Welcome to my stop on the Hero Arts Handmade for Christmas Blog Hop! If you've followed along from the beginning, then you should be arriving here from the incredibly talented Donna Mikasa's blog.
I've been itching to ink up the new Bold Cheers stamp and thought it might be fun to pair it with some watercoloring and gold embossing. Here are the clean and simple designs I came up with:
One layer card obsession in full effect :)
The watercolored backgrounds were actually created with Hero Arts Sprays. I pre-wet the watercolor paper with clean water using a paintbrush, creating the area where I wanted the color to go. Then I sprayed the inks onto my craft sheet, picked the color up with a fairly wide, flat brush, and let the colors spread onto the paper. It's so cool to watch them move -- and stop right at the edge of where the water was applied. Like magic.
Make sure the backgrounds are completely dry before you stamp and gold emboss the message, otherwise you'll end up with powder in places you don't want it. If that does happen, you can always sweep it away with a fine tipped paintbrush before embossing.
The Hero Arts Sprays are also perfect for adding little dots here and there. Simply unscrew the bottle and tap the end of the spraying mechanism onto the paper. Here I used both the white and gold shimmer sprays.
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388 comments:
1 – 200 of 388 Newer› Newest»Lovely watercolored BG. Simply splendid card:)
Love it, Tami! I love all the subtle dots and little stars, too. Perfect!
I want to try this technique. Love the card.
Love how you did the backgrounds!
Wow! So simple and yet so beautiful.
Love your use of gold!
Beautiful cards - I'm now inspired to get crankin' on my cards for this holiday season!
simple but effective. simple devine!
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Great for any time of the year!
Cute CHEERS card!
Pretty embossing with the sentiment & stars.
Melissa
"Sunshine HoneyBee"
This style could be used for multiple events.
The watercolor is PERFECT for this!! TFS they are simple and yet elegant!
Dolly
Very cute cards!
I love this look! Simple yet striking cards! Thanks for sharing how you did the watercolor background.
Sometimes one colour added is perfect...
I like the combination of techniques on this card. Good idea.
Simple but gorgeous! Love how you made the background!
this simple design could have gone wrong in so many ways but you nailed it! love :)
Very pretty and artistic with the watercolored background!
Very pretty! Love that gold embossing!
Susan
So simple and elegant!
I love seeing easy to make, yet beautiful cards! Thanks!
Cute and easy. 2 things I like.
Thanks a clean and simple idea. Amazing to reproduce. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful cards! Love the artsy background. I will have to give this a try!
So simple, yet beautiful!
What a pretty card to recreate! Love this big and bold Cheeers Stamp! Thanks for sharing!
This sounds like fun. I think I will try it very soon! Thank you for the ideas, your cards are bright and pretty!
So trendy and so pretty! Love these cards, Tami!
Very Pretty cards. Would be great for the New Year as well. TFS Denise
Really love these cards!
I thought at first it was a resist technique, but you've done a great job just stamping over the watercolor. TFS this beautiful card.
WOW...super simple! I love easy cards!
What sweet cards. Those spray colors make a beautiful background. I just LOVE the gold embossing. It makes a card look so much richer.
Beautiful card. Love the water color technique.
Love the watercolor and the bold sentiment!!
Tami these watercolour CAS cards are delightful!!
This is a great design to mass produce!
Simple and brilliant. Love the vibrant colors.
WOW I love this clean simple look!!! Just beautiful!
I love the watercolor background paired with a bold sentiment!
Beautiful. Those would be such a great gift as a set with different colors.
Simply beautiful! Great watercoloring technique and application.
What beautiful card ! It's very nice with the watercolour .
Tami, I am loving the simple watercolor effect. Really lovely.
A great simple technique and lovely cards!
So simple and lovely!
A simple card and quite beautiful - could be used for so many stamps. Love it.
Such a simple card with such a great impact! Beautiful!
Fabulous watercolor and inspiration!
wonderful classy cards, Tami - am loving doing watercolored backgrounds lately and this is a good idea for making lots of cards.
Great cards! I can see doing this with die cut words as well as the embossing! Fabulous!
A very nice card! I love the use of the gold. Not too much and not too little.... Way to go!
Simple and effective. This is a festive idea. Thanks.
Cool use of a single word stamp! I love the watercolored background.
This looks like such a fun and simple card to make! Thanks for the inspiration!!
Tami, love the simple but yet bold card you created.. I'm a lover of watercolor anything...
This is a great card! It would be a nice one to mass produce. TFS!
Love these simple but wonderful cards. The stars add the perfect touch.
Cool simple and beautiful.
This card is so simple but yet, very pretty.
Your cards are so pretty I love how you did your water color and your stamping is fabulous. Super great ideas thanks for sharing all of your tips and techniques so eloquently You really are so very talented.
Lovely cards! Thanks for sharing your technique, gotta give it a try!
I've got to try these sprays! love your cards.
Love the gold embossing with the watercolor!
Very cool idea for watercolor background. I never would have thought to use spray inks this way.
The gold embossing looks beautiful on the blue background. Great idea if you have lots of Christmas cards to make.
I love this card. Perfect for New Years! Thanks for the inspiration.
Simple, but elegant!
The embossing is really striking against the watercolored background!
Very pretty...yet so simple!
very beautiful cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
Love the bright starry colors.
Really like the clean and simple! Very nice cards!
Great CAS cards. Great inspiration. Thanks for cutting my card list down to size!!!
Cool idea lovely background and also can be mass produced tfs
Great idea for making a whole lot of christmas cards! Beautiful!!
I love your cards, they are so cheerful and elegant. I am going to have to case these TFS!!!!
Love the embossing!
Simple yet elegant. Looks like this is a great way to have cards on hand....love it thanks...
Gorgeous card--makes me wish I could leave work to go watercolor like you described!
I love a great one layer card and this qualifies.
I love love love the blue cheers card!
What a great idea for a very simple card! You really could do this technique with any bold sentiment.
Cute and simple
cards, love the
style of them.
Carla from Utah
Thank you for showing how to make a gorgeous card that can be made in multiples.
Love water color, very pretty!
Love the watercolored backgrounds! Very pretty.
Thanks for teaching me this wonderful technique! I'm going to try it on my next set of cards! Your card is wonderful.
very cute mini cards! They scream New Years!!
What a great technique! I'll have to try it. Thanks for sharing.
What great cards! I love the watercolor backgrounds.
I love gold with the watercolor effect.
Liked quick and simple card idea!
Simple yet...what a standout! Thanks.
So sweet and simple! I love it!
Very pretty! Nice color choices!
Gorgeous!! Perfect for mass producing!!!
Beautifully designed...so classy!!
Great technique...I just LOVE your blue and gold card!
These are so pretty! Festive and fun and perfect for mailing and mass producing!
This looks like a fun way to make a Christmas card!
great simple card. very lovely
What beautiful embossing over the watercolors!
So simple yet so perfect! Love the water-color and gold embossing, Tami!
These couldn't be prettier! Two of my most fave things right now - watercoloring and gold embossing!!! GAWGOUS!
love the watercolored background!
Perfect one layer card!
SO CUTE! TFS!!!
Love the embossing over the colored background. Also like that the background doesn't cover the entire front. tfs
This card could be used for many different occasions and I like to get more mileage out of my stamps. I like the idea of using different colors. It may be the same stamp but it looks different with each color used.
Your cheers message it is just perfect and fun
Simple and beautiful cards!
I love CAS cards!!!! So pretty
Brilliant, clean and simple! Adore!
Cute and simplistic. much love
Beautiful color and sparkle.... so perfectly CAS!
Quick & easy, thanks for sharing!
LOVE these so much Tami!! Great Inspiration.....
I love the simplicity with such wow factor!
Beautiful and fun to make!
Great job! Love the C and S style.
I love it Very simple and I can get it done in a snap! Love it, Thank You.
I will definitely try this technique.
Another great background technique!!
Very simple and yet soo pretty and cheerful. Thank you.
Wow these are so pretty!
Nice simple cards, love the background.
So simple and yet so beautiful!!! Great work!!
Just love the sprayed color around that bold Cheers stamp, Tami!
I love how you used your water colors for the background on your sentiment! Gorgeous cards, Tami!!!
Pretty colors. Thank you for a chance to win.
Nice watercolor. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Water coloring with spray inks. LOVE IT!!
So pretty! the bright watercolored background really makes the gold sentiment pop!
Love the cards.......very interesting way of putting color on the background.
This looks amazing! I am always impressed with single layer cards, and how some artists are able to give them such depth, dimension, and interest! Thanks for sharing your creativity with us, and of course for the chance to win!
I love your cards Tami! Thanks for the chance to win :-)
Love the simple, yet glam, idea of your cards.
Love, love, the colors
Such a fun design, Tami! Love that bold stamp; looks great gold embossed with the watercolor background!
Thanks for sharing!
What a fun set of images; like the look you gave them.
What a cheery card. Fun!
SIMPLE AND ELEGANT CARD, LOVE THE WATERCOLORS AND GOLD EMBOSSING
I'm a huge watercoloring fan!
So simple yet so pleasing.
Great CAS card for Christmas :)
Clean and elegant. Hopping by and saying HI, excited for the New Christmas Stamps comming. :)
Simple but striking
quick and easy cards are great and this one looks good!!
Nicely done!
Sweet CAS card, live the blue one, just beautiful!
pretty card
CHEERS! to you
Oh, I just know I'll be CASEing this CAS design! Love it!
Such gorgeous one layer cards! Thank you for sharing :-)
Great card.
So pretty with the bold gold embossed sentiment on watercolor.
Simple, but lovely cards ... thanks for the clear directions!
Great starry sky!
Love the stamp and watercoloring! Gorgeous, thanks so much for sharing!~kim
These cards are gorgeous in their simplicity with the gold embossing. Wonderful work. Tfs!
This card would cheer anyone up!
Ilove what you dud with this simple stamp
Love the colors!
I am definitely trying this watercolor technique - gotta see that magic for myself!! Love the twist in using the spray bottle stem to add dots of color!
Quick and easy - great for mass
production!
Love the emboss water color look. The card is gorgeous.
Clean and simple but bold and beautiful! Wow! I love this design!
Really nice..the little stars you added make all the difference.
Really nice..the little stars you added make all the difference.
I love one layer cards! and yours are gorgeous!
Simple. Fun. Beautiful, love the colors.
This is my kind of card! Yours is beautiful!! TFS
Simply beautiful!
The blue card is lovely.
I'm loving the look of gold embossing on watercolor.
Awesome cards. Love the gold!!!
Laurie B
Such a pretty card, love the watercolor technique.
Simple and beautiful cards. Love the use of watercolor on them.
I am really loving the gold embossing and watercolors! This is a nice do-able card when I need multiples!
I think I need these sparays- the colours look amazing and with that sentiment wow- fab cards-thanks for sharing
What a fun card!!
Love this card!
Gorgeous technique! I have to try this! Ger x
Oh what lovely cards! Simple yet stunning!
One layer cards are a big time saver if you need to make one up in a hurry. Glimmer mist spray adds a nice touch too!
Simple but beautiful!
wow!!!!
Love your cards!! Very pretty!!
Great idea for a New Yeras card.
Love how the gold embossing pops. Great idea to use it with the watercolor paper.
Nice card. Good for any time of year. I love that. Cheers!
Fabulous card!
That is the perfect font!! Love this stamp!
Very pretty watercolored background and love the gold embossing.
these cards are very cute and I Love this stamp.
Easy, simple and cute
FABULOUS, Tami - love the the little stars :-)
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