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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Oh my, these are all awesome!! Love!
Lovely cards!
Wow love your tips on water coloring and making these amazing looking cards:)
Wow, love these!
These rainbow designs are so bright and cheerful! Thanks for h inspiration!
Love the watercolors, so beautiful! I didn’t know there was a Random Acts of Kindness Day. Great idea and how fun to send such bright cards.
Such fabulous cards, random kindness, what a great idea!
Beautiful happy cards :)
Awesome colored
and die cut cards!
So pretty.
Carla from Utah
So much beautiful color! Just lovely!
the colors are so bright and bold.
Beautiful cards.
thanks for sharing.
So bright, just makes you want to smile!
Fabulous bright and cheerful cards!
Wonderful!!! Love them all.
Beautiful cards! Thanks for the reminder about RAK day.
Wow all these colours! Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Love the rainbow cards – gorgeous!
Beautiful cards, loved the variety of cheerful colors, you make it look so easy! Now I just want to grab any watercolor I can find and try it! Too bad I only have my kids’ watercolors, lol ;)
Also a great idea to use the little cuttings from that heart shaped die!
Really fun cards, thank you so much for the inspiration!
Beautiful cheerful cards.
I adore all of these gorgeous cards that you created and I especially love the ones with the Heart of Flowers die, they really turned out beautifully! I think adding the perfect pearls to your water is such a clever idea, I am going to try that next time I watercolour. Thank you for a great video tutorial, it was full of really great ideas!!!
Nina Marie–You did it again! I love how you just played with the colors and then made some really beautiful cards!!! Thank you so much for sharing some wonderful techniques and inspiration!
These are all awesome cards! I love the bright colors!
love all the colors!!
Bright and beautiful cards! Thanks for sharing!
So vibrant and beautiful! Puts me in the mood to create! ;) Blog Candy is the BEST!
Fabulous and such a good cause too! LOVE IT.
Love the colors! Easy and Fun backgrounds.
these are all gorgeous cards Nina! thanks for another awesome video!!
Wonderful cards, Nina! I have a set of Prima Confections that I need to open & use–you’ve inspired me!
Love the cards and the techniques. So cheerful and bright. Thanks so much for sharing!
Such bright, happy colors. Sure to brighten the recipients day. We can all use a little cheer in life.
LOVE those vibrant colored cards!!
Your cards are so beautiful!!
What a beautiful pop of sunshine theses cards are!
Beautiful, bold, bright colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
wow… love these bold colors!
In the midst of the Feb. blahs, I’d love to receive such a cheerful card.
Great ideas & tips!
i am loving these beautiful bold multi-colored trendy cards with their white accents.
great idea and great cards, well done
Love the bright colors
So bright and colorful. Love the freestyle coloring technique.
Love the bright and bold cards…so cheerful!
Such lovely bright colours on the cards.
Beautiful cards. These watercolors are nicely saturated. I like the cut-outs!
Such fun, bright and colorful cards!
I love the bright cheerful colours.
Absolutely beautiful cards Nina! Funny you should mention RAK. We are cleaning up from our 3rd Nor’easter and after taking someone to work the other morning (because someone had kindly plowed US out), we did a random act of kindness while on our way home. A middle aged lady was shoveling the end of her driveway and looked exhausted so because we had our shovels on the truck, I said to my husband, lets help her finish it. So we did. She was enormously grateful and it took no time! A good feeling.
How sweet of you and your family Teresa!! We need more people like you in the world! :D HUGS!
Wonderful idea and beautiful cards. Hugz
I love these colorful cards, I am going to give this a try!
Love these bright and happy colors on your cards. Thanks for sharing your video with us.