Twinkling H2Os and Waste Water Backgrounds
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This technique came about last year when I was watching a demo on create and craft. I can’t remember now who was doing it or the products that were being used but I know I didn’t own them but liked the effects so I decided to see if I could re-create something similar with twinkling H2Os – and this is the result!
1. Select the colours you want to use and spritz them with plenty of water then leave them for 10 – 15 minutes to soften.
2. Have two pots of water for cleaning your brush between colours, but only have a small amount of water in one of them – I only had about 15ml. Using plain water, dampen your card stock.
3. Starting with the palest colour, start adding blobs of each of the colours you’ve chosen.
4. Because you’ve dampened the card stock and are using quite a lot of liquid with the paint, the card stock will bend which will cause the colours to run. You can get some pleasing effects this way but if you don’t want that, add less water to the paint so that it’s less runny.
5. Rinse your brush between each colour twice – in the pot with the small amount of water first, then in the other one to make sure that your brush is really clean so that you don’t contaminate your colours.
6. Using a smaller brush, move the colours around on your paper until you’re happy with what you create. Then leave it to dry.
7. As you can see the card stock has bowed – this is nothing to worry about, it will flatten as it dries.
8. These are two I created using exactly the same colours in differing amounts. As you can see, they have flattened again.
9. Now you can have some more fun. The following pictures all show backing paper and card created using the waste water from the pot holding the small amount of water. From top to bottom, paper with water just painted on using long horizontal strokes, paper created using the same waste water spritzed from a mini mister and finally, card with the waste water first spritzed with the waste water and then over spritzed with a metallic perfect pearls mixed with water. You could also use Glimmer Mists or Cosmic shimmers to get the same effect – because I have neither of these, I used what I had which is in keeping with the spirit of this workshop I suppose!
This final picture shows the one I made the first time I tried this and as you can see, I haven’t blended the colours as much and got a different effect.
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