Grace's Garden Card inspired by Watercolor Painting

Many of you know that my dad, Jim Burns, is a watercolor artist… wait.. I mean an AMAZING watercolor artist, and I recently used one of his paintings as inspiration for my card featuring the Grace’s Garden stamp set. This painting happens to be hanging in my stamp loft, so I used it for inspiration to watercolor this card! You might have seen my facebook post about my dad painting at the senior living facility recently. It was so cute. If you missed it, it’s here.

I am not in any way a watercolor artist, but I did have a ton of fun stamping and watercoloring and die cutting these images from the Grace’s Garden bundle. All images are stamped with Black StazOn ink on Stampin’ Up! Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. I colored all the images with Stampin’ Up! ink refills, water, and watercolor brushes.

Step by Step – How I Watercolored the Card

If you are interested, I photographed each step.. here is how I watercolored the Grace’s Garden fence and flowers card.

NOTE: all stamping done with black StazOn ink, on Fluid 100 Watercolor paper, and color added with Stampin’ Up! Ink Refills (dropped onto a clear block), and painted with watercolor brushes.

Step 1: after stamping the fence and gate, wet the sky and in between the fence pickets, and add some Seaside Spray ink to the wet area.

Step 2: While the sky is drying, stamp a 2nd watercolor paper sheet with the flower images, use Granny Apple Green and Pear Pizzazz ink to add color to the stems and “grass”

Step 3: Wet the “grass” area with water, and use the same green ink to add grass to the fence/gate watercolor piece.

Step 4: Let the grass dry just a moment or so, and add some Shaded Spruce ink to the grass and let it bleed into the lighter green area

Step 5: Color the flowers with whatever color you’d like. I’ve used Highland Heather and Bermuda Bay below

Step 6: Add more color to the flowers, I’ve added Flirty Flamingo and Daffodil Delight. NOTE: I feel that the colors turn out a bit darker on watercolor paper, so you may want to test out your colors first at the edge of the paper.

Step 7: Admire your handiwork.

Step 8: When the sheet with the flowers is completely dry, use the dies from the Garden Gateway dies (in the Grace’s Garden bundle) to die cut the flowers.

Step 9: The fun part… deciding which flower images to use and where to add them to the card!!

Step 10: Mount your watercolor paper to a folded card. My finished card is 5″ x 7″ and will fit nicely into a 6×9 envelope.

Thanks for visiting me today. I appreciate you and hope you enjoyed this beautiful card! I loved making it. All supplies are available by clicking any of the product photos at the bottom of this post! Thank you!

Grace’s Garden Bundle available online!

Grace’s Garden Bundle (English) – 153789

Price: $47.50

Step by Step – How I Watercolored the Card

Related

19 thoughts on “Grace’s Garden Card inspired by Watercolor Painting”

Leave a Comment Cancel reply