Welcome back watercolor fans! I am so excited about this new release. The bunnies and chicks and the baskets and and and… Any way, onto the card. I pulled out my shadowbox dies and went overboard. Shadowboxes are great because they are so quick and easy (small painting and quick die cutting). Let me tell you how I created this Easter Basket Shadowbox card.
First, I traced the rectangle die, the one that you use to cut out the card, onto my watercolor paper (I actually traced 6 so I could mass produce these). If I had to do again, and I will be doing these again, I would draw some guidelines where the gridlines fall so I could place things a little better within the window, but it’s not a big deal.
For this card, I inked the basket from the NEW Easter Egg house set in 969 and stamped it onto the watercolor paper. Next, I masked off the basket and stamped in the eggs from the set. After removing the mask, I pulled the color out of the lines. By creating shadows on the eggs prior to adding the color to the eggs, it gives you shadows that deepen the color with each layer. It gives your painting more depth.
I added color to the eggs, basket and the bow with color from my palette. Lastly I added some blue into the sky by using the wet in wet technique. For the bunny, I inked him up with 969 and 569 to create a grayish color, stamped it off several times and pulled the color out of the lines. Make sure you keep the face really light and just pull a small amount of color out as this bunny is white. Once the bunny was done, I fussy cut him out.
Once the painting was completed, I cut it out using the die that I traced in the beginning. I followed one of Bonnie’s tutorials for assembling a shadowbox card. I popped the rabbit up with pop dots in front of the basket.
I’ll warn you now, once you start making these you may not be able to stop 😊. I hope you will give this a try and tag us so we can see your awesome creations! Have a crafty day! Thanks for stopping by and spending some watercolor time with us!
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Sooo cute! Love this design and the colors too.