By Anna Escalada York ~

While this card was made for a winter wedding card, it could easily be used for many different celebrations. It features mixing colors together to create new colors.

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 1 hour

Directions:

Step 1:
Stamp a large bouquet of flowers with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink on watercolor paper and heat emboss with clear embossing ink. Die cut with the corresponding die.

Step 2:
Selectively spray the bouquet with Luly Lavender Fireworks! Craft Spray and allow to dry.

Step 3:
Use a variety of Memento and Fabrico markers as well as another color of Fireworks! Craft Spray to watercolor the bouquet.

● Leaves/greenery: I watercolored the leaves and greenery with Bamboo Leaves Memento Dual Marker mixed with water. While the leaves were still damp, I watercolored them with Teal Zeal Memento Dual Marker mixed with water.

● Roses (purple flowers): I watercolored them with Grape Jelly Fireworks! Craft Spray mixed with a little water.

● The daisies: The petals were watercolored with Tropical Lagoon Fabrico Dual Marker and the centers with Pear Tart Memento Dual Marker mixed with water.

Step 4:
Not pictured: Die cut a piece of watercolor paper with an A2-sized deckled rectangular die. Next, spray the inside of an embossing folder with Frost Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray and emboss the panel as well as add shimmer to the panel. Allow to dry.

Use the same A2-sized deckled rectangular die to cut the bouquet die cut in half while also making sure that the edges of the flowers would line up with the deckled edges of the embossed panel. Glue the flowers onto the top and bottom edges of the panel. Then use a sponge dauber to ink blend the edges of the panel with Teal Zeal Memento Dye Ink.

Step 5:
Stamp a sentiment with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink on a scrap of watercolor paper and heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Trim the watercolor paper.

Step 6:
Press the edges of the card panel and the sentiment strip in the Silvery Shimmer Delicata Ink pad.

Step 7:
Splatter more of the Grape Jelly Fireworks! Craft Spray over the card panel. After the splatters dried, glue the sentiment strip on the lower right corner of the panel. Glue sequins on the lower left and upper right parts of the panel. Then glue the whole thing onto an A2-sized white card base to finish the card.

Art Supplies

Imagine
• Delicata Ink – Silvery Shimmer
• Fabrico Dual Marker – Tropical Lagoon
• Fireworks! Craft Spray – Grape Jelly and Lulu Lavender
• Memento Dual Marker – Bamboo Leaves, Pear Tart, Teal Zeal
• Memento Dye Ink – Teal Zeal
• Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray – Frost
• VersaFine Clair Ink – Nocturne
• Sponge Dauber

Other
• Altenew – embossing folder – Starburst 3D
• Altenew – die set – Blossoms of Encouragement
• Altenew – stamp set – Blossoms of Encouragement
• Altenew – stamp set – Bouquet of Love
• Catherine Pooler Designs – sequin mix – Paris
• Honey Bee Stamps – die set – Deckle Edge A2 die set
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Heat tool
• Glue
• Watercolor paper