Watercolor Poppies
Hi readers! Happy Thursday! I’m happy to bring you some cheery & floral inspiration from our pal Lisa Spangler, who is our guest on the blog today! I don’t know about you, but I’ve really gotten into watercolor stamping! I love the soft subtle color, not to mention it’s just FUN! Lisa brings a trio of beauty to us today featuring the new Poppy in the Wind stamp from Hero Arts! Enjoy!
Hello hello! I am so happy to be joining you today! I’m sharing a fast and simple notecard set that I made using one of my favorite techniques: painting watercolors on stamps. It’s so fun that once you get started you won’t want to stop! Plus, I love how each card is unique, even though it uses the same supplies.
Speaking of supplies, I should mention that my color scheme and the whole idea came from some awesome paper in the BasicGrey Fresh Cut 12×12 collection pack — it’s just so romantic and pretty!
To get started, use a water mist bottle and mist your watercolor set. Give it a really good mist, don’t be shy! Then wait about 5-10 minutes until the water has seeped in and activated the watercolors. It will kind of be the consistency of frosting. (Yum.)
Now that your paints are prepared, grab a brush, wet it with water so that it’s damp but not dripping wet and pick up some paint and apply it to the stamp. You may need to practice a bit to figure out the consistency, but once you get it it’s so worth it! It’s better to be on the dry side than have it be too wet, especially as you can always fix it later.
For this poppy, I applied yellow to the center and pinks and oranges to the petals. Then working fast I went ahead and stamped it on white cardstock.
If it doesn’t come out just grab your brush and add more color — or if there is a blob of solid color, add some water to move it around. Love how each flower comes out different!
Then once the flower has dried, add a darker color to the center. In this case I used a dark gray.
To finish off the cards, I stamped a message in Hero Arts charcoal ink, then after it was dry I painted on some watercolor blobs here and there. Then I added a strip of that gorgeous floral paper plus a thin strip (also from the pack) of pink. I sewed the strip with metallic gold thread, then added some gems and pearls. And that was that! Three cards done.
Can’t wait to give these to people — and can’t wait to make MORE! Thanks so much for joining me! xo
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Thanks for a great tutorial – the poppies are so very gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful cards – but even more I like photos of the process.
What beautiful cards!
These cards turned out beautifully, Lisa!
I’ve been eyeing that Basic Grey Fresh Cut paper because I just love florals.
The cards are very sweet and thank you for explaining your process.
Great job!!
Thank you for sharing with all of us….
So pretty…love these poppies and the effect created with the watercolour.
wow! love this technique and your cards are gorgeous. thanks for sharing.
I love the soft look of the watercolor stamping.
What a beautiful card … love the watercolor technique.
Gorgeous! I love that technique and am going to do some of my own! Thanks, Lisa!
What a pretty card set! The flowers are just gorgeous! :)
Oh wow, so beautiful and a wonderful tutorial!
What a wonderful result – something new to try!
Beautiful card, I need to try this technique more often.
Poppies are among my most favorite image – what a gorgeous design!!
Looks like a piece of art & yet it’s something I can learn to do! Thanks for the inspiration, Lisa!
Love that stamp! I’m going to give this a try, and I have the feeling it will look like a big blob of nothing!!! Practice, practice, play, practice! Really pretty card!
beautiful card, love this technique
Beautiful! Love the watercolour look. Thanks for the tips!
Great technique. thanks for sharing. The flowers look wonderful
Stunning cards,love the watercolour effect x
Beautiful cardset. What a brilliant idea. Cant wait to try it.
These cards are so soft and elegant the technique is so simple but no one would guess that I think a box of these cards would make a wonderful gift
Very pretty card and I love the technique. Thanks for the tutorial.
That watercolor stamping is beautiful! I love how it makes the flower look so soft.
This looks so effective. I love it. Will have to give it a go. Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous! I have to try this.
What a lovely project! Your poppies are beautiful, as is the paper that you’ve matched so perfectly. Thanks for sharing–looks like a lot of fun and I’ll have to give watercolor poppies a try, especially since I can’t seem to grow them :)
What a great technique and such pretty cards.
GORGEOUS CARD! Thanks so much for the great tutorial!
Beautiful cards! Love this different results from this technique. :) Awesome design too. Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
Gorgeous cards. Brilliant use of the paper’s color
Your cards look so beautiful! I gotta try out this fun looking technique!
really gorgeous cards…thanks for the technique!!
So lovely cards.
Carla from Utah
Gorgeous, gentle lines and delicate images … simply lovely! Anita :)
Absolutely gorgeous! Love the papers, the flower and of course the watercolor.
Beautiful cards! Thanks for inspiring us. Come on Spring!!!
I LOVE the watercolor!! Beautiful! Thanks!!
Stunning watercolor – I’ve been playing with this for a few weeks now and your tips are going to be very helpful. Thanks!
Thank you! I am going to try this!
What a great set of cards. I need to play with watercolour more often.
Beautiful card. I just am loving the watercolor look. The flowers are lovely. Thank you Lisa for sharing you’re ideas.
Very pretty note card set. Thanks for sharing.
Lovely card set. I follow the blog by email.
Watercolouring… one of my favourite techniques. Lisa’s poppy cards are beautiful.
Wow! I absolutely love everything about this card!!
Beautiful! I love the soft look of the watercolors.
I suppose I will have to give watercolours a try one day soon!
Beautiful cards! Love the technique. I think I’ll try it with twinkling H2Os