Beautiful Koi Watercolors

Beautiful Koi Watercolors 

It is very rainy here in South Carolina, canceling kids soccer and tennis commitments and leaving my night open for crafting.  I sat down to make a card for my dad's birthday that is coming up this month, but I struggled to find inspiration.  Masculine cards can be difficult, am I right?  So, instead I moved onto some more organizing for my color swatch book.  I found this idea on Jennifer McGuire's website...and. I. LOVE. IT!!!  I have been working on swatches for all of my inks and tonight I finished off my watercolor collection.  I only have two types of watercolors so it didn't take too long.  

Koi Watercolors
They come in this very convenient travel box with a water brush and pallet included.

 I started by cutting some Canson watercolor paper into 2" squares.

Next, I painted with each color in a horizontal direction, in order to show the range of hue if I used more or less water.

After that I labeled my swatches.  As far as I can tell the Koi watercolors don't have specific color names.  So, I used their row and column to specify which is which.  That way, when I look in my notebook to find the perfect color I can easily find it's location in the box.

Above is probably my favorite part.  I combined all my watercolor swatches into rainbow order so that I can put them into my notebook for easy reference later.  Oh my word, I love the beautiful colors!!!  Please tell me I'm not the only crazy person that loves organizing and labeling almost, if not as much as, actually crafting a project :) 

A peak inside my ink swatch book

Remember,

Let your sparkle shine!!!