Watering can

 This week the clean and simple challenge is to CASE one of your own cards, so when I see that kind of a challenge I tend to look at older uploads and I came across a couple that I had posted using this Stampin' Up! long time friend image that had been gifted to me before I bought the set. I used to trade stamped images of old sets and see if I could color them well enough to buy them. Some sets are harder to color than others because of scale or what ever. And so, I dug mine out and stamped it with some Simon Says Stamp Barely Beige ink on Arches cold press watercolor paper. I probably should have used hot press because it's smoother but, I like the texture of cold press so, I just went with it.

And I gave it a first layer of paint after dark yesterday and walked away.

 

So this afternoon I started adding more paint over the top of it. trying for some depth.

I did add more paint after this was shot as well but, its a dark and rainy day here so the colors are not coming through very well. I did try for a rusty and patina type aged colors on the watering can and it looks better to me in person. 

 

I am not so sure using the colors behind the panel keeps it "clean" but, it is fairly simple and flat so, that was my main goals here. I decided to us a Sentiment from the Art Impressions little things sentiment set with some Pinecone Versafine ink directly on the watercolor paper. That purple wood grain print is from a Mintay Papers Lavender farm pad trimmed down to just under 5 1/2" square and the base here is some Coordinations Lettuce textured cardstock. That's about it from me, I wish the blues on the can showed up better but, I am pretty tickled with how this looks in real life. Thanks for stopping by.