Have you been see­ing the new trend in the scrap­book­ing indus­try? Yup, its water­col­ors. I love love love Dear lizzy’s new line “Neopoli­tan” and Amy Tan­ger­ines’ new paper line  ” Sketch­book”. I seem to be see­ing the word “Paint” everywhere!!!

Which works well for me, coz I was a painter long before I was a scrap­booker. Way before I was a scrap­booker. I wish I had the time, to lose myself in my can­vases and paints (which I have tons of, all unused.… {sigh})

You can see one of my favorite paint­ings here, and most of my other paint­ings here.

I have done some paint­ing on my scrap­book­ing lay­outs, like the one I shared here. I wanted to do more now. Who doesn’t like to be trendy?

So two weeks ago, I went down to my base­ment and searched for some craft paints, brushes and palettes, brought them up to my stu­dio and have been hav­ing fun with them; just doo­dling, or paint­ing things at ran­dom (which I can­not share with you all right now…) This has made me so con­tent. 

Here is the card I wanted to share today, which I made for ThePunches Chal­lenge in the Moxie Fab World

For this card, instead of punch­ing pat­terned paper or card­stock, I punched some water­color paper. I first painted on the paper and then ran­domly punched out squares and used these squares for the grid/collage.

Now the paint­ing you see above, isnt really a paint­ing… It started out as a scrap paper I used to test my paints, before I actu­ally used them on the projects.… But then I liked the col­ors so I kept build­ing onto it. I really did not have the time to give it more atten­tion and fin­ish it up. It needed a lit­tle more love. So I took a punch to it and made it into a card…

I love the ran­dom­ness of the col­ors on the grid now. If you are scared to paint, go ahead and try your hand at it, and if you dont like what you have made, punch them into squares! This con­cept would also work beau­ti­fully with a large, bold pat­terned paper

I still have more ideas for the punch chal­lenge, time to get working…