Easter Cross | Watercolor Weekend | Art Impressions Stamps

Hello watercolor fans and welcome back.  This weekend I decided to create this simple Easter Cross project.  When I say easy, I mean easy.  Here is how I put this project together.

To start off, I inked the outsides of the cross, from the Rugged Crosses set with 969, leaving the middle open.  This ensures that you don’t have to contend with the lines of the cross when you add the flowers and foliage. These are such awesome, natural looking crosses, perfect for your Easter cards.

I stamped it into the middle of the watercolor paper.  As always our first step is to pull the color out of the lines.  I try to only pull a small amount out to of the artist draw lines to make them the darkest. Next I added some additional color to the cross layering up the areas I wanted darker.  I really wanted the background light so I added a small amount  of color to the mountains in the background and the shadow underneath the cross.

For the flowers, I inked up the lilies from the original flowers set with yellow, it just happened that there was still some pink on the stamp (I cleaned it kinda well lol) and it made a really nice peachy orange color.  I stamped it several times around the middle of the cross.  Next, I used the small foliage from the foliage set 2 inked the top section with green and stamped it several times around the flowers.  To create the sky, I added blue around the inside of the cross.  I tried to keep the color away from the leaves.  Also, I try not to go further than the ends of the cross, it creates the illusion of more sky.  Sometimes less is better.  I added water to all the flowers and then the foliage to make sure the flowers stayed yellowish.  And the final step, that I sometimes forget, sign and date.

I cut my piece out with the Gina K Designs master layouts 1 dies and added some connect glue.  I added this piece to my card base.

Thank you so much for spending some watercolor time with me today.  I hope you give this project a try for your Easter Cards.  You could add virtually any sentiment to this and send it to someone you love.  Be sure to tag us on Instagram and use #AIWatercolor with all your projects.  Have a crafty day!

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