MMTPT579, CC754, CAS548, A Rose by Any other Name

The last Tuesday of every month the challenge over on Splitcoast Stampers Teapot challenge is to make a card to be sent to another member of the Teapot team, there is also a theme and this week it is being hosted by Jeannie (Luv2grdn) who said
​"Now that Dare to Get Dirty is over, I’m feeling supercharged to get out of my comfort zone and try combining water-colouring and doodling, which I gleefully am calling ‘Dipsy Doodle’ !
So get out those paint brushes, aqua painters, sponge daubers or any favorite tool of choice to dip into watercolors and loosely paint onto your panel. Once dried, begin doodling with pens or markers. 
Let your fingers do the walking and freehand what ever feels right at the moment; no over thinking it. 
Be it abstract, flora/fauna, alpha/numeric or the first thing that pops into your head, create with wild abandon! "

It sounded intriguing and so I decided to give it ago. I have also linked the card to the CAS challenge for this week to use hearts. It's a long bow but the little hand drawn wild flowers are made up of tiny hearts and the colours for this weeks colour challenge were also used.

I started by spraying the back of some 300 gms rough tooth watercolour paper and then fixing this to one of my sizzix cutting plates with artists masking tape.
I cut the paper slightly larger than needed so that I could tape it them trim it later. 
it is the first time I have used the spraying the back of the paper method and found it perfect for what I was doing. The paper is damp but not over wet which means bleeding and blooming is less likely. 

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I chose my colours in keeping with the colour challenge for this week matching the colours to Jo Sonja acrylics, thy are;
Warm White
Aqua
Celadon
Transparent Magenta
Brilliant Violet
I had to mix some Warm White to the Aqua to get the same shade of Coastal Cabana. You can also see the two mop brushes I used the older bamboo one was my mum-in-laws favourite. She would be chuffed to know I'm using her brushes.

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I got so carried away with doing the painting I forgot to do progress shots. This photo shows the topper with the flowers done and the doodling with the border still on. The process is very fast and as Jeannie said don't over think it. I had a bit of an idea how I wanted it to look and just splodged the magenta randomly then added the violet leaves. I have a rose bush that has purply brownish green leaves so it is possible lol. 
I then added the grassy background of aqua mixed with warm white and a little of the Celadon to create some depth, finally before doing the doodling I flicked some pearl white for highlights.

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Using a detail brush I filled in the little hearts that made up the doodled wild flower border with Jo Sonja's Pearl White and then went over with Smooch Pearlized Top Coat.
I'm also submitting this card for the CAS challenge for this week to use hearts. As I said it's a pretty long bow but there are definitely hearts there ...lots of them. 

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Next I repeated the process to create a border for the inside of the card and this time I remembered to take a shot of the painting in progress. As you can see you just slap the paint on and it really doesn't look much until you do the doodling.

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Once the panel was dry I cut it to fit the matted piece of SU Gorgeous Grape card stock that would be mounted inside the card base. I added a piece of X-Press It blending paper to the top pf the border, this gives you somewhere to write and this is how I finish the inside of nearly all my cards.
I but the two pieces up against each other and then secure them with some ordinary sticky tape. 

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This shot shows the double sided tape and where I place it on the panels.

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Here is a shot of the panel finished and in situ.

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Finally I put a few random dots of Nuvo Glitter Drops - White Blizzard randomly on the white areas of the card and that's it.
The card was fast to do and came together brilliantly. I really do like how it turned out and had so much fun creating it.
I encourage anyone to have a go, you don't have to send your card to anyone that's just an added extra some of us do in the challenge,  the challenge is found here; 
​https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/teapot-tuesdays-f260/mmtpt579-~-august-27-2019-~-dipsy-doodle-t630175.html
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Sabrina aka Cook22 has also put a link up of a Youtube video on freehand watercolour  found here;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=iDbDQZM7-Pk

Resources;
Stamps: 
Hero Art Poly Clear - CL493 Live Life
Paper: 
Mont Mart 300 gms rough tooth watercolour paper
SU A4 208 gms card stock -  Gorgeous Grape & Coastal Cabana
Base = 11 cm x 15 cm
Ink: 
Stewart Superior - Memories India Ink Black
Accessories: 
Pallet 
Mop brushes #4, Flat brush #8, Round #4, Detailer #5/0.
Copic Multi Liner #0.3
Jo Sonja's paints; Warm White, Aqua, Celadon, Transparent Magenta, Brilliant Violet & Pearl White.
Smooch pearlized Top Coat.
Nuvo Glitter Drops - White Blizzard. 
X-Press It High Tack Double Sided Tape. 
SU Stamparatus.

Thanks so much for dropping by, I hope I have inspired you. Feel free to use my cards as inspiration but please knowledge me.
You can see more of my cards in my Splitcoaststampers gallery Link below;
 ​https://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=500&ppuser=198941