A New Technique

 

Greetings friends. I was inspired to try a new technique that I would like to share with you. I learned about it on Splitcoaststampers. If you haven't been there before, it is an online stamping community where people share ideas. I found inspiration in their Drywall Tape Texture technique. If you would like to see a video of the technique, you can view it on YouTube here.

To try this technique, you are going to need some self-adhesive mesh drywall tape. I bought mine at Walmart. In their demo, the tape they used had a square pattern in the mesh. Mine was more of a rectangle pattern. 

Stamp your image onto watercolor paper with black ink and let the ink dry. Cover the area you want with strips of the drywall tape. It is self-adhesive, so it is really easy to place where you want without it shifting or moving. I used two strips of tape because I wanted to cover more of the flower.
 

Next, I dabbed blue Peerless watercolor paint around my flower using a wet paintbrush. Any type of watercolor paint will work, but I used Peerless watercolors in the shade of Alice blue.

Let the paint dry and then remove the mesh from the card.

 

All that was left to do was paint my leaves and petals and add my sentiment. I absolutely loved this technique and will be using it again.

 Have a great weekend!