Christmas Card - CAS Watercolor Monochromatic

Christmas Card - CAS Watercolor Monochromatic

This card is a simple card designed to enter CAS Watercolor November card challenge - Monochromatic. Click here to find the card challenge.

I chose to use blue as my monochromatic color and the coloring medium I used was watercolor markers used like watercolor paints. The water color markers I used are STA Aquarelle Brush Double Tone Markers which I bought off AliExpress. You can find my review of these markers here.

Finally, a year later, I managed to piece together the process video. Click here or below to check it out.

To make this card I firstly marked a rectangle in the centre of a water color paper notecard by tracing around a rectangle die with a pencil. I then used washi tape to mask around this rectangle then stamped snowflakes using a stamp set I bought off AliExpress using clear embossing ink inside the rectangle.

I then heat embossed the snowflakes using white embossing powder. I removed the washi tape mask, used an eraser to remove the pencil lines then re-masked the rectangle.

Using the dual tone watercolor brushmarkers, I scribbled a little of the dark and light blues onto a plastic lid. I applied water to the inside of the rectangle then to the inks on the lid and painted a fade from dark to light blue inside the rectangle.

I dried it using a heat tool, removed the masking tape then stamped 'merry christmas' (from the same stamp set the snowflakes came from) using Gina K Designs amalgam ink in jet black.

I wanted the watercolor panel to have more definition so I used my tsukineko clear emboss pen and a ruler to trace around the edge of the rectangular panel, then applied black embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool.

To finish off I mounted the notecard using double-sided tape onto a blue card base.

All done!

Happy Crafting.

Mel Crafting