New Watercolor Stamps – Elves | Watercolor Weekend | Art Impressions

What an exciting watercolor weekend over on the Art Impressions Blog.  We are using some of the newly released stamp sets.  These stamps are sooooo cute and I have been creating tons of new cards using them.  This watercolor weekend I decided to create a card using the new WC Elves card.  These little Elves are so fun and cute that I couldn’t resist!

Here is how I created my Elves card.  This one is a little different as I needed to stamp the elves before the mushrooms.  So to begin I created a bunch of masks and moved them around until I was happy

Step 1:  The Elves

First, I stamped each of the Elves inked in 969-Chocolate.  Once they were stamped I used my masks to protect them.

Step 2: The Mushrooms

I stamped the yellow Mushroom first, as I wanted it to be in the front, with Chocolate.    I masked it off, using my positioner, stamped the orange mushroom.  I removed part of the detail on the stem and tried to position it to the right to give it a different look.  Then I stamped the purple mushroom and masked it off.

Using the smaller mushroom, I stamped the red and then the pink mushrooms.

Step 3: Adding water

Pull the color out of the lines from the Elves and Mushrooms.  I added color to them from my palette.  I tried to shade them based on where the Elves would have cast shadows as well as if something is in front of the object.  In order for the Mushrooms to look round, I made sure to keep the darkest areas on the sides leaving a highlight in the middle.  Once the were all dry, I added white dots to the tops of the Mushrooms.  I added some additional color where the shadows would be darkest.

Step 4: The Grass and Flowers

I inked up the left and right grasses from the new WC Foliage 4 set using 249-Hunter Green and stamped them around the bases of the Mushrooms.  I pulled color up and out of the lines.  I then inked the flower bunch from the Flower Set 2 with 685-Deep Magenta and Hunter Green.  I also stamped some of the small grass sporadically.

I added some 452-Process Blue to the palette and created a sky.  Sign and date your piece!

Step 5: The Card

Using the rectangle stitched die, I die cut the watercolor piece.  I glued it to a card stock base made from Red Hot card stock from Gina K Designs.  To make sure that the sentiment, from the new Sentiments 2 stamp set, was straight, I used my MISTI.  I added some Gina K Amalgam ink and stamped it down in the left hand corner.  I added the entire piece to a white base card.

Thank you so much for a spending some time with me this weekend!  I hope you got some excellent inspiration and we would love to see your projects.  Make sure to tag us on instagram and use #AIWatercolor!

Have a crafty weekend and I hope to see you again soon!

Related: Watercolor Weekend: Flowers and Foliage Challenge

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