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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These cards are beautiful. I’m putting the paint on my wish list!
Beautiful! The shimmery paints suit the design perfectly.
WOW these are beautiful, I love the colors and all of the shimmer!
I love anything involving vellum…so beautiful!
Beautiful creation!
I will definitely try this shimmering watercoloring technique.
Nina-Marie’s cards are always gorgeous! Thank you for the informative and inspirational video! Those shimmery watercolours are beautiful!
So very pretty!!
That is just lovely. Uh oh… Now I want that die and those paints.
Such elegant cards.
Wow, beautiful gold creations–love!
Such beautiful cards, I just love the shimmery paints! Awesome video too.
I love these cards and I love the Starry Colors! Just beautiful!
These are beautiful! Always something to put on my wish list!
Love those paints! Beautiful cards
Very pretty and
interesting!
Carla from Utah
What a shimmery beauty! Love Nina- Marie’s coloring, always so inspiring and amazing! Thanks for the inspiration!
Wish I could see the shimmer but the shaker card looks lovely
Beautiful card! Love those shimmery paints.
Elegant and beautiful. Hugz
WOW!!! Those paints are really shimmery and sparklely!!! Your shaker card is absolutely gorgeous!!
Such beautiful cards! The Starry Colours paints give such a lovely effect!
Beautiful!!
I have always loved this die. Don’t know why I haven’t bought it.
Beautiful card.
thanks for sharing.
Absoultely beautiful!
These are SO pretty! Love the wonderful gold!
Beautiful card! Love the idea of using vellum instead of acetate!
Beautiful cards, Nina! Love the shimmer.
Thanks for sharing!
The shimmery paints are amazing!
Nice!
Love the paint and geometric shapes
I love that it is a shaker card, and it looks like colours where shaken and sprinkled on it!
What stunning set of gorgeous cards! Love the inspiration to use vellum and how clever with the left over pieces!
dazzling card. . .
super cards, love shakers, so this one with vellum is perfect
Such great card! So artsy!
I can only imagine how sparkly this is on real life!
Gorgeous card. Love the gold paints. Putting them on my must have list.
adorable shimery water color card
looks amazing with shimer and love your card
This is positively STUNNING!
Super pretty – I don’t have any N&T products yet, but the faceted ones are on my list. The shimmer on this card is gorgeous :)