Laurie's Fabulous Favorites - Favorite Coloring Technique

Hello friends.  Playing along with Laurie's Fabulous Favorites challenge where this week she is asking us what our favorite coloring medium/technique is.  I love them all but like Laurie, water coloring is a BIG favorite of mine!

I used Beautiful Berries: Spring to come up with this simple birthday card:

I started by using Spring Rain ink and smooshing it into my craft mat, spritzing with water, smooshing a piece of acetate into the diluted ink and then smooshing it onto my cardstock.  Using this technique gives me a little more control over where the ink is going and I just keep repeating until I have the coverage I want.  Because Spring Rain is such a light blue to begin with, and then even lighter when diluted with water, my background is VERY light in color and a little hard to see.  Here's a closer up:

Once my background panel was dry, I layered it to a piece of Spring Rain cs and then adhered to a white card base.  For the berry branches, I used my MISTI, and after inking up the stamps I spritzed with water to give a slight water colored look (I didn't used water for the last stamping layer that shows the dots for the berries (Blueberry Sky) or the veins on the leaves (Ripe Avocado).  For the sentiment, I stamped it on a strip of Spring Rain cs and then popped it up with foam tape.  To finish I added one of the smaller sprigs of berries to the sentiment strip and a few iridescent sequins.

What is YOUR favorite way to color a card?  Check out Laurie's BEAUTIFUL card HERE and then play along for a chance to win!

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