Summertime Birthday -Watercolor card.

Hello guys

Welcome back to my blog. I have a watercolor card or you all today. everything you see from the panel to the butterfly is all watercolored using distress inks...They are my favorite goto for watercoloring. I am new to this technique and have recently stumbled upon it and trying my hand as much as I can. So, here I have made a Birthday Day with lots of bright coloring and splatters which I feel would be perfect for a girl...... or even someone young at heart.

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:

1. Addicted to Stamps and more challenge#250 - Photo Inspiration (Got inspired by the colors in this photo)
2. SimonSaysStamp - Monday challenge - Distress it.
3. CAS(E) this sketch #230
4. Craft stamper Magazine - Take it Make it July
5. HLS July watercolor Challenge - Optional Twist - Blue
6. Paru's Card making Challenges - July - Happy Birthday
7. Polkadoodles Week#28 - Anything Goes
8. Scrap and Craft Challenge#5 - Summertime + Butterflies 
9. Scrapping4fun Challenge #94- Birthday
10. The Ribbon Girl - July challenge - Anything Goes

So, I started with a textured white cardstock which I had bought maybe years back and I hoarded it for as long as I could possibly....Today was the last piece I could do with it and I am glad with the way my card turned out to be.....Ok ...so back to the process. I started with the cardstock cut to standard 41/4" by 51/2" and then generously spritzed it with water and then started watercoloring my panel. I have used 3 Distress inks - Mermaid Lagoon, Pinked Raspberry and Crushed olive. They blended and forned Violets and hints of Oranges. I let this panel air dry and it took good 4 hours before I could work with it again. I cut my front panel 1/4"from all the sides and then divided into 3 parts and assembled everything on a standard A2 size white cardbase (270gsm)

The Butterfly is from Mudra Stamps and I loved this stamp set....so much can be done with it. I heat embossed this stamp with white and then watercolored the geometric pattern with the 3 distress inks I used on the panel. I mixed then at few places and the result is simply unexpected.

Once the butterfly was all dried, I fussy cut it out and then adhered it to my panel along with some cheesecloth. Finished my card with the sentiment from the same stamp set which I heat embossed with White. To add more interest, I added sequins and splatter of white acrylic color.
I hope you like my card. Thank you so much for stopping by.

Supplies used:

1. White cardstock (270gsm) - Itsybitsy
2. Textured White cardstock (250gsm) - Personal Stash
3. Distress inks - Picked Raspberry, Crushed Olive and Mermaid lagoon
4. Mudra stamps- Geometric Nature
5. Mudra stamps - Sequins -Sugar Plum Mix
6. Watercoloring Brush
7. White Acrylic Paint
8. Ranger heat embossing powder - Superfine White 
9. Versamark watermark inkpad
10. Wow Heat gun
11. Ranger multi medium matte
12. Cheesecloth