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!
Such a pretty card! Great technic!
I love, love, love finding ways to use watercolors without watercoloring! Haha! This is beautiful and perfect. I will pin this and try this technique soon! Thank you!
How pretty and simple. I need to try the watercolor papers. I already follow by email.
Very pretty card. It is so nice to see that you don’t need a lot of expertise to make a card like this. Thanks for sharing with us.
Gorgeous cards, love all the dimension!
A really pretty card. I only use purple on cards for the bffs daughter. She’s loved the colour since she was 18 mths old. She’s just turned 9.
Beautiful card!
Hi for anyone here on Simon Says Stamp blog who is just now meeting Melanie I want to tell you that I have known (never met in person :( but online) Melanie for over 13 years now and she is one of the most talented, kind, caring, and amazing person you could ever meet…and oh my goodness can I scream TALENTED…I love every thing she has ever designed and her talent has just grown and grown and grown thru the years. Her stamp sets are absolutely GORGEOUS but what I love most is you can do sooooo many themes and techniques with them…her stamp sets coordinate with other stamp sets she has designed…she is just truly an amazing talented person…I am sooo glad that she is also here now!
Patricia
This is really elegant Melanie, beautifully done.
Melanie, these cards are gorgeous! I love this technique! Would love to see more of this! Thanks for sharing!
Very pretty!
This card is very beautiful and I love the butterflies.
What a lovely look. A great reminder that simple coloring can still be effective. Thanks for sharing this idea and these products with us!
Stunning cards!
I love how you colored your beautiful flowers Melanie! Your state Flowers are my favorite! TFS
These are so beautiful! I love the colors!
Lovely card and really pretty easy to make, but gives a lot of WOW factor. Thanks for sharing it with us.
The monochromatic coloring is so impressive.
Beautifully done, these cards are truly gorgeous
gorgeous colours!!
Very pretty card! I really like this technique.
So pretty and elegant
Gorgeous cards in my favourite colour xx
gorgeous card….love the colors!
Such lovely cards! The flowers are beautiful and so are the sentiments!
You had me at purple! lol This is gorgeous.
Melanie you made this card look so easy to re-create. I love how you used just one color, absolutely gorgeous! Great stamp set too. So many different options.
A lovely card. I like that you showed it with two different verses too.
The video won’t load for me. Too bad. I have these watercolors and would have loved to see the monochromatic technique.
I’ll check again later.
Susan
Very beautiful and elegant card. And I love the monochromatic technique. Great for creating card sets quickly.
Lovely card – thanks so much for the video too!! I live in NH so this is extra special!!!
Melanie, your cards are always so amazing. I love the monochromatic look you’ve created. It inspires me to try watercoloring. The Peerless Watercolor book inspires me too. I have never seen that product. What a fun and convenient way to watercolor.
Beautiful card and I love the purple!!
Absolutely gorgeous!!
What an awesome card Melanie, I never heard of the Peerles watercolor and glad you showed this. By watching you making those layers I learned again something today. Thank you for your time and effort to show this.
You can never go wrong with PURPLE. Awesome!!
I adore this card!! I love using purple for florals. It is just gorgeous!!
Wow, beautiful card! Love the design and colours!
Such a beautiful card! I love the design and colours!
Loved your video! I can actually see myself having success with this technique. I’m a “lesser skilled watercolor”–which means I have zero talent and am scared to try!
Very pretty card.
Beautiful! (and yes I agree amazing how many shades you can get from one ink!)
Very pretty…love the purple.
Cool shades with only one ink.
Thank you all so much for your kind and generous feedback! So glad you like the project and video!
Absolutely lovely. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
These cards are beautiful! Thank you for sharing your tips on watercoloring. I really like this monochromatic look :)
A stunning card! And such a great colour…
Just gorgeous!!
Beautiful card! Love your design and color choice!