DIY Watercolor Triangle Banner

Let's make a watercolor triangle banner with optional embossing aspect.

I recently discovered embossing and had to immediately save up my Joann's Fabrics coupons to stock myself up on all of the powders and glue pens and heat guns. Call me crazy, but I had to have it all. Now I want to emboss everything I see, but I've noticed embossing is exceptionally beautiful on my watercolor artwork.

This tutorial will lead through easily creating a watercolor banner that anyone can make and includes an optional embossing section (if you got the goods).

Find a good isosceles triangle pattern on Google images.

I actually traced this straight from my computer screen.

Trace five (or however many you want on your banner) triangles and cut them out.

Now for the watercolor part:

For easily watercoloring, start out by using your brush to wet down your triangle imperfectly.

From here, begin adding colors that will complement each other onto the wet area. Example of this could be blue + red + purple or orange + yellow or  yellow + green or green + blue.

Drip them onto the surface, sway them gently together, experiment. Remember to use a good amount of water while you're coloring.

Tone down the harsh colors by adding water and extracting water (dry your brush on a paper towel and run it across the watercolor on the triangle and then dry it again).

This should give you a successful mix of colors. Just remember not to blend too much or you won't have the affect you're going for! From here, allow to dry and also absorb some extra watery paint by carefully touching the corner of a paper towel to the drips.

If you don't want to edges to be white on these, after they dry, begin filling them in with one of your colors. This provides a nice pop of dimension on the triangles.

You can continue to let dry and then add another layer onto the triangles. I decided to keep mine pretty basic, but you can do a lot here. My only advice would be to keep to your complementary color scheme. No blue and yellow mixing!

After fully dry, place the triangles individually inside of a novel and let them press for an hour or two. This should straighten them out. You can also apply heat if they refuse to straighten.

After straightened and dried, you can use a pencil to create a design or letters for the embossing. Follow by outlining the pencil with an embossing glue pen, sprinkle on your powder, shake off well and apply heat.

After they're finished, tape them to measured string or yarn, equally spaced, and hang where ever your heart desires!