Saturday, May 10, 2014

Design Clips: Fresh Cut Watercolors

Happy Mother's Day weekend everyone! I hope it is off to a great start!

Today, I have a requested tutorial featuring Fresh Cut Florals and watercoloring.

This is a deceptively easy technique. Watch below to see how you can use your stamps, Tim Holtz Distress Inks and a little water to create gorgeous cards with that hand painted look.

Watch above or in HD at YouTube

You may have to experiment a little bit to figure out the water to ink ratio that you are comfortable with. Remember, there is not a right or wrong way and each result will be slightly different and unique. But once you get the hang of it, you'll be able to create these in no time. This example took me about 20 minutes from start to finish including drying time.

WPLUS9 SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Fresh Cut Florals, Heartfelt Holiday // Ink: Old Gold // Cardstock: Oatmeal

Stock Updates

I realize that we are out of stock on what seems like everything. We have several orders due in and should be fully restocked on almost everything in the store by the end of this month.

In fact, we have several new wholesalers coming on and to keep up with demand, we will not be releasing any new stamps or dies in June. Instead, we are devoting the entire budget to restocking the store.

We will however be releasing five new ink colors and re-inkers for all of our PURECOLOR dye inks!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

26 comments:

  1. Absolutely gorgeously pretty! I do hope I can produce something as lovely when I try this technique. Thanks for a great tutorial.

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  2. I absolutely LOVE this! Thank you so much for teaching us to use our stamps with techniques I would never have thought to try and re-using what we already have. And very smart of you to stock up the store first rather than to try to keep up putting out new stamps and dies. You must have your previous items in stock, I think people forget that sometimes. And I also would hate to see you burn out on new stamps and dies that are beautiful and unique. You sometimes see people just putting stuff out because it's the schedule. I think that can get dangerous at times. And you mention the budget. Very smart! We want you designing new things for us for years to come, but that requires money. Thank you again!!

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  3. Wow- will have to try this. Amazing tutorial.

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  4. Thank you so much for the video tutorial. I ordered this stamp set after seeing the photo of your watercolor. Now I know how to create the look. Can't wait to try it!

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  5. Dawn, you make this look easy, but it is NOT! You are so talented! You have inspired me big time! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video.......

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  6. Awesome video, can't wait to give this technique a try!

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  7. Thanks so much for the great tutorial and inspiration!

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  8. Oh, my goodness, I absolutely LOVED watching you create with watercoloring! This is so beautiful! Thank you!

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  9. Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing!

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  10. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GORGEOUS!!
    love it and will sure try it.....such a great video ..Thank you so very much Dawn for showing us how to it...always love your cards and video's ...and stamps!
    Thanks Holly.

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  11. It's beautiful. Thanks for teaching us how to do it. I agree with a previous commentator about not constantly putting out new stuff; show us how to use older stamps in new ways.

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  12. WOWOWOWOWOW!! Simply BEAUTIFUL Dawn!! =) I LOVE the idea of using the Mug and the Neat way of layering our different Floral Stamps for different arrangements!! THANKS SO MUCH for sharing the Video!! Looking forward to the Next one, its SO FUN to watch you work!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

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  13. Thanks for teaching us this great technique...its beautiful.

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  14. This video, and your other two on watercoloring are so fabulously done. Thanks for taking the time to put them together. And your results are gorgeous.

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  15. This is absolutely beautiful!! I will try this technique for sure.

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  16. You certainly do beautiful work, but it would have been nice if credit had been given to Bonnie Krebs of Art Impressions, who first posted a video showing this technique over four years ago.

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  17. What a great video. Love the card and the technique. Thanks for sharing.

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  18. I am so happy to have found you through online card classes. It was really fun to be able to try something totally different with a stamp set I already own. I have an unrelated question - Can you share what the font is for the word watercolor in your image, assuming it is a font and not hand lettering. Thanks in advance.

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  19. Loved your video today - what a gorgeous technique! Thanks for sharing.

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  20. Beautiful! I love your card. Thanks for sharing this technique, I've got to try this!

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  21. Fantastic card, and I am really excited to try this "watercoloring" technique. Watercoloring has always been so peaceful for me, and I don't know why I haven't done it more often. Never realized that we can use our markers and stamp pads!!! Thanks for the inspiration, and thanks too for the link over to the video. What a great job in that video!!!!

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  22. I love this so much, and the video is awesome.

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  23. DAWN, thank you so much for this video! I have watched it over and over again.

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