Ink Stains: Art Crayons, Watercolor Pastels, Gelatos...Slimline Card with Unity

Hello Friends...

Unity's August challenge is centered around slimline cards...I love them! Finally more room to play :) It's been a while since I played with my watercolor crayons so I thought I'd pull them out and play. I know some artists are purists and only use one specific brand of medium but not me - I like to really mix it up. I pulled out a few Marabu Art Crayons, my Gelatos, some Watercolor Soluble Oil Pastels and more just to see what I could come up with. This is the card I created!

It doesn't look like I used many colors but there are loads on there, they just blend together so well you don't even realize it until you look closely. I'll show you what I did...

I started off by just scribbling two colors over the entire background panel.

I blended then added more colors - greys, greens, light browns and a hint of purple here and there.

When the background was done I scribbled color onto the stamp, misted and stamped. I added layers of color a little bit at a time to create depth and dimension with each stamping.

Tip: Once you mist your colored stamp it's a good idea to let the water dissolve the pastels a bit and when you stamp it you want to leave the stamp sit on the paper a while so the pastels have a chance to be absorbed by the paper and get a nice transfer of color. It takes patience but it's worth it in the end.

Here's what the flowers looked like after 3 layers of color.

I then went in with a bit of yellow and a watercolor brush to fill in the centers. I also added a bit of Fairy Hugs glitter to each flower as well just for a bit of sparkle (not shown in this photo).