Category: Watercolor

The wait is over.. My Free Digis for May 2020 are here :)

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Hello my dear crafty friends, I am here with the next month’s FREE Digital Stamps for you guys. :) I am sharing one card today using one of the digis, but there are two digis in total. I will create something with the second stamp and in the next day or two I will share a card with that one. Hope it’s okay with you guys :) Let’s go ahead with today’s card then, shall we? Here are the two free digis for this month:   Key Ingredients: My free digi stamps (Please subscribe to access them. If you are …

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3 more watercolored cards using Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together card kit

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Namaste! Watercoloring is going strong in my neck of the woods. And lucky for me, the current Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together card kit has 3 pre-printed watercolor cards by the amazingly talented Suzy Plantamura. I used those to create these 3 cards. For all these, I used the watercolor pencils that came with the kit. Let’s look at each of them, shall we? Card 1: I used the gray, two yellows and two greens to color these daisies. Then I fussy cut them out using my Tim Holtz mini snips and Fiskars Fingertip Precision Knife. For the background, I …

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Simon Says Stamp Card Kit – Stronger Together – Card 1

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Hi guys, after so many days of working on die cut based cards, I am shifting to my old love – watercolors – at least for a little bit. And the perfect companion for this was this month’s Simon Says Stamp – Stronger Together card kit for March 2020. I started by die cutting a piece of Canson watercolor paper using the largest Memory Box Warped Stitched rectangle die. Then I stamped my images on it using Archival Black ink and my trusted MISTI. I used Ooku watercolor pens that I had won in a preview giveaway. These watercolor pens …

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Watercolor Card using Dec 2019 Card kit of the Month from Spellbinders

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Hi friends, did you know that along with the foxy dies, this month’s Spellbinders card kit also includes a stamp set that has a cute little foxy too? Today I made a card using the stamp set and used Gansai Tambi watercolors with it. I cut my Ranger watercolor panel to be almost a square. I stamped my images using black archival ink (waterproof) and colored them in with my Gansai Tambi watercolors. Next I used a patterned paper from the kit for layering and also added gold on its border using gold paint pen. For a little something extra, …

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Spellbinders | Stamp of the Month August 2019

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Kids are back to school since last week and that means cards with books, backpacks and more, right? Hello and welcome! Today I have a card that uses Spellbinders + FSJ Stamp of the Month kit that’s just perfect for a book-lover :-) I started by stamping the images on watercolor paper using GinaK Amalgam black ink and coloring them with Ooku watercolor brush markers. I used Yellowish Brown, Silver for the books. I also used some Antique Linen with a water brush to give the books some added interest. For the apple I used Ooku markers again – Bright …

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Hand drawn flowers and Ooku watercolors – card idea 3

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Hi friends! I hope you are ready for my third hand drawn card. Yes, soon I will return to stamping and die cutting cards. But while I am at it, I am sharing one more hand drawn one. This was also one of the flowers I learned and drew using the “In Bloom..” book. This is an amazing book – very easy to understand instructions and detailed illustrations. Nicely done. Here’s the card: To check detailed steps, check the older card here. And for supply list? Check below :-) And before you go, here’s a closeup … SUPPLIES LIST For …

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Hand drawn flowers and Ooku watercolors – card idea 2

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Hi friends, happy Sunday! I am here with another card idea using something I sketched and colored by myself. :-) This Christmas Santa (wink wink) gave me a book that teaches sketching for florals – “In Bloom: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Lush Florals ” by Rachel Reinrt. I am so in love with this book. So far I have drawn two things out of it. Today’s card using one of them which is this beautiful succulent echeveria. Had so much fun making this card. I started by die cutting a rectangle using my current favorite rectangle dies from Memory Box …

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Hand drawn flowers and Ooku watercolors – card idea 1

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Hi friends, one of the goals I set for myself for 2019 is to draw / sketch more and also play more with watercolors. I used to love all sketching when I was in college and wanted to get back into it a little more. Here’s my first card: I wanted to keep it simple for the first time after years, so I die cut a heart using My Favorite Things largest of the stitched hearts dies so that I could get by with only a small image. I scrolled through several Pinterest images for inspiration and then drew one …

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Spellbinders – Good Vibes – Card idea 5

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Hi friends, today also I used the Shapeabilities Lovely Lilac Etched Dies Good Vibes Only collection by Stephanie Low but with stamped background. I started with a black card base and a off-white panel that is slightly smaller. I die cut it using largest stitched rectangle die from Simon Says Stamp and stamped with the Dear Ruby background stamp from Spellbinders. I used Hero Arts – Artprint Brown dye ink for this stamping. Then I did a lot of die cutting – I cut out some green and black leaves this time from So Very Generous dies (same Good Vibes Only …

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Spellbinders – Good Vibes – Card idea 4

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Happy Card Making day my friends! I hope you find lots of reasons to make cards and spread happy thoughts out in the world, sprinkle cheer like confetti :-) Here’s my card for today.. part of the same good vibes series – this is idea #4. I used the Shapeabilities Lovely Lilac Etched Dies Good Vibes Only collection by Stephanie Low with a dry embossed background. I started with a black card base and a white panel that is slightly smaller. I dry embossed it with Darice Brick Wall pattern embossing folder. Then I did a lot of die cutting – I …

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Spellbinders – Good Vibes – Card idea 3

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Hello friends, some fun die cutting technique today using the Shapeabilities Rosy Summer Flowers Etched Dies. This die has two parts – one outline die for the whole image (flower + leaves) and another one that cuts out the lines in middle of the design. I used both for this card. To start with, I die cut the outline from a patterned paper from my stash. Laying this on a similar sized panel of Bristol watercolor card-stock I lightly traced through it using a pencil. This became my guide to lay down some distress inks – Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed and …

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Altenew Build-a-flower Larkspur – Watercolored

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Hi friends, I am playing with the Altenew Larkspur stamp set again – this time with my favorite mediums – water colors. I am not a watercolor expert at all, but I love to play with them. For this card, I heat embossed a couple flowers and several leaves to create a floral cluster. Having heat embossed lines makes it so much easy to watercolor as you don’t need to worry about going outside the lines etc. The melted embossing powder forms a ‘well’ to hold the color in it. I did not do any precise details etc, just some …

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Simon Says Stamp | August 2018 card kit – Mandy’s Flowers – Card idea 5

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Hi friends, are you ready for one more card using Simon Says Stamp August 2018 card kit – Mandy’s Flowers stamp set? I hope you are :-) {Check out other ideas for this stamp set / card kit here.} Similar card to this one here, except I layered this with a black cardstock piece which I had dry embossed with Darice Scroll Frame embossing folder. And for watercoloring, I used Festive Berries, Fossilized Amber, Bundled Sage and Mermaid Lagoon. Trying to keep it really simple today, so not getting into details. Shoot me any questions you might have and I will …

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Simon Says Stamp | August 2018 card kit – Mandy’s Flowers – Card idea 4

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Hi friends, we are still celebrating with SSS Mandy’s Flowers stamp set over here. You can check out previous card ideas here. Today’s card is a “flip” card – it uses a fun fold to make the front open with a flip. I started by using one ready made card base. On the front side of this one, I partially die cut a circle to create the circular flap. I made a fold in between the front side of the card and lined up the half part of my circle die to that line. I placed my top cutting plate …

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Simon Says Stamp | August 2018 card kit – Mandy’s Flowers – Card idea 3

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Hi friends, I have a shaped card today using Mandy’s Flowers stamp set. I used Hero Arts infinity circle dies to create a circle shape out of white cardstock. On this I stamped the round floral wreath like image and colored using Zig real brush markers. I used Yellow, Light Green, and Light Pink colors. I added pink dots on the springs to bring in some pink colors and not just have yellow-green. For the stamping I used waterproof Archival Black ink, but since I had not stamped on a watercolor paper, I did not use any water, just markers …

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