It's summer! We have had the most unbelievable weather for the UK, the temperature has been in the 30's for the past couple of weeks, Bliss. I love the heat.
So I decided we needed to do some painting. After we painted the outdoor furniture it was time to get indoors and try out the Aqua Painters.
I had a class yesterday and we practised using the Aqua Painters on 3 different cardstock to see which worked best.

Top - Watercolour Paper 140lb
Middle - Naturals Ivory
Bottom - Whisper White

We embossed an image in black on the RHS of the paper.
Middle image is stamped with dye ink and LHS is stamped with Black Staz-On

We then used our Aqua Painter to colour the images, picking up colour from an ink pad.

Needless to say the Embossed image and the Staz-On image worked the best. The dye image made the colours muddy as they blended together.

All papers worked well, with the Whisper White cardstock giving a more subtle effect.
You could get more colour and saturation with the watercolour paper and naturals ivory.

Aqua Painter on Staz-On

Blender Pen on Staz-On

White embossed on Crumb Cake, coloured with Aqua-Painter

Secret Garden embossed on watercolour paper by Michelle Jenkins and coloured with the Aqua Painter

Sneak Peak of a lovely stamp set and embossing bundle - Wildflower Meadow

We used this stamp set and embossing folder in a class recently.

Courtesy of Jane

Courtesy of Ruth

It is a large stamp and it is best to place your card stock on top of the stamp for the impression and then to gently press the paper to get the maximum coverage of ink on your paper. I find this is the best way to stamp when using a large stamp. We coloured the stamp with markers in Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green, Early Expresso, Crumb Cake and Real Red. We also used the new Gingham Garden Designer Washi tape, available in the new catalogue July 1st.

Using the new washi tape with Midnight Muse and Melon Mambo

Using  one of the new colours Soft Sky

Triple Time Stamping lent itself to this big stamp quite well.

Secret Garden is a beautiful stamp set. We saw it in the  Spring/Summer catalogue and it has found its way into the main catalogue. This set has matching framelits which I shall be showcasing shortly.