Hello everyone and thank you so much for joining us today for a fun Card Making Therapy Blog Hop! I don’t know about you, but I find cardmaking to be both relaxing and therapeutic. I love to turn to cardmaking after a long day working on the computer or in the evening after doing the housework. I especially love to color using various mediums. I’ve been sharing lots of projects lately colored using pencils, but today I have a Christmas card colored using watercolors!
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARD DETAILS
I started working on this project by stamping a custom background using Simon Says Stamp Poinsettia stamp set onto Arches Hot Pressed Watercolor paper. Be sure to watch my video above to learn how I made this background without the use of masking. I stamped 6 flowers and also added a few leaves next to each poinsettia.
Once my background was done I taped my watercolor paper onto a board and started coloring it using the wet on wet technique. I used colors that are now available in my exclusive Daniel Smith Yana Smakula palette at Simon Says Stamp and colored poinsettias using Pyrrol Red and Bordeaux. I colored all of the flowers with Pyrrol and when doing the second layer of color mixed in a bit of Bordeaux and made 3 of the flowers darker.
To color leaves I first used Sap Green and later came in with Undersea Green to darken the colors. I also painted the background for this card as I didn’t want to keep it white. I know now everybody is a fan of dark backgrounds but I can’t get enough of them lately. I used Indigo and Lunar Blue colors for the background.
Once my coloring was done I trimmed this panel to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2″ and foam mounted onto an A2 card base. To create a sentiment I used Simon’s Stained Glass greetings stamp set and coordinating dies.
HOP ALONG WITH US!
Little Crafty Pill
Laura Bassen
Nina Revis (Waffle Flower)
Yana Smakula – you are here
Pretty Pink Posh
Debby Hughes
GIVEAWAY!
There are 10 prizes to be won during this hop! Six 20$ gift cards to the Simon Says Stamp store (one for each stop on the blog);Â A 25$ gift card to Concord and 9th;Â A 30$ gift card to Pretty Pink Posh;Â A 25$ gift card to Waffle Flower;Â A coloring class by Kit and Clowder.
Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on all the posts on this blog hop by 11:59pm EST on October 17th and will be announced on Amanda’s blog on October 19th.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Poinsettia Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamps and Dies Stained Glass Greetings Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Greetings Wafer Dies Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Clear Stamps Stained Glass Greetings Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Daniel Smith Yana’s Set Watercolor Palette Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Tool ‘n One Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS |
 Arches Hot Pressed Watercolor Pad 9×12″ Shop at: SSS |
 Daniel Smith Sap Green 5ml Shop at: SSS |
 Daniel Smith Undersea Green 5ml Shop at: SSS |
 Daniel Smith Indigo 5ml Shop at: SSS |
 Daniel Smith Pyrrol Red Shop at: SSS |
 Daniel Smith Bordeaux 15ml Shop at: SSS |
 Daniel Smith Lunar Blue Shop at: SSS |
 Silver Black Velvet Brush Size 4 Round 300541 Shop at: SSS |
 Silver Black Velvet Brush Size 8 Round Shop at: SSS |
 Jack Richeson 9 X 12 Inch Hardboard Panel Shop at: SSS |
 Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS |
 White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS |
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Beautiful watercolor poinsettias! And your Daniel Smith watercolor card colors are great.
Gorgeous watercolor poinsettias! Love the gold outlines-it makes the card pop.
I’m completely humbled by your talent… I hope my attempt at this gorgeous card turns out half as well as your Did!
I’m so excited to be learning all this stuff! Thank you for your contribution.
Wow you and Debby’s watercolors are amazing. So vibrant. I also work on the computer all day and find crafting as a wonderful outlet from the computer. I need to raise my work table so I can stand….I do entirely too much sitting for work and then when I craft.
Beautiful!!!
Beautiful card, Yana, but you know that I am a big fan of your work 🙂 Thanks so much for supporting Amanda on this lovely hop!
The background is amazing – you are the queen with those gorgeous watercolors! That stamp is a great one to watercolor and the sentiment perfect for the card.
Very artistic and serene. Love your card!
It is amazing see your creation process. And of course your fabulous cards!
Oh my goodness… Yana, you have done it again. I love this watercolor. And the added dimension of layering the word Peace so it stands out is just perfect!
This card is perfect, as well as all previous 🙂
Beautiful poinsettia painting Yana! Gorgeous card!
Wow! I’d love to be able to watercolor like that, it’s stunning!
Your card is lovely! Love the bold, vivid colors you used.
Lovely colors!
As usual, I love your card. The bright colors make it look so elegant. Makes my anxious for winter.
Wow! As always your cards make me my breath away!!! Love this so much!!!
Wow! Gorgeous card! I have that stamp set and may have to give this technique a try, especially the watercolors and the stamping method with heat embossing and brushing off the overlapped embossing powder vs. masking. Thanks for sharing the details so clearly I feel like I could try this too! This would be a Christmas card for someone very special!
Wow!! This is absolutely gorgeous!! You and Debby are watercoloring queens!
Absolutely beautiful!! The red just makes me so happy and your skill is amazing.
Yana, such a beautiful card and so nice to be supportive to all. Thanks.
You’ve done a beautiful job with this card.
This is just beautiful beyond words. Thanks for sharing
This is a gorgeous card.
WOW!!!!
Stunning card! Absolutely love it!
Another beautiful card, Yana! Love the dark blue background. Thanks for the video.
This is a beautiful card – love the background!
This card is stunning! Great color combination and design. Thanks for supporting the cause today and sharing your amazing talent!
Wow this card is stunning – the colors and design are just breath taking:)
What beautiful technique and Daniel Smith Watercolors are tops. Your mastery of watercolor technique for card making is exquisite. The poinsettias seems to be ready to be gathered for Christmas decorating. Pretty, pretty card!
Wow! Stunning card
Gorgeous card!
Oh my, I love the poinsettias.
wow – that is just stunning!
GORGEOUS poinsettia card! I love the no masking technique. I learned so much by watching you watercolor and it was therapeutic too. I would have loved to see your second layer of color doing the wet on dry because my first layer usually looks like a hot mess and I get intimidated thinking I’m doing it wrong. Time to get out my watercolors, thanks for sharing!
Beautiful! I love the colors!
Gorgeous. Love you water coloring. Thank you for sharing.
Very beautiful poinsettias on this truly gorgeous card!
Gorgeous card Yana! I love watching you watercolor. Thanks for the fun blog hop!
Gorgeous card and great blog hop cause!
Beautiful card
beautiful background!
Gorgeous card Yana! Love the poinsettias and the colors you used are just so beautiful together. Great Blog hop!
Love your card, Poinsettias always make beautiful cards for Christmas.
So very Holiday ! ordered the Daniel Smith watercolor card featuring your most loved colors. hanging by the mailbox….
Incredible card. A fantastic painting job. Precious.
Sooo beautiful, the gold touches are amazing!
Yana, I love your back ground colo! Very bold but it work’s heart
Love the card
Thank’s for sharing
Woop’s
That should of said
Very bold but it WORK’S