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!
Love the colors
Whoa! What a stunning and fresh card! Love the color and design!
GORGEOUS colours and DELIGHTFUL design, LOVE EVERYTHING about your card Wanda!!!
THANK YOU for sharing :)
Very beautiful graphic design.
This stamp set just begs to be water colored.
Your layout is really nice and I like the way you incorporated the charm! I like your watercoloring and I sure do enjoy using my Zig Clean Color markers as well!
Very inspiring Spring card. I like the color combo!!
Lovely card and I love the look of the twine and charm. Great design.
A bright and cheery card which anyone would love to receive-male or female! Thank you for sharing.
So pretty and cheerful! I really like the tree stamps and the colors you used.
What a fun and graphic card!
Another beautiful creation by Wanda.
one of my favorite stamp/die sets – just love the colors used in this card. . . beautiful.
Gorgeous spring card. Love the clean lines.
Fabulous bright cheery card
I love the sentiment!
Love this! Those stamps and dies are awesome! :)
Very pretty!! Love the colors!!
What a pretty card! I just love the colors!
Your card is gorgeous. Love the colour combination. Thanks for sharing.
Your card is gorgeous. Love the colour combination. Thanks for sharing.
These are indeed bright and summery colours on the cards!
Beautiful card Wanda. The green and blues look fabulous together!
Very ‘springy’ – love the colors and design !!!
Very pretty colour combo!
I love blue and green together and they make a lovely card. The twine and charm further demonstrate the card’s nature theme.
Fabulous card!
Love this stamp set, and your beautiful card with the great layout idea, so fun!
What a beautiful color combination! So bright and cheery!
So springy fresh!
Today’s card is very unique and beautiful. Another day of great inspiration.
A lovely card for spring.
Beautiful!
Beautiful Love your colouring :)
What a stunningly beautiful card Wanda! Love the colors you’ve used!
Great card! I wasn’t sure about this stamp/die set when I first saw it, but I love what you have done with it here! TFS!
Cool colors and card design!
Oh those colours. They happen to be my favourite too!
I love how those cards have turned out with spotlights using the stitched dies :)
Love this colorful graphic design.
Love the bright colours. What fun. Hugz
Gorgeous card! Love the colors! xx
What a stunning card and such refreshing colors! Love this!
I absolutely love everything I see made with that stamp set. Why don’t I own it?!?
So bright and springy!
Wanda, I soooo enjoy your Wednesdays! Another fabulous and colorful project!
Love the colors and design…take me back to the 1960s.
Beautiful card! I love this stamp set!
Lovely colours used
Got to love watercoloring!
Beautiful! Nice job watercoloring – still have to try it!
So cute!!!!!!