Monochromatic Stately Flowers
Hi friends! Happy Saturday! Please give a warm welcome to first-time guest blogger Melanie Muenchinger as a special guest representing Gina K. Designs! Please read on and be sure to watch the video for more information and enjoy!
I am honored and humbled to be guest designing for the Simon Says Stamp blog today! We at Gina K. Designs are delighted to have some of our favorite product offerings at Simon Says Stamp. I’ve been stamping and cardmaking for 15 years and illustrating for 11. I enjoy drawing and creating in many different styles to suit my mood or match my recipient, from realistic to whimsical, classic to trendy, clean and simple to over the top!
In this video, I demonstrate a watercolored emboss resist technique and surprise, am only using one color to do so! It’s remarkable how many shades you get from just one color, and a monochromatic design is always so impactful. I’m using the purple lilacs image from my Stately Flowers series for both my focal point and background. We started releasing these at Gina K. Designs 8 years ago and are just one set away from covering all 50 states! This set is unique in that it contains a mini calendar you can use with all the flowers in the line or other stamps in your collection. These realistic hand drawn flowers are lovely for any occasion and are so fun for a variety of inky techniques and coloring!
Out of hundreds of techniques I love, I chose this one upon recently discovering that Simon Says Stamp carries my favorite watercoloring medium: Peerless Watercolors! They are no mess, affordable, portable, and include a full range of gorgeous shades that are so vivid and blendable, even on regular cardstock. I love how you can toss a booklet and water brush pen in your bag to paint on the go. They have companion sets as well to expand your palette. I hope you enjoy today’s simple video and be confident that no matter what your skill level or experience, you can produce beautiful, hand-painted effects on your cards in no time with this technique, for one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Happy crafting! Hope you’ll check out my other stamp sets and tutorials.
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Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks to Melanie for being our guest!
A beautiful card and such a quick technique. Awesome!
The flowers look nice in mono color & the Butterflies complement them nicely.
Melissa
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Love the color you used on this card
Wonderful Melanie! And I can do it! Thank you for sharing your talents with us!
Beautiful color! My MIL loves purples! This would be the perfect card for her! Thanks for sharing!
Love embossed resist and monochromatic coloring.
This is so beautiful and you make it look so easy. Gorgeous watercoloring art!
This card is just exquisite. The use of these florals in layers gives this card a truly special touch. tfs
So pretty!
Such a BEAUTIFUL creation! I love the purple!
AWESOME monotone Stately Flowers creation Melanie, It is great to see your video here on SSS, I’ve followed you on GKD for years.
Lovely card! Great color!
Beautiful images & card! Now I see how the Peerless WC work & might just need them!
Lovely card. The purple is beautiful.
Oh my – so pretty! Love how you did this!
Very pretty!!
Monochromatic cards are always catching my eye. Beautiful coloring.
So gorgeous. I love water coloring, but I’m not very good at it. However, I think I could do this technique. I’m certainly going to give it a try!
Love Melanie’s videos! Glad she shared here today. Great monochromatic card. Love it!
Such pretty cards!!!
This is beautiful! Look at what can be created with one watercolor hue! Amazing!
I am enjoying this lovely creation – it is totally over the moon beautiful!! Love, love the Monochromatic and those lovely butterflies as well – I am always looking for new flower creations – TFS
Lovely card! Great techniques!
Oh wow, what a beautiful card!
Awesome card! Thanks for the inspiration.
You’re right…classic card…so beautiful. Love the technique and the monochromatic color. Thanks for the inspiration to try this with my stamps.
Love the mono purples.
the butterflies are great.
thanks for sharing
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Beautiful card!
Beautiful card. Love the colour. Great technique. Thank you for sharing this great video.
Melanie your video was great. I couldn’t believe what you achieved with a fairly simple technique. Just beautiful. I definitely need to check out that Peerless Palette. Nicely done.
Wow! Amazing cards! Wonderful use of monochromatic purple colour!!!
Love what you created.
Thanks for a gorgeous card. I’m going to have to check out those stately flowers, just beautiful.
Very pretty! Love the gorgeous flower stamps and pretty purple!
Absolutely gorgeous!
Beautiful, beautiful cards. So soft and…beautiful!
Such a beautiful card. Love the color and sentiment!
Thanks for sharing…
The “messy” look is great. I like how you colored outside the lines…
The butterflies really stand out since they are just black and white. I like the limited use of color. It looks cool.
Melanie…this is so awesome! I adore this card and the technique is so “do-able” and versatile! Thanks so much for sharing your incredible talent and inspiration!
Beautiful and elegant card! I can’t believe how easy you make it look to do. I can’t wait to try your tips and techniques, thanks for the inspiration.
Really Beautiful card!!
Beautiful cards!! Lovely sentiments!
beautiful card — love those watercolor “papers”—never saw anything like that before…
So beautiful! :) I love this purple color.
Thanks for the Inspiration, this is Amazing!
The cards are beautiful and I really appreciate the sentiments. I could only hear the video, not see it! Must be my ipad!
Love the beautiful purple flowers!
Very pretty!
so pretty:)