Simple Watercolours

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Craft Products Used

  • Creative Expressions Watercolour Card
  • Spectrum Aqua Markers
  • Paint Brush
  • Acrylic Block
  • Jam Jar lid
  • Black Fineliner

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Step One

Cut a piece of watercolour card down to size for a card blank of choice.

Step two

Take your Aqua Markers and add some ink to your acrylic block, use a little water to mix with ink.

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Step Three

Using the lid from a jam jar add some ink to the rim and press down onto the watercolour card this will give you a guide to create your wreath/nest shape.

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Step Four

Use a fine paintbrush to pick up the remaining colour and use gentle strokes to make twigs all around the circle shape.

Step Five

Selecting Aqua Marker colours of your choice add ink to acrylic block add a small amount of water and mix, then create egg shapes all around the wreath.

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Step Six

Add more ink and less water to create darker shades for shadowing on eggs.

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Step Seven

Paint some small leaves to fill gaps in wreath.

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Step Eight

Once dry using a black fineline pen add some speckles to your eggs.

Step Nine

Mount onto your card blank.

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Happy Crafting!

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