Watercolor Flowers (GinaK stamps - Year of Flowers)

Just this past week, I was looking for a way to use a certain stamp set and I stumbled upon a beautiful card that Kerin Sylvester made. It's a beautiful technique that she learned from another stamper and I've falled in love with it just like Kerin did. I used this technique at my stamp club on Thursday night and the girls loved it! Thanks, Kerin!

I actually created a quick tutorial to show how it's done and that will go live Monday morning on Paper Craft Planet, so be on the lookout!

The tutorial that I did for PCP uses the same large rose image that Kerin used on her post, but for this card that you see here, I used one of my favorite stamp sets by Melanie Muenchinger - the Year of Flowers stamp set.

I used Mellow Moss for my card base and swiped over it with the Mellow Moss ink pad to give it a faux suede texture effect.

I adhered a piece of So Saffron grosgrain ribbon onto the front of the card and secured a pewter brad near a notched V that I cut into the ribbon. (I really like this look and the fact that it doesn't use much ribbon since you don't have to tie it around the card. I have a feeling I'm going to be doing this a lot more with ribbon on cards.)

I stamped the greeting (from Melanie's companion set to the Year of Flowers set - Say it with Flowers) directly on the Mellow Moss card with Versamark and embossed with white powder. The leaves and the stems at the bottom of the card were done the same way. 

For my roses, I used Watercolor paper, though Kerin used Shimmery White cardstock for her watercolor roses. I stamped with Versamark ink and embossed with white powder. I used an Aqua painter to go over the entire image after the embossing cooled, making sure that I wet the image REALLY well. You can also spray the images with a spray bottle of water. 

I used Almost Amethyst reinker for these flowers and diluted it just a tad too much, so I dried the flowers quickly with my heat gun and then went over the images again with some more ink to get a deeper color on them. 

I've found that you can do some amazing shading either by getting your images REALLY wet and letting the liquid on top to pool or you can also add color after the image has dried with straight reinker. 

You'll be seeing more of these this week, as I'm totally digging this technique! Hope you do, too! 

Comments

[Michele]

This IS very pretty!

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