Hello friends! Hope you’ve had a good week. It’s been…well it’s been one around here, know what I mean? So I made something beautifully yellow to cheer myself up. And whoever I send it to as well!
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I made a similar card earlier this year that I shared on social media (keep scrollin’) but this time I wanted to try it in watercolor – and I loved how it worked out!
You can use other flowers and sentiments with this technique, but I had to use Mondo Pansy, – such a pretty flower! Nice and loose and easy.
And maybe I’m the only one – but I love super pretty cards that LOOK like they’re layered but aren’t. Less extra postage on the envelope!
Here’s the inspiration card. The card front is the light green paper; the outside border is Copic. There’s a tiny bit of Copic in the flowers too, then I added some dimension to the lettering.
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- Mondo Pansy by Brandi Kincaid, Ellen Hutson Stamps
- Thank You For Being A Friend by Brandi Kincaid, Ellen Hutson Stamps
- Combo with these two plus another floral by Brandi Kincaid
- Cold Press Watercolor Paper Pad 9×12, Arches
- Ranger Distress Oxide Ink Pads:
- DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors:
- Winsor Newton Kolinsky Sable Series 7 Round 10 brush
I love this tone on tone look
The charm of this card (for me at least) is that nothing is overly fussy or perfect. I love the variation you achieved between shades of the yellow tones, then bringing in the darker rust centers and the touch of green … PERFECTION!
Nice! I like the tone on tone, I think I may try this with LOTS of stamps this weekend, I’ve thought of it with larger background stamps, but not with smaller images and sentiments like this. And then there’s the watercolor option, of course I haven’t take the water color course yet…. but I can still play a bit with watercolor markers….
That is one cheerful card! While the color is bright, the monochromatic color way keeps it softer somehow… Love the idea of painting the border, instead of having another layer of cardstock.