Hello friends!! The latest Simon Says Stamp release called Just A Note is now available! As always, be sure to check out all of the wonderful new crafty goodies over in their shop--there's always such a good variety of styles to choose from!
My card features the new and so gorgeous Darcy Bouquet Embossing Folder and Cutting Die set!
I started out by embossing a piece of watercolor paper with the Darcy Bouquet embossing folder. Then I used the included coordinating dies and cut out the three flowers. To emboss these separate flowers, I positioned them over the matching flowers in the embossing folder, securing the die cuts with removable tape.
For all of my watercoloring, I used a set of watercolor brush markers. I first did a wash of the light green over all of the embossed greenery. Then I used several different Prismacolor green pencils to color over the raised leaves. I blended out the pencil coloring with Gamsol and a blending stump.
For the flowers, I combined 2 to 3 colors of the watercolor brush markers to achieve a shade I liked. For example, the pinkish flower is Crimson and Purple Wine combined with a couple drops of Lava Rock. It's fun to combine colors to get different shades!
Here's a look at my colorful mess! You can see that I painted the flowers' edges before I adhered the die cut flowers.
Next I added some pretty gold splatters over the piece with metallic gold watercolor and a paintbrush. I added a sentiment from the Messages For Everyone stamp set that I stamped in black ink. It's popped up with a strip of narrow foam tape.
I really enjoyed my coloring time on this project! This is such a gorgeous embossing folder and I have lots more ideas of how I want to use it! Don't forget to check out the entire Just A Note release!!
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