Good Morning! It's Kara, back again to share a project featuring a favorite of mine from this month's release. I know by how fast this set sold out of the WPlus9 Shop that it's one of your favorites too: Beautiful Bouquets: Dahlia!
I started by stamping this image in Versamark ink onto watercolor paper. I then heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I started to add color by first wetting a small area and then dropping the distress ink into the desired area. I layered in 3 colors of green for the leaves to add variation, as well as a few shades of reds and oranges for the flowers. Once that was dry, I went in and added a bit of water on the background and painted on the blue distress ink. I had a lot of fun with this. Most of time I'm too impatient, but I really tried to allow areas to dry and then go back in with some more color. I love how it turned out!
When all of my watercoloring was dry I die cut the panel with the Sunshine Layers Die. I prefer to die cut after I paint because the pressure from the die cutting machine helps to flatten any warping from the water. I love to use black on my cards as a bold accent. Here I've used black cardstock to die cut the new Happy Wishes Words Die. I've also added a secondary sentiment from the Dahlia set to finish it off.
I can't wait to start seeing you use this set! Thanks so much for stopping by.
Featured Supplies
For your convenience, here is a list of all of the supplies (or equivalents) used on today's project, along with links to purchase. Please note: this list does contain some affiliate links.
What a beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Your watercoloring is just gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, Kara!!! I can't wait to get my stamp delivered!! Thanks for the beautiful inspiration!!
ReplyDeleteSo very pretty!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!
ReplyDeleteOh so gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic Kara! Absolutely adorable.
ReplyDeleteWhat an absolutely gorgeous card, and I love your watercoloring! The background looks like such fun! Beautifully done and so inspiring! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteIt's gorgeous,Kara!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely STUNNING
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! Love the colors with the contrast of the black!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! Just love the soft colours!
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This is so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful design Kara! The softness of your flowers with the bold black sentiment and mat are a perfect pairing!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely awesome water coloring, Kara!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card!
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This is beautiful! Love the color variations you got in your flowers & leaves. ~ Andrea
ReplyDeleteThis card is so beautiful!! The coloring is amazing and colors are stunning!
ReplyDeleteJust gorgeous, Kara!
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