Hi, crafty friends. Have you checked out Alberto Gava’s Coloring Club challenge over on Instagram yet? There is a total of 10 challenges running in April, each one with a different theme lasting 3 days. I’m kind of late with this “Water” themed one, but better late than never?

I combined Sapphire, Steel & Cobalt with Skip and the Rainbow Falls background. They’re all from last year’s summer’s Amongst the Pines collection from Purple Onion Designs. I stamped the images in Altenew Obsidian ink onto Fabriano Artístico Extra White Cold pressed watercolor paper.

I didn’t want color on the entire piece and decided on coloring a strip that includes the largest part of the waterfall, the beaver and part of the mama swan. I used Zig clean color real brush markers to color, using the blender for some of it, but a size 4 round watercolor brush from Princeton, along with water, for most of it. The Zig colors I used are the following: 068 Deep Brown, 816 Soft Violet, 028 Pale Pink, 705 Peach Orange, 505 Yellow Ochre, 407 Grass Green, 406 Sage Green, 411 Cactus Green, 307 Aqua Blue, 315 Ultramarine and 910 Warm Gray 6.

Once my coloring was complete, I cut the colored section apart from the rest. I adhered the uncolored sections onto a black mat I created from Black cardstock from Concord & 9th. Behind the colored panel, I stacked a few layers of cardstock for dimension and adhered it in between the other two pieces. I adhered my finished piece onto a card base that I created from Blue Beyond cardstock from My Favorite Things.

I stamped and white heat embossed a sentiment from the Sweet Summer sentiment set from Purple Onion Designs onto a scrap piece of black cardstock. I added a few cardstock layers behind it and adhered it to the card, before finishing off with a few blue enamel dots from Papirdesign.