Watercolor Leaves for Spring!
Hello everyone! How is your week going?! I am still in a watercolor mood and I have a card to share today that I made using more great products from the latest Simon Says Stamp collection – Reason to Smile. I am still making projects with all the great stuff! I inked up the Spring Flowers Stamp Set with pretty white heat embossing. Then I watercolored in shades of greens and teals. Don’t you love that technique? That never gets old!
To start with, I took the leaves image from the stamp set and randomly stamped it all over a sheet of watercolor paper. I used Versamark Ink and Simon Says Stamp White Embossing Powder to heat emboss the leaves. The raised lines from the embossing make it really easy to control your watercolors.
I colored my leaves images using Distress Ink pads, water, and a paint brush. I dried the leaves with my heat tool. After the leaves were dry, I went back with more water and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and did a pretty light wash over the white background areas. I put more color next to the leaves and faded out the color.
I love the look of a crisp white sentiment on black paper. I heat embossed the words onto Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock. I used my Embossing Magic Bag to eliminate stray bits of powder on the black.
Lastly, I mounted my watercolor panel onto beautiful Simon Says Stamp Fog Cardstock and added some Clear Drops from Pretty Pink Posh.
This card is nice and flat for easy mailing. Whenever I have gems or drops attached to a card I will put a piece of cardstock over the card when I put it into the envelope. That way it arrives all intact still!
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I’ll be back on Saturday with a really cool project made with Tim Holtz and Ranger supplies! Hope all is well in your corner of the world. Thank you for stopping by today!
Beautiful card! Love the coloring!
I love the white embossing! I never would have thought to use black card stock on that light washed background. I would have chosen one that matched the colors I used. But, the black is a great contrast and really makes the card! Now I want to try it!
Love how the black just pops off the beautiful water coloring.
What a great idea with this stamp set. Love the water coloring technique. Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us.
lovely choice of colors !
So pretty! I love the watercolouring!
The colors are lovely and refreshing, beautiful card!
Beautiful card–I love Wanda’s creations. I will add the PPP waterdrops to my wish list.
Such a beautiful soft coloring!!
Gorgeous card!
So gorgeous. I think this is my favorite look for a watercolored card – white embossed and watercolored with a bold black and white sentiment.
Oh, this is beautiful!!
Beautiful card – the colors are so pretty!
Lovelovelove those leaves and lovelovelove that card! ♥
This card is awesome!! I wish I could have every color of Distress Ink.
Beautiful card Wanda! Thanks for the inspiration!
Time to be done with work and get coloring! I love this! It is so beautiful… and calm. I love calm cards.
Such a pretty card and can be used for a variety of occasions
Stunning card.
Love this stamp set and the card is one of the many reasons why. Beautiful!
WOW!!!! So gorgeous and so perfect for any occasion!!!! I just love your watercoloring!!!
You are right…. this is a great technique. Always looks wonderful. Cheers.
So beautiful – my favorite colors!!! Love the technique – awesome idea!!!! Fun fun fun!!!
Beautiful colors – I love this new stamp set!
beautiful, love the white embossing :)
This is beautiful!! I ordered some watercolour markers and am anxiously awaiting their arrival. Thanks for the information on how you coloured your gorgeous card. So helpful!
Bright and crisp! Simple but very, very pretty!! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Love the soft colors they are just gorgeous! And I love the simple design! :)
A gorgeous card! The clear drops are the perfect embellishment for this look.
Pretty card Wanda! Thanks for sharing!
Wow, this is so pretty. I love watercoloring with my distress inks, so I will have to give this a try. I love that stamp set, too.
Fabulous layers of color! Gorgeous!
Love the pretty water color leaves and the clear rain drops from PPP!
Such a beautiful card! Love those soft, pretty colors!
Another beautiful card and example of how versatile the Spring Flowers stamp set is.
Love the greens and teal. Those Clear Droplets are amazing. I bet they would look so pretty on a Rose. Thanks for sharing with us!
Just fabulous with these colours and the light background! Love very much this card!
Thanks for the trick to put a cardstock on the card for envelope :D
This such a soothing color palette Wanda. Love it! This would be so great for many sentiments. I am definitely going to give this a try. I too have been experimenting with some distress colors on watercolor paper. Thanks a bunch.
Simply beautiful, Wanda. I love using distress inks to watercolor. The embossing trick makes it even lovelier.
Beautiful card!
The watercolors are beautiful!
Wonderful card,I love greens and teals too,so pretty!
so pretty and soft. Love the watercolored look.
Oooh–this is so pretty!
A very pretty card and I love the sentiment !
Love the embossing and
the colors on this card,
so pretty.
Carla from Utah
Lovely card, it inspires tranquility and peace. Fabulous stamp set. Cheers!
This is simply gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
Love it. Such a great colouring :)
Beautiful!!!