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.
