Video: Realistic Mixed Media River Rocks

Hi friends! Lydia here with a REALLY fun transformation for you today.

Do you ever look at a stencil and only see the shapes? I'm going to help you break out of that today with a multi-step process for transforming the beautiful new Pebbles and Stones stencil.

This stencil looks simple, but the second I saw it I was reminded of this incredible watercolor artist. I lived in Maine for a summer after college and found these incredibly realistic paintings of the rocks on the beaches in Maine and they've never left my head. So I decided to try it with ink!

I started with Root Beer Reactive Ink and the stencil printing technique to create a watery background. Then I flipped the stencil and used a combination of ink blending with Granite , Cornflower and Wet Cement ink with various sizes of Hero Arts Blending Brushes .

Next, I splattered the whole thing with various sized paintbrushes and Root Beer and Granite inks that I watered down.

I finished the card with the die from the Greetings From Stamp & Cut set.

I love this so much. I hope you do too!

One tip – and I talk about this in the video – it's going to be important to heat set it a few times throughout this process to preserve each layer.

Here's the video! Enjoy!

(If you are having trouble viewing this video, please watch HERE on YouTube.)

Thanks for stopping by today!