Card Making Therapy Blog Hop | Poinsettia Watercolor Background. Video

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); A 25$ gift card to Concord and 9th; A 30$ gift card to Pretty Pink Posh; A 25$ gift card to Waffle Flower; 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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