Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Shimmering Watercolors + Vellum Shaker
Hi everyone, welcome back to another Studio Monday feature! Today I will be sharing some beautiful watercolor cards using Neat & Tangled stamps and dies, as well as the Starry Colors Gansai Tambi paints from Kuretake!
Neat & Tangled has some beautiful geometric/gem inspired stamp and dies sets, including their Faceted stamp set and Heart of Gold die that I will be using in today’s post. One of the things I love most about these stamps and dies are the many ways you can use them!
Today I’ve heat embossed the Faceted background onto watercolor paper and colored it in with the Starry Colors watercolor set; this background would also look fabulous by coloring each faceted area in different colors, or even as a rainbow! For those of you unfamiliar with the Starry Colors watercolors, they are a pearl-tinted palette that has a collection of six different gold, water-based pigments. They can be used on their own like I have done here in this video, or applied over top (or mixed into) other watercolors to create pearlized effects.
These are SUPER fun paints that I definitely encourage you to try out! While I do not have the original Gansai Tambi watercolor pan set, I am told the Starry Colors pans are the exact same size as the originals and fit perfectly in the Gansai Tambi palette.
In the video, I’ll be sharing how I created this shaker card, as well as talk a bit about how I used the leftover die cut pieces to create a second card! I love being able to use my leftovers to create another card… it saves them from either a trash bin or a use-that-later-box (where they never see the light of day again)!
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Totally dazzling cards!
Wonderful shine on the vellum shaker style cards. Have a Bee-utiful day!
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
I have this beautiful die and I didn’t use it yet!!!
I must try now! Great cards!
Cristina
thehouseoftheblackbirds.blogspot.it
Wow these are absolutely gorgeous cards!!! Terrific video as usual :)
Awesome cards, thanks for the great video!
I had not heard of the Starry Colors paints before … and your video tutorial was so appreciated !! Your card creations are a work of art !
Pretty cards. I need to look into this paint some more.
Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous!!
BEAUTIFUL!!! I LOVE ANYTHING that shimmers!!! LOL ;)
Just love this technique and the die is now on my wish list.
Beautifully crafted card!!!
Oh, my!!!! These cards are beautiful and so dazzling!! Wonderfully made!! I am so impressed!
Dazzling and so fun!
Great cards and video – these gold watercolors look awesome. Thanks for sharing !
Wow. Gorgeous!
Nice cards!
LOVE the backgrounds. Would never thought to use vellum on a shaker. Brilliant!
Lovely cards!!
Beautifully done! Love the shimmery paint and all your tips and the great shaker inspiration. Awesome way to start the week!
Love the yellow and bit grungy BG! And the vellum shaker is so much more beautiful as an “normal” shakercard!
Lovely cards, so elegant! Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous cards! Love all the gold touches! Fantastic new dies and stamps…love ’em! Thanks for sharing :)
Gorgeous cards!!
Love that heart die… awesome cards!
Beautiful! I have been eyeing these watercolors, they look wonderful!
These cards are so sparkeling, great work. And I love to make cards using my remnants instantly, too. :-)
As always, your work is awesome!!
Gorgeous!
Gorgeous cards Nina!!!
These are gorgeous cards! Love them all!
Aww, you are so creative! I love both cards! TFS
Love that gold look!
This is beautiful! Love white and gold combo.
Such pretty cards!
What a gorgeous, elegant card! Love the combo of white and gold. And the sequins look absolutely beautiful!
Such BEAUTIFUL Cards Nina-Marie!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Designs and the Video!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
I like how you stacked elements to add interest and detail.
Very pretty–love all the gold.
Elegant and sophisticated! Great job.
Oooo, shiny! Very pretty!
stunning card. Love the shimmery water coloring and the gold embossed sentiment:)
I’m loving these glitzy cards, Nina-Marie, as gold seems to be my “go to” colour lately – wonderful inspiration!
Super lovely cards – gold, hearts, shimmer . . . what’s not to love! Thank you.
Beautiful cards. I love the Gansai Starry watercolors and many times they are the perfect finishing touch on a card.
Great card! Love the shimmery watercolors!
Love the shimmer. Gorgeous card.
I’m in love with your cards today! Thank you for showing how beautiful those paints are!
Love that gold!
It turned out so beautiful. Thanks for the video that showed all the steps and tricks.
WOW!!! Love that vellum shaker card. Gorgeous watercoloring as always!