Another way to add a watercolor affect to cards, without using actual watercolors, is to take advantage of the dye ink pads. Dye inks are water based, so when in contact with water, tend to blend easier. For this card sample, I inked the tree stamp, stamped once on scrap paper, sprayed the stamp with water, then stamped on the White Daisy paper. This is a combined 2nd generation/watercolor technique. The lighter 2nd generation allowed the second stamp, swirly tree branches to pop out. In my sample, I also heat embossed the bottom, center tree in silver, but all of the workshop attendees heat embossed all of the tree branches to make a sparkly forest. Ink colors used are Cranberry, Glacier, Sweet Leaf, and Charcoal.
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