Welcome to the Crafty Collaborations blog hop. I am part of an amazing group of demonstrators from all around the world. We love showcasing the wonderful products which can found in our suite of catalogues. July is actually WATERCOLOUR MONTH so we are celebrating this wonderful medium. There are quite a few different techniques which I am sure you will discover today. I chose to create a fun Slim fold watercolour flower card.
Happiness Abounds
The Happiness Abounds Bundle is just amazing! It is part of a beautiful suite packed full of floral tributes and beautiful fine outline images which are perfect for colouring
Splendid Thoughts Bundle
I just had to pair the stamp set with the gorgeous Splendid Thoughts Bundle.
This bundle to just epitomises simple elegance and worked perfectly with my floral images
Slim fold watercolour flower card
I made this card on a recent Facebook Live and I love how simple this card is to make, thanks to the wonderful products at hand from our annual catalogue.
It can be quite daunting to try water colouring, but with the right tools you can get stunning results with very little effort. Like the sound of that? Then have a look at this technique for creating watercolour washes on card to create beautiful backgrounds.
I just love taking a simple piece of card and using colour to create interest. Why not check out my Facebook live to see just how easy it really is?
Talking of which have you seen the Silver & Gold 6″ by 6″ Designer Series paper peaking out from under the flowers.
Well you would be excused if you missed them as I used just a sliver of the Silver spotty DSP & the stripy version has been coloured with memento ink to help those groovy stipes pop!
Even better this DSP is part of our Sale-a-bration offering and you could nab this for free with a qualifying order Woo Hoo!
The flowers were really simple to make from a single piece of water coloured Fluid 100 Card
Once the base is dry (use a heat gun to speed up the process), you can stamp, die cut, punch or emboss your card to make all sort of interesting shapes and elements for your cards.
You can also build up layers of little details on the base layer using a variety of stamps, Stampin Blends and Embellishments.
Its just so much fun and each card with come out slightly different.
You can see the Facebook live recording of how I made this card here
Slim fold watercolour flower card – Measurements
- Base: Basic Thick Basic White – 21.0 cm by 19.0 cm
- First Layer: Basic White – 20.5 cm by 9.0 cm
- Second Layer: Silver & Gold 6″ by 6″ Designer Series paper – 20.5 cm by 1.5 cm (made up of two strips)
- Third Layer: Silver & Gold 6″ by 6″ Designer Series paper – 15.2 cm by 1.5 cm
- Sentiment: Basic Black –5.0 cm by 2.0 cm
- Floral Images: Watercolour card – 14.8 cm by 10.5 cm
- Leaf images: Basic White & Black – scraps die cut
Slim fold watercolour flower card
- Fold and burnish the base card and set aside
- Colour the watercolour card using a wash of Polished Pink Ink
- Dry with a heat gun and then add additional layers of Ink and Stampin Blends using a splattering technique
- Heat emboss five flower heads in Silver and either die cut out or fussy cat
- Add Tuxedo Black into the the stripes of Silver stripy DSP and add to the first layer using glue
- Add the strip of spotty DSP just offset from the first strip. Add some splatters and splotches using Tuxedo Black ink, Polished Pink Ink and Basic Black Stampin Blends.
- Arrange the flowers down the card and attach with Stampin Dimensionals
- Stamp the sentiment in Versamark and Heat emboss with Silver Embossing Powder
- Fussy cut out and add to the card with Dimensionals
- Add die cut leaves on Basic White and Basic Black
- Finish with some Silver Festive Pearls
- You can see the step by step instructions on my Facebook live
Voila!
I so enjoyed making this card and I would love to know what you think? Please do leave me a comment.
If you would like to know more about any of my projects please do get in contact and I would be happy to help you
So now it’s time to hop around the rest of the wonderful demonstrators blogs to see some more inspiration for using these wonderful patterned papers
See the rest of the International team below!
Watercolour Technique Blog Hop Team
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Sara
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Wow! Stunning Sara!
Gorgeous! Love the pop of pink with the black and white, really effective
Sara, your card is absolutely stunning! Love the colors!
Gorgeous card Sara, love black, white and a pop of colour x
Stunning! Love the colours
Beautiful card. The flowers turned out fabulous
Really lovely card Sara x