Tuesday, April 7, 2015

QOR Water Color Cards

I made a couple of simple cards over the weekend. Stamped and water colored, with some nice matting. Normally, when I color images, I use twinkling H2O water colors or markers. For these, I used some new tube water colors I recently purchased - QOR from Golden. I love Golden acrylic paints and decided to use my Christmas Amazon gift cards to try their new water colors. 
I have never worked with tubes of water colors before, but I found them pretty easy to work with. I bought an inexpensive plastic palette with a locking lid. I squirted a bit out of each tube into the palette and used as much of the paint as I needed. I left the rest to harden a bit and then closed up my palette. There was no spillage and when I went to use the paint again a few days later, I was still able to use the paint simply by adding more water. Since I love the Golden palette, I really like these colors. Especially because they seem more saturated than my travel water color palette or water color pencils that I would otherwise use.
If you make cards that involve coloring images, I'm curious as to what you use. Paint? Markers? Colored pencils? 
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8 comments:

  1. Lady EllaApril 7, 2015 at 10:39 AM

    Both great (and unmistakably "you")! Particularly like the coffee one.

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  2. KarenApril 7, 2015 at 7:45 PM

    Love both of these cards, but especially the collage stamp and the way you colored it. I use markers and watercolors most often. Once in awhile I pull out the colored pencils, but I find them more challenging.

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  3. Kim HegginsApril 7, 2015 at 9:54 PM

    Stunning cards....love the coffee one, fabulous!

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  4. AnonymousApril 8, 2015 at 12:04 AM

    Beautiful cards Rinda, but the one on the left is absolutely gorgeous.

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  5. alexaApril 8, 2015 at 2:17 AM

    Enjoying seeing your cards this month! This is a lovely pair - I especially like how you've coloured the one on the left. Am interested to know that Golden now do watercolours ... I find the Derwent InkIntense pencils give a good strength of colour and are very portsable.

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  6. MelissaApril 9, 2015 at 7:02 PM

    Lovely cards - I like all the colors on the one on the left especially. FUN to see you using those new watercolors! I usually use colored pencils when I color in a stamped image and have been adding a little glitter also. Next time I'll simply use the new Wink of Stella shimmer pen to add the glittery effect since I've added one of those to my stash! :)

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  7. AlisonApril 12, 2015 at 1:20 AM

    Love the colours you've chosen...the VERY few times I 'colour' I use pencils xx

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  8. AnonymousApril 19, 2015 at 12:50 PM

    I must get out my pencils, paints etc and play once I'm better. These are both great looking - I especially like the one on the left.

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