Trying a little Watercolour

Hello Lovelies....

How are you doing today, I hope well!  I am fantastic, busy as usual!

I wanted to try a little watercolour in my planner and I thought you might like a little look at my paper test!

As you know, I am a tried and true Happy Planner girl but last year I fell in love with the inserts from Lights Planner Action.    I am actually thinking about going back to a classic size HP with new inserts from LPA for the new year.    I rarely carry my planner with me since I have my phone and I loved doing the memory planning and creative journalling so back into a bigger planner I go!

I digress...back to the paint, I love the look of the watercolour but I don't want a bunch of bleed through or wrinkly paper.  This would make me HATE my planner, and no one wants that!   I apologize in advance for the crappy photos but I forgot to turn on the light and I didn't want to redo them all...crappy or not, they show what I wanted to see.

Here we go:

I picked up a simple watercolour pallet and water brush from Michaels

and set out to test some standard planner papers -  28 Lb bond, LPA inserts and HP notepaper.

Here is what I found:

28 LB Bond

Front of the paper 

Back of paper

So the 28 lb bond is okay, but the colour didn't go on smoothly and there is a bit of wrinkling, no colour bleed through which could probably be covered up?  I think if you were going to do an ombre header on a full-page this would be messy - too messy for me anyway.

Happy Planner Note Paper

Front of paper

Back of paper

As you can see the happy planner paper made a really beautiful watercolour mark but there was considerable wrinkling of the paper.  No colour bleed through though, which means you could possibly cover up the wrinkling with a sticker but means you need to know both sides of the paper before you do it.

LPA Inserts

Front of paper

Back of paper

The LPA paper was gorgeous to paint on and produced a lovely watercolour mark with little wrinkling and almost no bleed through at all - a winner!