Simple background:Watercolour

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

I hope today finds you well, we had a wet and chilly day yesterday and more rain forecast today, the highlight of the day was hearing the birds joyful singing between showers 🐦  

Now if any of you had a rough day yesterday I'm about to make yoymu feel better.....   

I got up and decided to shower, condition my hair, then use a pretty smelling moisturiser,  make myself feel brighter than the day looked!  So I did, I had to have a little relax before drying my hair, I felt good, so I thought lets keep this good feeling going with a nice healthy lunch,  tuna salad with pickled red cabbage and beetroot, I'm not a huge tuna fan, to me it smells like cat food,  but I know its good for my heart.  So I prep all the salad, then I get to opening the Tuna, I lift the pull tab on the lid then hold it over the sink and gently press to drain the water out, or I 'thought' i was gentle...... all of a sudden there is an audible click and it seemed like the whole tin exploded, covering me from 'Newly washed & conditioned head to the tips of my fluffy slippers in slimey, sloppy tuna 🐟 fish, 😳😲🤢  It had soaked through my clean t shirt to my bra, everything was covered!  I could have wept had it not been for the hysterical laughter behind me, for a few minutes I was like the pied piper, the cats wouldn't leave me alone !!!  So all clothes in washing machine,  me back in the shower, I can still smell tuna on my arm though 😪!  

Now onto my card.... I am happy to admit that I have a problem with 'abstract ' or deliberately messy cards, to me there is a fine line between too little and too messy, I love the look of these style cards on Pinterest so I treated my myself to a new stamp that would work for many different card styles, because like all of you the thousands of stamps that I already have weren't right.

So I decided to go with a watercolour background, I got out a set of watercolour paints I've had for over a year and not touched 

I bought these 'Koh I Noor' stackable watercolour paints ages ago, it was the Chocolate Baroque woman selling them on C&C.  To be fair they do have quite decent pigment.  They were on a special deal for £10.                                                                       Back to my card, I used a piece of acetate to transfer 'smooshed ' paint onto a piece of watercolour card that I had spritzed with water, building up the colours and I also tapped the brush a few times to give some splatters.  I popped it on the Aga to dry, I placed the dried piece into my stamping platform (incase I needed to restamp onto the rough textured watercolour card) I stamped using Versafine clair.  To finish I mounted onto black card, then onto a white card base.  A simple sentiment finishes the card. 

I hope that you all have a lovely Thursday,  I am staying well away from Tuna today. 

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra                                                                      xxxxxx