I have three sets of metallic watercolour paints (Gansi Tambi) as well as 50+ pots of Twinkling H2O's which are also watercolour paint. These paints are solid and will activate when you spritz with a little water or use a water brush. Because of this, they are very portable and you can leave the lids off them and they won't dry out. The metallic watercolour paints work beautifully on black cardstock as well as white. I have used plain black cardstock and white watercolour card for these samples. Because plain cardstock isn't as water-friendly as watercolour card, you need to be mindful of how much water you use. In some of the samples I have used the metallic watercolours purely as a wash over the background, others I have coloured the stamped images in. The die-cut leaves in the 2nd sample are cut from a black piece of card that was painted with the watercolours as a wash, then die-cut. Unfortunately, as hard as I tried, it's very hard to convey the shimmer that is in these samples. Trust me, you'll just have to do some yourself and see how wonderful they can look. I have embossed with white embossing powder before colouring and also stamped with black pigment ink and then clear-embossed (less chance of those stray black bits of embossing that way).
"Rule number 1"
"Feel the rain"
"Hum of bees"
"Inhale the future"
(The tree die-cut has also been made from
a piece of black card that was coloured with
green and gold metallic watercolour
paints as a wash before die-cutting)
"Life is short"
"OMG same"
(The raised centres of the flowers are made from
Ferrero Rocher chocolate gold wrappers, with
double-sided adhesive on the back for stability
and stick-factor, then punched out with a sun-
burst punch, then a little square of black foam
tape in the centre, then attached to the centre
of each flower. Can you say: fiddly???
I also used a baby wipe to wipe off some of
the metallic paints around the little man
and flowers.)
