Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

Sennelier

Video: Watercoloring with Colorado Craft Company and a Sale!

Hi there! I have a colorful watercolor project to share with you today using only three shades of watercolor, which I mix and match to create this vibrant watercolored image using the new Floral Corners stamp from Colorado Craft Company! I also have information about a great sale happening this weekend at Colorado Craft Company, so keep reading for all of the details on that!

Here’s the video on how I created today’s card:

You can watch the video above or HERE in HD on YouTube.

For today’s card, I began by heat embossing the beautiful image from Floral Corners onto some Fabriano Artistico watercolor paper using Brass embossing powder, then saturated the entire watercolor panel with clean water and dropped some diluted magenta, blue, and jungle green watercolors from Sennelier. The wet watercolor paper combined with the wet diluted watercolor allows the watercolor to bloom and meld into each other, creating a lovely base layer upon which to layer the more detailed painting. To speed up the drying process, I zapped the very wet panel with my heat gun. I then added details to the images using the same three watercolor shades that I’d used for the base layer, mixing and matching to create different shades and adding depth and shadow to the images.

For the greeting, I marked another sheet of Fabriano Artistico watercolor paper approximately where the large “hi” die from the Concord and 9th Everyday Sayings die set, then used those same three shades of Sennelier watercolors to create an ombre panel. Once it had dried, I die cut the sentiment from both the watercolored panel and piece of iridescent purple foil to create a shadow layer. I adhered these two pieces together, slightly offsetting them, which allows them to pop even more from the colorful background.

I created a card base by die cutting a panel of coordinating blue cardstock using the Pinkfresh Studio Stitched Diamonds cover plate die, then trimmed it and mounted it on a panel of coordinating A2 magenta cardstock. I adhered a gold glitter arch frame (created using the Nesting Domed Arches dies from Simon Says Stamp) using some more foam tape, then added the floral die cut and the sentiment die cuts. The final touch was to add some iridescent gems to add some more sparkle.

Now, for some retail therapy!

Colorado Craft Company is having a huge sale this weekend: Buy 2, Get 1 Free! Simply fill your cart, then use promo code B2G1FREE to get every third item in your cart for *free.* That is one heck of a sale!

Thanks so much for reading today, and have a marvelous day!

Watercolored Thank You with Gina K!

Hi there! I’ve been slowly getting back into my craft room for short periods when my little guys cooperate and sleep at the same time. (With four kids in the house, I’ve never valued silence more haha!) Sitting and nursing my boys means I have lots of time to shop online (sigh.), so I’ve been buying allllll of the things, including this beautiful Majestic Peony stamp from Gina K.! I also purchased some Sennelier L’Aquarelle watercolors, and couldn’t wait to put the two together. I made a simple card combining the two, so I thought I’d share it here!

I began by stamping the absolutely stunning peony image from Majestic Peony onto some Altenew watercolor paper using Hero Arts’ Intens-ified Black ink. (This is my favorite ink to use with watercolors!) I then taped the stamped A2 panel to my watercolor board and used the Sennelier L’Aquarelle watercolors to watercolor the image in a pretty shade of peachy-pink.

I also added a halo of pretty turquoise around the edge of the card base, keeping the area around the floral spray itself very pale to create a halo effect!

After the paint had dried completely (I allow it to dry completely while still taped to the board to minimize warping), I stamped the simple “thank you” greeting from Majestic Peony, again using Intens-ified Black ink. I trimmed the edges of the watercolored panel slightly, then matted it on a black A2 card front to help intensify the black lines even further.

I love projects like this… Simple and super easy to mail, where the beautiful image is allowed to just shine with some pretty watercoloring! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!