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Vintage watercolor holiday card ~ Mailbox

Hello, it’s Gaylynn. Today, I am sharing a vintage watercolor holiday card with a mail or postage theme.

 

Using light colors and accents, this vintage watercolor holiday card came to life.

Sentiment:  Making spirits bright.  Let your heart be light.

I share a video tutorial for this project and technique.

Helpful tips:
In summary, here are helpful tips for making a vintage watercolor holiday card.  To begin, stamp using waterproof ink onto watercolor paper.  Also, mask the envelopes to make a cascading look to them.  Next, prepare an A2 card base from colored cardstock.  Then, make a palette of desired colors for your project.  I blended some of the colors together to get the hues that I wanted.  Then, using a wet paint brush, carefully add touches of color, one section at a time.  Once finished, heat set or leave out to dry completely.  Finally, adhere the panel onto the card base, with added gems or embellishments, to finish.

 

Here is another look.

Supplies:

Unity Stamp Co.
Making Spirits Bright
Scallops & Rectangles (nesting dies)
Also, a watercolor set, watercolor paper, paint brushes, pens.

Don’t forget, you can find my other features below:

Technique Time and
Watercolor Wednesday.

Thanks for visiting and have a lovely day.
Gaylynn

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Sakura

It’s Friday and so much more!  We’re celebrating Unity’s 14th Birthday with so many amazing new stamps and awesome discounts!  Today, I’m sharing the new “Sakura” stamp set and it’s HUGE!  Perfect for slimline cards, A2 cards and even scrapbooks!  I love big stamps and I cannot lie!

For the coloring of this giant stamp, I started with the cherry blossoms.  The colors I used were:  V99, R56, R83, RV93 and RV91.  For the leaves and the branches, I used G85, G82 and E25.  And as much as I wanted to fill in the background, I wasn’t sure if I had enough ink in some of my Copics, so I used a different technique called stippling.

Stippling: /ˈstip(ə)liNG/  (noun) the art or process of drawing, painting, or engraving using numerous small dots or specks.

I used three different Copic colors:  BG75, BG72 and BG70.  Without coloring, you can still create shadows by using the darker color at the edge and dotting out towards the lighter colors.  This is an incredibly easy way to color without ever worrying about perfect blends.

To finish this card, I added a sentiment from the “Thankful and Grateful Fall” Sentiment Kit (September 2018).  To make it stand out a bit, I heat embossed the sentiment to give a little dimension.

Make sure to join the celebration with all of the great deals at UnityStampCo.com.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you found some inspiration.  Until next time…

Happy Crafting!