My current project is making Mother’s day cards. I am using my hand painted images for these cards. The technique is slightly different from my two previous posts. In my previous posts I wanted the painted image to blend into the background. Also, the images were fussy cut to help the edges not be as […]
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An easy technique for Easter cards. Actually for any cards you enjoy making. The images shown here are cut from my practice papers. Sometimes I do not like the background of a painting. Or, I accidentally drop paint/ink where I do not want it. I save all practice papers to repurpose in other projects. As
The final watercolor kimono card is ready for me to share with you. These are the card blanks that I posted about in a couple of previous posts. My intention with both the kimono and paper lantern cards is to demonstrate various techniques to make your projects different from each other. In the interest of
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This paper lantern watercolor card is one of the ones I mentioned in my previous post. It is from the set I bought a very long time ago at the art museum store. To add dimension to the images I pressed a napkin to ‘lift’ the color randomly. Another technique to add interest is to
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I bought these watercolor card blanks a very long time ago at the art museum store. I have worked my way through most of the original set; there are 3 left to complete. However, in the interest of keeping this post fairly short I will do each project separately. It is stay-cation time for me
