Tag: watercolor

  • Winnie the Pooh

    Winnie the Pooh

    I love Winnie the Pooh and the original illustrations! So I jumped at the chance of creating cards with the Classic Pooh Simple Stories and Spellbinders collab.

  • Yeti Anniversary

    Yeti Anniversary

    I created a felt yeti with Rocky, the Dancin’ Yeti for his launch. But I also wanted to color him with Distress Watercolor Pencils.

  • Blue Halloween

    Blue Halloween

    Today’s card is a watercolored Halloween card with a witchy little quokka. I’m starting by mixing the paint I need.

  • Birthday Quokka

    Birthday Quokka

    This is a pretty straightforward watercolored critter card. For my palette I was inspired by Palette 176 in the Color Cube volume 1.

  • Hello Pumpkin!

    Hello Pumpkin!

    The scene I was visualizing needed a frame of some sort. After browsing through my Spellbinders bin, I selected a die set called Essential Arches.

  • Fintastic Sharks

    Fintastic Sharks

    The shark and friends are from a Lawn Fawn Stamp and Die Set called Shark Duh-Nuh Flip Flop. I colored them with my Distress Watercolor Pencils.

  • Watercolor Envelope

    Watercolor Envelope

    To go with my wobbling reindeer card, I’m making an envelope. The envelope dies I use are by Trinity Stamps. It’s a big die set, but you only need three of the dies to create a regular A2 envelope.

  • Tea-riffic Birthday

    Tea-riffic Birthday

    This is the card I’m creating in today’s video. It has this fun, wobbling effect, created with an action wobbler.

  • Distress Watercolor Pencils

    Distress Watercolor Pencils

    When I got the new Distress Watercolor Pencils, I took them all out of their boxes and rearranged them according to the order on the Ranger web site.

  • Foiling Textured Paper

    Foiling Textured Paper

    The best cardstock for hot foiling is the smoothest. But you can make your own smooth cardstock in a few simple steps.

  • Cardmaking Watercolor Palette

    Cardmaking Watercolor Palette

    I wanted to swatch and organize a new watercolor palette for cardmaking.

  • Single-Layer Gnome Card

    Single-Layer Gnome Card

    The adorable little gnome with her poinsettia is from Trinity Stamps’ From Our Gnome To Yours stamp and die set.

  • Happy Lunar New Year

    Happy Lunar New Year

    Here in Silicon Valley the Chinese New Year is celebrated almost as much as Valentine’s Day.

  • You Make My Heart Smile

    You Make My Heart Smile

    For this card I used the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month for December 2023.

  • Duckling Cards

    Duckling Cards

    I started by laying out the dies on inexpensive watercolor paper and marking out how much space each of them would need. Then I colored the marked areas with Distress Crayons.

  • Floral Birthday Card

    Floral Birthday Card

    Tips for coloring flowers: Look for commonalities in the images. If you paint what’s typical, people will recognize the flower and your coloring will seem realistic to them.