Plant a Flower Day + Watercolor Florals
Hello everyone and Happy Sunday! As we are SPRINGING ahead here in the United States with Daylight Savings Time, it is feeling a bit more like Spring is almost here. And with Spring comes warm weather and beautiful flowers.
I have been really enjoying making flower cards of late (I must be ready to say goodbye to the snow! haha!). I feel it is even more fitting to make a flower card today since it is Plant a Flower Day! With that theme in mind, I decided I wanted to use the gorgeous flower cling stamps from Prima. The illustrations on these stamps are so pretty; I’ve used both the Joyful Garden and Fresh Flowers #1 stamps. They are pretty large stamps, which cover the front of a card perfectly.
For the watercolors, I used Prima’s Watercolor Confections; these watercolors come in 5 different palettes. On these cards I used three: the Classics, Tropicals and Decadent Pies. I enjoy using these palettes . The watercolors are quite pigmented and give beautiful results in a variety of painting styles. In today’s video I created a “messy” style of watercoloring, which is really easy to achieve; I’ll be walking you through the steps I took to create the messy look effortlessly!
I love sentiments that are perfect for encouragement cards; the Be Strong stamp set from Altenew is one of my current favorites when it comes to uplifting sentiments! I stamped two of the greetings from that set with clear ink and heat embossed them with white powder.
The watercolor panels are trimmed down with the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle dies and I also tied a bit of Hemptique bamboo cord around the top.
Finally, I wanted to make a couple of matching envelopes for these cards… a card is made even more special when the envelope is decorated too! I used the We R Memory Envelope Punch Board to make the envelope from Mixed Media paper and then watercolored a soft, layered background. The background was created with a few watercolors that matched the card but were greatly diluted.
After watercoloring, I stamped a second generation of the flowers onto each of the envelopes using a gray ink from Altenew. Because I wanted the image on the envelope to be softer, the second generation creates more of a “ghosted” look and is not distracting.
I hope you enjoyed these cards and will be checking out the video to see how these cards came together! I really like how the heat embossed flowers resist the watercolor and create more subtle outlines. And paired with the messy watercolor effect, I think it makes for a very beautiful design! Thanks for visiting me today… I will see you again tomorrow for a new Studio Monday video!
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WOW!!! Gorgeous watercolored flowers, Nina-Marie
Wonderful artsy Spring floral creations.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Love your beautiful floral card! In order to plant my flowers/garden I would have to shovel through 8 inches of snow and by mid week it could be up to 20….sigh….perhaps I will just water my houseplants lol
Beautiful, fresh looking cards – very artistic painterly effect!
Great card! :)
Love this random style and do so appreciate the how to video!
Fantastic!
Pretty flowers! I just recently purchased this stamp and will try your suggestions!
So pretty….
I’ve been creating my own spring projects. I think we are all ready to see the flowers! Thanks for sharing your beautiful card.
Beautiful just like spring, the colors are so vibrant!
So pretty!! Love the spring flowers and colours!!
I love the vibrant flowers! So pretty.
Very PRETTY, Gotta love flowers, I do !!. Thanks for sharing.
Very pretty…makes me want to run to my table and get colorful.
Thanks for the video. Awesome stamps by Prima. Your cards are gorgeous. Love the water color look.
Love these watercolour cards! I’m so ready for spring also.
Your sentiment choice with such pretty color flowers is perfect!
Beautiful cards! Really makes me think spring!!
Absolutely beautiful! You make water colouring look so simple! (I must be trying too hard! LOL)
I love the look of these. Makes me wonder when spring will begin.
Beautiful watercolour! I love the colours here!
So springy!
Love these cards. The water coloring is really pretty.
the flowers remind me of spring – it
had started to arrive but got side-tracked
by some cold weather. Soon the
flowers on the card will be in my yard.
Beautiful coloring.
thanks for sharing.
I adore Nina Marie’s artwork! She’s not afraid of bold colors!
Love the freshness and the artistic expression in this card! ❤️
So beautiful!
What an inspiring card Nina! I must find something I can paint this way! Looks so fun to do!
These cards are beautiful. Love your watercoloring techniques and the matching envelopes really finish the cards. Thanks for sharing.
I love how you captured the feeling of spring in these beautiful flowers….
Floral cards make me happy and these two cards are so pretty. The envelopes are a nice touch. Great job!
Great watercoloring & the envelope is a perfect match too
WOW that’s so beautiful!
So springy! Lots of color and joy in these cards!
Your cards are so beautiful!!!
WOW your cards are gorgeous!!!!
Your cards are so soft and lovely. Love these stamps – well, maybe all flower stamps…ha.
Love your beautiful cards. Spring time is here…
Beautiful cards Nina, I love what you did to the envelopes as well!
I love the colors of Spring; they’re so happy!
Your cards are magnificently beautiful. :-)
Your watercolor flower cards are absolutely stunning! Your coloring and color choices are amazing! Thanks for the inspiration and for the opportunity to win blog candy!
Beautiful Card! Love the colors
Beautiful flower cards. thanks for sharing!
What a beautiful effect! I e always loved the look of watercolor! So pretty!
Sooooooooooo colorful and pretty!!! LOVE!
<3 J
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Very pretty!
Very pretty, love any flower or water coloring so 2 wins in my book
gorgeous, I;ve been in the vegetable garden today, these days more flowers than veggies, and altough I didn;t plant a flower today I transpplanted some and planted one yesterday ;-)
These are so pretty!