Sarah your ATC is on it's way!! the 16th of Feb just came at me from nowhere!!
I had trouble with this technique.....I always have a way of turning the easiest techniques into hard...
But I finally got a result I liked....figured out that using watercolor paper---even the cheapo kind works--- better than regular CS. I ended up using my cheap watercolor paper (really flat watercolor paper---got it from Target so many years ago in school supplies), b/c I got the best results on it (even compared to my watercolor paper from Micheals; but I'm going to try again with that paper sometime).
I think what hung me up---which is why I have trouble with the watercolor technique too---is the spray of water. If I didn't spray enough, then the droplets left from the ink pad were seen and there was no blending....if I sprayed too much then the colors really blended into the color 'mud' or green despite neither was used. I also think maybe how I was taking the paper off the block also played a part---best result for me was lifting the block off the paper, rather than lifting the paper off the block.
Thank you LeighAnn though for hosting and for a great learning experience as I haven't done this technique before!