You Watercolor My World

So Today I have for you my Lawn Fawn watercolor challenge card.  And I have to say I love the way it turned out.


I started out with the idea that I wanted to do an outdoor scene with a character coloring in the scene.  I was thinking I would use the birds from the Love Letters stamp set but when I pulled it out I realized that they had a fountain pen and not a paint brush.  So I decided to use the Fairy Friends stamp set instead.  And for the sentiment I would use the Color My World stamp set.

For the outdoor scene I decided to the the leafy tree backdrop in the landscape format.

I fully intended to use the Windy backdrop on this card but I'll explain why I didn't later on in the tutorial.

Ok so I had all my stamps and dies selected and out on my table.  Next I had to pick a good blue color for a fall day.  I picked a light blue from my American Crafts cardstock.  I got out my watercolor paper.  Any heavy weight watercolor paper will do.  I found this pad at Tuesday Morning for a steal and it works great!!!

I got out my Fiskars trimmer and cut my watercolor paper to a size the would fit into my cuttlebug.

Then I got out my cuddlebug and layered A plate, B plate, paper, die, C plate and ran it through the cuddlebug.

Of course some of my leaves stuck in the die so I used my reverse tweezers to punch them out.

Then I was ready to color.  I got out my craft mat and carefully selected the colors I wanted to use from my Tim Holtz distress inks.  I got out my water brush, filled it up and was ready to go.

I used the colors below.

Then I made my first mistake of the card.  I attached the leafy backdrop to the blue cardstock I had selected with my miracle tape.  BEFORE I ran it through the cuddlebug with the windy backdrop :(

I was so mad!!!  I implore you, please try it with the windy backdrop and don't make my mistake!!!  I bet it will look so amazing!!!  Even though I was very aggravated I had to move on so I did!  I attached my hills with miracle tape.  Then I used Tombo Aqua liquid adhesive to attach my leaves to my tree and the ground.

Now you might wonder, did she make another mistake?  Nope!  I left some of the leaves uncolored on purpose to show that the fairies are coloring the scene in.  Next I used my fiskars trimmers to separate the two cards.  Then I got out my memento stamp pad, my color my world stamp set and acrylic block.  I stamped the sentiment onto the hill.

Now I was ready for some fairies.  I used my ink pad once again and stamped some fairies.  Then I colored them in with my Zig real brush markers.  I love these markers!

 Then I cut them out with my cuddlebug.

Attached their wands with the liquid adhesive and I had fairies!

Now to attach them to the card.  Of course you know I have to pop them!!!

And there they are!!!!  I have a card!  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and come back soon to see another one!  Below you will find my supply list and a  plug for my favorite scrapbook store.  They have most of the supplies that I used to make this card and many other wonderful and unique paper-crafting items.

Supply list
A2 card bases and envelopes
Miracle tape
Pop dots
Tombo Aqua liquid adhesive
Watercolor paper
Blue and white (smooth) cardstock (I used American Crafts because it treats my trimmer nice)
Water pen (I have a Tim Holtz but any brand will do)
Tim Holtz Distress mini inks
Zig real brush markers
Acrylic block
Memento ink
Cuddlebug with A,B,C plates
Reverse tweezers
Fiskars trimmer

Lawn Fawn Products
Shammie
Color my world stamps
Fairy Friends stamp set
Leafy backdrop-landscape
And I wish I had used the windy backdrop (still not over it)  :(

I am not an affiliate of my local scrapbook store but I love it!  It
gives me my sanity and I consider it my second home!  So I have to put
in a plug for my favorite scrapbook store!  As we all know many of our
local scrapbook stores are an endangered species.  So if you happen to
be in town or want to order online please do!  There are so many unique
products available.  I would truly appreciate you supporting my cropping
haven!