Good Monday afternoon. I have a stamped watercolor garden scene to share with you today using the Art Impressions Watercolor Tree Set, Watercolor Foliage Set and Watercolor Flower Set paired with the Impression Obsession Branches Corner. I used my retired Stampin’ Up! Watercolor Mini fern stamp to create the leaves on the trees. I used Distress Markers to apply ink to the stamps and used water brushes to pull the color out for the grass and lightly touched the flowers to soften.
I secured the watercolor paper in my MISTI with the magnets and set the tree stamp in place, applied ink and stamped a couple of times to get good coverage. I repeated this step two more times to create three trees. You can really only see two well in the scene. I tried something different for my trees this time and I like how it worked. I stamped the trees in green thinking it would be easier to cover the upper branches when applying leaves. Then I took my brown marker and colored over the green trunk and lower branches. It worked great. Next I stamped the leaves using a darker green and lighter green to fill in the tree. I used the darker green to stamp the grass images leaving small spaces in between each image. I added purple flowers all around the tree trunks and ground area. Then I used a damp brush to pull the green from the grass images to fill in all around the flowers and used a wet brush to pull the green out to the edges of the scene. I added a few pink flowers in the background to draw the eye back. I applied tiny dots of white gel pen to the center of each of the purple flowers. I finished the scene by sponging blue in the sky area using an ink blending tool.
I cut four Branches Corners to use to create the branch frame. I applied double stick tape to the back three sides of the frame. I attached one full branch in the left corner, turned one on it’s side and attached to the right side of the frame. I cut the other two branches apart and attached to the lower sides of the frame. I attached the scene to the card base using ATG adhesive. I applied thin strips of mounting tape to the back of the frame and attached it over the scene to finish.
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Card size: 5.50” x 4.25”
Afternoon Kittie,
This is such a pretty card… Another one I could imagine in a frame….. Thank you for sharing your amazing creativity…
This is a lovely card, Kittie. The leafy frame adds a delightful frame to the beautiful watercolored scene. TFS
Nous sommes dans un vrai jardin et j’entends même les oiseaux chanter. Très belle carte comme tu sais si bien les faire. Gros bisous et belle journée !