Stay calm....

 and just.... 

The latest challenge at Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is Watercolour. For this card, I stamped the buddha image on watercolour paper using Distress Ink in Walnut Stain. It takes a LOT of impressions to stamp on rough paper with distress ink, don't even think of doing it if you don't use a stamping platform! 

Then I coloured it in by using a water brush to draw the stamped lines out into the coloured areas of the robe, headdress and features. 

Next I roughly painted in the background using a diluted Rose Gold metallic watercolour paint,  then placed a sunburst stencil over it and sponged distress inks over, avoiding the image. I used Tea Dye out towards the edges and Walnut Stain nearer to the middle. Finally I rubbed gold finger wax around the edge of the paper. 

The sentiment is created with a Dymo label maker. 

And finally, here's Edna, looking like something out of Monet's garden