Watercolor Holiday Cards with Dana

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

It’s Dana here and I’d like to share two watercolor holiday cards today. It’s easy and fun and let’s get started!

For my first card, I pulled out cold pressed watercolor paper with Floral Snowflake Stencil. I ink blended watercolor panel using distress inks with Ink Blender Brushes. Then, I smoothed the image with clean water using paint brush. After it dried completely, I splattered distress inks here and there as shown.

Next, I die cut some alphabets and dots from metallic gold paper using Chunky Alphabet and Chunky Numbers. Before I foam mounted them, I stamped ‘joyeux’ from Snowflakes in black. I then mounted watercolor panel onto A2 sized blue card stock and embellished it with hemp cord.

For my next card, I created watercolor looks using same technique with first card. I used Snowflakes stamp set for snowflakes and Poinsettia Border for sentiment.

After it dried, I die cut ‘peace’ directly from watercolor panel and put them aside for next step. I took an A2 sized kraft card stock and mounted metallic silver paper and watercolor panel step by step.

Then, I adhered mini pop dots to negative pieces and mounted them as shown in the picture. I embellished Icy Sparkle Crystals and finished off this card.