watercolor

Sending My Love

March 8, 2019

Hey there, it’s Juhi with my post for the month. Today, I’m sharing a floral watercolor card, it features one of my favorite floral stamps – the gorgeous flowering magnolia stamp from Hero Arts.

I started off by stamping the magnolia flower on a watercolor cardstock panel with black ink, masking it and stamping a few more flowers in the background with grey ink. I then watercolored the focal image with zig clean color real brush markers. Everything was going great until now but I managed to spoil it (as I usually tend to do when things are going great!) by splattering some purple distress oxide ink. I tried to salvage the piece by spraying water and dabbing with a paper towel which made it worse. I then added lots of green watercolor paint to camouflage the purple splatters.

I finally finished off the card by cutting the watercolor panel in two around the flower and mounting the two pieces with a little gap in between on a pink cardstock base.

I hope you like how my card finally turned out. Do you also mess up perfectly beautiful projects while trying to add something extra or is it just me?

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Embossing Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Intense Black Shop at: Hero Arts	CM261 Hero Florals Magnolia Shop at: Hero Arts
DI198 NESTING RECTANGLE INFINITY DIES Shop at: Hero Arts

Fall Color Inspiration

November 8, 2018

Hello everyone, it’s Juhi here with a card for this month’s Color Inspiration Challenge. I hope you are enjoying beautiful fall weather. Even though we don’t get to see too much of the gorgeous fall colors where I stay but the weather is still lovely.

I’ve used My Monthly Hero September 2018 kit for my card.

I colored the stamped images with the Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors that came with the kit. The colors on the sampler go perfectly with this month’s color inspiration challenge.

I finished off the card by adding highlights with a white gel pen to the colored images.

You still have some time to play along in the Color Palette Challenge! We love to see what you create!

I hope you enjoyed my card today. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool
Shop at:
Hero Arts

Intense Black
Shop at:
Hero Arts

My Monthly Hero September 2018
Shop at:
Hero Arts

DI198 NESTING RECTANGLE INFINITY DIES
Shop at:
Hero Arts

ABNH: September Challenge – Monochromatic

October 8, 2018

Hello everyone, it’s Juhi here. I’m sharing a super quick watercolor card I made for this month’s monochromatic color challenge.

Crafting, when you have an infant to take care of is a race against time! You have to work at lightning speed and there is no room for mistakes, you will NOT get time for any retakes! Thankfully my card turned out to be exactly how I thought it would!

The September 2018 My Monthly Hero kit is one of my favorites, the stampset is absolutely gorgeous; the Daniel Smith Watercolor Dot Card with 6 Autumnal colors goes perfectly with the stamps.

I created the background by adding watercolor onto wet watercolor paper and dabbing with a papertowel to create a mottled effect. The maple tree branch is also watercolored with Daniel Smith watercolors from the kit.

There’s still a few days left to participate in the Monochromatic Challenge! We love to see what you make and there are great prizes to be won.

I hope you enjoyed my project today. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool
Shop at:
Hero Arts

Intense Black
Shop at:
Hero Arts

My Monthly Hero September 2018
Shop at:
Hero Arts

Watercolor Rose

September 9, 2018

Hello everyone! It’s Juhi here, I have some happy news to share. I became a mom once again, baby girl Anika arrived close to midnight on August 16th. As you can imagine it’s been a super busy and exhausting last few weeks. I managed to sneak in a few hours to make this card.

hero arts rose floral stem

It seems that I’ve lost my crafty mojo. After several failed attempts I finally settled on making a floral watercolor card, one can never go wrong with that!

There’s still a few days left to participate in the Sparkle & Shine Challenge! We love to see what you make and there are great prizes to be won.

I hope you enjoyed my project today. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Embossing Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Versamark Watermark Ink Pad Shop at: Hero Arts	Intense Black Shop at: Hero Arts
DC151 Hello Stamp & Cut Shop at: Hero Arts	CM260 Hero Florals Rose Stem Shop at: Hero Arts

A Mum’s Hug

August 27, 2018

I hope that you are having a great Monday. It’s the first day back to school for one of my kiddos and getting back into the routine is a bit rough. Thankfully, I have a sparkly Mum (instead of Mom) hugs card to send with her, as starting a new year is always a little daunting.

I started out stamping this beautiful Mum in Versamark ink and then heat embossed it in silver. I then used Hero Arts watercolors to loosely watercolor the flower. I wanted the background to be a little brighter so I added in some light blue shimmery watercolor for the background. I then die cut a circle around the flower to attach to a black card base that I had sprayed with some shimmery silver spray.

I took the hugs die, from the March Kit, and die cut silver glitter paper as well as some black foam and adhered them together to add a little dimension to the card. I also added a little more silver spray to the flower to add a little more shine.

Hopefully a little card will help her first day back to school a little easier.

I hope you’ve had a chance to play along with our fun challenge this month. I can’t wait to see what you create!

Supplies:

Hero Arts Monthly Kit March 2018 Shop at: HA	Hero Arts – Mum Shop at: HA	Hero Arts – Silver Embossing Powder Shop at: HA	Tsukineko – VersaMark Ink Pad Shop at: HA
Hero Arts – Wagner – HT400 Precision Heat Tool Shop at: HA	Hero Arts – Liquid Watercolors Pine PD115 Shop at: HA	Hero Arts – Liquid Watercolors Indigo PD114 Shop at: HA