Thursday, January 31, 2019

Watercolor Flower Painting becomes a Card

My brother came visiting my blog and inspired me to get back here and add some of the things I have been doing. For a long time I wanted more of an audience here but I have decided this is nothing but  journal for me to remember the things I have been making.  

If you come visit, say hi - Happy to have you but I am not holding my breath for people to stop by!

After one of my online watercolor tutorials, I had a bunch of paint on my pallet and didn't want to just wash it away. I painted a bunch of smaller things just for fun.

This is done on Canson cold press paper with Dr PH Martin's Radiant Watercolors.  

Then I needed a quick card for a wedding reception and this was handy to make a quick card. 
The steps were easy once the painting was done. 

  • Determine the card size for the painting. In this case it was 5 by 7 
  • Cut card base ( 7 by 10 )  and fold in half
  • Cut a black piece to fit on the card as a mat. Typically I trim a quarter inch off of the original size but I wanted it a bit smaller this time. 
  • Trim painting to fit. 
  • Diecut words, layer and glue it all together. 
  • In this case, I added a white piece of paper inside to write on. 
  • Then sign the back. 

There you go - Took me less than 15 minutes to have this card ready to go, since the painting was just sitting around my craft room 


Have a creative day! 

1 comment:

  1. Gorgeous watercolor flower and card faye.. I am still following you.. Glad to see you back..Loz

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