Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Watercolor Stenciling
Hi friends! Happy Monday! Welcome back to our weekly Studio Monday with Nina-Marie feature! I hope you are enjoying our subject matter so far! If you have anything you’d like to see from us, please feel free to leave it in the comments below and we will definitely put it into consideration! For now, please enjoy the beauty of this post, and be sure to check out the video!
Enjoy!
Hi there, it’s Nina-Marie here today with another Studio Monday video for you! I love creating watercolor effects with my distress inks, and I’m sure most of you here do too! But sometimes we need a card (or multiple cards) in short notice, and we often think we cannot do more involved techniques like watercoloring because of the amount of time it takes.
In today’s video I am going to share with you a watercolor background technique that was created with just a few distress ink colors and a stencil! I ended up making a total of five cards using this technique in just a couple hours… making this a perfect design for quick and easy cards!
I used the new Hero Arts Bold Floral stencil for the watercolored backgrounds on each of these cards… the artistic design of this stencil made it a perfect fit for the cards I wanted to create. However, you can easily swap out this stencil for just about any other stencils you have in your stash!
I also used the Concord and 9th Being Classy stamp and die set; these stamps and dies came out last year but it is one of my favorites still and I love the large type in the set. I stamped my sentiments in Hero Arts Tangerine bold ink and Soft Pool shadow ink.
So to see how I created these cards from start to finish, be sure to check out the video below! If you enjoy, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more inspiration and techniques!
Thanks so much for stopping by and spending part of your Monday with me… I’ll see you again soon!
xoxo, Nina-Marie
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Such bright and cheerful cards! Super backgrounds!!
What a amazing card! I love the die! And the watercolor beautiful card!
I absolutely love the vibrat colors!! Such a fun background on gorgeous cards.
Love the vibrant colors of these cards!
Love the cards!
Lovely!
Beautiful set of cards! LOVE the colors…so cheery ♥
Learned something new.
Fun projects
Great background technique–simple but looks awesome!
Wonderful cards!
Fabulous cards and tutorial! Love all the bright colours and products used! Those Hero Arts stencils are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing! :)
Just lovely, Nina! Love the vibrant colors you used. TFS your technique!
So beautiful and
full of color!
Carla from Utah
Super vibrant & super amazing!!! You have captured the beauty of nature in your cards! :)
Really love this technique!! TYFS
Great technique, fabulous cards and enjoyed the video.
Gorgeous colors. Love the sentiments and the sparkle, too.
I enjoy Nina-Marie’s style. Her cards are beautiful!
Thank you, Nina, for a wonderful video and I can’t wait to try this technique. These cads are gorgeous!
So, so pretty and easy enough that I could do it – gotta love it! Thanks for sharing these amazing cards.
Nice cards. I need to try this.
Neat technique. Colorful cards = happy!!!!
Great cards and fabulous technique!
Great technique. Amazing results.
So Bold and Bright!
I love these background – you did an awesome job on your cards! Happy Day!
I love the bold, vibrant colors! These cards will definitely brighten their recipients’ day! Thanks for the great tips and tricks!
Really awesome technique! LOVE these cards :)
Fun and colorful backgrounds!
Wow! I love how Nina-Marie uses colours! Amazing technique!!! Wonderful cards! <3
NIna,
Love your colorful and fun (and easy) watercolored backgrounds. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful set of cards!! Love the colorful backgrounds!!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Great technique and what a beautiful set of cards.
Beautiful results from this technique. Looks like fun!
Looks like a lot of FUN!
Amazing colorful cards. I have to try this fun technique.
Oh how wonderful, love all the bright happy colors
Awesome video! Love the colors and how easy this looks. Thanks so much for sharing.
So vibrant and cheerful!
Very pretty and definitely will try this technique as I usually shy away from water coloring when making card sets due to time, now I don’t have to worry! Thanks Nina-Marie!
Thanks Nina, your stencil effect looks fab!
Great technique. So easy. Thanks for sharing.
BEAUTIFUL JOB NINA-MARIE! I LOVE how it does look hand painted! I HAD TO come & watch the video! BEAUTIFUL CARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The backgrounds are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I hadn’t even thought to use watercolors with stencils but these fun backgrounds are so pretty!
What amazingly bright and cheerful cards!
Great technique! Love your bold colors!
Fun technique, I’ll have to try that.
Beautiful cards! I love using stencils as stamps.