Today’s Blog Post is illustrating how to watercolour with blocks.

This blog post is the monthly Crafty Challenge for the Crafty Collaborations Community. This month you will be able to hop around and see projects that have been inspired by a colour challenge.

Watercolour With Blocks

I am sharing two projects. One was inspired by the colours in the challenge and the other is using the left over pieces. Both projects use the Spruced Up bundle.

For this first project, I shared a technique I had recently seen, where an acrylic block is inked up and used to add blocks of colour to a saturated piece of Fluid 100 watercolor paper. I used 3 of the colours from the challenge – Early Espresso, Soft Succulent and Garden Green. This water coloured mat was added to a Basic Black mat of card, to bring in another of the challenge’s colours.

Using the clever dies from the Spruced Up bundle I cut these tree frames from Gold Glimmer paper. Some Garden Green ribbon was wrapped around the bottom of the piece before it was attached to a Basic White card base (colour no. 5).

The sentiment was heat embossed in gold onto Basic Black. Finally some gold glimmer stars die cut stars were added.

The Leftovers

I couldn’t just leave two gold glimmer trees on my desk. so I combined them with presents die cut from Real red and White Glimmer card and added some stamped stripes to the Real Red background.

Let’s Hop

I hope you have enjoyed my project. Do leave a comment if you can, because it certainly makes my day. Then it is time to hop around all the other projects

Watch The Video

You can watch both these cards being created on this recent Live.

How Can I Help?

What would you have created with this colour combination? I would love to see your inspired projects.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if I can help with your purchases, or if you have a crafty question.

Meanwhile stay safe and stay well

Helen xx

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