Make a fancy watercolor background using a stencil and a smidge of patience- the result is truly beautiful.
Did you know you can create stunning watercolor backgrounds with a stencil and zero fancy skills? This one takes more patience than skill, but it’s absolutely worth the wait! Today Kassi has colored up a beautiful sunflower card that shines so bright. What makes it even more stunning is the intricate leaves created in the background that look like they were hand painted, when really a stencil did all the heavy lifting. Follow along as Kassi shows us how to use a stencil for a stunning watercolor background, and pin this project for later, because this is a tip you will for sure want to return to.
- Paint a piece of watercolor paper- you want it to be a nice wet wash of color. While the paper is still wet, place the 4138 Vined Leaves stencil directly on the paper, then place something flat and heavy over it to ensure the stencil stays in contact with the paper. I like to use a large acrylic block, then stack some heavy books on it. Set it aside to dry under the weight.
- Stamp 37034 Sunflower Serenade on a separate piece of 4.25′ x 5.5″watercolor paper using a light colored, waterproof ink.
- Paint the suflower
- Thread your paper through the larges rectangle from 5013D Nested Rectangle sm Stitch so the paper is under the die at the top and over the die at the bottom. Run the top half of the card through your die cut machine then reverse out. This lets you use your rectangle die as a edger die
- Repeat the same process to cut the bottom edge of your paper
- Add some splatter if you want
- Stamp the sentiment from 37034 Sunflower Serenade using Versafine Clair Nocturne
- Cut black paper to just slightly longer than your sunflower panel
- Adhere the sunflower panel to the black paper so you have a thin black border on both the top and bottom of the panel
- Once your background is dry, remove the stencil
- Adhere your watercolor background to an A2 card base
- Adhere the stamped panel to the card
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