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Happy Birthday Floral Card ft Stampendous

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Hello, all!

Oh my, it’s been forever since my last post, but I managed to make some free time today and quickly made a card as I just couldn’t take it anymore without touching my crafting goodies:)) And I bought so much stuff lately that began to arrive and seeing that I could not use it, ah, it was so painful! 🙂

Today’s card is very simple and I used this lovely stamp from Stampendous, such a versatile and playful stamp, as you can use it in various ways for your projects. I first stamped the image onto a watercolor cardstock and quickly colored the roses with my good old Distress Inks. Next I trimmed them out with my scissors and stamped the whole image once more on a white paper panel with a blue ink. I didn’t want to have all black outlines for all the images, so that’s why I chose a different color. I also masked the sentiment out as the ”default” one is for a wedding theme card and I stamped my own to match a birthday card from a set by Technique Tuesday.20160526_225023

To adhere my panel I used foam to the back for some dimension and also popped the flowers with foam tape. For a bit of sparkle I added the Wink of Stella in clear and several sequins here and there.

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This type of stamps are perfect for mass producing card as all you have to do on this particular one is to add a bit of color to the flowers and leaves, it is also great for making quick cards that can match any occasion if you mask out the sentiment.

I am adding my card to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge and this week is all about **wishing**and also to the Wednesday Challenge where the theme is Anything goes! You definitely want to check both challenges out and try to win some goodies! 🙂

You can watch the how-to video down below or HERE on my Youtube channel.

Thank you all for stopping by and patiently waitng for my posts 😛

Watercolor Flowers & How I Blend Colors

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Hello, crafters!

I have a biiiig crush for watercoloring and I wish I was better at it, but I’m not:) I just love to see this technique on cards or watch videos of other people doing it. Each time I’m seeing a new watercoloring technique I say to myself: ”ok, I got it!” and when I go to put it down to paper, it never comes out like I have it in my head, lol:)

With all the coloring techniques out there, I simply love the way that shadows show on images, I can get that with regular markers or pencils, but with watercolors to me it is not that easy. I watercolor in 2 ways: I sometimes put the color onto a block and pick it up with my brush, but the color gets diluted so no shadowing for me there. I leave it to dry and then I go in with a darker color. Or I put the dark color right onto the paper and then blend it with water, but the water pushes the color backwards, so to say, and I get a defined line between colors when it dries and I don’t like that either,lol.

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This morning I played a bit trying a new way to make my shadows stay put:) So what I did is I first layed my darker color onto paper and then blended it with my brush but this time instead of water I picked up the lighter color with my brush and started applying it right on top of the dark color.

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Now what that did, besides creating a new color, is that it kept my shadows in place, because I didn’t add water but color. I wish that could make more sense, but I have a video here showing what I’m babbling about:)

I made this video fro the Altenew Video Challenge and used their gorgeous stamp set called Persian Motifs. I love their projects and each time I visit their blog I am amazed !