I'm always amazed at how a watercolour quick and easily painted subject can turn out to be such a wonderful focal point on an atc or a card. With the addition of black and/or white gel pen markings, then cutting the design out, and raising it up on foam tape, it takes a simple atc to another level altogether. You don't need to be a fantastic watercolour artist either, naive paintings of leaves, mushrooms, flowers, and even child-like houses, will all work. These are so much fun to create you'll want to just keep going until you have a huge stash of fodder that you can use at another time on an atc, in a journal or on a card.
"Ghosts"
A close-up so you can see how I've mounted the
words onto a piece of acetate that is slightly
wider than the background so it is bowed
in the middle and pops up a bit.
"Home"
(I love this quote! 😊)
"Find what you seek"
(This background was one I had made in a previous
class and the colours just worked perfectly for my
leaf and mushroom fodder.)
"Just breathe"
(You can't see it but the leaf on this one has been
crumpled up and raised up higher in some areas
with a double-layer of foam tape to give a very
dimensional shape to the leaf. I spritzed
the back of the watercolour painted leaf to make
it easier to crumple up as it is 300gsm watercolour
paper and is very thick.)
"Choose to shine"
"Keep life simple"
