Saturday 22 June 2019

Faux Watercolour (Ellen Hutson / Hero Arts Blog Hop)


Good morning! Today I'm excited to be part of a blog hop featuring Hero Arts and Essentials by Ellen products! Details are below.



I created a fun faux-watercolour background with the Color Me Flower cling stamp from Hero Arts and some Zig Art & Graphic Twin Tip markers. These water-based markers are great for colouring stamps and faux-watercolour techniques. The colours stay vibrant, as you can see.

My sentiment is an EBE die cut embossed with Wow embossing powder and stacked up.

Here's a video showing how I created this card:



BLOG HOP DETAILS:

You can win one of three $25 gift certificates to the Ellen Hutson shop! Winners will be drawn from commenters along the blog hop so make sure to comment at each stop before Friday, June 28th at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be notified by email.


83 comments:

  1. What a fun, vibrant background! Thanks for sharing your fun card today!

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  2. So pretty and festive with these fun colors and the gold.

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  3. Such fun colors! :) Awesome card.

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  4. Such a vibrant card. Love the gold embossing to bring back the original stamp design. Thanks for sharing
    Christi Steger

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  5. Its Beautiful ,loved the faux watercolored look.

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  6. It was interesting to see this card evolve. I liked it when the images were crisp, but then also liked the transition to suggestive or artsy.

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  7. Really nice card. Love the colors. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. What beautiful bright colors! I Love this!

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  9. Beautiful card! Love the colors and design!

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  10. I would have cried when the one flower was too wet but you saved the card and made it even more beautiful with the gold embossing.

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  11. What a fun card! Thank you for sharing your time and talent.

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  12. So colorful and vibrant--reminds me of a fireworks display!

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  13. Great card. I loved seeing that you never gave up on this card. The end result was beautiful. Thank you so much for providing the video. It was fun to watch. Thank you for sharing your pretty work.

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  14. I love how the gold embossed flower accentuates the loose watercolor background!

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  15. Love the faux watercolor look,

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  16. I love the way this evolved into this beautiful watercolor card.

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  17. Ardyth, such pretty bright colors. I love my Zig markers for water coloring.

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  18. The vibrancy of the stamped images just makes my heart sing! Love your card, Ardyth!

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  19. Very pretty and
    the colors are
    awesome! Great
    embossing.
    Carla from Utah

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  20. Love the color combinations! So vibrant!

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  21. Wow! Wonderful background! 😍

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  22. I love watching your creative processes! A great technique and beautiful card.

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  23. Huge fan of anything “watercolor”! Awesome!

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  24. This is so vibrant, love the way it has turned out.

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  25. I love how you never gave up and your end project is cool

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  26. I really like your card and appreciated the video! Lots of cool techniques and ways to 'fix' small oops. Glad to know I'm not the only one who needs to improvise!

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  27. Beautiful card! I love the watercolor effect.

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  28. Fabulous card! I loved your video seeing how it was created!

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  29. Loving the vibrant water color effect!

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  30. Thanks for sharing your journey of creating this festive card. I forgot about using the coloring on stamp technique and will give it a go now.

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  31. Love the vivid colors! The effect and brightness is reminiscent of alcohol inks.

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  32. Such lovely bright colours that you've used & awesome design that you've created. You always have such pretty, well laid out card designs x

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  33. Thanks for the reminder not to give up when something appears to have gone wrong. Sometimes the darkest hours really are just before dawn!!!

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  34. I love your your go to summer combo.

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  35. Beautiful card! The bright colors are some of my favorites. I loved watching how this card evolved from beginning to end.

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  36. What a pretty card! I loved watching you create the background- it turned out beautiful with all the gold embossing!

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  37. How lovely!! I appreciate how you used the same stamp for the background and focal point.

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  38. Beautiful card. Your background is stunning. Thanks for sharing that technique.

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  39. Wonderfully vibrant colors! Thank you for sharing...Brenda West

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  40. Such a lovely vibrant card. The background is beautiful. Wonderful design.

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  41. Wonderful card.. they look vibrant and cheerful..

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  42. This is just stunning - those colours are amazing

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  43. I need to practice this technique more, just love it! Beautiful card!!

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  44. What a vibrant and delightful card Ardyth - love it
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  45. Wow! Vibrant and gorgeous!! <3

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  46. Anything that has a watercoloured look grabs my attention & this card is fabulous. I love the depth of colour that you were able to achieve.

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  47. I just LOVE your faux watercolor card! So bright and cheerful. Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win. :D

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  48. Love your blog :) Thank you for the opportunity :)

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  49. That medallion stamp gives such great flowers! Loved your color combinations that you chose and your card came out great!

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  50. Love this card! the colors just pop!

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  51. Beautiful background! Love the messy watercolor look.

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  52. A beautiful outcome to what looked to be a total bomb! Love the way this card turned out, Ardyth! The colors are so bright and summery and I love the gold embossing.

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  53. The yummy colors almost obscure the cool pattern you created with the stamp! Embossing in gold and adding the perfect sentiment made an awesome card!

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  54. Beautiful background, Ardyth!

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  55. Enjoyed watching your process video, your card is gorgeous.

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  56. Beautiful card! I love the vibrant colors and gold sentiment!

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  57. this card is colorful - love it

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  58. Love this card! The colors and background are great!

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  59. Some of my mistakes have turned into my favorites. Lovely save and I love the vibrant colors.

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  60. What a cool effect. I like to try new techniques, and remind myself that it's only paper if I make a mistake.

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  61. Such a vibrant and colorful card! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  62. I love your card. The colors are gorgeous the layout is striking everything about it works for me. I’m going to go back and watch your video and see if I can take some inspiration from your process. Love it!
    Js1225hh@gmail.com

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  63. The colors you used on your are so beautiful! Thank you for sharing your techniques with us!

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  64. You always inspire me to create---thank you!

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  65. So beautiful! Love the look of watercoloring on here!

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  66. This card is a celebration on paper! So vibrant! And the technique of watercoloring with markers is a new one for me. Thanks.

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  67. This turned out great! Love the technique...thank you for the inspiration...I definitely need to try this!

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  68. Such a prettt card. I lust love that technique.

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  69. Very pretty card, Ardyth! Love this technique!

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  70. This card is so bright and colorful. Using watercolor markers is a great idea.

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  71. Such a lovely and vibrant background!

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  72. Beautiful! Those Zigs are so vibrant~ love the watercolor effect~

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  73. Love the faux watercolor background - such bright, beautiful colors!

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