Hello there everyone! Have you been enjoying the little sneaks on social media of the new release that's coming your way this week? I know I have and I can't wait to share my creations with the new products.  But, enough with the teasing! Today I have a card to share that uses the beautiful Just a Little Lovely stamp set from an earlier release. 

This stamp is gorgeous as a centerpiece for a card, and I wanted to have even white space all the way around it, making it a little longer than an A2 size card, but not quite as long as a full length slimline card.  I decided to stamp it in pale water soluble ink on hot press watercolor cardstock.  I then die cut it with the Essentials Slim Diagonal Stitched Rectangle die.  I slid the die along in my die-cutting machine, making sure the diagonal piercings lined up and then die cut again, creating a custom sized diagonal die cut!

I wanted to watercolor the image making it bright but also a little bit realistic, by building up the layers of color.  I used the Liquid Watercolors to do this,  which are wonderfully concentrated but also easily diluted for paler colors.  I used a water brush to pick up color from my ceramic palette and used a pale dilute color at first.  The florals are primarily Lavender, with a wash of Bubblegum as the last layer.  The leaves are a custom mix of Key Lime, Emerald City and Aquamarine, and to add contrast in places I added less diluted Emerald City and Sapphire.  The green leaves were a mix of Key Lime and Emerald City,  and for the flower centers and branches/pods I also added hints of Espresso and Clementine. 

 When  dry, I went back in and added a few details with deeper color on the brush, and a few splatters of Espresso and Lavender.  The sentiment is from the same set, stamped directly in black ink on the panel.  

To finish the card I added a few purple jewels, before mounting with foam tape to a 110lb card base.  

I hope I gave you a few ideas for playing with liquid watercolors. The depth of color you can achieve with them is really awesome, I can't wait to grab them again soon!

Jenny