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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Beautiful! Water coloring is just so therapeutic for me! Love the poppy stamp!
Never thought to use actual watercolor paints on my stamps–fun!
Beautiful! Can’t wait to give it a try. :)
lovely! thanks for the tips!
Sandra ltb
What a beautiful card. No one would ever guess that the poppy was created by a stamp.
Love love love this watercolor look!
I love this technique, Lisa! Thanks for sharing.
I did something similar many many years ago. Thanks for the reminder! Loving water colors right now.
Love this! I can’t wait to try it.
Such a pretty card! Love the coloring of the poppy!
I have always loved the watercolor stamping look-I need to do more of this! So lovely with the poppy stamp too. Thanks for the inspiration!
What a pretty card! Love the colors!
Really love the watercolor effect! Thanks for the inspiration!
Absolutely love the paper, perfect match with the stamp set, such a wonderful card.
Amazing cards! I just love poppies and the watercolour effect is so charming. Thanks Lisa for sharing this with us.
Ohhh such a pretty watercolour poppy :)
So wonderful poppy stamp on these cards, and they looks amazing and sooo well done.
Fabulous, love how the watercolouring and the paper match.
Beautiful card! Love the stamp and water color effect :)
Thanks for sharing your beautiful cards.
Great tutorial.
Crafty hugs,
D~
DesignsByDragonfly.blogspot
Beautiful stamp and gorgeous cards!
This is so beautiful! I love watercoloring—-thanks!
Thanks for sharing this lovely technique.
Watercolours in this way are stunning!
I always love the look of watercolour – beautiful cards!
Stunning card !!! You make it look so easy.
Fun technique
I’m just starting to do water color stamping. Thanks for the inspiration.
Such a pretty card love the watercoloring.
Love this technique. These cards are lovely.
Love your water color technique. The note card set is stunning. I love the stamp.
Thanks for the great technique! I think I’m going to try this out once I get some watercolors.
This is beautiful. I will be trying this technique soon! Thank you for sharing.
Stunning cards! Love this technique and now I want to try it! Thanks for the tutorial!
I’m anxious to get the watercolors out again today… that is, if I can put down all my other Spring release goodies for a day!
Great cards! I’ll have to dig out my watercolors and try this!!
beautiful…simply beautiful…
So pretty!!….makes me want Spring to come even more!!…I want to see some color other than snow!!!
This is such a beautiful card! I love the watercolor technique and the tip given to spray the paints with a mister.
I just picked up water colors to try. This gives me another idea how to use them! Great card!
Gorgeous!
Love this! Allows us not-so-perfect stampers a little leeway! Your cards are just so pretty!
What a fabulous technique! Can’t wait to try this myself. Thanks for sharing!
my favorite flower…gorgeous cards!!! Now I simply must dig out my HA flower stamps and revisit this technique-perfect for Spring!
This is absolutely beautiful!! The watercolors are so soft looking and using this BG paper is perfect!! I can’t wait to try this technique!!! Thanks Lisa!!
Such a pretty look! Thanks for some good instructions!
Pretty pretty cards! And great tutorial!
HOW WONDERFUL!!!! I NEVER THOUGHT about using THIS TYPE of watercolors….DUH!!!!! LOL This is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!! AND the Designer Paper is GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOO PERFECTLY DONE!!!!!!!!!!!:p I LOOOOOOVE IT when things come together like this!!!! FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS FOR SHOWING US this little trick!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
Very pretty watercolored poppies!
Gorgeous! I saw a t-shirt with some watercolor florals, and I wondered how I could recreate the look on a card, and here you’ve done it! Thanks!