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Watercoloring with Paper Smooches

By KariV on May 17, 2014 in Paper Crafting

Today I was inspired to make some watercolored stripes for a background to my card. I also used “no line” stamping to make all the images look softer and cleaner. Here’s the card:

That little squirrel just cracks me up! The scallops on the bottom of the card are actually a purple color, but they turned out really dark in these pictures.

I’m joining up with paper smooches challenge this week. Here’s the inspiration photo:

Seriously having too much fun watercoloring these cards this week. <3
I am sad to reach the LAST day of the Online Watercolor Class…I will keep on practicing these techniques, but I sure wish it would just go on for a few extra weeks! See you next time.

Supplies Used:
Distress Inks: Concord Grape, Mowed Lawn, Squeezed Lemonade, Orange Marmalade
Watercolor pencils: Derwent Inktense
Stamps: Paper Smooches
Other: Sequins

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Freehand Watercolored Cactus card

By KariV on May 17, 2014 in Paper Crafting

Homework from my online watercolor card class is to FREEHAND watercolor paint a card. Oh, boy! I normally would not choose this subject matter, but I have cactus on my mind because I’m thinking about a baby shower I’m helping with. And the theme is cactus. That should make for a very unique baby shower!

So, I started out freehand painting a prickly pear cactus with some bright pink flowers.

Yes, I think I need a little practice. But I certainly had fun with this one! I wanted to make the sky look like an Arizona sunset, but it really had a mind to be more stormy…surprise!

I’m going to keep working on this freehand watercoloring. I’m finding that I love working with not only watercolor paints, but also distress ink pads. Sometimes I throw in a bit of inktense watercolor pencils. And what I really love is the surprise of seeing how it all looks once it dries.

Well, cactus flowers…let’s give it another go. I’ll share more later!

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Faux watercoloring (daisy) card

By KariV on May 15, 2014 in Paper Crafting

Lucky for me, I learned a shortcut for watercoloring an image in the Online Card Class! You ink up a stamp with distress ink, then watercolor over it! Oh, I have to say that I love this technique because it looks like I painted it all by myself, but actually, I got a little help. 🙂

I love how the gerbera daisy turned out. I did a simple wash with broken china distress ink for the background. The daisy was painted with worn lipstick and fired brick distress ink.

I can’t wait to play with this technique some more!

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Stamping with watercolor card

By KariV on May 11, 2014 in Paper Crafting

I was completely inspired by the online card class (watercolor) when I created this card. I have this sunshine stamp and I used some distress ink to stamp and then to watercolor on top of it.

This is my only other Stamping Bella image (and I think I might be hooked!) I used watercolors to color the image, and to work up the sunshine a bit. You might be able to see the Wink of Stella glitter I added to the sunshine in this picture:

And the banner is made of fabric tape! Yes, fabric tape…so fun! I added some stickles to her petticoat for a little more glitter shine.

I used this card for my mom for Mother’s Day. Inside I stamped “You are blessed.” And she is (my mom, that is). But seriously, can you image anything better than eating a giant ice cream cone on a beautiful sunshiny day?!

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Watercolor & Keep Believing card

By KariV on May 9, 2014 in Paper Crafting

I’m still having a great time in the online watercoloring class! Today I played with a new Stamping Bella stamp, distress inks, and some silver stars. I used a technique to splatter on some ink to the background. I think it looks a little magical.