Water Painters | Dot Dot Stamping Designs

The idea for my card today was to create a summer scene. It’s the middle of a cold winter here in Australia, and I needed a reminder that summer will be here before we know it, and with that, time at the beach and swimming in our beautiful ocean.
Does anyone else love swimming in the ocean? It’s something I love to do, it makes me feel so energised and refreshed.

I have used a piece of Fluid 100 Watercolor paper and a Water Painter to create my background, first applying a lot of water to the paper, and then adding some Pecan Pie ink at the bottom, then Pool Party, Summer Splash, Azure Afternoon and Blueberry Bushel inks.

The truck with the surf board in the back, and the palm trees are from the Trucking Along bundle, which is an Online Exclusive from a while back but still available here in Australia.

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Happy stamping!
Chris

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Product List

Trucking Along Bundle (English)

[162306]

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

Water Painters

[151298]

Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock

[146991]

Azure Afternoon A4 Cardstock

[161728]

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I spent most of my morning creating this piece, which I’m not quite sure what to call. It’s not really mixed media because it’s all the same techniques we would use on cards.
I have made it for a local art gallery which is having an exhibition where everything that is displayed must be 8 x 8 inches.
So I started with a piece of very heavy card, the type that sometimes comes in with the Specialty Designer Series Papers, which I cut to 8 x 8 inches, and also cut one of my pieces of Basic White cardstock the same size (the very same Basic White that I am trying not to use too much of right now!!). I have sponged the edges with Crumb Cake ink, and then a heap of sponging with daubers over a decorative mask which was actually the front of a retired laser-cut card.
So heaps of sponging and stamping, and then watercolouring the Prize Peony. For that I have used Stazon Black ink onto Watercolour Paper, then coloured with ink and the Water Painter. The ink colours are Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral and Polished Pink.

I have also used some retired Designer Series Paper and ribbon, the Timeworn Type Embossing Folder, Very Versaille Stamp Set and Beauty of Tomorrow Stamp Set and matching Dies.

Happy Stamping!
Chris