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How to Watercolour with your Ink Pads

Hello Crafters! How are you?! Today I’m sharing a fun technique for how to use your ink pads to watercolour!! I’m going to head this up by saying that I’m a complete watercolour beginner, this isn’t a technical watercolour tutorial, but I love the look, and so thought it would be fun to share this technique on how to watercolour with your ink pads. You don’t need any special equipment, just a paintbrush, water, and whichever dye ink pads you have in your collection (if you have re-inkers, even easier!!). I used embossing powder for this card to create a resist, but you could always stamp your image in an ink such as StazOn which won’t bleed if you mix it with water if you’d prefer a more outlined look.

This is the final card for level 2 of my AECP course, and I created this for the class Creative Watercolor Media which you can find HERE. This one definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone, I love the look but water colouring definitely isn’t something that comes to me naturally!!

You can find the video tutorial for this card below, or scroll a little further to find the supply list.

Video Tutorial – How to Watercolour with your Ink Pads

I hope you enjoyed this project. Click the links below to shop the products used to create it. Please note that if you shop any of the below links I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. This will help me to continue to create projects to share with you. Thank you for your support. Please note that some of the products used may have been gifted to me by the relevant companies.

Sarah

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    • Thanks Erum, this was definitely out of my comfort zone, but I think it's good to get out of it every now and then!!

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