Watercolour flower card

Todays card is using an outline flower stamp and water colouring it with ink from an ink pad, cutting the flowers and leaves out, and then mounting them on a card inside a frame

I used the Altenew Garden treasures stamp set, but you could use any flower stamps that you have, as long as they are outline stamps you are fine.

I stamped them in clear ink and used gold embossing powder to heat emboss them, and then water coloured them with two tones of pink for the flowers and 2 greys for the leaves.  

Very loose water colouring using lots of water and let the water do the work of moving the ink, and you get beautiful results.  

I cut them out with the co-ordinating dies. I also cut out a frame using the largest size of the simon says stamp stitched rectangles for the inner die cut, then trimmed the card to the width of frame I wanted.  I mounted this onto the card base, then glued the leaves and the bottom flower to the card with glue, the other two flowers I used scotch tape to raise them slightly.  

Finally the sentiment on a scrap of pink card and cut that out to make a banner and mounted that on scotch tape too. and the card is finished.  

Here is the video on how I made the card.

If you prefer to see the video in full HD, then hop over to my YouTube channel here.

The materials I used to make the card are:

Card base i5" x 7 "

Piece of white glitter card & a scrap of pink card

Altenew Garden Treasures stamp

Altenew Birhday greetings stamp (sentiment)

Versafine onyx black ink

Versamark ink

Ranger gold embossing powder

Ranger clear embossing powder

Heat tool

Embossing buddy

Altenew crisp ink cubes in Cotton Candy, Grapevine, Silver stone & industrial Diamond

No 2 paint brush

double sided tape

craft foam

Scotch tape

Cosmic shimmer glue

Applicator bottle 

Scissors

Sizzix Big shot

I hope this has inspired you to have a go at this card.

Next week I will start my Christmas card series for this year, so look out for that.

Masked Panel Card

This weeks card is a simpler one, it has a 'sketchy' look and can be done with any flower stamps. I am using the Altenew Garden Treasure stamps set, and just using the 3 outline daisy stamps in the set.

I started my masking off a panel towards the bottom of my landscape 5" x 7" which was left flat and unfolded, with painters tape,  I just eyeballed the panel.  

I then stamped the daisy stamps across the whole panel, overlapping some onto the painters tape, stamping in sets of 2 or 3 at a time and then putting embossing powder onto them, before stamping the next ones, until the panel was all stamped and had embossing powder on it. Finally heat embossing them all at the same time. 

I then coloured them in using the zig clean colour real brush markers.  I did a interrupted pen line around the panel, and a second one just slightly out from the first one.  

The sentiment I used because it had a 'sketchy' font which I felt suited the style of card.

Folding the card in half finished it, such an easy card to do, and you get a different look using different flower stamps and colouring them differently.  I also did a blue variation which I used the other layered stamps in the stamp set, and then did some pen drawing on the top to make the centres 'pop' a little more.   

Here is a video of me making the card. If you would prefer to see it in HD, then you can watch it on my Youtube channel here.

The materials I used to make the card are:

Card base in Strathmore Bristol smooth water colour card 5" x 7 "

Painters tape

Altenew Garden Treasures stamp

Wplus 9 Modern peonies stamp (sentiment)

Versafine onyx black ink

Ranger clear embossing powder

Heat tool

Zig Clean colour real brush markers

050 yellow

052 bright yellow

023 Scarlet red

060 Brown

Artline 200 0.4 fine black pen

Uniball Signo gold pen

I hope this has inspired you to have a go at a panel card, to look at what outline stamps you might have and try those.