Layers Of Love: A Water Coloured Floral Card.
Hello everyone. It's Jen here and I'm back to share some inspiration with you all again.
This month, the very talented Kassi, who frequently shares card-making tutorials on the LDRS Creative YouTube page, served as my inspiration. She used watercolors to create a tiered ombre effect in one of her videos. I loved the technique so much that I just had to recreate it for myself. I've linked to Kassi's video below.
Products used.
Petite Petals Dies – LDRS Creative
Stitched Heart Die Set – LDRS Creative
Watermark Emboss Pad – LDRS Creative
A2 Cotton Watercolor Panels – LDRS Creative
Simply Word Dies – LDRS Creative
I started this card by trimming precut watercolour panels down to 5" by 3 3/4" twice. On one of the panels I created a window by diecutting the largest of the hearts from the Stitched Hearts Dies from the centre. The second I used to create my ombre water colour panel.
Kassi gives a wonderful explaination of this technique in her video but basically you start off by painting a very diluted wash of your chosen colour of watercolour paint over the whole of the panel. Then dry it using a heat tool. Once dry you take the same colour paint but this time you add more pigment and less water to create a darker shade. Then paint this onto your panel, starting just below the top of the previous layer.
You continue on in this way until you've created a gradient of colour all across your panel from top to bottom. If you want defined layers, It's important to use your heat tool to dry in between each color wash or your layers will just blend together. Not drying in between layers would leave you with a smoother ombre effect, however, I think that would look beautiful too!
To break up the edge in between the layers I used the brush to dab on the paint, which added more texture and interest. I also splatterd the panel with the darkest shade of the paint and some white paint that I have in my stash. This technique is so easy and very forgiving. You really can't go wrong in my opinion! Once finished I set the panel aside to fully dry and began working on my floral images.
For the Petite Petal florals and leaves, I die cut them from more watercolour paper and painted them using the same watercolouring technique. Next I die cut the "Love" sentiment from the Simply Words Die Set from gold mirror cardstock and stacked it with 2 more white layers. This adds a little more height and gives the die cut more stability. I heat embossed the word "Sending" from a retired stamp set called Whispering Meadow in gold onto the watercoloured panel. I adhered it behind the heart window panel with some foam tape to add even more dimension. The die cut sentiment was adhered below the heat embossed sentiment on the watercolor panel. Then I arranged the florals and leaves around the heart and glued the finished card front to an A2 card base, which finished off this card. I didn't think of this until I'd finished but you could step this card desgin up by turning it into a shaker card!
I love how the Petite Petals die cuts frame out the heart perfectly. It's like they were made to go together! I hope you like how this turned out and I'd highly recommed checking out Kassi's video on this layered water colour technique.
Catch you all again next month! Bye!
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