Watercolour Poinsettia Embossing Folder Card with Wet-in-Wet Technique

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Paint a poinsettia embossing folder using the wet-in-wet watercolour technique to create an abstracted, forgiving look with soft colour blends and halos. This non-traditional approach produces beautiful light and shade effects without requiring precision.

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Step by step

1. Prepare your watercolour card and embossing folder, or use normal card if preferred. ▶ watch 12:45
2. Set up two cups of water—one for washing your brush and one clean cup for painting. ▶ watch 13:00
3. Mix your watercolour pigments into separate pools: red, yellow, orange, and pink. ▶ watch 18:30
4. Wet your brush with clean water and paint one petal of the embossing folder with water only. ▶ watch 20:00
5. Drop your chosen colour into the wet petal and watch it bloom across the water. ▶ watch 20:15
6. Add a second colour to the same wet petal by touching your brush to the colour and letting it flow into the water. ▶ watch 20:30
7. If you create a puddle of excess water and colour, use a tissue-dried brush to scoop out the centre, creating a halo effect. ▶ watch 23:00
8. Move to a different petal and repeat the process, allowing each petal to dry before painting adjacent ones to prevent colours bleeding together. ▶ watch 24:00
9. Once dry, add a halo around your painted petals by wetting the area around them and dropping in blue or purple pigment. ▶ watch 26:00
10. Use a clean, damp brush to drag the halo colour outward, creating soft definition around the flowers. ▶ watch 27:00

Tips from the show

• Never paint connecting petals whilst they are still wet, as colours will bleed into one another and lose definition.
• If you end up with too much colour or water, use a tissue-dried brush to scoop it out and lift the excess.
• The wetting-wet technique is forgiving and works best if you let the water do the work rather than overworking the paint.

More from this show

• Realistic Poinsettia Petal with Gradient Watercolour Technique
• Black Embossing Folder Card with White Pigment Highlight
• Poinsettia Embossing Folder Card with Red Base and Snowflake Word Topper

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