Today I thought I’d re-post a project I wrote about last Spring. It’s a perfect travel craft if you ask me.  Just stamp out the images ahead of time and pack a small case of watercolor pencils and either a small brush, a brush pen or the fantastix that I’m a fan of.  Portable, relaxing and EASY! Then when you get home you have lots of little image for your cards, collages or scrapbooking. It’s my grown up version of coloring. 

I stamped an image of a bird on watercolor paper using StazOn black ink. 

Then I used watercolor pencils to add color.  Notice I left space between the colors for blending. 

And then I used a fantastix by Tsukineko with a thimble of water to blend the colors together.  I love fantastix and use them for tons of things.  Watercolor, chalk, ink, paint, glue…you get the idea.

I took a picture of one of the birds and then scanned in two more.  All in all I probably did 8 of them.  They all look different even though I used the same colors on every one.  Crazy huh?

So, now what to do with all of the little guys.  Make a card, of course!

Here is one I did with a flower stamp.

Both cards ended up being published in a craft manufacturers catalog! COLOR me excited. 🙂
 

Stamps are either Inkadinkado or Stampendous stamps.