Your card is Gorgeous. Love how you printed the image in light beige. I love your water coloring. That flower image is so pretty.
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Hello everyone. Hope you are all doing great. Today I am sharing a watercolor floral card I made using Karin Watercolor Markers. Ever since I bought these markers I have fallen in love with them.
Me along with some talented cardmakers are celebrating Varada Sharma’s August Release Wings and Petals. This beautiful floral image if from one of her digital stamp set Awesome Blossom.
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The Focus
Started by printing this stamp set in a floral arrangement on a mixed media paper.
I wanted to create a 5 by 7 card because I preferred to paint a bigger flower not tiny floral clusters.
I printed the image in light beige color so I could create a no line coloring effect.
Colors Used
Started water coloring the flower using Karin Watercolor Markers. Pale pink concentrating on the base of the petals and fading towards the tip, leaving a pale wash of color for highlights. After two layers of pink I added a little olive green to the base of some petals and added a light wash of gold on the highlighted areas for a warmth. Finally, I added warm grey wherever it is supposed to be shaded.
The leaves on the top are colored with olive green and the leaves on the bottom are colored with curry.
I added some splatters of white acrylic paint and some gold watercolor paint.
Sentiment
And then, I used the sentiment from Wplus 9. It is a very old set of sentiment stamp. I stamped the sentiment directly on top of the colored image with Versamark ink and embossed using wow gold embossing powder.
For embellishment, I added a few gold sequins from my stash. I then layered this panel on a gold foiled cardstock and then adhered it to a 5 by 7 side folding cardbase made of heavyweight cardstock.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a disease that weakens the connective tissues of your body. Connective tissues are tendons and ligaments that hold parts of your body together. EDS can make your joints loose and your skin thin and easily bruised. It also can weaken blood vessels and organs.
There’s no cure for EDS, but the symptoms can often be treated and managed only if it is diagnosed.
I feel so proud to be a part of this special event where a bunch of card-makers and crafters join hands to raise awareness about EDS/HSD DESEASE.
Our card-maker friend Natasha Davies who suffers from this illness herself also found out about this disease from an awareness campaign on a radio.That is why she wanted to give back to the community by raising awareness to other people who may be suffering from this illness and do not know about it.
For this card I colored this image using copic markers in pinks and greens.
The background is created using Cover Die from Neat and Tangled. I love how this creates texture but the white on white is still not taking away from the beautiful floral image.
The floral image is adhered on foam tape for extra dimension. I added this to an A2 size top folding card base made of heavyweight white card stock.
I finally added some silver sparkling Stickles on the stamens of the flowers.
This completes the card. Here are some other images of the card.
Related Links
Here are some links that are related to this hop and may be interesting to you
Let me share this Ribbon I drew with black and white to represent the EDS/HSD awareness month with some fun intricate henna patterns. I used Micron pen in Pt3 to draw and fill inside this ribbon.
I feel so proud and honored for my friends wanted to use this design as their logo in this hop.
I am very thankful for my friends and I will always cherish them. The saying CRAFTY FRIENDS ARE THE BEST proved itself to be true.
