Holiday Painting
Hi readers! Happy Thursday! I’m so pleased to welcome back guest designer Jen Rzasa to our blog! She always makes the most beautiful painted masterpieces and I love the simple elegance of this tag and card duo for today’s feature. Read on for more info!
Enjoy!
Good morning! This is Jennifer Rzasa, and I am here today to share a holiday card and tag using Altenew stamps. I am sometimes stumped when it comes to creating masculine cards, so I kept the color scheme pretty neutral here so that my projects would be perfect for any recipient!
I love using my watercolors, and I wanted to see if I could come up with a simple way to get a hand painted look without all the fuss. I have done faux watercolor in the past with ink, but I was curious to see how well I could stamp with actual watercolor paint…and I was thrilled with the results! I started with cream colored letterpress paper – it’s difficult to do actual watercoloring on this type of paper, but I knew I wouldn’t be using too much water with this technique. Then, I selected stamps that have hand-drawn designs. I chose Altenew’s Poinsettia and Pine, but you could use any artistic stamp!
I mounted the stamp onto my acrylic block, then used a brush to apply watercolor paint. I kept the paint a bit on the thicker side, because a very watery consistency would not allow the detail of the stamp to be seen. I crossed my fingers, then stamped each image onto the letterpress paper. Such a cool effect! To layer images (such as the leaves), allow the first one to dry before stamping the next one.
To finish the card, I stamped my sentiment onto a label die cut from the same letterpress paper, and adhered it over a piece of knotted hemp cording. The card panel was then attached to the khaki colored card base with foam tape. To complete the tag, I die cut the image, punched a hole at the top, and tied on the hemp cording.
Thank you so much for stopping by, and an extra big thanks to Simon Says Stamp for inviting me here today!
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very nice watercolored cards!
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Love the interesting way that the images have been water colored. Thanks for introducing a fun new technique to me:)
Very pretty. This is a technique that has a lot of possibilities. Thanks for sharing, Jen.
Are you kidding me? This is gorgeous!
Loooove the poinsettia tag!
Such lovely projects. Love the watercolored look.
Pretty color combination!
Gorgeous cards…gorgeous images!
carol
So very lovely!!!
Absolutely beautiful watercoloring and love your choice of colors.
Gorgeous!
I would like to try this, it’s so pretty!
So pretty. Will have to try this!
I haven’t tried out watercolor paint, but it sure is pretty on your lovely cards!
What a beautiful effect; I will have to try this!
These are gorgeous and I definitely want to try this!
I adore this! Gorgeous projects!
Like the wonderful artsy look of the stamping.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful and great dea.
when I hear watercolor I think of the old-fashioned way of doing it.
Glad somembody is still trying to use the method.
thanks for sharing.
Love the poinsettia.
Awesome! I love the water color stamping!
I havent try this too
wooow so cool effect
must be try this
thanks for sharing…great card…
Great watercolor cards from the DT. tfs!
This is really a good idea–I love the concept of layering the watercolored images. Beautiful effect! Thanks for sharing!
great technique and wonderful result!
Beautiful cards! Michelle t
Incredibly beautiful projects!
What a very nice, different technique!!!
Beautiful cards. Love be idea is taking watercolor to your stamps. Will surely give it a try. Tfs :-)
These are gorgeous! I need to try this!
What a great idea! I’ll have to try this technique. Thanks for sharing :)
Beautiful cards. Love the idea of taking watercolor to your stamps. Will surely give it a try. Tfs :-)
Gorgeous!
That technique worked better than I would ever have thought it would also! They look fabulous.
Beautiful results.
Love these watercolor projects!
Jennifer … totally breathtakingly beautiful!
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Awesome card and tag. LOVE how you did the pinecone. The poinsettia tag is gorgeous!
Another use for watercolors
So beautiful, and I love your poinsettia.
Water coloring still befuddles me. This technique que is lovely.
Great artsy watercolor look!
Gorgeous Projects!! Fabulous technique….a must try
Wow!!! Really cool technique!! Sooo Pretty!!
I love simple, beautiful cards. Thank you for sharing and for the great idea to use some of my dies for tags (even though they are slightly different).
Gorgeous, love this technique!
Stunning! Thanks for the tips on using water colors.
Jen, these are very Beautiful !!! I love seeing new ways to do things. Thanks so much. Awesome job, this is something I would like to attempt.
These are very pretty. I like the way they have been watercolored.
This technique looks so cool, I will definitely give it a try. Thanks for sharing.