Watercolor Backgrounds | Kreative Kymona

I must say this Watercolor for Card Makers is an awesome class. I’m learning so much and sharing it with my daughter has been even better. Both of us are having a lot of fun learning about colors and how the work with one another. Once her cards are posted I will link them here in my blog so you can see what her take on the lessons were.

Today’s card is a Stamped Emboss Resist and Watercolor Wash Card. Kristina Werner taught us how to add ink on top of an embossed image, the ink just happens to be watercolor. I’ve practice this technique a couple of weeks ago and it took me a while but I got it down pack and my card came out really nice. You can check out my post on April 30.

For my new card, I wanted to create a male card. I don’t have many of those, I wanted to make sure I tried colors that were suited for men. I love blues, yellow, and coral. I also tried something new. ADDING STITCHING TO MY CARD!!! I’ve never done that before but I wanted to finally try it. It was exciting!

I love how the colors blended to make colors that weren’t in my original palette. When I added the yellow to the tip of the blue it create that pretty green. The same when I added the coral to the yellow, it created the orange. It was amazing.

Creating the background was pretty easy.

I used Impression Obsessions Honeycomb Stamp to create my background. I stamped it with VersaMark and embossed it with Stampin’ Up! clear embossing powder.

I used my Koi Watercolors, I used number 23, 24 and 8.

My vellum and card stock was attached with my small sewing machine. I had that sewing machine for two years and never used. I pulling it out to create this card and I’m so glad I did.

Guess what, I didn’t know how to use the sewing. I had to ask my daughter to help set up the machine. I thought that was funny and she loved teaching me.

All and all, my card came out the way I had hoped it would. I’m very pleased with the look. I hope you are too!

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Day 2 of my Watercolor for Card Makers was just as much fun as the first. The teachers are amazing and they have so much information to share with us.

Today I choose to focus on the Soft Watercolor Wash Background technique. The beauty of this technique is to not have any pencil lines showing in the color wash. I used my Stampin’ Up! watercolor pencils (Retired), watercolor paper and a brush.

I love how my card turned out. I choose to use colors that I hardly use which were orange, light green and yellow. The combination turned out beautiful.

Sooooo, what do you think? I can’t believe I created that all by myself. I amaze myself sometimes!!

This is how I created this card:

1. I used the watercolor pencils to simple color on the watercolor paper in the different colors. I didn’t mix the colors while coloring them.

2. I used my brush and applied water to my card to soften the watercolor lines. I allowed the colors to mix a little to have some blending where the colors met.

3. I used my heat gun to dry the paper. Once the paper was COMPLETELY dried I added orange waters splats to the card.

4. To add the water splats, I touched my water brush to the tip of my orange watercolor pencil for color. Then I lightly flashed the brush above the paper.

5. I used the heat gun again to dry all of the water splats.

6. I placed gold bakers twine down where I wanted it to be. I added a little bit of adhesive as to hold it in place.

7. I stamped my sentiment, punched it out and adhered it to the bakers twine.

8. I adhered the mask to the card base for a complete Soft Watercolor Wash Background Card!

Truly Amazing!!!

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