Summer Fun In the Sun DIY Watercolor Single Layer Scene
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! If you’re in the USA, Happy Father’s Day to all you Dad’s out there! Be sure to give your Dad a hug or at least a call and tell him he’s loved! Please welcome back special guest Debby Hughes with her monthly Creative Uses post. I always love to see what she cooks up! Be sure to watch the video for the full tutorial, and enjoy!
Hello, Debby here. I was inspired by one of Suzy Plantamura’s watercolor card fronts for today’s post.
The fun ‘I want to hang out with you’ clothes line design on the bottom row just got me thinking about all the stamp sets I have with clothes, such as the new Summertime Animals set with the cute bear in his swim trunks. Well that got me thinking to how when we come back from the beach we wash and rinse everything down and hang them to dry ready for the next day. In the video below you can see how I stripped the bear of his trunks with a little partial stamping and turned a sentiment from the Summertime Animals set into a beach towel!
As I wanted to create a true one-layer card I found it helpful to plan the layout using printer paper first. I wanted to block out a couple of areas for clouds and a sun and so started the card by masking these areas with a Molotow masking pen. This protected those areas from the paints and allowed me come in later to paint the sun without having to worry about the sky background. While the masking fluid was drying I could then start on the rest of the design. I masked off an area for the towel before stamping the palm trees from Warm Christmas Wishes then used a waterproof pen and the A2 Card Curved Edge die to draw a washing line.
The flip-flops from Flip Flop Season were an easy addition to add, as was the beach ball from the Warm Christmas Wishes set. The only slightly tricky bit really was partially stamping the bears trunks and I used washi tape to cover up the areas I didn’t want ink; it is probably better if you watch the video to see how that is done. As for the towel, I drew the outline with the waterproof pen and then stamped a sentiment from Summertime Animals with Teeny Bikini ink. For once I liked the texture that stamping on watercolor card gave the letters as to me they have more of a look of a fluffy towel :D Once I’d got the design sorted it was simply a case of adding a little color and for this I used Gansai Tambi watercolors and then came in afterwards with some Prismacolor Pencils for extra depth and contrast.
Thanks for joining me today and I hope you give this washing line design a try; I’m sure most of us have stamp sets that would work :D
What a fun card! I love the summer fun theme and you have beautiful stamps and dies to stir my imagination!
Great card!
The card is so cute. Really loved the idea of going over the water coloring with pencil to bring it out . Thank you for sharing.
Love the card!
These look so fun to color!
This is a cute fun card!
Wow!!! So fun so creative!!!! Beautiful work.
Such a fun summer card!! Perfect for these hot and hazy days!
Great card! Thank you
Love your card!
Beautiful work, great tips and fabulous video. Thanks Debby!
Well How fun is this! Looks just like a typical trip to the beach or staying in a cabin off the beach – lovely TFS
Fun card. Love how you came up with the end result with all the masking and using different
parts of different stamps. That is creativity!!!!
Fun summer card.
Cute design
The watercolour fronts are such fun! Beautiful colouring Debby – just feels like summer.
Super Cute and Fun card!!
Love this card!!
Thoroughly enjoyed watching you color. Nice video! Thanks for taking the time to share.
Squeal!! LOVING LOVING LOVING the Inspiration!! You’re ALWAYS so CREATIVE!! ;) THANKS for sharing and have a Fabulous Weekend!! ;)
This is fun and sweet! One layer cards are great!
What an inspirational and educational video along with a really cute card! Thank you so much for sharing!
Beautiful summery card!
FUN scene and FABULOUS card Debby!!!
LOVE IT ALL!!!
What a fun summery card!! Love those adorable flip flops and swim suit hanging on the line!
Great card! I use colored pencils + gamsol most of the time because I don’t have Copics. It has worked out for me. Thanks for sharing and I do love Suzie’s cards as well.
Super fun card!
I want to hang
out on this beach.
Carla from Utah
fun card.
Such a cute card. I love the way you colored it. thanks for sharing.
Great designs. I really love the idea of having a whole scene in one image.
Wow!!!! Gorgeous card!!!
A Beautiful & fun card! Love the beach theme and clothesline with the cute flip flops!
Great card-so fun!
Yeah, roll on summer. Fun card. Hugz
What a fun card! And your coloring is awesome!!!
This is such a fun card! I love it! Way to drag out a multitude of stamp sets and get your money’s worth out of them!
So very cute! I’ll never get the hang of painting like that!
Nice card! I was just thinking this would make a great fathers day card.
Very clever masking! Love this cute scene!
Neat beachy card.
This really is a fun card. So colorful, Summery, hinting at the great times we have during the summer, sand and all. Thanks for the great card design ideas and techniques on your very informative video. Thanks.
This is the most fun one layer card ever
Love the little scene you created with the stamps. Thanks for sharing how you put this card together.
What a lovely card and your coloring is just fabulous.
I love this single layer watercolor card. The fun summery scene reminds me of the trips to the beach. I think your coloring and masking is fabulous! I’m happy to see a single layer card that you don’t have to worry about mailing.
Very cute. I’m thinking surfing.
This is a totally fun summer watercolour scene!
Very creative & cute!
A super fun card, Debbie! Loved the video as well as the card. I’m going to check my stamps & see what I can find to use this technique on. Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!
A very fun beach scene ♥