Yippee for Yana: Messy Watercolor Mother’s Day Card
Hi friends! Happy Wednesday! Please join me in welcoming the always awesome Yana Smakula in our Yippee for Yana series where she is making a special Mother’s Day card in honor of this weekend’s upcoming holiday, but really you could take this design and make a card for any occasion! Be sure to read on and watch the video for more information! Enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula, welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
In this episode, I’m sharing easy and messy watercolor floral card Mother’s Day card using some older goodies from Simon Says Stamp. I know how much you enjoy watching tutorials using not only new but also older products so I’m hoping you’ll find this video useful.
The main stamp set I’m using today is the Sketched Flowers 6×8 clear stamp set by Simon.
I also have a “Happy Mother’s Day” sentiment stamp from another stamp set, called Mom Flowers. I also used a sub sentiment from here, another sentiment for the inside of the card and also a coordinating die.
I wanted to do simple and messy watercoloring. I started working on this card by prepping cardstock for heat embossing. I wanted to heat emboss image outlines to simplify the watercoloring. When I have raised outlines to my images I find that I can watercolor faster, as I am not afraid to go outside the lines, the embossed outlines help me stay inside the image boundaries.
The paper I am using today is actually not a watercolor paper, it is regular cardstock. This Neenah Desert Storm 80lb cardstock. I picked this paper for my card today because I wanted my watercoloring to have a nonwhite background to it, but I didn’t really want to spend the time coloring the background itself.
I’ve done it in the past – I would color the images themselves and would later come in and also color the background to whatever color I wanted. Results are usually phenomenal, but this is also a very time-consuming process. A way around is to use colored paper right away.
I stamped images and sentiment on the front panel, covered them with Hero Arts White Detail embossing powder and heat set.
Now comes the fun part! Coloring! Similar to my previous Simon Says Stamp video I used my Daniel Smith Watercolors and a water brush.
You would think that watercolor would not show or would not work on kraft paper, but if in fact does work beautifully. Yes, the colors are not as vibrant and saturated as they would have been on white, the kraft color of the paper does dull some of the colors, but water coloring on kraft still works.
I started by coloring leaves using Serpentine Genuine and also Sap Green colors for some shading. Next, I used Quinacridone Rose, Opera Pink, Imperial Purple (although this is one of the colors that turned muddy, I later colored over it with PhtalhoTurquoise), Cadmium Yellow Medium, Quinacridone Gold, and Quinacridone DeepGold.
The trick to coloring on non-watercolor paper is using very little water. This kind of paper is not designed to take and hold water so you need to go easy on the amount of water you add with your watercolors. Using a water brush here helps me as I know exactly how much water is coming out and I can control the amount of water to make sure I’m not letting too much out and not over saturating my paper.
After the coloring was done, I added a generous spritz of Hero Arts Iridescent Shimmer. This is step number one to make the watercolor piece messy. Next, I used some white acrylic paint, diluted it with water and splattered onto the card rather heavily.
At this point, I felt like the sentiment was lost on this card, so I decided to use a coordinating die from the Mom’s Flowers stamp set and die cut word MOM into this panel. My plan was to inlay it back in but with the help of thin foam adhesive to pop it up just a tad on the card.
I inlaid it back into the background and added the negative piece from the letter O back into the background to make it look solid.
Finally, I outlined the die cut letters to help them stand out a little bit on the card. The coordinating stamp is a solid one and while I could have used it, I didn’t want to have solid stamping on these letters, I only wanted an outline, so I drew one myself using a white pen. This ended up looking like the MOM outline was positioned under all of the florals on the background as if it was masked.
The messiness of this card disguised any of the imperfect hand-drawn lines on the word MOM and helped them blend and become a part of the design.
I also used a few sequins from my stash to add some sparkle to the card front and finally stamped another message on the inside of the card.
I hope you will give this idea a try!
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Coffee Monster!
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Please join me in welcoming special guest blogger Ashlee McGregor representing the adorable Gerda Steiner Designs on the blog today! How cute are these Coffee Monsters?! For tips and tricks on recreating this card, read on and enjoy!
To start off the card I cut a base piece from Neenah desert storm cardstock and using the Stoney Maloney stencil from Heffy Doodle I inked the full background using Peacock feather distress oxide ink with a blending tool. I then cut another piece of desert storm cardstock using the stitched rectangle die by Lawn Fawn and added this to the card base using some foam tape.
I colored up three of the monsters from the Gerda Steiner Coffee Monster set and colored them up with Copics. Once they were all colored I added a couple of layers of foam tape and added them to the die cut rectangle piece. Using one of the sentiments from the stamp set I cut it into sections and mounted on some black cardstock. To finish off the card I added some Simon says Moonshine sequins for a bit of bling!!
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Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Distress Oxide Watercoloring
Hello friends, its Nina-Marie here with you today sharing inspiration using our Simon exclusive Outline Butterflies background, along with some additional exclusives that we released in our new Blossoms and Butterflies collection!
The card is watercolored with Distress Oxides; not only are these inks amazing to ink blend with, but the rich colors also make for gorgeous watercoloring.
I was going for an ethereal style with this card, so not only did I use a myriad of colors for the butterflies, but also in the background of the card itself. Mixing Oxide inks is extremely easy, so even if you are a beginner at watercoloring, I think you’ll find this Oxide ink watercolor technique super easy and also fun!
To enhance the colors of the butterflies, I used a rainbow of Nuvo Gloss Drops on their wings, and also in the background. For sentiments, I used greetings in both the You Got This CZ Design and our Comfort and Prayers set.
Want to see how I created this colorful encouragement card? Be sure to watch the video below!
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