Category: Card Making

Hi Watercolor Fans!  Welcome back to Art Impressions watercolor weekend.  For my project this week, I decided to make an interactive card.  This was so much fun to make.  Come along with me and I’ll tell you how I made my Reveal Wheel Wagon.

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Hi AI Fans, welcome back to Watercolor Weekend!  I decided to try out a design that I fell in love with when I was young.  We used to go to the beach and they had a guy who airbrushed license plates, shirts, hats etc.  This was a design that I just loved and always wanted so I decided to re-create it using my AI watercolor stamps.  I call it Silhouette Stamping.  It was so easy and fun, I hope you will give it a try.

Here is how I did it!

I began by adding PINK to my palette.  I added water and painted from the horizon line up sporadically using a horizontal brush stroke.  I left lots of white space.  I added another layer of PINK to it.  Once that dried I repeated the same steps with the YELLOW, PURPLE and GRAY.

I added BLACK to the horizon line with my paint brush.  I added water to my PINK, YELLOW, PURPLE AND BLUE and painted a light wash of each color for my reflection in the water below the horizon line.  I made the YELLOW a little darker near where the sun would be.

Once that was completely dry, I inked up the large palm tree with BLACK ink.  I stamped it below the water.  Using my brush, I pulled the color out of the left side of the tree to create dimension.  I re-inked the stamp and stamped it again to the right of that tree, angling it so the tops weren’t too close.  I again pulled the color out of the left side of the tree.

Next, I used the left and right palms; I inked them up using BLACK ink and stamped them several times on each side of each tree.  To create the palms closest to the tree trunk, I only inked the end of the stamp.  I used a damp #2 brush to pull the color out of each of the palms using a brush stroke.

I added BLACK to my palette and created the sand using a horizontal brush stroke.  I put the sailboat on my small acrylic block and inked it up with BLACK ink.  I stamped it off once and then stamped it into the middle of my sky.  Using my #2 brush pulled a small amount of color from the left sides of the sails and the bottom.  I also added some black beneath the boat for a shadow.  Finally, I signed and dated it.

Once the painting was complete, I cut it out using my Stitched Rectangle Die.  I added it to a 4.25 x 5.5 inch card made from Gina K Designs Wild Lilac cardstock with GKD Connect Glue.

That’s it, easy peasy!  Tag us on Instagram and let us see what you are up to!

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Have a crafty day!

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Hi watercolor fans!  Welcome to another Watercolor Weekend.  This weekend I wanted to do a card to celebrate Independence Day!  I decided to keep it simple and create this Independence Elf gate fold card.  I was inspired (as usual) by one of Jennifer McGuire’s recent posts.

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Happy watercolor weekend Peeps!  Monday is Earth Day.  I thought in honor of that, I would do a post with the As the Deer Set called Earth Day Deer.  I love this new watercolor Bible Journaling set.  I plan to practice more with it to create lots of serene cards.  Do you have a stamp set that reminds you of Earth Day?  I would love to check it out…tag us on Instagram with #AIWatercolor.

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