ATC's- Watercoloring

 I am in a group that exchanges Artist Trading Cards monthly. We have a theme each month, and this month we did water coloring. I decided to try printing digital images on Watercolor paper......and it worked beautifully. We do a roll call and this month I had to make 12 ATC's.  I made 4 different ATC's- one in 2 colors. I used digital images from McMahon Five Designs:

 Nature's Wing's- I used Watercolor Pencils and a touch of Creative Inspirations Paint



 Sunbeams Pour- I love these tulips- I used the watercolor pencils.  I made two red ATC's and two purple ATC's.

Breast cancer Butterfly Awareness- I used my Aquapainter and ink from the lid of a stamp pad plus a touch of Creative Inspirations Paint for this ATC.  I wish you could see the shimmer......

           
                                   And finally- I wanted to try a scene:

  Shipwrecked- I used Su watercolor crayons for this image. The color of this ATC is more darker Blues- I used yellow for the sun and that crayon is by the purple- so that is why you see a touch of purple too....next, I used a pale blue , ballet blue then Night of Navy. 

Here are the ATC's I recieved in exchange:

   Susan- This Peacock is stunning IRL as it is covered with glitter.
   Cindy- water colored a scene

   Trena watercolored the background and added this (Lockhart I think) image.
   Mari made this great scene with giraffe's

 Mary made a bacgfround with watercolors and added a dimensional flower
Sandy stamped a sentiment, then spritzed it with water.

 Diane S made this gorgeous background and added the cute mouse with Crystal effects
Michelle used a gorgeous flower- a Mum I think- love these colors!

 Harriet used tape around the edge of her ATC, water colored the background then added a display of flowers.
Debbie water colored, added a text to the background, some gold and punched some maple leaves and glitzed them up.


We ended up with just 11 of us, so swapped 10 ATC's.  After the swap, we had a Demo by a member on the Encaustic technique- melting wax and making scenes- Trena showed us gorgeous samples!  I am going to refrain from buying the $140.00 kit though- wow- the samples were stunning though!
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One more little swap I just did was themed "pond Life"  and I had to get out the Unfrogettable from SU

I used Copics on the bottom and on the frog- the flowers are dimensional and the sky is sponged. 

Here are the ATC's I recieved:

 Kathy McConnellmade this fun ATC- how fun to add the fly on the red tongue....!

 And this glittery delight was made by Mary Harmon.

Thanks for stopping by!
Shelly