Good morning! As soon as I saw this gorgeous Botanic Hello set from Mama Elephant I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it! And it was just as much fun to watercolor as I had hoped!
I started by stamping the image with versamark and heat-embossing it with gold tinsel embossing powder. Next I shaded the flowers with dark pink and red carmine zig markers and blended the colors together with a damp paintbrush. Once the flowers were done I did the same using the marine green marker for the greenery. I shaded the words with the pink marker and blended it out with my spectrum noir clear sparkle brush. Then I added additional shading around the image with the same pink marker and a damp paintbrush. This is still a technique I struggle with…I need to get more comfortable with blending out those shading lines and I wasn’t intending to share this card; but I decided that everyone struggles with something and this is my personal crafty struggle! 😉
I stamped the sentiment onto a fishtail banner, heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder, and popped it up with foam mounting tape. I stamped the edges of a cardbase with versamark and heat-embossed it with gold tinsel embossing powder. Then I trimmed the watercolor panel down and matted it on the embossed base. Finally I finished the card with a sprinkling of metallic gold sequins.
Thanks so much for visiting and have a wonderful day!
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Celeste Goff says
What a bright and beautiful card Jess! Love the gold embossing!
Lisaerica says
Beautiful! Love the rich and vibrant colors. Awesome coloring and shading Jess. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
Rosali says
The card is gooorgeous! I am very glad that you decided to share it!
Liz Maitland says
Wow, Jessica, this is AMAZING! Oh my days, & this is you struggling??? Totally gorgeous!!
Liz (aka Pusscatlizzie)
xxx
Rubeena says
Beautiful!
raggiodiluce82 says
Wow! Breathless card and colors!!!
cmayne says
Your card is stunning as is, Jessica…love those vibrant colours and lovely shading! I’m still trying to forge a relationship wtih my zigs…we’re ‘trying’ Thanks for the inspiration!
~carol