Nature Inspired Card Making
Hello crafty and creative friends! Happy first week of Spring! I am so inspired by how green and beautiful everything is in my neighborhood right now, and my card for today is based on that Spring inspiration…and the color green! Green is definitely one of my favorite colors – and I use it all the time in my projects. I am especially partial to bright lime green! Today I’ve used the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Exclusive “One with Nature” stamps and dies to create watercolor trees and leaves.
I first started by die cutting squares out of watercolor paper to design my card layout. The Simon Says Stamp Stitched Squares dies are perfect for mixing and matching to make graphic card and scrapbook layouts. I stamped my trees and leaves with Archival (waterproof) ink onto watercolor paper and die cut them using the matching dies.
Here is a close up of the trees to show the water-coloring. I used my Kuretake Zig Clean Color Markers for this project. These markers are water based so they are perfect for watercolor cards. I colored with the markers directly onto the watercolor paper and then used a paint brush to move the color and blend the colors together. I used several shades of green, blue and teal for this card. No need to worry about being precise. I think it looks good sort of messy and free form.
I used a Tim Holtz Ideaology Word Token charm and a bit of natural cord to add to the nature feeling of this card.
These beautiful word stamps come with the “One with Nature” stamp set and I offset my text on the top and bottom of the largest square – for some background interest. That font is really cool.
Once my watercolor trees and leaves were dry, I attached them to my card front using foam squares. I added turquoise enamel dots to finish off the look.
Are you inspired by Spring right now? Have a wonderful day! I will see you back here on Saturday for Weekender with Wanda!
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Such a fabulous way to showcase these delightful, graphic trees! Love the happy color combo!
Beautiful card !!!
Love this card. The graphic nature of these stamps is very attractive. And, watercolor, grand combination. Cheers!
I love your green and blue color combo! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love the watercolored images & beautiful color choices!
Such a pretty color palette!!
I love the watercolor and the leaves!! Beautiful
Love the sentiment and the colours are simply amazing! Beautiful project!
Beautiful card…love the look of Spring!
Love this design! The colors are fabulous too ♥♥
Love the colors, great card!
Love the blues, greens and yellows! This is a great card that is very doable. Thanks for the inspiration!
Great card! Love those stamps! Thank you
Love the colour combo…so cheerful
oh my gosh, I love this card! the shapes and layers combined with the graphic images are fabulous! :)
My grass was so tall that I had to cut it last week. this is early for
this area – but I love it. Everything is green and healthy – until the hot sun
comes out again. Enjoy it while we can.
thanks for sharing a fun card.
Oh this is one of my favorite cards–pinning it! So glad I broke down & got some Zigs as they’re really the only thing I’m comfortable coloring with.
Beautiful colors!
Wanda’s happy colors just make me smile.
Wonderful design with
all those lovely colors
of green!
Carla from Utah
Those colors make me FEEL spring-refreshing!!!
I’ve always loved ths stamp set and this is such a colorful card wih watercoloring!
Simply beautiful cards!!!
Pretty card. Love the colors.
Great card. Love the colors and the offset print.
Awesome! Love the colors and the stamps!
love the bright bold colors on this card:)
Bright colors make me happy! I love turquoise.
Gorgeous watercoloring!! True spring colors :)
Such a bright, and beautiful card. Love the stamp set and the colours used ~
Such a super card! Green is my favourite colour too, so I’m especially partial to what you’ve done here!! Such a super layout for your card as well. I just placed an order and was trying to decide whether or not to add the stitched squares to my order, but didn’t!! Argh! They’ll definitely go on next month’s order. :)
Love your card, Wanda. Such fun colors.
Love the colors. Modern botanical!
Such an awesome, bright and beautiful card, Wanda! Love it!
Your card has a nice layout and colors; very neatly done. I like the added touch of the token. It speaks.
Love the bright colours! Thanks for sharing!
This is the coolest cards – love the colors and layout! Thanks so much!!!
This is so pretty, spring fresh!
I love how bright & colorful these trees are… they almost remind me of Easter eggs!
Love the colors.
Such a fun card!!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Bright, happy card! ;-)
Beautiful card…love the shapes of the leaves and the colours!
Just love the bright greens in this fun card.
So very pretty!!, certainly makes me think of spring!!
Very pretty with these Spring colors.
The coloring is beautiful. I love the images.
Great card–love all the cool details and color scheme.
Very pretty card. Love the color scheme. Thanks for sharing.
This color combo is excellent and the design just perfect!