Combining Acrylic & Watercolor Painting
Hi readers! Happy Monday! I’m so happy to welcome back blog guest Jocelyn Olson to the blog today! If you haven’t perused her blog at Red Balloon Cards, be sure to stop by! Are you loving these stylish bright cards? Be sure to read on to learn how to recreate them for yourself! Enjoy!
Hi everyone! I’m super happy to be on the Simon Says Stamp blog sharing a Paper Smooches project! We have snow on the ground where I live, but in hopes of Spring starting soon, I made a couple of cheery spring cards with a mix of Paper Smooches products.To start, I used a few techniques to make several backgrounds. I saw a post by Wilna Furstenburg using acrylic paints and watercolors together, and I thought I would try it.
1. Using a flat brush, I painted the backgrounds with acrylic paint. I used acrylic paint to create a resist for the watercolor and to create texture.
2. After allowing the paint to dry, I did a watercolor wash in a contrasting color in the opposite corner.
3. Next, I watercolored around the acrylic paint with a similar color. I blotted the acrylic paint to wipe up the extra water.
4. Once the backgrounds were fully dry, I finished the backgrounds by splattering yellow spray mist.
Here are the results:
I heat embossed the beautiful sentiment from the Paper Smooches Fun and Flirty set in Ranger Gold embossing powder. Next, I stamped and die-cut leaves and a flower from the Botanicals 3 stamps and dies. This set has a great variety of leaves! I finished the card with a Butterfly Duet die-cut. To adhere the vellum butterfly, I used vellum adhesive (a must have!). Here’s a close-up:
For my next card, I went with the same stamps but a little different look:
On this card, I scribbled a Lemon Gelato over the paint (under the sentiment). I used the same Fun and Flirty sentiment, but I die-cut the background using the Paper Smooches Bookplates die. I die-cut three more Bookplates to pop up the frame. In addition to the Botanicals 3 flowers, I added a smaller Roses vellum die-cut. I finished the card with the smaller butterfly from the Butterfly Duet.
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Thanks for reading today, and thanks to Jocelyn for being our guest!
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Colors are very cool. Fabulous card.
Wow, absolutely gorgeous card! The water coloring on all three is amazing. I will have to try this technique – I have so much acrylic paint I could use!
Fantastic. Everyone is gorgeous. Love Jocelyn!!
Oh WOW!!! :o) <3
Beautiful soft colours.
So colorful, all so beautiful!!!
What a great effect this technique is! Such vibrant colours and it makes for an interesting background. Lovely cards!
Looks like a fun technique! ;-)
Great new technique to try … LOVELY cards!! Thanks for sharing with us!
Beautiful cards, thanks for sharing and inspiration!
These are just beautiful! Hoping I can find some acrylic paint to try this technique.
Is the Embossing Paste what was used as the acrylic paint? I don’t see anything else in the supply list.
The Hey Beautiful card creations are certainly Beautiful – thanks for the technique – have a blessed week!
Beautiful cards, love the stamps!!
Lovely cards! What a great technique to combine acrylic and watercolor paints.
Perfection. In every detail.
I feel a little creative brush work coming on, Jocelyn!!! Thanks…
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Gosh never thought to use acrylic paint on my cards. Beautiful cards
love the acrylic, water color combo! Great effects on these lovely cards;)
Gorgeous backgrounds, and so perfectly embellished!
Great new technique!!! Love these cards! Absolutely gorgeus!!!!
Interesting combo of media. I may give this a try.
Wow beautitful projects!! Looks like a very fun technique to try, thanks for sharing!
Simply stunning cards!!! Spring is in the air……..or at leas it will be here soon ;)
Beautiful projects. Great technique.
The sentiments say it all: these are beautiful!! Looks like a fun technique!
~carol
I love these cards. They are so happy.
Such a great look :)
What a great mix! That little bit of painting sure made for an awesome background.
Beautiful cards.
what a neat idea—love the cards!!!!!!!
What an interesting technique. I have a drawer full of acrylic paint now hollering “Use me”. Thanks for the idea.
The cards are lovely and looks like a interesting technique.
Beautifully crafted!!!
What beautiful cards! I can’t wait to try this technique.
I like how you combined the two mediums.
WOW! I never would have thought about using acrylic paints as a resist for watercolors, awesome results!
I keep saying I’m going to try the watercolor background but
never do it. I think it looks wonderful. Someday I’ll get
my paints out and try it.
thanks for sharing a pretty card.
I’ve been a follower of Jocelyn’s for some time and love these beautiful cards she has inspired us with today! Love the vellum butterflies so as to not take away from the beautiful backdrop of colors! Beautiful!
Nice background. And the colors are awesome. Thanks.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this technique, Jocelyn.
How prettY! Will have to try this!
WOW ladies! These projects are all amazing! Thanks for sharing your talent with us :)
All of these are amazing! I’ve got to try this technique!
Every day I get more creative ideas! I like the color combinations.
These are really beautiful! Love the colors, too.
Simple is beautiful. Thanks for the colors!
What a beautiful way of making cards using acrylic paint and watercolor! Love the colors and all embellishments on them. Thank you for sharing the steps!
VERY pretty cards! Love the colors.
awesome cards!
I’ve never seen this technique, but it certainly made gorgeous backgrounds! I love both of these cards & you’ve help me add to my wishlist!
Great cards, thanks for sharing!