I am so excited to share my projects this weekend using the new Exclusive Hydrangea set made by Art Impressions for Scrapbook.com. This set is so awesome because you can literally use any medium to color these beautiful flowers. I decided to use my Tombows to create some really cool layouts. I watercolored them and used several different watercolor techniques.
Project Details
To begin I placed a piece of 4.5 x 6 inch watercolor paper into the MISTI. Next, I placed the large hydrangea stamp into the top right side of the watercolor paper. This enabled me to turn my paper 180 degrees and stamp it again.
I inked the leaves with my 177-Dark Jade and the flowers with my 565 – Deep Blue and spritzed them lightly with water. I stamped it down on the watercolor paper. I re-inked any spots where I wanted the color to be a little darker and continued to stamp it until I was happy with the results.
Using my #1 watercolor brush, I started adding water to the leaves pulling the color of the lines. In order to make the leaves a little more interesting, I added some 133-Chartreuse to my palette and added some additional color to the leaves.
Next, I added water to the Hydrangea blooms using my #1 brush. I really just jumped my brush around. It was a really quick layout.
Card Assembly
To create the card, I cut my project out with the medium stitched rectangle die. I added this to a Gina K Designs Christmas Pine mat cut down to 4 x 5.5 using Gina K Designs connect glue (my favorite!). I then cut .5 x 3.75 inch piece of matching card stock. I stamped the sentiment in versamark ink into the middle of the card stock (after using my embossing magic bag) and covered it with white embossing powder. I heated the embossing powder with my Heat It Craft Tool. I added it to the middle of my project piece using Connect Glue. I added this piece to a side folding Neenah Solar White 110 lb card base.
I loved working with this set and created a lot more pieces just by spritzing my stamp with water. This allowed me to get so many pieces without re-inking my stamp.
I hope you have gotten some inspiration this weekend and as always we look forward to seeing your projects. Tag us on Instagram! Use #AIWatercolor so everyone can see your beautiful cards!
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Very pretty! Hydrangeas are one of the most popular blooming shrubs we sell at our greenhouse. You’ve done a beautiful job coloring them.
Wow, this is lovely, Tricia! And those 2nd & 3rd generation images look amazing – what a cool idea.
Awesome layout and card!
This is lovely Tricia. Please…Please…Please…would you reconsider doing videos of your paintings again. They were always so inspiring and always learned a lot. I miss them so much. They were always my favorite “go to”… in classes to watch.
Thank you.