My card today is one I watercolored for Father's Day. I love that you can mix and match anything from all of the Art Impressions Watercolor sets and create your own scene! For my card, I used four different sets listed below.
Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit today and hope you have an amazing weekend!
Today we have a new Watercolor Wednesday! This week, Bonnie creates a cottage on a hill, with a river bend winding through the woods. We love how this simple sketch can really change the look of the landscape! She uses one of our WC Mini Cottages for the main image and adds trees, bushes, tiny flowers, and a roving fence.
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It's that time again; time for another Watercolor Wednesday! This week, Bonnie uses all our WC Truck Mini Set along with our WC Tree Set 1 to create a rustic image, perfect for a masculine card! Bonnie starts by inking the truck in two markers, African Violet and Sepia, and cut a mask to cover the image after she stamps it down on watercolor paper. This gives her the ability to place the barn in the background, aligning the placement with her stamp positioner. She removes the mask and pulls the color from the lines, darkens the windows with her fine tip marker, and adds color from her palette. Bonnie then masks the barn and adds pine trees all around the image. She returns to her truck mask, but cuts the back of the truck cab and the tailgate out, so she can add the branches into the truck bed. Bonnie adds tall grasses around the tires and along with the branches, and some more browns to make the truck rustic. Back to the truck mask, Bonnie places it to use the roving fence in front of the barn. Don't forget to sign and date!
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When I first saw the truck in the new Ai watercolor release I knew I wanted to get it because I could fill it with tons of things. It was a given that I would put flowers and leaves in it, but Easter eggs was not one of the first things I thought of. This blog post is falling on the first day of spring, but it is also my last post before Easter, so I had to come up with a way to combine the two. After looking at the sets I had planned to use this month, I decided to combine a few of them into this one post.
I stamped the set of three eggs from the Sweet Easter Set 5004 onto the Canson XL paper with Jet Black Archival Ink. I colored them using my same supplies. I fussy cut them out with detail scissors and added them to my layer with foam tape. I also stamped the Happy Easter greeting from that same stamp set with the Jet Black ink and cut it out using the Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels set 17. I also added that with foam tape.
Welcome to a new Watercolor Weekend! Today is exciting because the Watercolor Guest Design Team is back to share more inspiration with our newest products! Take a look at their beautiful and creative projects! We truly hope it inspires your creations this weekend!
I made this card for the Art ImpressionsWatercolor Weekend roundup. I used the bench from the - WC Bench Set and the stamp positioner to make this potting bench. I used three of the containers from the 4869 - WC Small Container set. I used the smaller watering can from the brand new 5012 - WC Wishing Well Set. My foliage and flowers are from the brand new sets 5007 - WC Foliage Set 3 and 5008 - WC Flower Set 3.
For today’s Watercolor Weekend project, “Filled with Flowers”, I used three of the newly released watercolor sets. I simply LOVE all the new sets!
Start off by inking up the watering can from the Wishing Well Mini Set first in Sepia followed immediately in African Violet. This makes a great steel grey color. I removed the ink from both bottom corners and the top center. Stamp in the lower center portion of your watercolor paper. Pull the colors from the lines with your watercolor brush and water. Using the stamp positioner, stamp the cobblestones from the Cobblestone Set (coming next week) in Sepia under the watering can. Next, stamp in the mini grass from Foliage Set 1 in Olive Green, pull the color, then ink up the tall flowery grass from the garden wagon mini set in Olive Green with African Violet on the little buds. Fill the watering can with foliage from Foliage Set 2 in Olive Green and flowers from Flower Set 3 in Rose Pink and Olive Green, Flower Set 2 in brilliant yellow and Flower Set 1 in African Violet. Add Olive Green to your palette and brush in between the cobblestones. Add a combination of Sepia and African Violet to your palette, combine to make the steel grey color and brush onto the watering can to add depth and dimension. Finish off with dot detail using the fine tip of African Violet.
The watercolor weekend design team is so excited to help Art Impressions roll out 6 new AI watercolor sets. I absolutely LOVE ALL OF THEM!!!
I will be doing lots of posts featuring these new sets. This weekend I am debuting this Winter Truck. The stamp set is the WC Truck Mini set and it includes the truck, barn and a fence (not used).
I also used the new WC Tree Set. Come check out all the details on my blog. Make sure to upload your projects to Instagram using #AIWatercolor. We can’t wait to check them out.
We hope you'll join our challenge this week! This week's theme is Watercolor Wonders, and we have a feeling this one is right up your alley! Join in the fun for a chance to win new Ai stamps! All you need to do is make your project, link it to inLinkz over HERE. Find more info on our Challenge Post. We'd love to see what you make!
We know our Watercolor sets are highly anticipated from our new releases! We are thrilled to release SIX sets on our website today! Take a look at our two new Watercolor Minis, the WC Truck Mini Set and WC Wishing Well Set, these two include wonderful main images for your scenes. Additionally, Bonnie designed new "basic" sets to mix and match with your current collection, including Foliage, Flowers, Mini Flowers, and Trees! See these sets in action in our video from Creativation! Nab these lovely sets up today and start creating your spring watercolor projects, and stay tuned for six more sets coming next week!
Today we are featuring our fabulous Watercolor Guest Design Team! We share their projects on the First and Third Satudays of the month, and we are so excited to provide even more watercolor inspiration to you today!
I’m excited to feature two NEW watercolor sets, Truck Mini Set and Flower Set 3, for the Watercolor Wonders Challenge in my “Truckload of Texas Bluebonnets” card.
First stamp the truck from the NEW Truck Mini Set in the lower left corner using a combination ofSepia and African Violet to achieve a beautiful grey color. Ink up the barn from NEW Truck Mini Set in Sepia and stamp in the upper right corner. Pull the color from the lines on the truck and the barn with your brush and water. Add a combination of Sepia and African Violet to your palette and brush onto the truck. Add Sepia and English Red to your palette. Brush the Sepia onto the roof of the barn. Mix the Sepia and English Red and brush onto the barn. Darken the windows with a little African Violet from your palette. Use a post-it note to mask off the bed of the truck then stamp the tiny flower from the NEW Flower Set 3 in Sapphire on the top ¾ of the flower, African Violet on the bottom ¼ of the flower and Olive Green on the stems. Stamp a portion of the fence from the NEW Truck Mini Set in Sepia on both sides of the barn. Use a post-it note to mask off the sides of the barn and stamp in trees using the two small leaf branches from the Foliage Set 2 in Olive Green. Add the small grass from theFoliage Set 1 around the barn and field and a combination of small and large grass around the truck using Olive Green. Add Salvia Blue to your palette and brush into the sky. Add dot detail for flowers in African Violet around the barn. Finally, to make the flowers resemble Texas Bluebonnets, put a dot of Copic White Opaque on the tip of each flower.
Introducing the new Wishing Well, Foliage 3 and Mini Flowers stamp sets. These are amazing sets and when I saw them I knew they would be some of my favorites going forward. I also grabbed a sentiment from the 4886K – Easter Blessings stamp set.
I started off by using a Spellbinders oval die and a pencil to lightly mark a border. Using African Violet and Sepia, I stamped the Wishing Well in the middle of the oval. The Foliage set 3 has this beautiful vine that looks like a climbing bush. I also used one of the new small foliage stamps in the set behind and to the right of the well. Who can forget about the tried and true grasses, which I use in almost every project. I softened the lines and stamped the flowers (they look like 3 hearts) in Magenta all around. Next, I started out with the mini flower in Olive green (used it like foliage). I added another of the mini flowers inked in Sepia and Pink. Then I added some leaves from the foliage 3 set and finally the heart flowers in Prussian Blue.
I used the Grey marker and Black copic multiliner to trace along the pencil line to create a border. I stamped the Easter Blessing sentiment using Versafine Black Ink. Lastly, I added a bit of Wink of Stella to the Well.
Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope my Easter Wishing Well gives you inspiration to get out your stamps. I hope you consider playing with your stamps and joining in with the Challenge!
We're gearing up for a new challenge, and it's your time to shine! For two weeks we are hosting our
"Watercolor Wonders" challenge! Share your project for a chance to win Ai stamps! All you need to do is create a wonderful project with watercolor, whether that's with our WC stamps or with your favorite line art stamp to color up with a brush!
Here are the Challenge Rules
✻ Please make a new card or creation. You can make any crafty item you wish; this is not limited to cards!
✻ Limit two submissions per person. You will receive extra votes if you use Art Impressions stamps!
✻ The Ai Challenge is open to everyone, international submissions are welcome!
✻ Include a link back to the Ai Blog or grab our button on the top right of our sidebar!
✻ Share the Ai love by clicking and commenting your fellow crafters.
✻ Make sure to get your link up by Wednesday, March 14 at 5:00 p.m. PST to enter your creations.
Congrats, Janet! We loved how you colored the First Bloom Window and coordinated with dotted paper, burlap and lace! Looks like spring to us! Email annelise@artimpressions.com with your address to claim your prize pack!
Congrats, you two! Amy, we love how you made a set of watercolor cards and a purse to put them in! What a darling gift! And Helen, we think the way you made the Any Cake raccoons peek into the living room is just adorable! And we appreciate your no-line coloring, too! Please email annelise@artimpressions.com with your address and select a stamp set of your choice for a prize.
Thanks for joining our challenge, see you next week! Happy Stamping!
Our new WC Truck Mini Set was made with masculine cards in mind! This vintage truck is perfect to fill with any foliage, produce, or twigs for your working guy! Bonnie starts by inking the image in her #86 African Violet and #45 Sepia Marvy markers. She pulls the colors from the lines, but leaves highlights on the top of the curved area and sides of the truck. Next, she uses a sticky note to mask the truck bed to add tiny buds from our new WC Mini Flower Set, and adds them down around the tires. She then adds vines and tall grasses from our new WC Foliage 3 Set to set the scene. To finish, she adds a wash of sky and darker blue shadows to the truck.
