Cardmaking Part 2: Repeating Patterns

How to Make Cards Part 2: Repeating Patterns

Introduction 

In the last tutorial, I taught you how to make a gradient with watercolors to be used as a card cover. In this tutorial, I 'm going to show how you can make a different kind of card cover. This one may be a little trickier than the gradient, but once you try it, you might change your mind. 

Materials 

Left, from top: Water, Round Brush, Paper. Right: Watercolor pan

• 1 3x3.5in piece of Watercolor paper(I use Master's Touch) 
• Watercolors(Any kind will do)
• A round brush(Any kind will do, but I just really like round brushes)
• Water, of course

Directions

1.  Load your paintbrush with paint and start in any corner to create a little square-shaped blob thingy. It may look bad at first, but in the end, it's so much better. If you just like it, you can make the squares as big as they are in the picture, but I like them smaller. 

   

   Paint a square(or shape) in the corner

2. Continue along the imaginary lines making squares, the same size as the previous one.
3. Pretty simple, right?

Continue along imaginary lines

Embellishments and Tips

• You can alternate colors on each square. 
• Create your own square gradient by slowly adding one color to another after each square you make down the line. Or, you can slowly dilute one color every square down the line.

  

  (left)Dilution method, (middle) gradients, (right) alternating colors

• After they are dry, you can use a fine liner and draw little flowers or anything on the individual squares as shown on the first tutorial.
• Add splatters of paint by tapping the mid-handle of a paintbrush to make random splatters.
• You can also change the shape.

Left: Cat print and paint splatters. Right: Change shapes and paint splatters