Watercolouring with the crayons and aqua painter is a fun easy way of adding colour to your stamped images. It brings out the artist in us all. The Natural Beauty set is good for this. I used the Paisley background stamp, and the words out of the Always set. The colours are Cool Caribbean, Chocolate Chip, and Creamy Caramel ( had to play with last years cool caribbean again as I was in withdraws)

This is the Emerging colours technique. After stamping randomly the flowers from the Fabulous Flowers set, the Dahlia is clear embossed over the top and then sponged with a darker colour. I used the Brocade Basics embossed with white powder on the Brillant blue, and layered onto the Ballet Blue card. The Sweet Serendipity words, large oval,1 1/4" circle and designer label punchs were also used.

Spottlighting is a technique where you colour only a portion of a stamped image. Usually by adding a layered tag. I've used the 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" punches to make a coloured ring to glue around the edge of the punched coloured image to make it like a tag. Colouring and adding crystal effects also makes great faux brads. The colours are Purely Pomegranate, Orchid Opulence, Choc chip, and Pumpkin Pie. The white craft ink was used to Stamp the Wonderful Favourites words.

Bodacious has always been one of my favourite sets. Here it is used with the Kissing technique, inking the bodacious flower with Barely Banana ink, then stamping it onto to the Floral background stamp inked in Regal Rose, and again onto the cardstock. The Floral background was also used with the Blush Blossom in the background. Groovy Guava and Wild Wasabi were the other colours used. The combination of colours is a bit sherbet-like. Yum! Well I think so. I have daubbed a lot of the edges in this one to soften the effect. The tag is from the It's all Good set.