The recent lessons in the Online Card Classes Watercolor class have been phenomenal! I’m amazed by the talent in the cardmaking community! However, after I “painted” a cardinal and a flower today using some of the recent lessons, and pouted a bit, I realized I needed to put my training wheels back on! So I’m sharing a card that’s technically from Day Six in class.
For me, the training wheels are heat embossed lines to help hold the water. I heat embossed the flowers from the Mama Elephant Lovely Mums set with white embossing powder on Strathmore 140lb coldpress watercolor paper. I colored them with Distress Inks and then fussy cut them. The die cut circle was stamped with a sentiment from Penny Black Special Wishes and heat embossed in gold powder. This card draws on the design shown by Jennifer McGuire in the Day Six lesson.
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Gorgeous flowers! Gorgeous card 😉
love this. I agree, I feel waaaay more comfortable working with an embossed image when watercoloring. your card is beautiful.
Those flowers are lovely on the circle. SO pretty.
Oy, Jean, if you need to put training wheels back on, then I’m just going to park my bike and walk, lol!! This is incredibly gorgeous!! (I can watercolor with less stress when I have the embossed areas, too!) Hugs, Darnell
Love it – I haven’t tried the faux painting yet but I expect to be in training wheels for quite some time 🙂 Your card is beautiful – love the flowers and circle!
This is beautiful! Yellow is one of my favorite colors–so soft and pretty! I understand the “training wheels” — I am no good without them!
I think your idea to emboss the flowers, then water color, was brilliant, Jean…They are absolutely gorgeous!!! I love your color combo, too!
Gorgeous! Those flowers are just so pretty. I know what your saying about the embossed image …I am far too lazy to emboss haha Another great thing to do with the embossed image is saturate it with water and literally drop colour in like distress re inkers, you can tilt the card to move the colour …has a fabulous effect 🙂
Kate xx
beautiful!
This is a beautiful card!
lovely card, well deserved shout out by Jennifer Mcguire