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!
I love blue and green together. This is such a nice water coloring job, Wanda.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE this card..so in love with it…love the colors.. the design…well everything about it…STUNNING!!
What a beautiful soft look. I love it.
This is so beautiful!!!!!
What a gorgeous background! The colors and style are so calming and fresh!
Beautiful and I love the softness of the watercolors. Love that stamp set, too!
That is one COOOOOOOL card!!!
I love this gorgeous card & also that wonderful stamp set! So many ways to use it! I have it at the very top of my wish list.
Beautiful card. Love the coloring.
Great card and colors! ;-)
Beautiful! Love the colors of this card!
I love how you embossed the flower outlines……very elegant looking! Awesome stamp sets & dies used. What friend wouldn’t love it!!
Beautiful card!
Such a a beautiful card and I love the soft blue and green and the clear drop that you added. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Love the blue and green watercolor – such a pretty background for the leaves in the design !!!
beautiful watercolor. . .
Such a pretty and yet not fussy card for a sweet friend.
Love the card. I really like how you skewed the background piece under the sentiment. And those leaves? Beautiful!!
This is my current favorite color combo. Gorgeous card!
SUPER BEAUTFUL Card Wanda!! =) THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
I like the soft colors of this card.
BEAUTIFUL!!! I love these blues and greens together on your card! The white heat embossing looks amazing too! Oh, I can’t wait for these two stamp sets to be available! Thanks for sharing! :)
They make such a sweet background!
IN LOVE with those leaves! Beautiful watercolor too!
Soooo beautiful! Love the colors!
Wanda, your leaves are beyond gorgeous! Love the color combo.
Oh WOW Wanda, this is soooooo pretty!
I love the use of the tumbled glass distress ink. It was such a great finish along with the droplets.
I would so love to do this! And would love that grab bag ;-)
I love these beautiful colors! I also like the pop of black in the center of the card. Wonderful inspiration.
Gorgeous colors. Love how the color fades away from the leaves
Beautiful card! Love the colours you’ve used!
Love the embossed line and water color combo!
I love the green colors on this card and green means Spring!
Oh this is so pretty! Absolutely gorgeous colors! TFS!
stunning card
Very pretty, nice when it’s easy to mail too. I often get too chunky!
Gorgeous! I love this color palette, so fresh and vivid. Your watercolor technique is beautiful! Thanks for the awesome inspiration!
Beautiful card! Such soft colors!
How pretty and it uses 2 of my favorite new Distress colors.
The card is beautiful♥
I love this card. So beautiful. It looks so fresh and colorful. Love it.
Beautiful card! Perfect for spring!
I love the colors and simplicity of you card!
Love the beautiful colors of the card!
Such a beautiful card…love the colors that you used…really elegant.
Love the colors! What a pretty spring look.
GORGEOUS!!!
THANK YOU for sharing with us Wanda :)
Those clear pops look amazing. I think I better go check them out over at SSS store
Love the springy leafy card, Wanda! The colors are perfect!