Watercolor Wonderland!
Hi readers! Happy Tuesday to you! I’m pleased to welcome first time guest designer Justine Hovey to our blog today with some fabulous tips and tricks for gorgeous watercoloring! Read on!
Using a Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper on the smooth side, I stamped the Lattice Background stamp in Versamark ink and embossed it using Ranger White Fine embossing powder. I saturated the paper with clean water and added watercolor in diagonal stripes. I pulled the colours into each other to blend with each new colour added. I heat embossed the Thank You Sentiment from the Many Thanks Stamp from Simon Says Stamp in white on vellum and cut out a banner. I added a piece of yellow cardstock on the back so the sentiment didn’t get lost. I added yellow thread and glued it down using the 3D tape I used to attach the sentiment. I coloured some sequins using Copic Markers and attached them to the card. I mounted the watercolor cardstock using a strong liquid adhesive onto White Cardstock.
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I used the rough side of the Tim Holtz distress watercolor paper this time around. I began by using black embossing powder to heat emboss the thank you from the many Thanks Stamp from Simon Says Stamp. I then took water and saturated the paper around the sentiment. I then took my brush with lots of water on it and flicked out from the centre of the card. I picked up my watercolours and went over the water I previously spread out. They spread on their own and blended quite well. I went back in and added more final touches with water and color. I mounted this card also on a white base.
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This time I created a card that looks watercolored but it isn’t! I used Intense pencils to create this intense look on Kraft Cardstock. I white heat embossed this stamp from Clearly Besotted and coloured in the stamp using Inktense. Using the Tim Holtz Waterbrush, I went over the color to make it blend creating a more intense watercolour look!
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For this card I taped down the Mini layered Butterflies Stencil from the Crafters Workshop using Washi tape. I dunked my brush in water and picked up the watercolor from my palette. I painted the stencil using red, yellow and orange watercolour paint. I removed the stencil and some spread underneath to create that extra special watercolour look. I finished off the card with the Thank you sentiment from the Many Thanks Set from Simon Says Stamp and a black card base.
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Thanks for reading today and thanks so much to Justine for these watercolored beauties to inspire us!
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These are wonderful! Especially love that last card!
Fantastic. Amazing results that sound easy to achieve. Love the butterfly. Hugz
these are amazing cards of which I want to case each one. thanks.
I love watercolour cards,
Love the uses of watercolor here! Such pretty cards!
Such gorgeous watercolor techniques!!! LOVE!!!
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so nice
Beautiful watercoloring Justine! Love all the cards and the ideas. Would I ever love to be able to try the Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi water color set. Saving up for them. Such beautiful colors.
Thank you for sharing you’re lovely work with us.
Thank you for the great technique. Love your colors and composition.
LOVE watercolors! Such a pretty effect! TFS!
Beautiful cards … TFS :)
I always need ideas for thank you cards–love these!
Beautiful watercolor cards. Thank you so much for sharing.
Really cute cards
Justine you did an amazing job!!! Your cards are beautiful!!
Great watercolor cards. Thanks, also, for reminding me that we can color our sequins with Coic markers.
Awesome examples and some terrific tips/tricks…thanks so much for sharing!!
These are all wonderful!!! Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful! Love watercolors!
Great cards!! I am so hooked on watercoloring these days:)
Such gorgeous cards, Justine! I never thought to use my Inktense pencils on kraft cardstock. I will
definitely have to give that a try. Love them all–tfs!
I love the watercolor look on cards. Thanks for some great ideas!
Gorgeous watercolor techniques! I am going to have to try some of these!
The lattice card is the best but also loved seeing water-colour on Kraft too!
great ideas. I have the HA background stamp so I might give this a go – thanks! I follow the blog by email.
WOW! What GORGEOUS watercolor cards, thanks for the info!
wow beautiful!!!
Wow, these cards are stunning! I love the watercolors.
These are beautiful.
Amazing cards!
Lovely cards and ideas. thanks for sharing.
All of these cards created by your guest designer are absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for the inspiration!
Great cards thanks for sharing how you made them.
Your watercolor cards are gorgeous; thanks for the inspiration, Justine!
I love the watercolor look and all of the cards shown today with all the different techniques are just fabulous.
Beautiful watercolor cards. . .great techniques!
The first (thank you) card is perfect! Love the stenciled resist as well as the diagonal stripes of color.
I love these cards!
I love the watercolor and these were beautifully done!
Such gorgeous cards! I have the Clearly Besotted flower stamps, so I’ll be trying a watercolour card with them soon.
Wow…these are all awesome. Thanks for sharing with us!
Oh wow–I love the way you watercolored these beautiful cards!
LOVE your cards and the techniques you used to make them so attractive. Can’t wait to try your techniques on the Tim Holtz watercolor paper which I just bought. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love all these cards and the watercolor techniques seem like they would be easy and fun to try.
Terrific cards! Thanks for sharing the watercolor techniques you used on each. My favorite is the Inktense (my FAV watercolor pencil) on kraft. Awesome looking. :)
Beautiful watercoloured cards! I have done some and just love the technique. Thanks for the inspiration!
I love water colors. So dreamy and beautiful.
such beautiful cards! love playing with water color!
Beautiful cards!
Gorgeous cards!