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Watercolor petals

3/29/2016

 
Looky there, a new header image has arrived! I really liked how the watercolor flower turned out, so I wanted to share with you how I made it. 
I actually tried using two very different types of paper. The one above is made with tracing paper: I just roughly brushed on varying shades of purple and let the paper dry. Then, I cut petal shapes from the paper, brushed Mod Podge onto the backs (one at a time), and smoothed them to a scrap of sturdy card stock. I added a second round of overlapping petals to the first level, ending up with five over five. This photo shows a second flower made using this method, sitting on top of the cut-up paper.
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I did something similar using actual watercolor paper; brushed varying shades of purple (mixed using blue and red in my simple watercolor set) onto the paper, let it dry, and cut out petals. This time I cut them in three different sizes, then stacked them from largest to smallest.
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You get more dimension with the thick watercolor paper, but you lose the nice translucency of the tracing paper.
​More photos of the two effects:
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Because the watercolor petals were so thin, and so evenly glued down, I was able to use a craft knife to cut out the letters in "ink" without much difficulty.  
Happy Spring! 
​xo

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