Weekender with Wanda – More fun with DieCember products!
Hello there! Yes, it’s the weekend again! Last week went by so fast! Must be all that Christmas running around and such! Welcome back to another edition of Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp blog. I’m always so very happy to see you here each weekend! Thanks for all the nice comments. I read them all – and enjoy your suggestions and support! Hope your holiday season is going well.
Today, in order to take a tiny break from holiday madness, I made a birthday card to share with you! I really wanted to use some more of the awesome products from the Simon Says Stamp DieCember release. I especially had my eye on the beautiful Single Roses Dies. I used those pretty roses dies in combination with the Painted Happy Birthday Die and then popped it all with a lot of bright vivid color. You can never have too many birthday cards on hand, right? I love to watercolor with my Distress Inks and that is the technique I used for today’s card.
I really love to use super bright colors with deep rich black accents. For this card, I made the flowers Pink and Yellow and bright Green. Then I die cut my sentiment out of crisp black cardstock. You can see that I added some white accents to the die cut words using a white gel pen. That’s the first time I’ve done this, and I like how that came out! My Single Roses Dies are cut out of bright white cardstock and then layered over my colored panels.
I used the awesome Tim Holtz Ranger Watercolor Paper for this project, and my Mini Distress Inks. To use the ink colors, I simply rubbed some ink (smushed it!) onto my craft sheet. Next I added some water to my inks using a paint brush (You can also use a spritzer bottle). Then, I used a water brush to apply the color to my paper. For the leaves I used two different shades of green – Twisted Citron and Peeled Paint.
For my flowers, I used Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry inks and used the same technique outlined above. After my watercolor paper was dry (I used my heat tool) I took a pencil and lightly traced around my roses die cuts. Then I cut the shapes out by hand, cutting the shapes slightly larger than my outline. After erasing my pencil lines I ended up with this:
I thought the background paper needed a bit of visual interest so I used some Black Soot Distress Ink to make splatters. To do this I put some ink onto my craft sheet and mixed it with water. Then I used the new Tim Holtz Splatter Brush to put the black ink splatters down. I absolutely love how this new brush works! I adhered my die cuts using foam tape for the flowers and a glue pen for the words. Lastly I added a few glittery enamel dots in matching shades. A black card base completes the look.
You could really have fun with this one – using all different colors for your flower backgrounds, and using different word dies. I might have to try making a Christmas one – if I don’t run out of time! Be sure to pop over and check out all the inspiration in the DieCember Idea Gallery! Also, please add your own DieCember creation! We love to see what you make with Simon Says Stamp products. AND…don’t forget that Copic Markers are on sale 25% off – until the 15th!
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It’s so very pretty!! Love the watercolours underneath the pretty die cut roeses!!
What beautiful and bright birthday cards!
I always love the colors you choose.
Love that Single Roses die with those lovely watercolor roses. So pretty!!
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LOVE those flowers!!! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration:)
I am CASEING this. So soft looking yet modern feel.
how vibrant and pretty it looks…love how you made the flowers
Wonderful card! Love those flowers ♥
Always love your weekend series.., gives me so many ideas for using up my stash as well as shopping for new stuff!
Such a pretty card!! I’m really loving this Happy Birthday die!!
Fabulous card! Thanks for the inspiration.
Pretty floral stamping/die cutting. Like the silhouette look of the flower die cutting. Like the background.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
I love your card, so pretty and the black and white contrast is so perfect! Wowed by your use of the splatters and enamel dots – totally rocks and I am so gonna have a go. Thanks and Happy Weekend to all at SSS.
Love the new dies, great card Wanda!
Wow awesome technique!!! Time to take out my paint brush and get busy!
Beautiful. I love this die
Beautiful card! I love the watercolored roses and the gel pen touches on the sentiment. I have to give this a try!
Wanda this card has me more excited! I just ordered that rose die from Simon. You have my mind working on what to do when it gets here. Thanks for the beautiful card. See you next weekend!
I’m glad you got that die too! It’s going to be a favorite in my studio for sure! So many ways to use it. :-)
Kudos to you for being brave enough to try out some new products and techniques. I love your doodling on the sentiment, but find I often just forget to add that fun touch. Thank you for the photo tutorial. Very helpful, and I know it takes a lot of your time.
Love your bright and happy card–love to use those mini-inks for water color too!
I esp like the white on the words!
So beautiful, Love the die.
I love the pop of citron on the leaves and border. And what a great idea to add white dots to your word die. Really gives it a modern feel.
Great card! ;-)
Projects like this give me a little confidence playing with watercolors. Thank you!
Sweet card. Love those dies.
Love this technique! Going to try this.
Love this technique! Can’t wait to try this
What a fun, bright card! Love the flowers.
So pretty , thanks for sharing
I love how bright this card is! And so inspiring! Gorgeous! Happy Holidays!
Love the colors.
So vibrant.
Great projects.
thanks for sharing.
So beautiful!
Awesome card. Love the bright colors. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Oooh Wanda … your flowers are so pretty!
I love the bright colors. Love this card.
Lovely card, the black makes it even brighter.
Hi Wanda, thanks for sharing this lovely bright and oh so cheerful card with us. It’s put some beautiful colours into my morning here in Aussie land as it’s pouring rain at the moment. Janelle x
So bright and beautiful! Love these happy colours!
What a fun card! And of course such an awesome die. Beautiful watercolor. Thanks for the inspiration.
Have to get one of those spatter brushes! Nice card!
Although simple. This card looks so special. I love the entire color combo you’ve used. The card looks bright, crisp, and clean and is most appealing to the eye..
This is such a fun birthday card – great colors and fun dies!!
Very pretty and good instructions for me to case! thanks.
Love the watercolor look for the flowers. They look great with the black happy birthday. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve been debating about getting the new splatter brush, so it’s nice to hear that you really like it. The roses are gorgeous & your white doodles are totally amazing!
Thanks Greta! And, I really recommend the splatter brush!
Very lovely. Your flowers look cool .
Adorable. I love the highlights on the sentiment – very dramatic.
I really love the bold black against those beautiful citrus colors – gorgeous!
Those white dots add such a fun factor to your design.
Fun card. Love those colors.