Beautiful Gallery for The Paper Players 756

Welcome to a new challenge at The Paper Players. Thank you to everyone who played along with LeAnne's subtle colour challenge. As always, the entries were gorgeous. 

This week, it's my pleasure to be the hostess for our Clean and Simple challenge and I've chosen the theme of Watercolour. So maybe you'd like to stamp or emboss an image then use your inks to watercolour, maybe you'd like to get down and dirty with some ink smooshing, or maybe you'd like to try something wild like blowing the ink or using salts. However you'd like to play with water colouring, this is your challenge. 

Just remember that it's also a CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE, so your finished item should:

• have lots of open white space
• have a single focal point
• have minimal layers and embellishments

I started this challenge by die cutting some of the foliage and flowers from the Gallery Blooms dies from Fluid 100 Watercolor paper. After wetting the die cuts with a Water Painter, I coloured them using Summer Splash, Pretty in Pink and Petunia Pop inks. I like using inks on wet paper as the colours more readily move and flow. Once they were dry, I arranged them on a tag cut from the sadly retired Tailor Made Tags die set.

I cut a second tag from Basic White and did a second watercolour technique with it. I used the floral stamp from Beautiful Motifs and Pretty in Pink ink for this. 

I wet the cut tag with a Water Painter, then stamped the floral image onto the damp card. This meant that the edges of the stamped image bled a little and gave a softer finish. If you're doing this on Basic White card stock, then be light handed on the water. If you're using Fluid 100 Watercolor paper, then go for it. 

The embossing folder on the card front is Damask Designs, also part of the Beautiful Gallery suite. The sentiment, stamped in Gray Granite, is from Beautiful Motifs and is cut using a banner die from Stylish Shapes. The Gray Granite twine is from the Baker's Twine Essentials pack. The embellishments are In Color Flat Pearls in Pretty in Pink.

What magic will you work with water colour? And remember it's also a Clean and Simple Challenge. You can see what the rest of the team have done and link up your entry on The Paper Players page. 

Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:

1. Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
5. Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!

Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile (on leave)

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier - You are here

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

Christy Stanford