Hello watercolor fans! Welcome to another inspirational Watercolor Weekend with the Art impressions guest design team. We have lots to show you so head on over and check out all of the projects! Today I used a photo to create my watercolor painting. I created this Bike Planter to bring in a little bit of Spring (even though I am not done with Winter yet!).
Card Inspiration
Someone shared the photo on Facebook and I love it so I thought I would try to recreate it using my Art Impressions watercolor stamps. I was very happy with how it turned out.
Step 1 – The Planter
I stamped the planter from the WC Window set inked in 969-Chocolate. I left off the bottom of the planter so I could stamp the small grasses below it to ground it. I added some additional color (969&569) from my palette and added some additional lines to make it look like wood slats. I also added some additional details with the fine tip of the marker.
Step 2 – The Bike
To protect the planter, I masked it off and stamped the bike inked in Chocolate. I pulled the color out of the lines and added some additional color from my palette.
Step 3 – The Foliage & Flowers
I inked the small vines from the Foliage Set 4 set with 249-Hunter Green and stamped it into the planter as well as both bike planters. I added water to the foliage.
I used the small flower from the Foliage Set 2 inked with 725-Rhodamine Red and added them to the planter. I used the same color to ink the single flower from the Mini Flowers set and stamped it into the back planter. I used 636-Imperial Purple to ink the small dots in the Mini Flowers set to stamp into the front and back planters.
I inked the small grasses with the Dark Jade and stamped below the planter. I added water to all the blooms and grasses. I added a small amount of 526-True Blue to the sky. Sign and Date!
Step 4 – The Card
I cut the square out with a stitched square die. I cut mat from Gina K Black Onyx card stock about 1/8 bigger than the square. I added some white craft foam to the back of the watercolor piece.
I had a piece of watercolor background that I had from another project made from watercolor markers which I used to cut a stitched banner from the new stitched banner dies. I cut a little bigger one from Black Onyx card stock.
To make the weathered wood background, I scored a white piece of card stock at 1″ intervals. I added some Dark Chocolate ink from Gina K Designs direct to the paper in long swipes. Finally, I white heat embossed the Hello from the new WC Sentiments 2 set.
I assembled the card and added it to a white card base. And that’s it!
I hope you will create some amazing projects with the new Art Impressions release and share them with us on social media! Tag us with #AIWatercolor on Facebook and Instagram!
Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty day!
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Tricia – this is the cutest idea to create a scene like this! Great card :o)
Oh my, great job and love the art work