If you love the look of watercolour background but don’t have watercolours then you can stretch your stash and use your reinkers. Today I’m using some Catherine Pooler Reinkers to create a vibrant faux watercolour background for a winter night. This card is very simple and it is all about building the colours up with layers. Then add some simple stamping including sentiment and you have one stunning card!
To finish this card, I’ve used a very simple stamp from the new Holiday Glimmer stamp set in the Classy Christmas bundle which is part of the new Catherine Pooler release: This Christmas
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Creating the faux watercolour background
Secure your watercolour card down with washi tape and then add clean clear water. To layer up the colours make sure you start with the lightest colours first, and don’t worry as the colours will dull down as we add darker colours.Â
With the card wet, use a round brush to start dropping colours in. You may wish to add a drop of ink onto an acrylic block to make a paint palette. The colours I used were in the following order, allowing each layer to dry and then wet the paper once more before adding more colour:
Ensure as you add the darker colours you allow some small areas still to retain some of the light colours so there is some variation.Â
Adding some interest to the sky
Once you’re happy with the intensity of the background, make sure it is completely dry before you heat emboss in gold the star stamp from the Holiday Glimmer stamp set. This is part of the Classy Christmas bundle.Â
Reposition the stamp once more and heat emboss again. Add some white ink splatter with the Altenew Pure White ink spray and set to dry. Trim the panel down and add to a slimeline cardbase.Â
To finish the card, add a two-tone stamp sentiment from the Holiday Glimmer stamp set. For this sentiment, I used Royal Treatment and Juniper Mist. Fussy cut this out to add to the front of the card.Â
Supplies
faux watercolour background
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 This Christmas I Want it All – One Click Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD |  Classy Christmas Bundle – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD |  Holiday Glimmer Stamp Set – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |
 Juniper Mist Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Cove Blue reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Suede Shoes reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |
 Cummerbund Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Royal Treatment Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  Queen for a Day Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB |
 Serenade Reinker – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD | SB | BP |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink pad Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) | CM |  WOW! Clear ultra slow drying embossing ink refill Shop at: CPD | CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |
 Metallic Gold Rich Pale – WOW! Embossing Powder Shop at: CS (UK) | CS (US) | WOW (UK) | WOW (US) |  Pure White Ink Spray – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  White 100lb cardstock – Catherine Pooler Designs Shop at: CPD |
 Distress Watercolor Cardstock – Ranger Shop at: SB |  Original MISTI 2.0 – My Sweet Petunia Shop at: ALT | CPD | SB | HA | BP | CM |  Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive – Tonic Studios Shop at: TS (UK) | TS (US) |
 Instant Dimension foam Tape – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (UK version) Shop at: CS (UK) | WOW (UK) | WOW! Dual Speed Heat Gun (US version) Shop at: CPD | WOW (US) |
 Crafter’s Essential Bone Folder – Altenew Shop at: ALT | SB | BP |  Tim Holtz 8.5 Inches Comfort Trimmer – Tonic Studios Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |  Trim and Score Board – We R Memory Keepers Shop at: SB | CS (UK) | CS (US) |
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DISCLOSURE
This post was produced as part of my Brand Ambassador work for Catherine Pooler Designs I have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from Catherine Pooler Designs to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love.  The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.Â
2 thoughts on “Faux watercolour background featuring Holiday Glimmer – Catherine Pooler Designs”
Nicely done galaxy card and love the video as well, thank you!
Thank so much and glad you liked it 🙂