Celebrate, you are amazing

I think I haven't done any serious watercoloring for over a year or two, and I really wanted to give it a try with these gorgeous @alexsyberiadesigns blooms

Alex Syberia Design products:

Elegant blooms press plate and die
Classic sentiments press plate and die
Collecting memories stamp and die sets
Grateful for you stamp set
Self-care sentiments stamp set

Watercoloring: Pebeo and Prima
Ranger Distress inks: Tea dye and Vintage photo

To create this card, I started by pressing the Elegant blooms onto Strathmore Bristol cardstock using a BetterPress and black ink.

I then watercolored the leaves and petals using different sets from Pebeo and Prima. I also watercolored the background with two tones of browns to create shadows and a gradient and used more water on the edges to fade it out.

Once dry, I splattered some white watercolor and later some white gouache, to have a mix of transparent and more opaque splatters. Once fully dry, I added black accents on the stamens with a gel pen.

I also press printed the Celebrate sentiment from the Classic sentiments press plate with black ink on Spellbinders BetterPress A2 Cotton Card Panels Porcelain White 320gsm, and used the coordinating dies. I stamped the small sentiment You are amazing from the Collecting memories stamp set and used the coordinating die set. I adhered both sentiments with liquid adhesive.

I trimmed the panel to 4 by 4.25" and adhered it onto the cardbase with liquid adhesive.
To add a bit more interest to the card, I stamped additional sentiments with Ranger Distress inks Tea dye and Vintage photo, as well as black ink for one of them, from the Grateful for you and Self-care sentiments sets.

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