Watercoloured Ocean

It's the beginning of June so thoughts turn to summer activities and what better than something that involves the ocean?

A perfect month for the new CAS Watercolour challenge "Ocean":

June is also the month for Father's Day and while I was thinking about "ocean" ideas, I remembered my father building a small sailboat when I was a teenager.  So decided to combine ocean and Father's Day and a sailboat.  Here's close-up photo:

The background was created by sprinkling blue Brushos on cold-press watercolour paper and then spritzing with water.  I let it air dry and then stamped my image and sentiment with Versafine and heat embossed.  I wanted the boat, birds, and sentiment to be black (so used clear embossing powder over my black ink), but wanted the little wave lines to be white so carefully sprinkled tiny bits of white embossing powder over them.

I didn't want the blue Brushos showing through the sails, so painted over the sails with white Gesso, let it dry, and then used my Gansai Tambi paints to watercolour my sails in white with a couple of green stripes.

I framed the image and added a die cut seagull silhouette to the top right corner of the frame.

Please come and join us at CAS Watercolour.  We have great inspiration from our Design Team and our Guest Designer, Robyn (Waterlily Cards by Robyn).  Be sure to keep your cards clean and simple, and use the theme of "ocean".  You have until June 24th to enter.

I'm also entering the card in the Addicted to CAS challenge - code word "sea":

 

Supplies:

Stamps - SU sailboat, PTI sentiment

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black

Paper - white and black cs, cold-press watercolour paper

Size - A2

Accessories - blue Brushos, clear and white embossing powder, Gesso, Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, Impression Obsession sea bird die, Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics dies (to create the frame), fun foam