Lisa used ink pads with water to color the stamped leaf images on this Sympathy Card. She also use it to tint her pattern paper and doily for a nice rustic, distressed look. The doily and twine help add texture … Read More ...
Autumn Still Life Card
Using a digital stamp from Power Poppy Stamps Gloria created this wonderful Autumn Still Life Card. To color the stamped image she used water soluble crayons and a water brush for an artsy watercolor look. She sharing step by step … Read More ...
Watercolor Sunflower Cards
Lindsay used woodless watercolor pencils
Visit her blog, The Frugal Crafter, to check out her 3 watercolor techniques.… Read More ...
Autumn Scene Slimline Card
Kristina Werner used a masking technique to created this delightful Autumn Scene card. Masking allows you to be able to “layer” stamped images onto a single piece of paper to help give your scenes a more realistic design with more … Read More ...
Autumn Sunflower Card
This Sunflower Card from Amber is the perfect friendship card to send to your bestie this Autumn. She used a large sunflower background stamp but only partially stamped and water colored it, leaving some “white space” for some interest and … Read More ...
DIY Plaids for Pumpkin Cards
Plaids are perfect for Fall and Autumn cards and Tanya has two different way you can create your own custom plaid designs. She’ll show you how easy it is to stamp them out or paint them yourself using watercolors. For … Read More ...
Fall Mushroom House Card
I imagine tiny little fairies or woodland mice live in the sweet Mushroom House on this wonderful card from Nina-Marie. She used watercolors to create lots of realistic texture on the die cuts, carrying that look over on to the … Read More ...
Fall Animals Watercolor Cards
I love how easy and forgiving watercolor can be and you can choose to keep it really simple or add lots of details and hand painted backgrounds for a more complicate design. Sally Allnock does amazing work with watercolor and … Read More ...
Acrylic Painting Ideas with Vicki Boutin
Acrylic paints + paper = the papercrafting brilliance your projects have been missing! Join dazzling designer, crafter, and blogger Vicki Boutin in this enlightening introduction to acrylic paints in papercrafting!
Take a tour through the beginner basics of applying Vicki’s … Read More ...
Fall Watercolor Art
I love the large stamps from Colorado Craft Company, one stamp fills up an entire panel. Like this one Daniel used for his wonderful Fall Art Work. He stamped on watercolor paper and use Arteza Brush Pens (also a personal … Read More ...
Gold Metallic on Black Slimline Card
I love the stunning gold embossing on black cardstock on this Slimline card from Jessie! She added simple but beautiful coloring to her images with some white watercolor which shows as a silvery grey over the black. The gold melted … Read More ...
Distress Inks and Foil Cards
Amy R. added beautiful splashes of fall colors over top of foiling for this amazing Autumn Leaves Cards. Using Distress Oxide Inks and water she loosely water colored and splattered over the foiled leaves designs, which really adds a lot … Read More ...
7 Techniques with Watercolor Brush Pens (and a Discount!)
I recently got the chance to try out the Watercolor Brush Pens
Resist Embossing Technique with Watercolors
Verity is sharing 3 different card ideas using an Resist Embossing Technique with watercolors. The beautiful metallic heat embossing really stands out beneath the washes of watercolor colors. She’s sharing how to use 3 different types of watercolors: liquid, pan … Read More ...
Watercolor Fall Leaves Card
Amber used watercolor markers, dies and stamps from Altenew for this stunning Autumn Leaves Card. She die cut the leaves from watercolor paper and then colored them with various markers in fall colors for a wonderful mottled look. I love … Read More ...