I love this style at the moment; a softly watercolored background with a beautiful focal point and the black card making the sentiment pop – clean and simple and yet with a soft elegant approach. I started with watercolor card and loosely watercolored a background with Winsor & Newton paints.

While that dried I cut several Heart of Roses dies from Marshmallow card and glued them together. For the sentiment from the Best Hugs set, I wanted it to really pop from the background and I find the best way to do this is to white heat emboss on black card – classic, simple and yet it really helps the sentiment to stand out. To add extra emphasis I attached a black stripe banner cut from patterned paper.

Now that the watercolor was dry I added the heart embellishment to it with Multi Medium Matte and dotted around a few sequins. The panel is then mounted on a Fog card base.

SUPPLIES

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SSS HEART OF ROSES Die SSS BEST HUGS SSS FOG Card SSS BLACK Card Bazzill MARSHMALLOW Card Versamark WATERMARK INK Authentique CLASSIQUE BEAUTY 6×6 Pad UK Winsor & Newton Professional Water Color Tubes USA Winsor & Newton Professional Water Color Tubes Little Things From Lucy’s Cards OPAL WHISPER Sequin Shaker Mix SSS WHITE Embossing Powder Ranger MULTI MEDIUM MATTE 3M DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE EK Success POWDER TOOL Milwaukee Heat Tool Martha Stewart MINI SCORING BOARD SSS SMALL TEFLON BONE FOLDER