CCNS85: All things beautiful

Hi!  I haven't done no-line watercoloring in a while so I thought this week's hummingbird challenge at Classy Cards 'n Such would be a perfect time to try it again.  I love the result and hope you do too!

I first used watercolor markers to stamp the images from Inkadinkado and ODBD Hummingbird.  This was also the perfect time to use my Twinkling H2O's Thankful set - because hummingbirds are just gorgeously shimmery in real life.  After everything was dried, I splattered some of the blue and green watercolors to the image.  I then trimmed down the image using the large stitched die from MFT Blueprint 13 and adhered it to a black card base using Scor-tape.  I like to use stronger adhesive like Scor-tape when I do watercolor since the paper is usually a bit warped and this ensures it doesn't pop off in some places.  I also run it through the big shot with just the two acrylic plates to flatten it well.  

I added the verse from ODBD Faith stamp set using black detail embossing powder and small Joy! foam pads to pop it up with a couple of black fish tail banners.  The orange center of the flower was darker than I wanted so I used the ice white Viva Decor Pearl Pen in an attempt to lighten it but I ended up loving the shine and texture to it.

Are you ready to try some of the techniques I used today?  I hope you can play along in this week's challenge!

Don't forget that you can use the coupon code DIANAN-10 to the Classy Cards 'n Such on-line store for many of the items I used today.

Challenges I am playing in:

Word ArtWednesday

An InLinkz Link-up