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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Beautiful flowers!
Wow!!! These are Stunning cards!!!
Beautiful cards! I am ready for spring!
Great tutorial and technique. Thanks!
Wow!!! Fabulous cards!!!
Gorgeous Flowers!
Wonderful cards and envelops. Great video and very helpful tips.
Beautiful watercolor flowers!
Just gorgeous! And happy Sunday to you too!
Beautiful watercolor posies! Good tutorial too.
Great watercolor presentation
Gasp! Such stunning cards! Wow! I’d love to plant some flowers, but as it’s only about 32 degrees out, perhaps not yet. LOL!
Wonderful floral cards. Too cold where I live to plant flowers outside.
These are so beautiful and cheerful! Love them
These are BEAUTIFUL!!! Love your work!!
Gorgeous card!
Beautiful cards! I wish it was warm enough out to do some real flower planting, but it’s still just above freezing here.
Thanks for the video–such gorgeous cards! I have one set of those watercolors that I haven’t even opened, but now I will!
Really pretty. I am so ready for Spring. I planted some shamrocks on a card for a dear Irish friend in Iowa. Thanks for inspiring. I am definitely going to use the ghost stamping on my envelope.
These cards are so pretty! Makes me want to bust out my watercolours and play.
Super excited about spring in the air. The watercolor flowers are beautiful. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome cards and thanks so much for the great video!
Great watercoloring. The cards are very pretty.
How pretty! Makes me feel like spring is just around the corner.
Beautiful cards, but we won’t be planting flowers where I live. Our average last frost date is well into May. Hopefully lots of Winter left.
Lovely watercolour flowers. Just what I need to brighten up my fall day in the Southern Hemisphere
Nice flower cards!
Great technique…pretty cards and envelopes!
Lovely spring cards, I’m definitely going to have to try this.
Love the cards, so pretty. I love my Prima Confections Watercolors! Thanks for sharing .
Love these! I too am longing for Spring. Can’t plant a flower today as it’s freezing and we have snow coming in, so coloring will have to do. My arm has been twisted…LOL.
Beautiful cards and loving the happy colors ♥
Beautiful watercolors. Love the vibrant colors on all the cards.
Love watercolors! Great tutorial and beautiful cards!
Great cards and love the simple water coloring. Give an awesome look. Always enjoy your videos.
I really like how the water color resist the embossing, too! Beautiful card!
Beautiful stamps by prima!! love the water colored look. thanks for the great video tutorial :)
Great cards love the watercoloring.
I’ve been eye-balling these very stamps, Nina! This is GORGEOUS!!! ;)
Your cards and envelopes are just lovely – the colours are so fresh and happy!
Gorgeous cards! As we’e facing a major snow storm this week! Thanks for the colorful inspiration.
Beautiful flowers!Thank you for sharing your technique!
I am so into my spring garden project right now, plant a flower a day is perfect for me, lovely creation!
Beautiful cards–I’m really loving water color flowers right now! thanks for sharing.
Wow Nina, this card is just stunning! Love those loosely painted flowers!
Ooooh beautiful watercolouring, love the matching envelope too!
Just lovely
Very pretty!
Wow! The color in these cards blew me away! So pretty and spring-like!
I love these and then the envelope too.
Beautiful watercoloring.