Gansai Tambi watercolours on vellum

I put together this quick card using my new Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours as I wanted to see how well they would work on vellum – I find some watercolours look a bit wishy,washy on vellum, but these are lovely and vibrant as I hoped they would be.   I wanted the overall effect to be rich to go with the vibrant colours, so I heat embossed the flower image with gold embossing powder before painting on the watercolours.   The stamp set I’ve used is a fairly old Papertrey one called Doodlie Do.  I stuck down the flowers with large glue dots as the vellum does curl up quite a bit with the water.  Since the colours are quite opaque and highly pigmented, you can’t see through the vellum so glue dots worked perfectly.

 

Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 COLOR SET	Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 24 COLOR SET	Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 18 COLOR SET	Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 12 COLOR SET
*Hero Arts AQUA FLO BRUSH SET Watercoloring Watercolor AQFLO-100 MW012	*Bazzill WHITE 40 LB VELLUM 8.5"" x 11"" 25 Sheets	*Versamark WATERMARK Rubber Stamp Emboss Chalk Resist INK PAD	*Glue Dots 3/16 MINI DOT N GO Disposable Dispenser Adhesive
*Precision Heat Embossing Emboss Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200	WOW Embossing Powder GOLD RICH PALE Regular WC01R	*Tsukineko MEMENTO Full Size Ink Pad TUXEDO BLACK

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