Wedding Watercolor Stamped CARD

Watercoloring stationary is a huge trend right now.

I wanted to create a wedding card using watercolors to match this lovely wedding invitation (invitation to the left).  I inked my stamps (Turning A New Leaf-PTI) heavily with water and stamped images onto the wet watercolor paper (wet-on-wet technique).  

Then played around with my aqua painter.

                         

Adding (ink) paint to a wet layer of paint on the paper produces a soft, diffused look as the colors mix.  Being able to predict the results you're going to get working wet-on-wet takes practice, but as this technique can produce spectacular, lively types of cards, paintings, it's well 

worth experimenting with it.

CRAFTERS TIP: when watercoloring your paper can curl!  If you have time leading up to your event – stack all papers under really heavy books/bricks for like a week to flatten them out.   

If you don’t have time ... iron them.

All supplies Stampin' Up! ... unless noted.

Recipe ...

Stamps: PTI (Papertrey Ink): Turning a New Leaf, SU Word Play (retired)
Ink: Classic-Rich Razzelberry, Wisteria Wonder, Soft Suede (stamped-off)
Paper: Watercolor paper 140 lb, Elegant Eggplant
Accessories: Pearl Basic Jewels (2 mm), Rhinestone, Aqua Painter-medium, Tim Holtz water spritzer, the beautiful lace Artisan Embellishment Kit (retired), 2-3/8" Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/4" Circle Punch, Dimensionals
Technique:  Wet-on-Wet Watercoloring

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Do somthing creative every day!

Tropical Wedding, cQc#201

Check out the colourQ challenge #201, The Royal Court Design Team with their "LOVE" ly color palette:  Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Basic Gray and Soft Sky.  Wedding card for a couple getting married in Hawaii next weekend.

             

                                                                                  

All supplies Stampin' Up! ... unless noted.

Recipe ...

Stamps: Tropical Party (retired), Word Play (retired)
Ink: Night of Navy, Calypso Coral, Basic Gray and Soft Sky
Paper: Whisper White, Soft Sky
Accessories: Basic Jewel Rhinestone, Whisper White 5/8" Organza Ribbon, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Brayer, Dimensionals
Technique:  Brayer Sky

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A Perfect Fall Wedding CARD, The I Do Photos and LIM95



This post is kind of long but I'd think you'll like it.  Please forward & share with friends for those who love the Owl Builder punch & also pretty weddings.



A big Congratulations to Kelly and Ian on their Happy I Do day back in late October.  It was a perfect Fall wedding at The Old Homestead in scenic Crockett, CA (wedding photographs below).  So on with the card ...

My owl wedding card. The owl dress draped with a string of pearls and a touch of one glamorous rhinestone!

A close up photograph above of the owl bride's dress and ivory tulle veil.  At Kelly & Ian's wedding, the couple made the sweetest wedding favors I've have ever seen.  They were a mason jar filled with delicious oatmeal cookies adorn with beautifully laced & ivory satin picot edge-ribbon draped all around (sorry, no picture).  On the owl card I personalized it by adhering a piece of the picot-edge ribbon from Kelly's favors and adhered it onto the veil for the owl bride card "something new". 

 A string of pearls!

Below are a few of my favorite photographs I took of the Happy I Do couple Kelly & Ian.  Hope you enjoy them.

Bountiful Hydrangea Flowers

 Kelly and her Dad (love this pic!)

The Wedding Vows

A big congratulations to Kelly and Ian on their Happy I Do day!

A Perfect Fall Evening Wedding it was!

 A photograph of my little grown up family. My son Matthew, Marian (me), my daughter Mandy (who was in the wedding party as a bridesmaid/brides hair stylist and by the way who caught the bouquet) and her sweet boyfriend Damon.   Mandy is wearing my favorite pearl necklace "something olde" given to me from my God Mother from when I was born.   Every year my God Mother would add a pearl and then when I turned sweet 16 she finished off the necklace.  God Bless my sweet Nina Lucy.   Doesn't Mandy look great!

LQQK there's more!  Over at Less is More Chrissie & Jen created some inspiring

Glamour and Glitz. 

Rich royalty gems a string of pearls and a sparkly rhinestone! 

 

 I know my card might be too intricate to some for this challenge but I really like it a lot and hope you enjoy it too! Would love to hear what you think ... thank you!

 

All supplies Stampin' Up! ... unless noted.

Recipe ...

Stamp: Word Play, Autumn Days-retired
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Ruby Red-retired, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede
Paper: Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Basic Black, Blush Blossom-retired
Accessories: Owl Builder Punch, Bird Builder Punch (for the branches), 2 1/2" Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Scallop Circle Punch (for the bottom drape of the dress), 1" Square Punch (for the top hat), Textured Impressions Folder Framed Tulips Embossing Folder, Textured Impressions Lace Brocade Embossing Folder (dress), Prettiest Kit (flower)-retired, Sponge, Dimensionals, Rhinestone Basic Jewels, Pearl Basic Jewels, Glue Dots and non-SU Wedding Ivory Tulle (for the veil).

Enjoy!