Combining Acrylic & Watercolor Painting

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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!

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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.

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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:

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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:

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For my next card, I went with the same stamps but a little different look:

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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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  1. Love your combined bright, cheerful acrylic and watercolored backgrounds for your colorful Spring cards. TFS

  2. Great cards and my favorite one is the second with all the beautiful pink and yellow colors. Thanks for all the techniques.

    Linda D.

  3. So pretty and colorful. Amazing how striking these cards are, and yet, the technique is so simple. Beautiful. Thanks for the post.

  4. You have created beautiful cards! I never knew you could use acrylic paint on cards! Now I am going to have to try this! Thanks for sharing your work with us today.

  5. I love your cards Jocelyn! I’ve never thought of combining those two mediums, love the girlie details. TFS

  6. These are absolutely beautiful! Love the colours and the design – hard to choose a favourite here, but I think the yellow/pink/peachy one is my fav. They’re both gorgeous though and I’m sure everyone would be delighted to get these in the post! ;-)

  7. Gorgeous cards! The backgrounds on these are beautiful and the stamps and die cuts really add to the beauty of the cards. Thanks for sharing.

  8. So pretty. My watercoloring nevers looks this nice so I will just keep trying all the tips I receive here on SSS.

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