WPlus9 | Birthday Wishes Watercolor Pattern Card. Video Tutorial + July 2017 Release

Hello friends! I have a fun birthday card and video tutorial to share today, but before I jump to the card and video I wanted to mention new release from WPlus9. Dawn always has amazing designs and this release is no exception!

WPlus9 Citrus Background Builders Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Southern Summer Florals 1 Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Southern Summer Florals 1 Dies Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Southern Summer Florals 2 Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Southern Summer Florals 2 Dies Shop at: SSS | WP9
WPlus9 Basic Labels Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Basic Labels Die Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Summer Citrus Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Summer Citrus Dies Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Southern Sentiments Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | WP9
WPlsu9 Basic Greetings Dies Shop at: SSS | WP9	Wplus9 Southern Summer Florals 1 Combo Shop at: SSS	Wplus9 Southern Summer Florals 2 Combo Shop at: SSS	Wplus9 Basic Labels Combo Shop at: SSS	Wplus9 Summer Citrus Combo Shop at: SSS

Here are a few sneaks of the cards I made using new goodies:

Now let’s go back to the card – I’m sharing how to quickly stamp a custom pattern for a Birthday card using images from the Big Deal & Big Deal Additions stamp sets and also how to easily watercolor them using wet on wet watercolor technique.

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I picked 3 images to stamp my pattern – a hippo, a lion and unicycle and stamped them repeatedly and in the same order using black ink waterproof. You can easily stamp patterns like this one using multitude of various images; for a pattern like this I would recommend you go with images that are about the same size. The lion here is a bit taller but not too tall to distort my pattern.

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

Depending on how you want to color your pattern later you’ll need to pick appropriate type of paper and ink for your stamping. Since I wanted to watercolor I went with Arches Hot Pressed watercolor paper and Versafine Onyx Black ink which is a waterproof ink.

I also heat embossed my pattern after stamping in clear embossing powder to make watercolor process go a bit faster. The razed embossed edge serves as a barrier when watercoloring different sections and allows to color faster.

If you are not into coloring, you can heat emboss or stamp this pattern onto colored cardstock or maybe even strips of colored cardstock and have a colorful background composed of colored cardstock blocks and maybe white or black stamped images, so you don’t have to color a pattern if you don’t enjoy coloring.

I used Daniel Smith watercolors to color these, I am still using my Dot Chart (I describe it in detail in this video here – be sure to watch it if you are not familiar with these watercolors http://stampawaywithme.blogspot.com/2017/02/watercolor-ranunculus-cards-for-any.html) and dd very simple wet on wet coloring. I wet my image with a brush and clean water first, next came in with some pigment and added it to the sections I wanted to be darkest on my image.

After my coloring was done I trimmed my panel and adhered it onto an A2 top folding card base. I also added a white heat embossed sentiment that reads “Birthday Wishes to The Greatest Person on Earth” and added black enamel dots to complete this project.

I’d like encourage you to pick a few critter images of similar size and stamp a quick pattern. Color it or go with colored cardstock instead and just have fun creating!

Have fun stamping!

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

WPlus9 Big Deal Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | WP9	WPlus9 Big Deal Additions Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | WP9	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Black Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Arches Hot Pressed Watercolor Pad 9×12″ Shop at: SSS | AZ
Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ	ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS | AZ	Tsukineko VersaFine Onyx Black Ink Shop at: SSS | AZ
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor 238-Dot Color Chart Shop at: AZ	Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor 15ml Paint Tube, Graphite Gray Shop at: AZ	Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor 15ml Paint Tube, Goethite-Brown Ochre Shop at: AZ	Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor 15ml Paint Tube, Quinacridone, Deep Gold Shop at: AZ	Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor 15ml Paint Tube, Quinacridone, Red Shop at: AZ
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