Palm Tree Kindness | Watercolor Weekend | Art Impressions Stamps

Hi Ai Fans, welcome back to another Watercolor Weekend!  This weekend I decided to create this card using only 2 stamps sets, the Palm Tree Set and the WC Sentiments set.  It reminded me of my recent vacation to Aruba.  I call this card Palm tree Kindness.

Project Details

Step 1:  I inked up the large palm tree with 969 – Chocolate and stamped it to the left side of the card.  I re-positioned it to be curved to the opposite way, re-inked it with the 969 and stamped it on the right side.

Step 2: Then, I inked the small palm tree up with the 969 and stamped it to the left of the large palm tree on the left.  I re-inked it and stamped it a little higher between the two palm trees.  Taking my damp paint brush and pulled color from the right side of each of the palm trees.  I made sure to pull a little bit of color out of the bottom of the trees.

Step 3: Next I inked up the large palm tree leaves (left facing) with 177 -Dark Jade and stamped it several times to the top left of the large palm trees.  I then inked up the large palm tree leaves (right facing) with 177 and stamped it to the right side of the large palm trees.  I added water to the palms.

Step 4: Using the smallest palm leaves, I inked each side up and stamped it on either side of the smaller palm trees.  I added a small amount of water to them.

Step 5: Using my palette, I added 873 – Coral and 969 around the trees making sure to leave white space for the sand.

Step 6: Again, using my palette, I added some 476 – Cyan to the bottom third of the card for the water.  I started with it really watered down and then continued to build the color up slowly, using brush strokes to make wavy lines leaving white space (for white caps) and bringing the color to the sand.

Step 7:  I added 528 – Navy Blue to my palette and watered it down.  I jumped it around to create a sky.  I slowly built the color up.

Card Details

I cut the piece down to 5.25 x 4.  I placed it in my MISTI and inked the sentiment with Gina K Designs Amalgam Black Ink.  I stamped it in the top right corner.

To create the frame, I traced around a large rectangle die and another smaller die to give me a guideline.  I drew in some sporadic lines using 969 making sure to go outside of the guidelines.  I used water to pull color out of the lines to resemble wood.  Once it was dry, I ran it through my machine using the large die.  I then placed the smaller die down and ran it through my die cut machine.  This created a frame that I glued in place with liquid adhesive.

I added the piece to a white 5.5 x 4.25 note card using liquid adhesive.

This is a really easy card to create with very minimal supplies.  I hope you will give it a try.  Make sure to tag us on Instagram with #AIWatercolor and (@artimpressions, @dotjiris, @anyday8330 & @tobin0971).  We would love to see what you create.

I hope you take some time for yourself and watercolor. Thank you for stopping by, I really am blessed by all the social media love and the incredibly supportive crafting community!

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