Good morning! Today I’m joining two of my favorite crafty people: Gina Krupsky and Lydia Fiedler for a mini blog hop to celebrate the March release from Gina K Designs! There’s a giveaway at each hop stop so make sure to check out the details at the bottom of this post! But first off, have you checked out Gina’s fabulous new release?
Here’s what I created using Hello Beautiful and Lettered and Lovely:
This is one of those times that I wish I could show you all this card in person because the camera just can’t capture the shine of that beautiful sentiment!! I started by stamping the flowers from Hello Beautiful with versamark on watercolor paper and heat-embossing them with silver tinsel embossing powder. I used post-it masks to mask the flowers to stamp the foliage. Then I stamped the sentiment from Lettered and Lovely with versamark and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder.
Then I taped the watercolor paper down to my cutting board and started watercoloring! I used just two shades of red (rose madder and permanent rose) and one blue shade (indigo) from my Mijello mission gold watercolors for the background. I started by adding paint to the center of each flower and then using a clean damp brush to blend the color to the edge of each petal. I added a few layers of color to deepen the center of the flowers. Then I watercolored the background following the same basic steps but adding color to the edge of the panel and blending inward towards the center. Once I got a basic wash of color across the panel I went back and added more color around each flower and blended it out.
Once it was totally dry I masked the flowers with post-its and flicked the panel with white paint. I let it dry completely and then went over each flower with my spectrum noir clear sparkle brush. Once that dried I trimmed the panel down to 4×5.25″ and adhered it to a dark navy card base. Finally I added a few gems to finish the card with a little more sparkle! Seriously guys, this is such a sparkly card…I so wish I could send it to all of you! 😉
Gina is graciously giving each of us a $25 gift certificate to give away! Leave your comments before 11:59PM EST on April 1st, 2018 and the winners will be announced on the Gina K Designs blog on April 2nd! Here are all the stops on our mini hop! 🙂
Thank you so much for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend!
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Gorgeous! Can you hear it enough? Lol…love the silver. I’m usually all about the gold but the silver with these colors…makes me want to get my watercolors out…thanks for the inspiration!
Great card. Thank you for sharing
Drop dead gorgeous!!!
Such an awesome technique!
Very pretty and soft. This release has such great inspiration.
Watercolor is my new craft journey and you are very inspiring! Thank you for sharing your cards… so pretty:)
Lovely cards…thanks for sharing with us!
Stunning!!! Love the colors and the silver embossing adds such elegance.
wow wow wow! that card should be framed.
Your card is beautiful. Thanks for sharing
I love the design, colors, & of course ALL the glittery goodness. It’s fabulous! ❤❤
your card is beautiful but I can imagine that to see it up close it would be absolutely stunning. Thank you so much for sharing.
Lovely card and I can tell that sparkly sentiment is gorgeous in person. Thanks for sharing with us.
What a gorgeous card. The red against the pale blue background really pops. This has given me some inspiration to at least give watercoloring a shot. And these floral images are just beautiful!
Beautiful card. I love the new release from Gina. I’m new to watercoloring. I need to jump over the fear and play with them.
What a gorgeous card and I love the sentiment! It is very inspirational.
Such a pretty effect embossing in the silver and such a pretty background with the flowers too!
What a gorgeous card! The silver embossing powder gives such a beautiful shine to compliment the lovely watercolouring.
Your card is gorgeous!!
Beautiful and thanks for sharing!
Lovely as always. I enjoy seeing what you creat!
So sparkly! So beautiful!
Beautiful cards. I just ordered the minc machine and I am going to make lots of cards with Gina K products.
This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing your techniques with the watercolors. I love watercolor but haven’t spent enough time with them to get very good at using them.
Stunning card. The colors are beautiful!