Good Sunday morning. My project today was made for the Splitcoaststampers Inspiration Challenge. The inspiration site was Poketo and I was inspired by a fun softly colored scene on a child’s wallet pictured below.
I was so taken with the beautiful muted soft colors and the sweet cartoony outdoor scene on the wallet that I just had to try to recreate something like it.
I knew the only way to get such soft colors on my background layer was to watercolor on watercolor paper with reinker mixed with water. I used both shabby shutters and tumbled glass to get the bluish green sky background.
I wanted everything in my scene to be as muted as the background so that led me to watercolor small pieces of paper in each color that I wanted to use to die cut all of my foliage, flowers, butterflies and bunnies.
This was really a labor of love because it took me quite a bit of time to color each paper and heat dry it. When I got all of my pieces cut out I knew I had to frame it so that the frame blended right into the scene thus one more large watercolored piece of paper. My whole work area looked like a big rainbow smashed into it. LOL! 
I thought while I was at it I would take a few shots to show the steps I used.
I use my distress ink pad lids for my palette to mix the ink and water.
The first step is to wash your whole piece of watercolor paper with water. You want it to be very wet so the color will run well and blend.
The second step is to put plenty of reinker in your palette. It will take more ink than you may think to get the color you want to end up with as it will dry much lighter than it looks when wet. If your dry finished piece isn’t as rich in color as you want it just wet it down again and add more color.
I used almost pure reinker on this pink to get it as rich as I wanted it to be when it dried. You can see that I used lots of water to allow the color to move.
I heat dried the paper when I was finished.
Here are the papers I made for the project. It is missing the apricot piece I used on my bunnies as that color was an afterthought.
If you like water coloring then be sure and treat yourself to good watercolor paper. It makes all the difference in the world.
I appreciate you coming by and appreciate all of your supportive comments. I hope you have a great day.
Paper: Watercolor Ink: Distress Ink Reinker – Peeled Paint , Tumbled Glass , Spun Sugar , Shabby Shutters , Shaded Lilac , Squeezed Lemonade , Adirondack Lemonade
Accessories: Impression Obsession Bunny Set , Grass Border , Grass Tall , Leafy Branch 2 , Butterfly Set , Fiskars 1/8" Circle Punch (flowers), Spellbinders Grand Squares , Large Watercolor Brush , Tiny Tipped Stylus, Glossy Accents , Mounting Tape , Metal Adapter Plate , Glue Dots , Paper Piercer , ATG , Big Shot , Teflon Bone Folder, Guillotine Paper, ATG
DARLING framed bunny/floral scene! You sure captured the oveall design of your inspiration. 🙂
Hi Kittie — This is so cute and adorable! I love the wallet, too! But your water colors are soft, blended and gentle. Great scene and I just love how you frame this 😉
Gorgeous!!!
you continue to inspire and teach me, thank you..darling, sweet card..with so many layers and such depth.
such pretty soft colors, sweet scene!
This is so adorable..gorgeous colors
Wow!!
This is such a wonderful little card Kittie! Thanks for sharing your coloring technique!
You never cease to amaze! Just when I think you’ve shared everything. These colors are so, so delicate, love it. The green is breathtaking. Thanks for sharing!
Again you have shared and explained a beautiful technique for a card…haven’t tried watercoloring yet, but this inspired me to go for it!!! TKS!!!
Good Morning, Kittie, Love your creation. Especially love the tutorial that you gave us to learn so much. You inspire us with beauty and talent. You take so much time to create, and share with us with your busy schedule. Greatly appreciated and blessed everyday……have a good week-end.
Beautiful and so soft and soothing. Thanks for sharing your wonderful talent. One Question, if I may…..what is a good watercolor paper ? I have some, but not sure it is all that good as it looks a little coarse to me and not fine. Thanks for any suggestions ! m
Blessings
Love this. Wonderful!
Just beautiful Kittie! Well worth the extra time and effort to get the lovely soft colours.
wonderfulll you never disapoint
This card really spoke to me and warmed my heart. Love, love, love it! What a treasure for anyone to receive such a gorgeous card. Thanks for sharing.
Shirley