Remember when you were a child and colored Easter eggs? You put the egg in a little wire holder and dipped it half in one color and then half in another color. Maybe you dyed the whole egg one color and then dipped each end in other colors. That is what I was thinking about this morning when I made this card. Usually a little white crayon came in the egg coloring kit and you could color a design on the egg first and when you dipped it in the color, the crayon resisted the dye. It was a fun surprise to see how the egg turned out after it was dipped in the color and removed from the cup!
To make this card, I used Watercolor Paper, which, obviously is the best medium for watercoloring! If you don’t have Watercolor Paper, our Shimmery White card stock is the next best thing. And sometimes you can get away with using Whisper White if you don’t use too much water or work the color too much and get the paper all pilly. I didn’t use a white crayon, but instead I stamped with Versamark Ink and embossed with Clear Embossing Powder and the Heat Tool. I spritzed the watercolor paper with water so the color would move around easier and used my Aqua Painter to color the different areas with ink in the lid of the ink pads or by adding refill ink in the lid. The great thing about using Watercolor Paper is that it is more forgiving, you can move the color away from where you didn’t want it to go, or add more color when you wanted it. I should perhaps have done a better job of taking a paper towel to wipe off the ink from the embossing earlier, but I really wanted it to look imperfect, like the colored Easter eggs we all used to make or still help our children make now.
The egg shape was die cut with the Big Shot and Oval Framelit Die. You can color a sheet of Watercolor Paper and then punch or die cut many shapes from it.
The Easter greeting is from the great stamp set Teeny Tiny Wishes. I have used it so much! The designs on the egg are from the stamp set Work of Art. And the chick, of course, is from the Sale-A-Bration stamp set Honeycomb Happiness.
We have just ONE MORE WEEK of Sale-A-Bration! It ends next Thursday, March 31! If you want to qualify for a free Sale-A-Bration product with every $50 purchase from Stampin’ Up!, better get your Wish List out and see what you want to order and what Sale-A-Bration item you want to choose. Remember, no limit! One FREE item for EVERY $50 you spend!
Have fun making Easter eggs, whether it is a watercolored Easter card or the real things! Those were the days!!