CAS Sympathy Cards

Hello everyone… This is my second post for today 🙂 And still Spring is my inspiration when I created these 3 CAS Sympathy Cards.

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

I am in love with the STAMPlorations – Blossom Overture Stamp Set. This stamp set has beautiful flowers and sentiments that are great for making card for any occasion. On the background, I used the Nestled Circles ARTplorations Stencil with Distress Ink using Monoprinting With Stencil technique. Head over to STAMPlorations Blog to read the full post and tutorial 🙂

But I would like to share with you here how I created those roses… So…about a week ago I received a pack of 30 Watercolor Colored Pencils and I have been wanting to try them 🙂 And this project is my first time using them.

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

First, I stamped the flowers 3 times on a watercolor paper using VersaFine Onyx Black with Mini MISTI.

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

I dried the stamped rose images with craft heater, but this VersaFine ink dries fast without this step. Next step, I colored the roses by adding the color just the part where the darkest shade is gonna be.

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

And then using a small round brush (or use brush that comes with this pack) I turned the colored images into watercolored images. I wet the tip of the brush, not to much water needed, and then gently I pulled the color pigment from the bottom to top to fill all the mage with color. I did the same way with the stalk and leaves.

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

Check out how beautiful the colors blended and turn out into watercolor paint… oh… I AM FALLING IN LOVE WITH THESE WATERCOLOR PENCILS at the first try!!! They become one of my favorite coloring mediums already!

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

I use micro-tip scissors to fussy cut the roses to use on these cards together with the sentiments that I stamped them with Memento Dew Drop Inks. I finished the card with white pearl gems.

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

CAS Sympathy Cards with STAMPlorations, Leisure Arts Watercolor Colored Pencils and Imagine Crafts Inks

That all my cards today. I hope you all can enjoy this post today 🙂 And…before you go… There is a special sale at STAMPlorations Store! All of the stamps and dies are 10% OFF, including all new release — no coupon needed — The discount is automatically applied in the shopping cart! You can even snap them up at an extra 20% off if you use my discount code: STAMPGIRLHELEN (copy paste the code when you check out). Enjoy shopping and saving!!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Have a fabulous colorful day!

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