Hello and Welcome to Watercolor Weekend. Wishing all of the
wonderful Mom’s out there a very happy Mother’s Day!! The new 6024 Tea Time Set has sentiments just
for Mom, and is a beautiful set.
I
decided to use the largest tea cup for my card today. I started off with a piece of watercolor
paper and die cut the panel and then die cut out a decorative section in the
upper corner. I then stamped my image in N49, after stamping off once in the
bottom corner. I used set 5937 My
Trust Set for the flowers. Using the stamp positioner and in N49, stamping off
once, and placing the flowers in the teacup.
I started with the flowers first by adding 817. I like to place color in
the darkest areas first to set the pedals apart. Pulling that color out to the
ends of the pedals and adding more color as necessary. For the inside of the flowers I added 025
with a touch of 947, which I have found works really well with yellows. I shaded around the flowers inside the cup
with 565, and used the same color to give definition to areas of the cup and
saucer. For the flowers on the cup I
used 703, trying to give it dimension without giving it to much. I wanted it to appear a bit on the “flat” side. For the leaves and stems I used 126. I also
used 565 to shade under the teacup and under the saucer. I then added just a touch of 703 around the
outside edges of the image just to give a bit more dimension to it without
adding to much color.
I matted my
image onto some pink cardstock and then attached it to my card base. Now you
could leave this as it is, it would make a perfect card for any day
occasions. Going through my dies I
decided on 5132 Tag Stitched Dies for my sentiment. I first stamped Happy
Mother’s Day on some watercolor paper and then centered my die over it and cut
it out. After attaching this to my card
I was going to put a gem over the hole on the tag and then remembered I had
some little flowers in my stash and chose to use them instead.
My 2nd project today I used one of the newly
released Matchbooks, 6013 Bakery Matchbook, the sweetest scene, look at all
those goodies. The MB’s require 2 other additional sets, the 5317 MB Template
Dies and the 5318 MB Envelope Dies, these work with all of the other MB sets in
Ai’s line. I started out with permanent black ink, mixed media paper, a #1 and
#4 brush. Personally I prefer to stamp all of my images, color them, and then
die cut them out. I cut out the base template out of 5742 Easter PP, I felt the
soft pink was perfect for the Bakery.
There are a lot of elements to this scene, but if you keep your color
palette simple, you will breeze right through it. For all of the wood elements
I used 947, and 969. For the background on all of the signs I used 761. The table cloth 990, and 992. Cherries I used
856, and 969. The bread and rolls 992,
947 and 969. For all of the pink elements I used 761, 772, 817, and 837 was
used on the pie. For the spoon, and the
cake stand, I used N60 and N52. The doily and pie stand I shadowed with
565. Yellow cake I used 025. Chocolate cake I used 992, 969, and 899. Books are 817, 243, 403, 025, and 992.
Blueberry tart I used 565, and the tin N60, and N52. Cupcake stand I used 243, 969, and shadowed
the glass with 565. Once everything was
colored, I then used the included dies. The dies have score lines so that you
can easily fold the tabs on each piece.
I used the 5317 MB Template Die and 5742 Easter PP and assembled the
Matchbook together. If you would like to see a tutorial on how to put these
together, Bonnie has a wonderful tutorial that you can watch HERE. Don’t
hesitate to ask if you have any questions, I will do my best to answer if I
can. Thank you for joining me today, and
I hope you enjoyed my projects. Until
next time, Create….Share….Inspire!
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