A Watercolour Birthday


Hey there!

Thanks for stopping by! Today I want to share A very quick card that I created using some watercolors, some heat embossing and stamping. I'm so excited that I finally got the chance to play with my Peerless watercolors. Given how well this turned out I think I'll probably play around a bit more and maybe make a series of cards.


To start, I taped some watercolor paper down to my craft space. Next I wet my paper to ensure that the paint would spread and blend. I lifted the color from my peerless watercolors with my wet paintbrush. I laid down one color at a time, allowing them to blend where they joined.


Once done, I left my paper to dry. When dry, I stamped this lovely Mama Elephant sentiment with my Versamark watermark ink and heat set some white embossing powder overtop.



Lastly, I diecut my watercolor paper with the SSS Stitched Rectangles die and adhered it with some foam tape to the front of a white card. And there you go - super simple and fun!

This card is being entered into the following Challenges:




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Supplies:
Dies - Simon Says Stamp, Stitched Rectangles;
Stamps - Mama Elephant Stamps, Make A Wish;
Ink - Peerless Watercolors;
Other - Recollections, White Embossing Powder; Foam Tape; White Card Stock;

Thanks again for stopping in! Sending hugs until next time!

16 comments:

  1. the perfect gradient water color background...I did water color also for the Simon Says challenge.

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  2. Beautiful! Thanks so much for playing with us at Lawnscaping, hugs, Karin

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  3. Very pretty card. Love the background colors. Thanks for playing with us at Lawnscaping!

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  4. Thanks for explaining your process! I did watercolor as well, so it's nice to see another technique for using water color. I'll have to try the watercoloring with heat embossing! TFS :)

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    1. Thanks Pamela! I love the colors you chose for your cards and the way you applied the paint. I may have to try that sometime soon :) Thanks for stopping in!

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  5. Gorgeous! Caught my eye over at SS Wed Challenge

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    1. Aww, thanks Linda. I appreciate you stopping by 😊

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  6. I love your card. Saw it on the SS background challenge. I need to try something like that, but I don't know if I have good enough watercolors. Thanks for the inspiration.

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    1. Thanks so much! I'm sure for this technique your watercolors will work just fine. I think the trick is to make sure your watercolor paper is wet before you start applying color so that it blends more easily. You should give it a shot and let me know how it goes! Good luck and thanks for stopping by 😊

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  7. This is beautiful! I really love the colors! Thank you so much for joining us for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge!

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  8. Gorgeous card, I love the colours you have used for your background.

    Thank you for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week.

    Jo x

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