Watercoloring a beginner Christmas house

 This week Angie is sharing this beginner Christmas house tutorial seen here on YouTube for the watercolor challenge. I really liked the shapes I seen in the video and the whole almost nordic feel it has this scene so, I kept that part of my sketches and changed up the colors a bit.

I started with a piece of Artist loft watercolor paper that I cut in half. ( which makes 2 pieces about A6 in real life) and I did use an water soluble pencil to do the sketches.

First layers of paint and I did stop here as Hubs needed something ( I have already forgotten what) so, I just let them dry all the way before I continued. I did know I wanted to change up the colors from what I had seen in her video and so, I did try to keep the colors soft.

My houses started looking a little coral colored to me and I was surprisingly enough OK with that. 

I had received a set of these white paint pens from DS (a while ago maybe a couple of years ago?) I lose track of time frequently but, seeing her use hers in the video reminded me I have some.) so, I opened the smallest looking one thinking I would get tiny dots. and I did. ( this is a wet view) and what I found is my colors are pretty faint on these scenes so the dots did show better on the darker painted parts when it was dry. But, I did end up doing most of the dots twice on both of the finished cards as they were so faint.

Both of these cards are A2 in real life. The one on the left was diecut with an Paper Rose Nesting Curved rectangle die and the sentiment was cut with an My Favorite Things angled sentiment strip die as when I placed the (slightly dirty) stamp under the painting. I did not have the painted held down in the Misti yet so, it jumped and blurred so, that one the sentiment was done on a Neenah solar white scrap. The one on the right was diecut with an Avery Elle pierced rounded corner frames die as in my mind these paintings looked a little modern so, I tried to use dies that had a similar vibe to me. The green dotted printed paper is from Maja Designs. I did take a fineliner pen to the one on the right to add in the detailing a little bit without the doodling. I felt like these did not really need that so, I did leave the one alone. That's about it from me. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.