Smiles and Sunshine Watercoloring
Hi readers! Happy Tuesday to you! We’re pleased to welcome Wednesday DT team member Jo Nevill to our store blog as a guest today! Have you tried watercoloring yet? It’s a hot trend, but I’ve noticed some are a bit timid to try it! If you are one of those people, read on! This would be a great card to try out watercoloring! And if you’d like MORE tips and tricks on watercoloring, be sure to check out our Youtube channel!
Hi ! I’m Jo, a Designer with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Team! A few weeks ago I was delighted and thrilled to be accepted onto the Kuretake UK Design Team. I’m here to show you just a few of the many Zig Kuretake products which are available in the Simon Says Stamp Store!
My favorite way of coloring at the moment is by watercolor and I absolutely adore the Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 36 Watercolor set. This set has an array of colors, so bright and vibrant and are so easy to use. I am not an artist and coloring and shading does not come naturally to me but these watercolors do all the work for you.
For this card I firstly stamped the Sunflower and sentiment from the Clearly Besotted Stamps Sunflower and Smiles Clear Stamp set using the Misti and Simon Says Stamp Black Ink onto Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock. I love this watercolor card and find it so easy to work with. You can use either the textured side or the smooth side. I generally use the textured side. After stamping, I started to paint the leaves. After choosing the color I wanted to use, I mixed a small amount of paint with some water onto an acrylic block. I then painted a leaf with some water and then added a small amount of color into a corner of the leaf. I chose a corner that I wanted the color darkest. The color will then spread through the water. I followed this technique throughout the painting of the Sunflowers adding more color/water as desired.
After painting the Sunflower, I added a very pale blue hue around the Sunflowers. I also wanted to give add a warm hue too so tapped the Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Ink Pad onto an acrylic block and added lots of water. I painted around the sunflower and blotted with a paper towel until I had the depth of color I wanted.
The final touch to the Sunflower was to add a touch of sparkle with the Zig Wink of Stella Clear Brush Tip Marker. These markers are full of sparkle which give your images a great shimmery finishing touch.
The card would not be finished without a sprinkle of sequins ! My favorite sequins are the Simon Says Stamp Moonshine Assorted Sequins I used the Zig Fine Tip Glue pen to attach them. The glue comes out bright blue but once dried, clears to a matte clear finish and holds small items to your cards fast!
Thank you for joining me today and I hope to see you again soon :D
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very pretty Jo! TFS
Thanks, Jo for sharing this beautiful card – love the sunflower and the sentiments.
Have been wanting to purchase the Kuretake watercolor set! Lovely!
Love the sunflower and how the sentiment sits next to it from top to bottom.
Love the texture of this watercolor cardstock!
wow!! very beautiful!! love the water-coloring..
Beautiful card.
Love the watercoloring, beautifully done!!!
Beautiful card!
The sunflower is wonderful. I like that you used the distressed side of the card stock.
Makes for an appealing background design.
thanks for sharing a great painting.
perfect stamp to be watercolored!!
This card is so simple but it is beautiful. The colors are soft and the sentiment is lovely! An easy image to watercolor. Great design and great job! TFS
Wonderful card and wonderful sentiment. I, too, enjoy water coloring. Methinks I need to find some Tim Holtz paper.
Love this! I’m so new to crafting I though water colouring cards had been around forever, so I’ve been doing loads of it. Absolutely love it. This is great inspiration using fabulous stamps. Xx
Very nice tutorial
The Sunflower watercoloring is pretty. Like the sentiment.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Very pretty water colored card!
I’m going to try this watercolor paper. I like The tip about adding a little hue around the image.
Gorgeous! Love the font on that sentiment stamp! :)
Beautiful–I love sunflowers and the watercoloring looks great.
Beautiful card!!
Beautiful card!! I love sunflowers:)
Beautiful card. I love the sunflowers and the colors are amazing. Thanks for sharing your tips. Michelle t
Love seeing more watercolouring techniques lately. Its so fun to do and gives such lovely results.
Beautiful card! I love working with watercolors and Tim Holtz products are amazing!
This is just gorgeous! Love the sunflower and I add Wink of Stella all the time too. Hugs, Robin
Congratulations, Jo! Lovely card!
Gorgeous watercoloring! Such a great stamp set too!
This is so gorgeous. I love to try to watercolor and your tutorial was helpful I have the 24 color Kuretake set and love it. The colors are so rich and creamy and vibrant!
Excellent directions; outstanding card….thank you !
LOVE todays’ card!
I love this card. Sunflowers are my very favorite.
Lovely card!
I love this card!
Great card! ;-)
Simple card but just beautiful.. And the sentiment is perfect for this card.
This card is beautiful. You really know how to use watercolors. Thanks for sharing. Love the texture of the card.
Very pretty and it makes watercolor seem more approachable!
Wow, what a beautifully coloured sunflower!
Beautiful card!
Beautiful card. Love this watercolor trend, hope it lasts.
Super pretty card Jo! Love the bright happy flowers!
I love the card
Wonderful colored card
and thanks for the info
on how to do it!
Carla from Utah
gorgeous well done!
Gorgeous card. Brilliant water coloring.
Beautiful. Love the colouring. Such a delicate effect. Hugz
Lovely card.and beautiful watercolouring
Beautiful card, so elegant, and your water coloring is great!
I really love sunflowers and this card just makes me think of a nice summer day with lots of sunshine. Great job!