I'm going to say this right at the beginning, since I'm labelling my card as for beginners. I used a few extra products like a stencil and a die, which beginners probably do not have. You can skip it! I just wanted to do something different than I usually do. Normally I would take a watercolour panel in the size of my card base, paint my image, maybe paint the edges of that panel to create a frame and adhere the whole thing on top of a card base. However I do have some cardmaking products lying around and I hardly ever use them on cards where I paint from scratch. So if you do not have any of the additional products, just skip it and paint only the flower. Again I found the idea for the card on Instagram. Emma Lefebvre @emjlefebvre was doing watercolour flower alphabet and painted coneflower. I really like it mainly because it looked simple to paint and I thought it would be great for a card. I wish though I checked a photo of a coneflower instead just following what I saw in the video. I cannot say I have never seen this flower, but surely not recently. So I didn't have a clue how it looks like. I started with the flower. You can use any watercolour brand you want. If you are going to create a tag and therefore you are restricted with the size, you might use a pencil and sketch the top of the flower or place some pencil guides. Then using a yellow paint I created the top of the flower, you could also use orange if you want. When you google a coneflower the middle part is quite big, compared to the petals, so I was making sure not to paint it too small. While the yellow was still wet I put in a few dots of orange brown and brown paint across it. Next I painted the petals. I didn't wait for the top of the flower to dry. My watercolour palette has a perfect shade of purple. It's the Purple Lake from Winsor & Newton. I painted two rows of petals. I started with less saturated paint and I painted the petals along the bottom of the yellow middle. I used a heat tool to dry the petals and then I painted the second layer, for which I used more saturated colour. To paint the petals is very easy. I used a size four round brush and with two strokes I painted each petal, starting with the tip of the brush, pressing down, back to the tip of the brush. Once I was happy with the look I painted the stem with the tip of the brush and then I painted the leaves. Just simple leaves, I don't even know if they are correct, probably not, but I wanted them to be plain. After the panel was dry I used the green and purple and created a splatter across the panel. Now! Here I reached the point where I decided to do a few extra things, but as I said those are optional. You can skip this and just adhere your panel on top of a card base and you are done. I started with the card base. I thought it would be fun to add some pattern across it. I took a stencil with a brick pattern, placed it on top of a card based and used the Walnut Stain Distress ink and covered the background. I didn't need to fully cover it, also I didn't want to have a pattern from edge to edge. Next I used a tag die and die cut two tags one with the coneflower and the other out of a green card stock. For the green tag I used a green Distress ink and blended it along the edges. It just makes it more interesting and is completely optional. If you do not have a die to create a tag, what you could do is to use a paper trimmer and a hole punch and create it that way. I put the tags together and used a bakers twine and tied a bow. I had to glue them together so the tag with the flower wasn't moving and then I adhered the tags on top of the card base over the brick pattern. I used a foam tape to have it a little bit raised. Lastly to finish up the card I added a few embellishments. I had these crystals for a very long time, I bought them because they look very nice, but I always forget to use them. This time I didn't forget. I adhered two of them and I also added a few clear Nuvo drops. You can see a quick video of me making this card on my YouTube channel or Instagram and make sure you subscribe/follow. WATCH A QUICK VIDEOWatch the video below or directly on my YouTube channel or Instagram. YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEPIN MEDid you like the card? I would love, if you pinned it to your board on Pinterest!
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