Watercolor Techniques #2- VIDEO!

Here’s my second post and video of watercolor techniques!  These three cards use different techniques than the other 3 I showed a few days ago.

 

Here’s my video!

 

 

Here’s the cards I showed with all the products used:

 

I love this bright card.

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I love coloring embossing folders. With watercolor, you color after embossing.

 

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I love apple stamps. All fruit stamps.

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Here’s a PDF of Watercolor Techniques. You can also see other instructions on the right side (from a computer) or on the bottom (from a phone).

If you want to see the other three, here’s a link to that post and video:

Watercolor Techniques #1

 

Watercolor Techniques #1- Video!

 

This month, Stampin’ Up is having World Watercolor month! I absolutely love watercoloring. There are tons of ways to do it, so I’m going to show you 7 different ways. The video and this post has 3 ways with 3 cards. The next one will have the other 4 ways with 3 cards.- I’ll post that in a few days.

 

Here’s the video for today:

 

Here’s the cards I showed in my video and all the products I used:

 

 

An easy card! I watercolored the daises in about two minutes. The grass is from the Palms dies. The background paper you can only get with hostess rewards! There is a TON of paper!!

 

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This is one of my favorites. You could do this technique with lots of stamps!

 

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This card is very simple- but I love the way it came out. You could make so many backgrounds with this technique.

 

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A Beachy Birthday!

I made this card for a friend of mine, who is also a stamper. She loves all the beachy stamp sets. This card was a quick one, and I love how it turned out. And she liked it, too!

I first stamped the wave on Basic White with Pacific Point ink. I then covered the wave (I stamped one on the mask paper and fussy cut it) and using the Blending Brushes, I made the sunset with Melon Mambo and Mango Melody.

I die cut the big palm from the Palms dies with Basic White paper. I then used my Sponge Daubers and colored it with Granny Apple Green, Old Olive and Soft Suede.

I used the Charming Sentiments Bundle for the sentiment. Those are great!

Lastly, I added some Opal Rounds.

This is a card that however many times I make it, it will always look a little different. That’s one of the great things about the Blending Brushes!

Here’s what I used:

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Woo-Hoo Bears!

Like I’ve said before, I love those bears from the Happier than Happy bundle. So cute! I decided to reverse stamp one so it would look like they were giving a high five! Here’s a video I made of reverse stamping:

 

Since they are high fiving- the SAB stamp set- Amazing Phrases was perfect for it.

I wanted the background paper (the wonderful Happy Forest DSP that coordinates with the Happier than Happy Bundle) to show as much as possible. That is great with DSP like this- it makes a great background! When I first stamped the “Woo-hoo” on Basic White paper, it was going to cover a lot of the background. So, I decided on vellum.

When you stamp on vellum with regular ink, the ink does not dry (Staz-On ink will dry on vellum). So, I stamped it with Calypso Coral, then added some clear embossing powder and heat set it. Now it’s dry! I die cut with one of the dies from Stylish Shape dies.

“You did it” was also stamped with Calypso, but on Basic White paper. I then fussy cut it.

The Basic Pearls can be colored with Blends markers!  I used Calypso Blends on these pearls.

Here’s everything I used:

 

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🇺🇸 Making an American Flag! 🇺🇸

Every 4th of July, I make something to honor our country’s birthday. This year, as I was making a holiday card, I die cut two of the Candy Cane dies and thought, “what about two- one Night of Navy, one Real Red, and place it on Basic White?” Boom! Red, white and blue!

After I did that, I couldn’t figure out what to place on top. I googled pictures and thought I would print one and then fussy cut it. I looked at American flags, then glanced at my desk where I saw the new Real Red & White Glimmer paper. Ding ding! I’ll make an American flag with that stuff!

It took me a while to figure out measurements, but once I made it, I was thrilled.

Here’s my video on how I made it!

 

Here’s a picture of how to find .15 inches on a ruler (look for the red mark):

 

All supplies used will be here on 7/1!

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Ribbon Trees! VIDEO!

I always look for big dies- this is something I use to do many years ago, die cut it on my card front, then put ribbon behind it. I love it- it can make a card look really fancy!

The Spruce dies in the mini catalog were perfect for this! Here’s a video on how I did it:

 

In the video, I made this card:

 

 

Check back on 7/1 to see what I used!

 

The Gold Card:

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The silver card:

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Two Man Cards!

I made Father’s Day cards for my dad and my husband. Both very different!

First, my dad’s:

 

 

My dad is a big fisherman so when the new Rugged dies came out, I got them just for that fishing pole!

I stamped the wave with Pacific Point on Basic White paper. I then used a Sponge Dauber with Tahitian Tide ink to add more color to it. I then fussy cut it. Using one of the overlay dies, I used Linen paper and put that on top.

I stamped the Rays of Light with Daffodil Delight and then glued the wave on top.

I stamped the dock pilings with Crumb Cake. I die cut it, and then cut off the pelican. I know, so mean.

I die cut the fishing pole with Basic White. I colored it with Blends.

Here’s everything I used:

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OK, now my husband’s:

 

 

I made this card in about 5 minutes.

The He’s the Man Specialty paper is awesome. It comes with two sheets of die cuts. I used several on this card- the grill, the hammer and wrench, the stars, the “My Man”, the arrows and the lined paper behind most of the die cuts.

I used a sheet of the regular paper from He’s the Man and die cut it with Deckled Rectangles.

I used the All That dies with Basic Black paper for the argyles that are on two corners. Easy peasy!

Here’s everything I used on this:

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Happier than Happy with Rays of Light!

 

Happier than Happy stamp set and matching dies are SO DANG CUTE. I think I will stamp that bear 100 times!

After making about 10 holiday cards, I decided to take a break and make this one. This card would make the recipient smile!

For this card, I used the Stamparatus to stamp the Rays of Light with So Saffron first, clean it off, then stamp again with Versamark. I then heat embossed with clear powder. Then I used a Blending Brush with Balmy Blue ink to make the sky. Because of the embossing, the ink would not go on the rays, just around them. (Blue and yellow would make a green sun!). Easy! Here’s a video I made a while back that shows how to heat emboss any color! (this was one of my first videos, so excuse the shaking and bad lighting!)

 

The grass is a die from the Palms dies. I used Granny Apple Green cardstock.

The Sending Smiles was used for the “sending’ die and the sentiment stamped and then die cut.

Here’s everything I used:

 

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Rays of Light with Gilded Leafing! VIDEO!

I got the new stamp sets Rays of Light and Big Hooray a few weeks ago. I love them both! I’ve used both on several cards. I decided I wanted a card that showed the Rays of Light in full. Then I had an idea- make those rays really stand out!

 

Here’s my video on how I made this card!

Here’s everything I used:

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