Watercolor- part 2

Before we get back to the water color pages I thought I would show you the cover of the little journal I decided to make.  I still haven't decided what to put on the tabs but that will come in time.  I stuck with a nature inspired theme for the cover and added about 12 cardstock pages in between the tabbed pages I made a couple days ago.

I cut 2 pieces of book board 4 3/4 x 6".  

Covered them with patterned paper - the ledger paper is from 7gypises.

I rounded the corners of the book board and punched the holes with the Binderie Punch.

I added a piece of vintage music paper across the front with Matte Medium.  Then waited a few minutes for it to dry, then covered the entire surface with the same medium.

Once dry, I took some Claudine Hellmuth Sky Blue paint and painted the outside edge (think quick and random here).  I know it looks garish but we will fix that in a minute.

Take a baby wipe and wipe away what you don't want (still very random).  Because I sealed the surface with the Matte Medium I can manipulate the paint until I like the way it looks.  It will only take a few minutes to dry so work quickly.

Once dry, add some Vintage Photo Distress Ink with a blending tool (that's more like it, right?)

To complete the cover turn the 7gypsies ledger paper over and cut out the bird, the red floral block and the text in the blue box from the back side of the paper.
The stick came from my neighbors tree and is wrapped with a little cheese cloth and held in place with Golden Gel Medium.
I cut "her tender heart" from an old book and stamped the number 26 with the new 7gypsies Numero stamp and black Archival ink.

Inside the book-
I used the same watercolor method shown in the last post.  This time using Weathered Wood and Wild Honey (loving these two colors together).

Here is the finished tabbed page.  All the stamps are from the new 7gypsies Conservatory stamp.  If I would have had a plan to start with, I would have positioned the butterfly over a bit so that when I punched the page it would not have gone into the sewed circle.  But I didn't, so it does and I'm okay with that.  This in fact turned out to be my favorite one.

The third tabbed page was done with Spun Sugar and Peeled Paint.

Once dry I added the 3 butterflies from this paper, some Tissue Tape-Sketchbook and some stitching.

As I mentioned before in between the tabbed pages I cut about 12 sheets of paper and rounded the corners.  I stamped each page with the Numero stamp to finish it out.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this little watercolor adventure.  I love the way you can mix two or even three colors and get such a cool effect with very little effort.  I think this one will be appearing in a class project sometime soon.
cheers!
paula