Sunflower Joy for CAS Watercolour

Hello friends and welcome!

We're starting a new challenge at
CAS Watercolour

This month Marcia is our host and she's chosen...

one of my very favorite flowers!

I used my favorite watercolor technique to do this sweet flower.

I placed the stamp in my MISTI and first inked the stem with a marker,

pressed on my mixed media paper, moved the color on the paper with a

damp water brush and stamped again.

I used the same technique with a Mini Distress pad for the flower,

adding some darker ink to the base of the petals with markers.

When I was happy with the flower, I used the small end of a

Gathered Twigs Distress Marker and dotted the center, then blended 

the color with my water brush.

The background wash was done by pulling the color from the

flower with a very damp water brush. I dropped some pink in the wash

by swiping color on my palette and picking it up with a wet water brush

and touching it to the wet background.

Our Design Team have outdone themselves with inspiration pieces this month.

We have a new Designer, Jenny.  I hope you'll give her a warm welcome.

And we're joined by Izzy as our fabulous Guest Designer.

I'm excited to see a beautiful array of watercolor sunflowers 

in the gallery this month.

More inspiration:  DH brought me these for my birthday.

Challenges:

CAS Watercolour: Sunflowers

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sunflowers (Jane's Doodles), Happy Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint (mini DI), Peeled Paint, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Dried Marigold (DM)

Paper:   Neenah, Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series)

Other:  Linen Texture Plate (PTI), Stitched Hexagon Layers (MB)