Doodling with Debby: Watercolored Leaf Background
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Thanks for stopping by today! Please welcome the always amazing Debby Hughes to the blog in her monthly Doodling with Debby series for a special holiday card! Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!
Hi, this is Debby and for my Doodling With Debby feature this month I’m using a small leaf image from the One With Nature set to create a watercoloured background pattern.
On Arches Hot Pressed watercolour card I repeatedly stamped the small leaf from the One With Nature set in clear embossing ink, sprinkled with Antique Gold embossing powder and heat set.
With the pattern now complete, I attached the watercolour card to a board and using Daniel Smith watercolours I painted over each leaf using a palette of green, red, pale pink and pale aqua. The watercolours I used were:
- Green – Undersea Green mixed with Ultramarine Blue to give a beautiful Hunters Green
- Red – Pyrrol Scarlet combined with a little Undersea Green to mute the tone of the red slightly
- Pale Pink – dilute mix of Quinacridone Coral
- Pale Aqua – dilute mix of Ultramarine Turquoise
I dried the panel with a heat tool before I splattered Heidi Swapp Gold Color Shine over the top and then set it aside to dry.
For the sentiment, I used the Stained Glass Greetings set and stamped the ‘Merry’ in clear embossing ink on Black card, sprinkled with White embossing powder and heat set. I used the matching die to die cut the sentiment. I also stamped, and white heat embossed a matching sentiment from the set on Lipstick Red card.
I added foam adhesive to the back of all of the elements and then attached them to a Neenah Desert Storm card base. As a finishing touch, I added a trio of Gold sequins held in place with Multi Medium Matte.
Thanks for joining me today and I will see you next time for Doodling With Debby!
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Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing the video. Cheers.
Like the wonderful artsy looking multi leaf stamped background.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Love how you used the leaves from the One with Nature set-so pretty!
Very pretty card. I love the addition of the pastels to the traditional holiday colors. And thank you for the tip about using acetate. :-)
I love that this is bold watercolour!
Awesome card and colouring!!!
Beautiful card ! And you make it look doable. Thank you for the GREAT tip about the use of the piece of acetate ! I will sure remember that.
Such a beautiful and creative card. Easy to follow and so stunning!!! :)
Cool, non traditional look.
This is so lovely! Love the leaves embossed in gold and adore the Stained Glass Greetings set.
Beautiful card and I love the colors
So pretty with the watercoloring and gold embossing.
good looking card.
thanks for sharing.
Wonderful card. I like the non traditional leaf pattern with a more traditional color pallet.
WOW this is wonderful! Thanks for the video!
How beautiful Debby! Love the colours. What an elegant card this makes.
lovely card and sweet design:)
Love this gorgeous cad with the great colours!
Lovely card, love the colors you picked.
Gorgeous! Love the leaves and colour choices!
I love the gold embossing with the watercoloring. Looks so elegant.
Beautiful and so artistic!
What a wonderful card! I really like how you embossed the leaves and then painted over them with the watercolor. Thank you so much fr sharing!
Love the simplicity of this card and the different elements you brought together. Beautiful card!
I really like this card. Water coloring is so much fun!
Love the embossed outline with watercolor.
HOW lovely is that, not exactly traditional but I love it! Gorgeous design!
Absolutely beautiful!
Wonderful work Debby. These leaves look beautiful water coloured for a background. I HAVE to try this one!
So pretty! Love the colors!
Unique & lovely!
Such a beautiful card, love the additional pale pink and aqua colours to make it very contemporary and a little non traditional. Gorgeous!
Love the layout and beautiful colors. :)
A lovely card, great mix of colors and love the background.
Beautiful card with watercolors.. very creative!
Beautiful card! Great background, and I love the colors.
Gorgeous watercolor background!
Very pretty! I like the easy watercolouring and the addition of the lighter colours. A not so formal colour scheme!
Never thought to use a leaf for a Christmas card! But it is a beautiful card! Thanks for sharing. Love this card.
This is wonderful! Your watercolored leaves are lovely!
Beautiful card :)
I love your card Debby!!! The loose watercoloring looks Awesome!!!
So much fun with watercolors – I love this out of the box watercolor Christmas card – it is truly beautiful and wonderfully created – TFS
I like that you used a non traditional Christmas stamp, but the card is very Christmasy! TFS
This is just stunning!!!!
Your card is beautiful!! LOVE watching you watercolor:)
Cool card!
Beautiful watercolor background! Your colors are gorgeous! I like that you created a Christmas card that isn’t in the traditional Christmas colors! Thanks for the inspiration and for the opportunity to win!
Beautiful! I really like how you painted over some of the leaves.
This is just gorgeous Debby!!!