Hello all! Its December and for Simon Says Stamp fans December this means DieCember! The month-long celebration of all dies and die cutting! Yay!
I have a watercolor Valentine’s Day card and video tutorial to share in this blog post. I’ll also be sharing another card and video tomorrow, so stay tuned (and I also have a card and a video featuring new Limited Edition Holiday Card Kit from Simon).
I started working on my card by creating a heart-shaped watercolor background using Prima’s Water Soluble Oil Pastels. I used these for the first time and I’m very happy with the quality and the “easiness” of use. I used 3 colors – yellow-orange, red and magenta and first just drew a heart outline on my Arched Cold Press Watercolor paper. Next I filled the heart shape in using the same colors and added water. Finally, I die cut it the panel using Simon’s Stitched Rectangle die.
I created a similar background in terms of colors on another, smaller piece of watercolor paper and used that to die cut a Hugs word out. I also die cut one more Hugs out of white cardstock and one more out of yellow craft foam. I added adhesive sheets to both front and back of the craft foam prior to cutting it to make the die cut sticky. I adhered white Hugs onto yellow craft foam Hugs and adhered the watercolor Hugs on top of that, but I offset it slightly (to create an illusion of white shadow).
I also die cut a gorgeous heart using Heart of Roses die out of white cardstock and foam mounted it onto my watercolor background. Added the Hugs die cuts on top, stamped additional “Sending you lots of” sentiment onto a strip of white cardstock and adhered that on top of the hugs. I also stamped “& Kisses” and a few hearts and foam mounted my panel onto an A2 top folding card base.
I created a video tutorial to show you how I made this card, you can watch it below or on my Youtube channel:
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Love it Yana!!! Got some great ideas from this video.
Gorgeous Yana. Love the look of those pastels.
Wow Yana, another beauty. Love how you used the crayons to make a background. Have to give that a try myself. Thank you for showing.
Love your card and video, Yana. I enjoy all of your artistic endeavours. Such a beautiful heart die.
Beautiful Card! Love the pop of color and the gorgeous heart die!
So gorgeous. LOVE how you made the heart POP by water coloring the background. Very inspirational:)
So fun! I love how the heart pops!
looks like the hugs (if you read it too quickly it says huge to me lol) is on fire, well done i love it as usual
beautiful!
Nice job with the heart. Seems to be hands down the popular die.
Gorgeous Heart die and love the pop of colors in modern style!
Beautiful cards Yana! Thanks for the inspiration.
Such a “sunshiny” heart. Love it. It says joy and laughter!
What a beautiful card ! Thanks for the video !:-)
Love the water colored look.
Fun, bright card!
Gorgeous card, as always, Yana! Off to check out your video 🙂
Beautiful card, Yana. The pastels worked great.
I love the color in your card and how it pops with the heart
A really beautiful Valentine, Yana!!! Your sweetheart will love it!
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Absolutely beautiful card! Love the watercolored background!
Beautiful colors! Lovely cards!
Love the white die cut on the watercoloured background!
Wow beautiful die and watercolours!!! Perfect together!
Great card, Yana! I might have to put this die in my cart too!
Beautiful card. I love the way you did the hugs die cut. In the picture the white in the middle, the water colored top and the yellow foam makes the die cut look like a sandwich cookie. Yum!
Gorgeous!
Gorgeous water color effect. Very pretty card.
Very Beautiful- Thank you for the great video!
Very pretty!!!
Love this!
Love your card!
Beautiful card!
Love the bright colors! great job!
Beautiful card. I love mixed colors in the background. The heart look very nice!
Gorgeous card. I love the colors you used as the background. Years ago I took a watercolor instruction class and the best thing I learned in the class was to use Arches watercolor paper, and high quality watercolor paints and brushes. It still holds true today!
Beautiful card. Thanks for the inspirational video.
What a lovely card Yana. That is a beautiful heart die and I love how you offset the word die. It def. shows up more. Great job!
Great card. The background colors are bright and vibrant, along with the “hugs” word. Super job.
Just ordered those Prima Pastels from SSS. Can’t wait to give them a try. Great idea to watercolour behind the dainty Heart of Roses Die. I love Arches paper. If you are doing a painting, try the Arches block. No warping of the big sheets.
Beautiful. I love this new die as well , and I really like your creation.
Beautiful. Love the colors. Great job.
I learned so much from your video. I am going to spend the extra money on a better quality of water color paper. I don’t know if my craft stores sell Arches, but I know I haven’t purchased quality paper. Thank you for the tip about “orange”. I struggle with yellow. I am looking forward to more videos and will watch some of your archived work.
Wow Yana the colors are so vibrant and intense. Love, love!
Pretty card!
Video is helpful. Thank you.
I will have to check out those Water Soluble Oil Pastels! I’ve been thinking in that direction for awhile now. The link wouldn’t work for me a minute ago…. BUT, Your card came out BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉
Beautiful watercolor backdrop for the heart. Great video, too.
Gorgeous card!!! Love everything about it!!!
Nice watercoloring…..pretty card!!