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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Your backgrounds are beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
What a stunning design! I just adore this stencil, & using the distress inks this way!
Love this technique
So pretty!!, great technique!!
Lovely cards and great technique!
Watched this video this afternoon and loved it! Such a fun and fabulous technique!
These are just gorgeous! What a fun technique!
What beautiful color. I already follow by email.
Love the bright and cheerful colors. Easy way to watercolor!
Beautiful backgrounds!
Love this background technique. Would have never thought of that and it’s lovely. TFS!
Such vibrant and cheery colors, very eye catchy cards.
What a fun idea and technique to do with stencils.
Colourful, vibrant cards. Love the technique. Getting all my stencils out now…
This is a technique I will definitely be trying soon. Love your results, Nina.
Beautiful backgrounds — they really help make these gorgeous cards awesome!
The colors are just bright and beautiful! Great technique! Thanks for the tutorial.
I’m grateful for beautiful cards to do quickly. Thank you.
Such nice, vibrant colors. Thanks for the video!
I never thought of using stencils with water coloring! Beautiful cards!
I love learning the technique of using water colors with stencils. I am definitely going to try this. Thanks!
I love these bright and colorful creations!
I need to improve my watercoloring lots to look anything to look anything like your wonderful watercoloring. Have a BEE-utiful evng.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Such bright and cheery cards! Simply gorgeous!
I love the fun bright colors
Just subscribed to this blog today. Great ideas!
I needed a reminder on this technique! I saw Jennifer McGuire do this awhile back and then forgot to try it out. Love the results you can get!!!
Very cool technique. So bright and fun.
I love these bright and fun cards. The backgrounds are awesome and I love the positive sentiments.
Beautiful cards, love this technique for quick watercoloring effect!
Beautiful and vibrant!
Lovely vibrant backgrounds.
WOW! I really love how the fram let this card be a work of art!!
Cristina
thehouseoftheblackbirds.blogspot.it
wow! it’s really bright and beautiful!!
Love this technique! It is a must try with my new distress inks.
Very pretty background. You make the technique look so easy in your video… I will give it a try.
This technique is great and effects on this card just amazing!
Love how that stencil works for this project.
These cards are beautiful. Thanks for the video.
Great technique!! Looks Wonderful!!
Nina, these cards are just so beautiful! And what a great idea using a stencil with watercolors, can’t wait to try it out!:) Thx so much for the inspiration!
What delicious colors. Thanks for sharing these.
What an amazing idea to use stencils & watercolors. Love it!
So bright and cheerful!!
Wonderful card set! I have been eyeing this stencil!
I adore this technique…fast and pretty.
Oh how utterly fun!
I love the stencil distress ink technique you showed. I can’t wait to try it!
These are beautiful, I love this technique!
awesome… love the color… gonna have to give this one a try