If you have never tried salted water colour this is a must do technique. Check out the CAS Watercolour blog for links to see how it's done.
For my card I used 3 colours of Distress Oxide Inks on an acrylic block being careful not to contaminate the ink pad too much. If you do have a slight contamination of colours you can wipe it off with a clean piece of kitchen roll or baby wipe. I then spritzed with water and placed on my watercolour paper. I lifted the block and the watercolour mixed in a puddle of water and ink, so awesome 😏 I sprinkled regular kitchen salt over the paper and you can see where the colours merged I got a great crystal effect from the dried salt,
Course and fine salt give different effects, try both and you will love all the different backgrounds you make.
This background made me think sand and sea so I decided to use my new seahorse from technique junkies and used my zig watercolour pens to colour it in.
Card Recipe
Stamps: Technique Junkies
Paper: 110lb Linnen white, 140lb Water colour
Ink: Ranger Archival
Accessories: Distress Oxides inks, Salt, zig pens, acrylic block
Techniques: Salt on Watercolour, Acrylic block watercolouring
