Check out this stunning floral watercolor greeting card with a hidden technique to incorporate background stamps into your watercoloring.
Today’s stunning watercolor card comes from our designer, Kassi, who has a gift with the paintbrush. This beautiful floral card is bringing us so much inspiration today. Kassi said, “Sometimes you get an idea in your head, and you just have to try it to see if it actually works… While this may not be the traditional way to use background stamps, I’m loving the unique way it transforms watercolors!” Follow along with Kassi’s tips to recreate this awesome card and incorporate those background stamps in a way that truly delights.
- Stamp the flower from 37002 Floral Memories onto watercolor paper using a light waterproof ink.
- Color the flower using your favorite watercolor paint.
- Die cut the flower using 37002D Floral Memories dies, and die cut 2 extra flower from white cardstock.
- Paint a piece of water color paper, and while the paint is still wet, place 3487-07 Cheesecloth BG (no ink) on the wet paint then put something heavy on it (like a book) and let the paint dry completely. This works best with granulating paints but try it with whatever paints you have.
- Die cut the painted panel using the 2nd largest die from 5903D Victorian Label Nested Dies.
- Die cut white cardstock using 3rd largest die from 5903D Victorian Label Nested Dies.
- Die cut white cardstock using the largest die from 5013D Nested Rectangle Small Stitch Die.
- Die cut the word “hello” twice from blue paper using 5140-02D Lower Case Alpha w/Stitch die
- Die cut green paper at 5.5″ x 4.25″
- Adhere the green paper to an A2 card base.
- Adhere white rectangle on the green paper.
- Adhere the two panels cut from 5903D Victorian Labels Nested Dies together, then adhere them to the card.
- Adhere the layers of the flower to create dimension and glue them to the card.
- Adhere the layers of the letters together to create dimension and glue them to the card.
