Hello and happy Friday, everyone! How about a little watercolor project for your weekend papercrafting?! If the current watercolor trend is still something you have yet to try and seems a little intimidating, this project is a quick and easy one to get your feet wet, using products you may already have on hand!
Here are the easy steps to create this card (bold products are linked below in the supply section):
1. Cut a piece of watercolor paper 5.50" x 4". Using a wide waterbrush, spread clean water in a pattern from the upper left of the panel, towards the lower right. Next, tap Mermaid Lagoon Mini Distress Ink onto non-stick Craft Sheet and pick up some of the color with the waterbrush. Spread the color over the wet watercolor paper and allow to dry (click on any photo for a larger view):
2. Next, stamp Essentials by Ellen Mondo Magnolia with Abandoned Coral Distress Ink twice onto watercolor paper and die cut with coordinating Mondo Magnolia dies. Using a detailer waterbrush filled with clean water, go over the lines, pulling the color towards the centers of the petals:
3. Now that the background is thoroughly dry, take Zig Gold Wink of Stella Brush Marker and gently squeeze the barrel until a little of the gold metallic ink fills the brush tip. Tap the marker against your finger so some of the ink flicks onto the background:
4. Stamp the Hello sentiment (from Mondo Magnolia stamp set) with Versamark ink onto the lower left of the watercolored panel and gold heat emboss.
5. Stamp the center of the magnolia blossom with Delicata Golden Glitz ink onto watercolor cardstock and die cut. Layer the three die cut flower pieces together using Copic High Tack Foam Tape, then adhere the blossom to the watercolored panel:
6. Adhere a 1/2" strip of Chickaniddy Goldie Lox foil paper to the right side of an A2 sized top-folding card base made from Neenah 110 Lb. Solar White cardstock. Then adhere the watercolored blossom panel to the card base using more Copic Foam Tape.
And there is your easy-peasy gilded mondo magnolia! Thanks so much for joining me today!
