Today my challenge was to hide my brayer and see if I could make the background using watercolors. Here's my first card below.
To get the colors in the trees, I inked the horizontal markings by hand with with my Stampin' Write marker in Early Espresso. I "blew" on it and then embossed the Watercolor Paper.
Then I watercolored the sky with Soft Sky reinker. The birds are from the Sheltering Tree stamp set (much more friendly than the ravens in the bundle, don't you think?) are hand-cut and placed with dimensionals. I used Dazzling Details for snow on the trees.
I then did a second version of the card, which I really like. The background on this one is Marina Mist and Soft Sky. I like the contrast.
Recipe for the first one:
