image is what was made.  She does a great job using these stamps and this technique.  I tried it and failed~~more than once!  Have a great day!