Hi, everyone! I have picked up my watercolor paints again and it feels so good. I heat embossed our floral outline stamps on a few panels cut from watercolor paper. Then I painted them using Shinhan watercolors and Pental Aqua brushes. 

I painted a few panels create from our Noteworthy Blooms, Gladiola Cheer, Bonny Blooms, Stellar Peony Duo, Coming Up Lilies and Amazing Gardenia stamps. 

Stellar Peony Duet (upper left), Amazing Gardenia (upper middle), Bonny Blooms (upper right), Coming Up Lilies (lower left), Gladiola Cheer (lower middle), Noteworthy Blooms (lower right)

Bonny Blooms (above) and Stellar Peony Duet (bottom)

This process will explain how I created the Noteworthy Blooms card. However, the techniques apply to the other cards as well.

I start off by wetting my heat embossed panel with clean water first. Then I drop in color with my small waterbrush. Using the larger waterbrush, I blend that color out towards the outer edges of my floral petals. I repeat this step until I'm satisfied with the coverage. I also add secondary colors to my flowers. For example, I add orange or yellow paint to my red and orange florals respectively to give the florals a multi tone effect. 

For my background I dropped in green and blue paint and blended them out. Don't worry too much about blending out your edges. Lean into the imperfections. I don't worry about staying inside the lines. Get messy and embrace the chaos. 

Once I finished painting the panel, I trimmed it down to mat it onto an A2 panel. I popped up a sentiment from our Easy Expressions Sympathy set and added Iridescent dew drops. 

Supplies used: Shinhan watercolors, Pentel Aqua Brushes in Large and Small, White embossing powder

We have many outline floral stamps that you can paint to create beautiful cards for all occasions. Check out our collection and let me know which flower is your favorite. Don't see a flower you like? Let me know in the comments what set you'd like to see painted next! Thanks for stopping by today!

Effie