Beth's Paper Cuts: watercolor backgrounds

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Easy yet pretty watercolor background

If you visit my blog occasionally you know that I love watercolor. And I just learned that July is World Watercolor Month! Yay! I plan to do a lot of water-coloring this month! July is my Birthday month And I have a trip with my daughter next week with some hiking and exploring that will make for some great art journaling pages.

I also love to incorporate watercolor in my cards. I made these soft and pretty cards in minutes with a simple watercolor background and I though I would share them here because not only are they pretty and fast, they are also super inexpensive because I am using some card bases and envelopes that were FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-a-Bration! The card bases are patterned tone on tone in Soft Seafoam and Pool Party. The envelopes are really pretty too!

I added a small piece if watercolor paper and some die cut flowers to complete my cards.

See a step by step how to for these cards in my video!

Sale-a-Bration runs July 1st through August 31st! You can choose from a variety of products to get FREE with each $50 you spend, some others with a $100 purchase. There are stamps, papers, dies and the cards and envelopes I show here. I will post the full catalog here on my blog, in the right side margin, starting on July 1st! Be sure to come back and take a look! Start making your wish list!

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

Penned Flowers Dies

[155557]

$30.00

Hand Penned Petals Photopolymer Stamp Set

[155070]

$22.00

Label Me Fancy Punch

[151297]

$19.00

Blushing Bride 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[131198]

$9.25

Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper

[149612]

$9.00

Water Painters

[151298]

$13.00

Pool Party 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[122924]

$9.25

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[147107]

$8.00

Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[146988]

$9.25

Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad

[147102]

$8.00

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.