DIY Tutorial: Colourwash Placemats For Your Wedding Reception

Happy lunch time blog lovers! This is one for all of you feeling you need a mid-week lift and spot of creative inspiration – a DIY tutorial that is unbelievably easy but one that produces really beautiful results.

This gorgeous little DIY tutorial was created by Carrie Southall, Creative Director at Ruby and Diva and also founder of  relovedstyling.com.

COLOURWASH PLACEMAT

Ruby and Diva really is a beautiful place to get lost in and supplies everything from wedding dresses to bridal headwear, jewellery, accessories, wedding shoes and the prettiest decor.

Sara and I thought you lovely lot might appreciate a splash of colour next time you try some DIY and I can’t think of anything prettier or easier to achieve a colour pop in your wedding photographs than this.

Colourwash Placemats DIY Tutorial

You will need:

  1. Water colour paper – we used A4 for this DIY, but you could use A3 for larger placemats!
  2. Watercolour paint – we used Windsor & Newton Artists watercolour tube in ‘Quinacridone Magenta’
  3. Paintbrush ( worth investing in a nice watercolour one)

Colourwash Placemats DIY Tutorial.jpg - What Youll Need

(1)  Get yourself set up with your paper on newspaper or cloth to protect your work surface. Grab yourself a jar of water and squeeze some of the paint onto a plate.

Colourwash Placemats DIY Tutorial - Step 1
(2)  Dampen your brush and dip it into your paint and start adding the undiluted paint to the corner of your paper.
Colourwash Placemats DIY Tutorial - Step 2
(3)  Dip your brush in the water, give it a good swirl around and then start working the paint outwards with the watery brush. Keep washing out the brush and working towards the centre of the paper with the water until you have your desired watercolour effect.
Colourwash Placemats DIY Tutorial - Step 3
(4)  Watercolour paint is quite forgiving, so if it’s not looking right, you can wash it out, or add more paint as you wish. Then just turn it round and start working on the opposite corner!
Colourwash Placemats DIY Tutorial - Step 4
(5)  Keep flat till dry and then keep all mats flat till they are needed. The paper will wrinkle as you add the water but will dry and flatten with time.
Colourwash Placemats DIY Tutorial - Step 5
(6)  If you love the idea but are daunted by creating 100 of them, then don’t! I think they would be more effective at every other place setting. Or simply use them as a table centre.
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Many thanks to Sara Smyth of Ruby and Diva Weddings – which I would like to encourage you all to visit this afternoon please! It’s a beautifully curated online boutique for all brides with discerning style.

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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business partner Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and star gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she's not working on Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip in the running of the family's sustainable flower farm and floral design business, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she became a published author.

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