Prima Watercolor Confections + Rainbow Cards + Kindness Day!
Hello crafty friends! Its Nina-Marie here with you today, wishing you a VERY happy Random Acts of Kindness Day! I love the theme for this “fun holiday”. We could all use a bit more kindness spread among each other!
Today I wanted to share a video featuring how to make some bright and happy cards that are sure to brighten anyone’s day! I also am encouraging you to make a card for someone today in honor of Random Acts of Kindness day! Fill the card with something that let’s the recipient know you were thinking of them! Some ideas for including in or with your card:
- A simple, heartfelt note written inside
- Baked goods or other delicious treats
- A gift card (maybe to their favorite coffee shop, digital music/app store, restaurant, or even one of our Simon Gift Cards for a crafty friend!)
- A small gift
- A handmade bookmark, jewelry, or home decor piece
There are lots of things that you could give as an unexpected gesture to someone… you never know how much a small act of kindness might impact someone’s day! To borrow a phrase from the card below: you could rock their world! :)
So how about some details on all these happy rainbows I’ve got here??
I LOVE to watercolor – depending on my mood, I sometimes love watercolor more than Copics (which is amazing for me to say because I adore my Copics). Watercolor was the very first medium I used in cardmaking back when I first started in 2007; it wasn’t until later on that I got Copics. So watercolor does -and always will- hold a special place in my heart.
In today’s cards, I used Prima’s Watercolor Confections palettes. But be sure to remember that you can use any watercolor medium you have or prefer most. If you watch the video below, you will see my palette looks different than the actual sets of Prima Watercolor Confections. This is because I combined all of my half pans from each collection I have to save space and have all the colors in rainbow order. Yes, I’m crazy that way! :) I have three of Prima’s Confections palettes: the Classics, Tropicals and Decadent Pies. There are also the Shimmering Lights and Pastel Dreams palettes which I do not have yet.
I also stepped up the watecoloring a bit by creating a shimmer water mix BEFORE doing any painting. In the bowl of water that I had on my desk, I mixed Perfect Pearls to make a shimmery water. By simply using the glittery water to pick up and paint with, I was able to make my backgrounds shimmery. All without having to spray the paper with a shimmer mist and risk that the water based medium might blend my watercolors together!
Now, I will admit that I had WAY too much fun creating these cards… so much fun in fact that I made 10 cards in a single afternoon! I played with quite a few Simon stamps and dies, creating fun layouts and combinations with my backgrounds! The Simon products I used in these cards include: Kristina’s Love stamps, You Matter (both stamps and die), Heart of Flowers die, Holiday Shapes die, Heart Smile die, Painted Kindness die and the Stitched Rectangle dies.
I hope you will be checking out the video to see how these cards came together. I am so glad you stopped by to spend some time with me! Be sure to remember to spread some random acts of kindness today!
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What an awesome collection of color and delightful sentiments! Kindness matters!
Like the colorful rainbow of colors. The world can definitely use more kindness.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Love the pretty colors and the techniques here!
Amazing cards…thanks for sharing. Cheers.
I love your cards today. The rainbow backgrounds are some of my favorites!!
These are gorgeous! Love all the watercolor goodness!♥
GORGEOUS! Love your bright happy colors!!! WOW!
Wishing every day could be a kindness kind of day !! What bright and cheerful cards !!
Oh my word… I love the colors so much! they made my morning ( which I needed as there has been so much stuff going on with our family this week, it’s been stressful!) I have wanted to buy the prima watercolors because of their names! They just tickle me. LOL>
what a fabulous explosion of colors-these cards are just gorgeous!! Thanks for brightening the day and thanks for sharing the video too.
WOW – love how bright these colors are and your cards are fantastic!!!
Yay for kindness!! I love all the beautiful color and design!
Love all the bright scrumptious color!!! Prima products are one of my FAVE’s!!!
Love the colorful cards!
Love that all the cards are so fibrant! They will lighten up somebody’s day!
Love how bright and bold these are!
Very pretty colors!
These cards and ideas are fabulous! Thank you so much for sharing the video!!
Shine bright…like rainbow in the sky! Wonderful!
WOW such amazing cards Nina!!!!
I absolutely love these and cannot wait to try and replicate some of them. I love my prima watercolor confections. They are so easy to use.
These cards would put a smile on anybody’s face.
Fabulously bright and colorful, really love all the cards!
These cards are awesome! So fast and easy to create a lot of.
What a wonderful day! These are beautiful cards :)
Beautiful cards, I like the inlay hearts a lot. I think I will make some stencils from some of my dies. Thanks for another great video tutorial.
Beautiful cards. Love the rainbow colors. You are very talented.
I just love all the bright colours you used! Kindness is a great thing to give!
Beautiful cards! Love the happy rainbow colours! :D
I knew these bright & boldly beautiful cards were yours before I saw your name. And I imagine you are just as bright in personality. :-) These would bring a smile to anyone’s face. Hope you, and everyone, have a beautiful day!!
Very colorful cards.
Love all those bright colors!!!
I love my Prima Color Confections Watercolors!! I love all of your cards, so colorful and bright and pretty!! They all turned out so pretty. Thanks for sharing .
Wow!!! I LOVE all of these Bright Bold and BEAUTIFUL cards!!!
Love the bright colors-gorgeous cards.
Love all these bright rainbow cards. Makes me smile.
Beautiful cards for a beautiful cause!
These cards are sure to brighten anyone’s day.
Such bright and encouraging displays , just gorgeous !
They are so totally will brighten someone’s day! LOVE all of them!
Beautiful cards! They are sure to brighten someone’s day no matter the occasion.
Awesome backgrounds! They made some fun cards!
Just BEAUTIFUL!!
Wow, drop dead gorgeousness!
SQUEAL!!! BEAUTIFUL Cards!! LOVED the Video too!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Such lovely, lovely cards! The “You make my heart smile” is my favourite – especially with the little heart above the “i”. What a wonderful touch!
I didn’t know it was RAK day. How fabulous!! I’m on a mission now! :)
Great cards! Thank you for sharing this video and all your kindness!
I especially love the cards with the heart die cuts, beautiful cards, beautiful colors!
Gorgeous rainbow coloured cards – they are sure to brighten anyone’s day!
Great cards. I love the bright watercolour.