Watercolor Flamingo card

Welcome to my blog, on this lovely Sunday. You may have made your way here from the Pretty Pink Posh watercolor blog hop. Water coloring is one of my favorite mediums, I am by no means a pro but by I do enjoy it and I hope to learn more as I practice. Sandy Allnock has been a wonderful inspiration and I have learned things by following her blog lately.

For my card I decided to try something I haven't ever done on a card before.  I had an old National Geographic magazine laying around that had photos of flamingos in it. They have such lovely color. So, I decided to try my hand at drawing a flamingo and painting it with my set of Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colors.

 I am also hopping my card is different from anything else that you will see on this blog hop too, since my flamingo was drawn by hand and not stamped. I cut my water color panel to fit most of the front of a 4 and a quarter by 5 and a half card. After that I stamped a strip of diagonal strips with WPlus 9's fairy dust dye ink.  And I adhered it on the card base next to the water color base. My sentiment was stamped with Black Onynx Versafine ink and heat embossed with Hero Arts ultra fine clear embossing powder.

For a final touch I added some Simon Says Stamp moonshine sequins. (My pretty pink posh sequins that I ordered on there way.)  Hopefully you enjoyed this card that I made with a flamingo standing in the surf wishing someone a colorful hello.