Watercolor Altenew Beautiful Day

It is a beautiful day because I got back into my craft room, and I am using the Beautiful Day stamp set by Altenew. My card was inspired by 2 challenges that I am joining.  Virginia at the Altenew January 2020 Inspiration Challenge chose this amazing color combination. Don't you just love it! And the theme at the Flower Challenge inspired me to make a shaped card.  I love that challenges bring out cards that I otherwise likely would not come up with.

 

Tips:

1. Stamp your images and emboss them with your white embossing powder on your favorite water color paper. 

2. Water color your images and then cut them out.  I used Daniel Smith watercolor combination including Quinacridone Lilac, Rose of Ultramarine, Cadmium Orange Hue, Permanent Green Light, Sap Green and Under Sea Green.  I repeated a bit of the purply pink in the orange flowers and the green leaves as well as on its own on some flowers for some continuity in colors through the card.

3. To make this 9 by 4 inch card base I used my lattice background die and did partial die cutting, die cutting it twice, end to end on a 4.25 by 11 inch 110 lb. white cardstock. Then I cut the back of the card which was 9 by 4 3/16, scoring it at 4 inches.  I glued my lattice piece on the back, making sure it dried. 

4. Then I folded it and glued on all my pretty watercolored pieces. When I arrange my pieces I try and arrange the flower pieces and leaf pieces so they face different angles/directions.  And I try to make some sort of arc over the card front in the pattern.  I try to make sure the same types of flower or leaf pieces are not straight across from another piece like itself, trying to place it higher or lower, or farther to the left or right than other like pieces. I often use odd number of each type of flower or leaf, but the exception here is the largest flower. To help the design I add some greenery or other colored flowers between the 2 large flowers to break them apart a bit.

5. Finally I shaped the pieces a bit to curve them and add some dimension to the card.

 

If you can make some time I hope you can join the following challenges:

 

 

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Betty