Rescue

My homework during the Watercolor Class for Card Makers Class has often ended up looking like a dogs dinner and come very close to ending up in the bin.  Today, I attempted to rescue a few.  The first actually comes from Day 1 and the incredible Laura Bassen where she demonstrated a really cool technique of laying down stripes of Distress Ink onto an acrylic block, then capturing that very wet color to a piece of watercolor paper. At the end of my play time, I had a very wet watercolor paint set.  Sooooo... I took a piece of watercolor paper [or two] and pressed it onto the set... yes, right onto the paints themselves.  I promptly set them in a box to dry, where they've sadly been UNTIL today:

The background was the first pressing which I embossed, the die cuts are from the second pressing! 

It almost looks as if the die cuts are cut from the background, but no, they are not!

 

I'm submitting this in two challenges.  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is "Die Crazy", and CASE Study 191 - "Splash!" Another for Splash with a little free hand coloring with watercolors, a few Martha's butterflies cut from the leftovers from above, and Heidi Swapp gold:

And 2 other "rescues" for Die Crazy:

This time I actually cut from the background watercolor paper I created with Debby Hughes.

 

Have a great weekend, everybody - hope the sun shines where you are, and you get to color.