Hello friends, I am back again and with another tutorial today using yet another set of stamps and dies bundles brought to us exclusively by Tim Holtz and Simon Says Stamp. I have had so much fun creating with these bundles and have been so inspired…its fun when a product can be a jumping off point! This Tim, I created using the Mini Bouquet Bundle, for which I created a mini bouquet card. 🙂
It is truly a beautiful set! So, let’s get to it!
I started by creating a background using a stencil by mono-printing using a stencil, distress watercolor paper, water and a few colors of Distress Spritz (Bundled Sage, Antique Linen and Victorian Velvet). I spritzed the stencil with a combination of the spritz’s, spritzed the stencil with water and flipped the stencil over onto a piece of watercolor paper. I then lifted up the stencil and dried the paper with my heat tool. This leaves an imprint on the paper. To fill in the edges of the paper, I used my finger to apply some more of the spritz and some water until I had the look that I wanted.
I you’d like a step-by-step photo look at the process, HERE is a tutorial where I did basically the same thing, except, I used distress watercolor pencils instead of the distress spritz.
Next, I stamped some flowers using the stamp set. I dipped a couple of Distress Watercolor Pencils into some water to activate the pigments, then I scribbled some color directly onto the stamp, then right before stamping, I spritzed the stamp with Spritz, then I stamped the image onto some watercolor paper.
After the flowers were dry, I cut out a few of them using the dies. I cut one of the flowers to create some difference to them, them placed them and adhered them together. Then I tied them together using a scrap of ribbon.
I cut out a slide folder from some scrap paper, to use as a base for the bouquet.
I used set some small eyelets into the small holes on each corner of the slide, I then placed a piece of mica tile into the window.
I selected a phrase from the Metallic Sticker book then added some foam adhesive to the back.
I stitched around the edge of the background paper, then adhered the slide frame, bouquet and phrase to the card.
Then I adhered the background to a card base, and with that, my card was complete!
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What a beautiful masterpiece. I am going to borrow your technique and try my hand at watercolor stamping. Thank you for sharing. Your talent is showing!🥰
Beautiful card, Stacy. I am just a bit confused about your use of the stencil in the first step. It seems to me the stencil would create colored flowers on a white background, no? What am I not understanding?
oops…it sure would, lol, I forgot that I had created the background by spraying the stencil itself, then spraying it with water and laying the stencil onto the watercolor paper…the problem with writing a tutorial quick and using a background paper that I made a bit ago. lol, sorry about that, I will correct the process in the tutorial. THANK YOU for asking me 🙂 I appreciate it!
OH! This is SO beautiful!!
Beauty at its finest. Thank you for sharing and giving us all your ideas for inspiration. I’m truly grateful.
HI, Stacy! I love this card, the colors are so soft, it’s a dream! Hi from Belgium!