Watercolour Effects

I've been doing a fair few watercolour effests with rubber stamps lately and I've been asked to explain how to do it so here goes.

First of all choose your stamp. The one that I have here is the rose from the Flowers and Leaves sheet by Time To Stamp.

I chose three colours to ink up the stamp. Art and Graphic 55, 56, 202.

I dabbed the ink onto the stamp and stamped it onto white card. You can see in the image below that the leaves are dabbed with both of the greens. If you use just one of them it will look like a cartoon.

As you can see the image is very stark. Not really what you want. Now take the Kuretake H2O brush, I used the fine detailer, and add a little water to your chosen areas. The ink will flow and you can use the brush to direct the flow.

While the image is still wet you can add more colour if you feel that it needs it. I added a little pink to the thorns and leaves as that is what they look like in nature.