Watercolor and Masked Mother’s Day Cards

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I’m not sure what I was thinking when I decided to makes two watercolored and masked Mother’s Day Cards. They are so not perfect but I love how they turned out anyway. I have no skill in this area so I won’t tell you what to do to recreate these but it was a learning experience so I thought I’d share what I learned.

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp For All Moms Stamp Set

Simon Says Stamp and CZ Designs Good Job Mama Stamp Set

Simon Says Stamp Delicate Flowers Stamp Set

Kuratake Gansai Tambi 36 Watercolor Set

Danielle Smith Watercolors: Quinacridone Rose, Hansa Yellow Light, Cerulean Blue Chromium, Lunar Black

Winsor Newton Permanent White Gouache

Arches Cold Press Watercolor Paper

Neenah Solar White 110lb

Simon Says Stamp masking paper

Gina K Amalgam Black Ink

Nuvo Shimmer Pen

Hero Arts Silver Embossing Powder

Silver Black Velvet brush size 6 round

Royal Langnickel Zen size 2 round brush

Tombow Mono Drawing Pen Black 03

1. Stamp all the images on masking paper, find a comfy chair, put on your favorite show and cut all those images out. All the fussy cutting will be done before you know it!

2. Use masks, stamps and backing paper from your masks to help lay out the scene before stamping anything.

3. Add a line to help ground the images if they wouldn’t normally be floating in air. Use pencil first, cover the area with masking tape, stamp additional images and trace the line in black when the card is done and dry.

4. Fill in empty spots with small images.

5. Add splatters of paint to hide imperfections. I messed up the masking in a few spots so after I added random spatters, I went back and strategically placed some others to hide my mistakes.

6. Mixing my own colors gave me better results than a 36 pan set. All the variations of purple on that card came from just three paints.