WATERCOLOR MUSIC CARD

Hello and welcome to to my blog! Today's cards are a direct result of a bargain at Michaels. This pearlescent watercolor set was only $4.99 and I got an additional 50% Off so it just HAD to come home with me.

I saw a card on Splitcoast that had some watercolor painting between two lines of music, so I used that as my inspiration. I found some Bach organ music, added a sentiment and printed it out on watercolor paper with my inkjet printer. Then I heat set it to try to keep the black ink from running. I've also been told that Prismacolor sells a blender pencil which is basically a colorless wax pencil. If you use it to go over the notes in the sections that you are painting in, it will act like a wax resist and your notes will not get painted over. (I'm definitely going to pick up one of these and give it a go.)

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On my first attempts, I found that no matter how careful I was, the colors ran beyond where I wanted them to so I used some masking tape* to reinforce the border of where I wanted the colors to stay and that really helped but it also meant I had to let it dry before I could mask off the second section.

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This was a lot of fun to play with and has helped me sort out some ideas for my final project (which will be a set of note cards with four different sentiments). Since heat setting didn't completely prevent the ink color from running, I'll try to get the watercolor paper to go through my laser printer next time. If that doesn't work, I might just take it to a copy shop so I know my colors won't get muddled by the copier ink.
Once the final project is done, I'll post photos and I'll make Free Digital Sentiments** of the music and sentiments together and post them as well so you can make your own note cards if you like. Meanwhile, if you have some watercolors around your craft room, why not take them out and play with them? It's so much fun.
Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great week!

Hugs, Snoopy :D
* When using masking tape on a watercolor project, put the tape on a t-shirt or a kitchen towel before placing it on the paper to reduce the tackiness. This will keep the tape from pulling off your paper when you remove it.
** You can find the Free Digital Sentiments here on this post. :D