Beth's Paper Cuts: water color

Showing posts with label water color. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Sunrise Wheat Field

I love to paint and I often spend time using my stamping supplies as paint supplies, painting with my ink pads rather than get out my paints. The ink pads are right there on my desk and are fantastic to watercolor with, and I think I can honestly say that I paint something or other at least 5 days a week. I recently watched a tutorial online from Let's Make Art and we did a Wheat Field. It was super fun and I loved the look and I right away decided to make it into a card. I wanted the card to use stamps for the images because it would be easier to mass produce and it would be something I could share with my customers who might not want to try to free hand the wheat stalks. I searched my stamps and found that the Gather Together stamp set was perfect for this card. There are some nice sentiments as well as that wheat stalk.

Each card comes out a little bit different from the next and it is so fun to just watch the ink bleed into the paper and create this pretty sunrise, or maybe sunset! not sure!! But I am sure that it is beautiful!

Here is a video how to that shows you how to create this card step by step.

I would like to show you the painting that inspired the card. Hope you like it as well!

Shop with me! I would love to be your demonstrator. I always send a hand stamped thank you card and sometimes more with a larger order, and I share my Stampin' Rewards with you through my Frequent Buyer Rewards! Earn FREE STAMPS! Click on the Frequent buyer tab to download the tracking sheet.

Product List

Gather Together Photopolymer Stamp Set

[150589]

$17.00

Water Painters

[151298]

$12.00

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

$9.00

Linen Thread

[104199]

$5.00

Autumn Essentials Dies

[153569]

$34.00

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

$7.50

Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[147086]

$7.50

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

[147085]

$7.50

So Saffron Classic Stampin' Pad

[147109]

$7.50

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

[147114]

$7.50

Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119686]

$8.75

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Masking technique

Hi Everyone! Today I want to share some cards I made last night. I was looking at the Loyal Leaves stamp set and my mind kept changing it to 'Layered' leaves and then I thought, might as well use it that way!

I love the Loyal Leaves set for the Ginkgo leaf and the great sentiments. I think this set will be great for many uses but especially masculine cards. I was also drawn to this set because I love water coloring, and I thought this set would be good for water coloring techniques.

I stamped some of the leaves onto Post-it notes and cut them out to make masks. For this technique you need several, so cut three or four masks from your image.

I first stamped the leaves in Sadle Brown Stazon ink. Stazon is waterproof so it is a great choice for water color techniques. This version uses Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Cinnamon Cider, Cajun Craze and Cherry Cobbler. The card base is Early Espresso.
Don't you love that little buckle looking embellishment? It is a new ribbon slide from the Antiqued Corner and Slides embellishment pack.
The Ribbon is Faux Suede trim.

The Ginkgo leaves are painted with Soft Sea Foam, Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, and Shaded Spruce. This time I did not use a waterproof ink, the stamped images just were let to bleed into the leaf as I colored them in.
The card base is Shaded Spruce. The Ribbon is from the Forever Greenery Ribbon pack.

This last leaf card uses Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Rich Razzleberry and Blackberry Bliss. I noticed that when painting with the Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape did not paint as smoothly as some of the other colors. I don't know why this is, it could be the a difference in the pigments. It is still pretty though.
The card base is Blackberry Bliss.
Ribbon is Purple Posy scallop linen trim.

Here is a how to for these cards that I made for my YouTube channel.

I had so much fun that I made some more! I looked through my stamps and thought a bunch of apples would be nice, and a plate of cookies. I bet that you have some stamps that would be great for this technique. If not, pick up the Loyal Leaves stamp set!

Monday, June 29, 2020

Using Stampin' Up's New Water Painters

Hi Everyone. Today I wanted to play around with the new 'Water Painters' from Stampin' Up! These new water painters replace the 'Aqua Painters' from previous catalogs. I LOVED the Aqua Painters, so when I saw they were being replaced I had to put the new version on my first order. I was curious to find out if they lived up to the older version and I am happy to announce that they do! And, the new set comes with a set of 2 round brushes AND a flat wash brush! The set of three Water Painters are just $12.00. I used the flat wash brush for a variety of backgrounds and it worked so smoothly, I was really pleased with it. I made several backgrounds and used them for some Birthday cards. All the cards use the Happiest of Birthdays stamp set. I really like this stamp set because of the "Happy (a little bit late) Birthday. I try to be timely but I must admit that I am often a few days late with my birthday cards! This stamp is perfect for me!
Here is a video of how to make this simple watercolor backgrounds.

This first card uses the wide flat wash brush to make some stripes on the background. This card uses Night of Navy and Magenta Madness. The cute tiny flowers are from the new Confetti Flowers Border Punch. The sentiment is embossed in white embossing powder.

This second card also uses the Confetti Flowers Border punch. The colors for this card are Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay, and Night of Navy. I used an emboss resist technique on this card.

This next card uses the Wink Of Stella pen to achieve some fun splatter patterns. The colors here are Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay, and Gorgeous Grape. The sentiment is embossed on Basic Black.

This card uses Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, and BlackBerry Bliss for the background. I added some sequins from the Artistry Blooms Sequin assortment. I used an emboss resist techniuqe on this card.

I made a couple additional cards using some scraps of water color paper that I made while practicing with the Water Painters. This card uses the watercolored paper under a die cut from the Stitched Triangles dies.