Just Add Ink 722: Just add a sketch

Wow this was a challenging sketch for the new challenge at Just Add Ink and I'm really interested to see what everyone comes up for it. My first thought was a card front of cascading banners  and then I had an aha moment and recalled I owned a very old background stamp from MFT stamps Balloon Strings which I had seen someone turn sideways and make a lovely watercoloured scene with hills and sky etc. which I always had wanted to have a go at but never have until today, when I went beachy. You can see the original card that inspired me HERE by Karin Akesdotter.

I've used my mini Distress inks to make the beach, the sea and the wee island in the distance and I used different colours in different panels but at the same time trying to follow some of the curves. I smooshed the pad onto my glass panel and then using my no. 4 round brush and water painted. It was very therapeutic.

I don't have every Distress colour as an ink and was wishing I had Antique Linen for the beach at the time but looking at my panel I really like the Tea Dye, the Antique Linen may actually have been too light.

Supply List:
Stamps: Balloon Strings (MFT), Flippin' Fabulous (HB - sentiment), Beach Day (EE - wee gull)
Distress Inks (RNG): Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs, Walnut Stain, Tumbled Glass, Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, Salty Ocean, Stormy Sky

Paper: Distress Watercolor (RNG), Vellum, Neenah Solar White #110
Other: Versamark inkpad, Alabaster White EP (BM), Copics, no 4. round paint brush, glass mat, stitched rectangle die (LF)
Challenges: JAI #722

I hope you can rise to the challenge and join in too. I love my card and definitely going to have a go at Karin's scene after this.
✿Karen✿