Normally I watercolor an image and then work on the background but for this card I had a watercolored panel left over from another project when I sat down to use this new You Are Wonderful set from Clearly Besotted and thought it would go nicely. As it was a light watercolor wash it was easy to gold heat emboss the tulip bouquet over the top and then add more watercoloring to the image – a stamped watercolored background rather than watercoloring around a stamped image if that makes sense.
The watercolored panel I started with was Arches cold pressed watercolor card with a light wash of Winsor & Newton Alizarin Crimson mixed with Aureolin to give one of my favorite coral tones. I stamped the tulips and sentiment with Versamark, gold heat embossed and then added light touches of color to the petals and leaves. I splattered with more of the watercolors and some Color Shine in Gold from Heidi Swapp and when dry die cutting with a Stitched Rectangle.
I added a twine bow and a few sequins before foam mounting this panel over another of Fog card I partly cut with another Stitched Rectangle to give a tall skinny mat and I also added a banner cut from patterned paper. Finally the panels were foam mounted on a Bazzill Marshmallow card base.
The new You Are Wonderful set will go live along with the rest of the new release at 10pm UK time, 5pm EST, on 5th February at Clearly Besotted and Simon Says Stamp. In the meantime check out Stephanie’s blog for more inspiration and links to the rest of the Design Team including our guest for February Keren Baker.
FAVORITE WATERCOLOR MEDIUM
For the recent Watercolor For Card Makers: Intermediate Techniques giveaway I asked people what their favorite watercolor medium was. As I was reading through everyone’s comments when I realised what a wealth of information there was and the scientist in me wanted to analyse that. Well here’s what you said!
The clear winner was Distress Inks then it was a close race between watercolored pencils, more traditional paints in tubes, brush tip markers (Zig Clean Color Brush Markers) and then pans or palette types with the main contender being the Gansai Tambi set from Kuretake Zig. Less frequently favorited were the papers (Peerless), more traditional markers (Distress/Tombow), liquids (re-inkers, Dr PH Martin, sprays etc), powders (Brusho) and finally crayons (Gelatos etc).
It seems we do love Tim’s Distress range. I wonder whether crayons will rise up the ranks in the coming months with the advent of the Distress Crayons. Hmmm, perhaps I should ask the same question again in 6 months time to see if there are any changes!
SUPPLIES
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Beautiful card. I sure wish I could find random pieces of already beautiful water color papers laying around on my desk! I agree with the other commenter who thought this would make a thoughtful sympathy card.
Gorgeous!
This is a BEAUTIFUL card! I love everything about it!!
Such a beautiful card. You sure know how to watercolour! I wouldn’t have put distress at the top for me, but I love seeing everyone else’s responses to the question. I’ll be watching out for the distress crayons too! Can’t wait!
I do love Distress Inks but myself, like you, tend to use other media to watercolor :D
Lovely! The colors are so soft. Beautiful!
Debby, this card is so lovely. wow! i’m really loving your flowers. it might be my imagination, but they seem to be getting better and better. i have been practicing mixing winsor and newton watercolor paints. (i’m still doing homework from the class) i’m going back over every suggestion that you made and watching the videos again. i just made a nice burgandy color from quinacridone magenta and perylene violet. i really like it. i was distressed when the perylene violet arrived. i really didnt like it by itself. i’m getting a little more comfortable each day. i love your card and want to try that technique. ( new stamps arrived that i love. lol) thanks for all the wonderful inspiration and teaching. hugs, treen
Your card is absolutely beautiful!
Gorgeous card, I love Coral tones. Interesting study on watercoloring. I think distress is so easy to work with that it tops the chart. It is very forgiving unlike some other mediums.
Debby, your card is beautiful! I have to admit I am in the 35 percentile. I do love my distress inks!
This card is so stunningly beautiful. I am anxious to play with Tim Holtz’s new crayons. I saw him demo them, while he was at CHA, on his blog. They look really neat. I love how they work. I need to watch the video again, but I recall thinking.. Wow, that is so interesting. haha I think you have to apply pressure for them to work with water.. Like.. if you spill water on the paper it won’t react, unless you also apply pressure. I don’t know.. I really need to watch it again.. I think I’m confusing myself. Love your card. It is gorgeous!!! Thanks so much for sharing.