Prima Watercolor Confections + Rainbow Cards + Kindness Day!
Hello crafty friends! Its Nina-Marie here with you today, wishing you a VERY happy Random Acts of Kindness Day! I love the theme for this “fun holiday”. We could all use a bit more kindness spread among each other!
Today I wanted to share a video featuring how to make some bright and happy cards that are sure to brighten anyone’s day! I also am encouraging you to make a card for someone today in honor of Random Acts of Kindness day! Fill the card with something that let’s the recipient know you were thinking of them! Some ideas for including in or with your card:
- A simple, heartfelt note written inside
- Baked goods or other delicious treats
- A gift card (maybe to their favorite coffee shop, digital music/app store, restaurant, or even one of our Simon Gift Cards for a crafty friend!)
- A small gift
- A handmade bookmark, jewelry, or home decor piece
There are lots of things that you could give as an unexpected gesture to someone… you never know how much a small act of kindness might impact someone’s day! To borrow a phrase from the card below: you could rock their world! :)
So how about some details on all these happy rainbows I’ve got here??
I LOVE to watercolor – depending on my mood, I sometimes love watercolor more than Copics (which is amazing for me to say because I adore my Copics). Watercolor was the very first medium I used in cardmaking back when I first started in 2007; it wasn’t until later on that I got Copics. So watercolor does -and always will- hold a special place in my heart.
In today’s cards, I used Prima’s Watercolor Confections palettes. But be sure to remember that you can use any watercolor medium you have or prefer most. If you watch the video below, you will see my palette looks different than the actual sets of Prima Watercolor Confections. This is because I combined all of my half pans from each collection I have to save space and have all the colors in rainbow order. Yes, I’m crazy that way! :) I have three of Prima’s Confections palettes: the Classics, Tropicals and Decadent Pies. There are also the Shimmering Lights and Pastel Dreams palettes which I do not have yet.
I also stepped up the watecoloring a bit by creating a shimmer water mix BEFORE doing any painting. In the bowl of water that I had on my desk, I mixed Perfect Pearls to make a shimmery water. By simply using the glittery water to pick up and paint with, I was able to make my backgrounds shimmery. All without having to spray the paper with a shimmer mist and risk that the water based medium might blend my watercolors together!
Now, I will admit that I had WAY too much fun creating these cards… so much fun in fact that I made 10 cards in a single afternoon! I played with quite a few Simon stamps and dies, creating fun layouts and combinations with my backgrounds! The Simon products I used in these cards include: Kristina’s Love stamps, You Matter (both stamps and die), Heart of Flowers die, Holiday Shapes die, Heart Smile die, Painted Kindness die and the Stitched Rectangle dies.
I hope you will be checking out the video to see how these cards came together. I am so glad you stopped by to spend some time with me! Be sure to remember to spread some random acts of kindness today!
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I love these bright cheery cards! The results are stunning & you make it look so easy!! Thanks for the great video & all the awesome inspiration.
Love these bright and cheerful cards – thank for the video.
Love the bright cheery colors of the cards
Love how colorful your cards are.
These cards are so bright and fun! I made a bunch of “thinking of you” cards to send today. :)
rainbows of kindness. . . .
Very pretty cards!
What yummy colours! Who wouldn’t be cheered by such sunny cards.
Fabulous creations! Love all the different colorful designs, thanks for the inspiration and happy RAK day!
I love the very bright and vivid rainbow colors on these cards. Every week I always try to do a little something for someone.
Awesome colors…so bright and cheery!
Your cards definitely say happy to me, thanks fir this video and reminding us to do something kind everyday.
These are the most colorful, fun and beautiful cards! My favorites on the blog… EVER!
These are so pretty and I really love what you did with the Heart of Flowers die!!!!!
These are absolutely gorgeous Cards! Thanks for sharing.
Your cards are so lovely – I’m feeling inspired to make something bright and cheerful!
Oh my gosh, these are some of the most fun cards I have ever seen! I love each and every one of them! This is the way I work, the more colors the better and you used my favorite color, yellow. That scores big points with me! LOL I want to watch the video because I want to create a card like one of yours. You made my heart smile today and that’s a good thing and you rock!
I love it when I can knock out ten cards while watercoloring! Lovely and vibrant!
I love these rainbow multi-colored cards! The colors plus the sentiments would make anyone feel special.
great idea on the perfect pearls in the water. Love the colors of your cards and die ideas. wonderful cards and I love your videos.
Oh my, these rainbow cards just made my day!! I love the bright happy colors on this rainy winter day.
Login’ the colorful watercolors!
Lovin’
Just absolutely stunning and very AMAZING!!
Wow! Thanks Nina for so much inspiration!!! Love your bright and cheerful cards!!! Love your video too!!!
Kindness is what the world needs more than anything right now! Love the watercolor cards! So bright and happy!
What a great way to celebrate kindness day and brighten someone’s day!
Those are so bright and wonderful!
Your cards are bright and happy and are inspiring me to get out my watercolors and paint some backgrounds!! Thanks so much for your video and for sharing your creativity!!!
Great cards and techniques! :)
I really like Nina-Marie’s cards! Great watercolour backgrounds!
All of these samples are just so pretty! What a great way to brighten someone’s day!
I love this post!!
fun, bright and bold cards. thanks for sharing
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
These cards are AMAZING!! LOVE!!
AWESOME watercolor backgrounds! How did you get the ghosty hearts on that one background? Did you mist a background stamp of hearts with H2O & then blot off?????
Hi Lagene! Thanks for your kind comment!! I used a stencil over top of the paper and with a baby wipe, lifted off some of the ink. :) Glad you enjoyed the video!
Love the colors
Wow-wee! I love the bright colors. And you do them up so well!
so bright and colorful! I would be so excited to recieve one of these from someone.
Every day should be random acts of kindness day! Such bright fun rainbow colored cards.
Love the co!Ourful background. Will have to try some perfect pearls in my water.
DebbieC
Love this vivid, bright and bold beauties!
Love the bright rainbow effects on these cards.
What great creations!
I love the rainbow effect, it just makes me smile!
Beautiful, bright colors!
i absolutely love the rainbow inm
The colors are so bright and cards looks beautiful!
Just love these cards! So simple. So beautiful.
So much kindness in sharing the talent. Lovely, fun cards. Thank you.
Love the watercolor. Very bright and colorful.
MAGICAL colours and designs – LOVE LOVE LOVE!