Anyway, if you have come here from Helen's blog, Helen's Heart n Craft, then you're on the right track. The blog is a big circle, so if you do get lost just come back here and you can get on track again.
I didn't know what I should use the Watercolour Paints for - I have seen some gorgeous page layouts with them (check out Cindy's page later in the blog hop, it is amazing!), and we did get to make some cards with them at our recent convention (which I'm not sharing just yet, as they feature brand new products coming in January), so I was struggling. Then I had a brainwave! (Well, an idea anyway.) My daughter is having a high tea birthday party, and we haven't made her invitations yet, and they really should already be out by now. So, guess what I made?
I started with choosing a card from our Cricut Artiste cartridge. I wanted something cute, small, and that looked special for an almost-seven-year-old. I found this cute card with a heart front, and a matching heart belly band to hold it together.
I used some no-longer-available paper, because my daughter insisted on pink, and I had a lot of this on hand.
Once I had made the card, I looked through our other cartridges to find something tea-party related, and hit the jackpot with a cute teapot and teacup in the Artistry Cricut cartridge. This is our newest cartridge and has so many awesome things on it!
I cut out the teapot and teacup, and laid them out on newspaper to colour them with the Watercolour Paints....I can't colour within the lines, so figured I wouldn't be able to paint within the lines either :).
I then got my Paintbrush Set out, and went to town. The paints come in this cool case, and you can use the lid to mix colours to get different shades etc. - see in the picture where I've mixed a colour in the middle of the lid.
So basically, you dip your brush in water and start painting. What I've learned about watercolours (and I could just be doing this all wrong, so who knows!), is that the shade of paint on your paper depends on how much water you are using. So the effect is different shades, streaks, etc. depending on how consistent and careful you are, and what you're trying to achieve.
I painted away....you can see the different shades in the picture below.
I then assembled my card - by the way, these dry really quickly - by the time I had painted all ten teacups with the pink, they were dry enough to handle and paint the dots.
I attached some White Daisy Cardstock to the inside, and attached a teapot and teacup to that. I used the Black ShinHan Marker to make the border, and added some bling, in the form of Bitty Sparkles.
I then repeated the border and bling technique on the front of the card, and it's ready to go (well, once I write the invitation details in of course!)
So there you go - the Watercolour Paints. So much easier than they sound. :)
Thanks so much for stopping by, now head over to Wendy's blog, Paper Ink Bling and see what she has done.
