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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What a fabulous card!!
This is so pretty.
Very nice!
Lovely card, Debby! Wonderful design and watercolor!
Thanks for sharing this great technique.
Beautiful card! Will have to try this technique.
Beautiful card and watercolouring! Thanks for sharing your video with us!
I love this! I wish I was more crafty with watercolor!
Love the technique!
Beautiful design!
Beautiful card–love those leaves and the bold sentiment.
I love this card, the colours are beautiful!
Pretty leaves, nice background!
Oh wow, so pretty! Love your colourful leaves, I would never have thought of using them for a Christmas card but they look fab!!
Gorgeous card! I love the pretty leaves and gold detail.
Such a gorgeous card! I enjoyed your video–I never would have thought to add the pastels like you did, but the colors are lovely all together. Both of the stamp sets you used are terrific!
I love this! Watercoloring that doesn’t require blending or staying in the lines! And so pretty, too! Thank you!
The stained glass sentiment finishes this card beautifully!
Beautiful card!!, love this color combo!!
Love the background you created
Beautiful coloring. Thanks for the video!
So beautiful! Love the technique and the colors – thanks for sharing! xx
Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing…
I do like the black Merry better than the red. Cool card.
Pretty card! Thanks for sharing!
Lovely card! So elegant and pretty! The stained glass greeting is beautiful.
Lovely Christmas card. I can’t believe it’s time to make cards already.
What a great idea.. Going outside the lines is against our normal.. So, love this.
Always enjoy seeing Debby’s work. As always, it’s beautiful!
What a beautiful card! The colors are PERFECT! I love it. Thanks!
Simply beautiful. I love the gold splatters.
I love how you only used one stamp!
Beautiful card…
Beautiful!! The colour combination is beautiful and I never would have thought to add the pale pink and pale aqua in there but I love it. That stained glass sentiment set is a favourite of mine (that I reeaaly need to have!!) and it finishes the card off perfectly.
So, So pretty and love all of the colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
I’m new to this blog…… I’m definitely loving what I’m seeing! I’ll be returning……
This is a beautiful Christmas card! So pretty.
Cool looking card. Fun design and beautifully coloured b
Love the idea of a simple shape and watercoloring it with one color and extending the shape out, very clever!! I saw someone else, can’t remember who, use the acetate trick when stamping multiple times and it was like a wow moment for me!! Never would have thought of that, I just clean my stamps off and keep on moving, but that saves so much time!! Love the card and the colors and agree the black “Merry” looks much better then the red “Merry”!! Thanks for sharing and inspiring!!
Great looking embossed leaves!
Beautiful card! I like the color combination on the leaves.
Love the card and the stamp set
Absolutely gorgeous!! Such a fabulous background you’ve created!
Beautiful card!
Beautiful leaves. The colors are so very vibrant.
Lovely card!
I just love this. I am waiting for the stained glass greetings set to come back in stock. Eek….
Those leaves are so pretty!! Thanks for sharing
I just LOVE these stamps sets I need them! And Debby your watercolor as always is just so beautiful, I can never get mine to look even half as good as yours and you make it look so easy! :)
Beautiful Card!