Doodling with Debby: Watercolored Echoing Mountains
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Welcome to the 1st edition of Doodling with Debby for 2018! I love the long skinny card design with the pretty watercolored mountain. Be sure to scroll on and watch the video for more information and enjoy!
Hi, it’s Debby here today with my monthly video feature for Simon Says Stamp, Doodling With Debby. I wanted to create a card inspired by two artists. Sha’an d’Anthes is on Instagram as furrylittlepeach. I love Sh’an’s style, and not long ago she created four watercolor pieces which were almost the same size as she is. The four pieces represented City, Forest, Desert and Sea and each had a pattern repeated from top to bottom. I combined inspiration from Sh’an’s beautiful watercolors with the tall skinny cards I always enjoy seeing Kristina Werner create.
The From The Rooftops stamp set from Simon Says Stamp is ingenious and I wanted to use the mountain trio and repeatedly stamp and white heat emboss it over a tall skinny panel. Firstly, I stamped the mountains three times in a pale ink on masking paper and trimmed them out. I knew I’d need a few masks to be able to repeatedly stamp the image without overlapping each other. I choose the hot pressed watercolour card as it’s smooth surface will give the optimum stamped impression.
I lined up the mountains along the bottom of the watercolor piece and stamped them in clear embossing ink. I stamped them twice to make sure I got a good impression, and then I sprinkled them with white embossing powder, tapped off any excess and melted the powder with a preheated heat tool. With the help of the masks, I repeatedly stamped and heat embossed the mountains from the base to almost the top of the panel. I did think about extending the stamping all the way to the top in line with my inspiration from Sh’an, but in the end, decided to include a small area of sky at the top.
I adhered the watercolor panel to a board to help prevent it warping while I watercolored. I mixed up a lovely bright green and starting at the base of the panel, I painted the full strength green mixture at the bottom of the mountains. I then rinsed my brush slightly and using the water on my brush blended out the color towards the top of the mountains and the more dilute the intensity was, the lighter the green. While the paint was still wet, I added Undersea Green directly into the base of the mountains. Being a deeper green, this added more of a contrast between the lightest and darkest areas. As the paint was still wet the new addition spread and blended with the base layer so there weren’t any harsh lines. To finish the watercolored panel, I splattered white gouache to represent snow.
For the sentiment, I stamped the speech bubble from the From The Rooftops set three times in clear embossing ink on black card and white heat embossed. I added three matching sentiments from the set, and again white heat embossed them before trimming the speech bubbles out. However, this set does come with matching dies.
I trimmed the watercolor panel to be three and a quarter wide by eight and three-quarters tall. I then foam mounted the panel on a three and a half by nine-inch card base cut from Neenah Desert Storm card in the 100lb weight. This card will then fit nicely in a business-sized envelope. I added the speech bubbles to the card with more foam adhesive and then accented with Neat & Tangled snowfall sequins which I adhered with Ranger Multi Medium Matte.
Thank you for joining me today, and I’ll see you next time for Doodling With Debby!
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WOW Debby, I love this! How awesome is that? I love a tall skinny card and these mountain tops make a perfect card for this. So cool.
Congratulations to Simons winners this week!
Oh, how pretty! This card “smells” like Spring to me! Love your watercoloring and this is the perfect design for the tall card!
I love this set so much, it is on my wish list. Your card is lovely. I am enjoying the taller cards as well. I made a bunch into money holders for Christmas.
Love the watercoloring and the shade of green used on the card. Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Awesome technique!!! Love your colouirng!!!
Congrats to all the winners!!!
Great, Fun Card!
Love the echoing & all the mountains!
Tall, skinny card is perfect!
I forget about that size, Thanks for reminder!
Wow! Such a beautiful card Debby! I also love those tall and skinny cards. It’s something different, right?
This card is brilliant….quite simply brilliant! Cheers.
So adorable! I love the colors!
LOL – that is a cute card! I love the bright colours and the black word bubbles stand out nicely!
super cool. love the colors!
Love the color effects on your card.
That’s a great creation! Beautiful :)
What a fun card & I love that it fits in a business size envelope. It’ll be more a surprise for the recipient that way!
Those mountains are amazing
lovely card – love how you painted this – very inspiring :)
What a clever way to use the mountains stamp! Love it.
What a stunning piece of artwork! The greens are so very rich. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Super cool card!!! I love to watch you watercolor!!
Makes for a cool
look. Very fun.
Carla from Utah
Beautiful card. Love those little echo sentiments. What fun. Hugz
Debby, your card is so pretty, love your colors. Thanks.
Love this card! I love all the mountains, reminds me of where my father is from, I miss visiting there, he died when I was 16 and since my grandparents have since passed as well we don’t have any reason to visit there anymore. I lot of good memories though and I’m thankful I was able to take my kids when they were younger when my grandparents were still alive. I live in Maryland and he was from West Virginia and it’s a beautiful state! Thanks for sharing your card, it’s beautiful and I love the colors!
I love the card design and wonderful watercolor!
This is AWESOME! Love it!
Ooooh, that design just made me smile, it’s so cool! And I love the colouring, too!
I like like your card full of mountains.
Love the echoes going all the way up the mountains! Brilliant card!
What a fabulous card – such a great design and beautifully executed! And I love that part of your inspiration is an Australian.
What a fun card!
This is AMAZING, Debby!
Debby, Love this card. It is so clever and I like the size of it. You are so inspiring!
Love your card! I love the echoing sentiments! So clever!
What a cool card! An awesome way of to use repeat patterns with one’s stamps. Reminds me of spring too :)
Love the gorgeous green mountains!
The scene is gorgeous… and the echoing sentiments make me chuckle!
Oh wow, this is fabulous!
Those mountains turned out so cool. Love the speech bubbles.
beautiful, really like the card size and colors
That is a lovely, beautiful card and so simple (it looks) to make. I honestly have not seen a tall skinny card made before. Great idea.
Great use of the stamp and those colours are great!
AWESOME mountain scene! Really FANTASTIC! Congrats to the winners too!
Such a fun tall card! I love your water coloring! TFS
Fantastic card, and I enjoyed learning about an artist i hadn’t heard of before!
Love it!
Such a great scene! I love the water colouring and the fantastic colours you used!
Love this beautiful watercolor look!
Oh my goodness ! What an awesome card is that ! I really love the format. This is gonna be a great serie !
SUPER BEAUTIFUL Card!! I LOVE the Deaign!! THANKS for sharing the Video too!! Have a FABULOUS Week!! ❤️❤️❤️
Haha, this is so cute and a clever stamp set. I love the water coloring on this card.