Today in Teach Me That, I will be showing you how to do a simple Alcohol Watercoloring technique. Guys, this technique is SO easy you are going to be blown away by your own talent.

I’ve told you before, I can’t watercolor. It just never looks right but I think I just needed the beginner’s guide to watercoloring.  Well, I found it and now I am sharing it with you.

Are you ready to learn how?  Here we go!

• Begin with an Aqua Painter filled with rubbing alcohol.  70% or 91%, it doesn’t matter.
• I highly recommend Glossy Cardstock for this technique.  The ink puddles beautifully on that high gloss.
• You will want to protect your work surface.  Place your cardstock on a cutting plate or the Clear Block F.  You can also use a plate or anything else that can easily be cleaned.
• I prefer 2 different color ink pads of the same hue.  I am using Daffodil Delight and Crushed Curry.
• Press your lightest color ink pad into the lid.  This will form a little puddle of ink onto the lid and this will act as your palette.

• Press the barrel of the Aqua Painter until a single drop of alcohol lands on the ink.  
• Swirl it around really well on the lid.

• Swirl the ink all over the glossy cardstock making sure it’s all covered.

• Repeat the process with the darker color of ink.

• Tap and swirl this color around.  
• Press the barrel of the Aqua Painter if you need to move the ink around.  You want it to have a two-tone swirly look.

• I wanted to speed the drying process along so I used my heat tool for about 15 seconds to dry the paper.

• Time to stamp a focal image!  I choose to stamp in Basic Black because it is Archival ink so it can resist water and alcohol.

• Again, I wanted to speed up the drying process so I heat set the stamped image.

• Clean your Aqua Painter by brushing it back and forth on a paper towel or cloth until it comes clean.
• Choose your next ink pad color and repeat the process of dropping a single drop of alcohol onto the puddle of ink in your lid.  
• Color in the leaves on the stamped image.  
• No need to stay in the lines.  The alcohol will bleed and look amazing!

• Clean the Aqua Painter on the towel or cloth and follow the same steps with your next color.  
• I chose Rose Red.  Color in the flowers.

• You can allow your stamped image to dry or heat set it with the heat tool.
• I like to buff the glossy cardstock (make sure the image is good and dry) with a towel or tissue.  What’s not to love about SHINY cardstock?

Isn’t it beautiful?  Are you ready to create a card using the technique?  

Here are the measurements for my card but get creative with your project: 

• Rose Red – 8 ½” x 5 ½”, score and fold at 4 ¼” 
• Basic Black – 3 ½” x 3 ½”, embossed with the Layered Leaves Embossing Folder
• Glossy White Cardstock – 4 ¾” x 3″

Want to create my card using this technique?  Just click a pic to order!

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I want to thank all of you who tuned into my Facebook LIVE broadcast last night.  I had SO much fun.  I hope you did too.  I was so excited about how those cards turned out.  Such bright colors and the Lovely Friends stamp set was a perfect accent.  Thank you thank you thank you for all your comments, likes, and LOVES you sent during the broadcast.  It made me incredibly happy.  I will go back through the comments and answer any questions I may have missed.

If you missed last night’s show, not a problem.  I will be editing it a bit (it’s a longer video than what you’re used to with me) and I will post that tomorrow here on my blog.  3 cards in one video!  I think you’ll like it.  🙂

 I sure appreciate you joining me today!  Did you learn a new technique?  I hope so.  Glossy Watercoloring is so much fun to do.  I love how the ink bleeds out.  It just looks more “watercolored” that way.

That’s it for me this Thursday!  Have a great day everyone!!!

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