Watercolor Wonder

Regarding Dahlias Watercolor Wonder Paper Cards

 

You will not believe how easy these cards are.... do you need a set of quick and easy cards? To send to friends or give as a gift?  Check out my photos below to see how fun and easy these Watercolor Wonder cards are!

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This is the super quick way to do a Faux Watercolor effect.. stamp the beautiful flower from the Regarding Dahlias stamp set onto Watercolor Wonder paper, and cut out!  That's it! 

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Ok seriously.. how easy is that!?

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Watercolor Wonder Note Card with Peaceful Petals

 

I love the Peaceful Petals stamp set, and I think it's ok if I tell you that it is NOT in the new Stampin' Up! catalog.... so if you have been thinking about ordering it, now is the time!!  Click here to order Peaceful Petals in wood, or Peaceful Petals in clear.

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I stamped and cut out the 2 images and leaves and put them onto a Watercolor Wonder note card base with some Watercolor Wonder designer paper.  Ok, so I guess it's also safe to tell you that the cards and paper are NOT in the new catalog either... so get them while you can!

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I stamped the greeting (from Perfect Pennants) onto watercolor wonder paper and punched it out with the Decorative Label punch.

 

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Stampin' Up! 2014 Caribbean Cruise Swap

 

 

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Today is the big day... the day that we hand in our swaps on the Stampin' Up! cruise!!

Do you remember a couple weeks ago, I shared some of my swap card design ideas with you when I was working on my Cruise Swaps (see this post)? Several of you left me a comment to say which one you liked best.. well, I did kind of a hybrid between 2 of the ideas and this is what I ended up making for my Stampin' Up! Cruise swap!

 

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I was so excited that I FINALLY broke out the Backyard Basics stamp set and framelits (can you believe I had not used them yet!?) and I used the butterfly from that stamp set on my cards... then it was published on the retiring list and promptly SOLD OUT within a couple of days! !  Wow!  I hope my fellow cruisers don't mind that this butterfly is now unavailable... oh well. 

A little Behind the Scenes Sneak Peek...

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I did a watercolor wash with Calypso coral and Daffodil Delight ink on Watercolor Paper with my Aqua Painter. Then I stamped the butterfly with Staz On ink on the dry paper, and die cut them with Backyard Basics butterfly framelit.

Only had to create 25 swaps for the cruise ... this is how I get all the pieces stamped, cut and ready to assemble.

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I punched the tags with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch with watercolor paper then stamped the flower and stem images from the Simple Stems stamp set on the watercolor paper.

Below is another version of this card.

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Simple Tulip Cards with Aqua Painter

 

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 I stamped the beautiful tulip image in Black StazOn ink onto the Waterecolor Wonder note cards, then colored them with markers and with the Aqua Painter dipped into ink from my Real Red, Calypso Coral and Daffodil Delight ink pads.

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I stamped a greeting on each card and added a butterfly.. the larger butterfly is from the Backyard Basics stamp set but it's already SOLD OUT.. sorry... but the little butterfly is punched out with the sweet little Bitty Butterfly punch and some watercolor paper that I did a "wash" on with the aqua painter and Calypso Coral and Daffodil Delight ink.

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Zippy Watercolor Wonder Note Card

 

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As my friend PJ would say, this card is Zippy!  A few Pops of Color really help make this design SING!  I stamped the Regarding Dahlias image on Whisper White in Real Red and then used sponge daubers to add some Calypso Coral and Daffodil Delight ink to the paper.  I drew a border around the Whisper White (see my border tips here) and mounted it onto Bermuda Bay and then onto a Watercolor Wonder Note Card!

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Finish this card off with a greeting from Peaceful Petals punched out with a 1-1/4" circle punch layered onto a 1-3/8" Daffodil Delight circle and you're finsihed!

 

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Serene Silhouettes Watercolor Wonder card

 

How about this for a fun combo... the detailed, delicate design of the Serene Silhouette stamp with the fun bold Watercolor Wonder paper design!!

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I know I've shown you this tip before but I think it's just such a great tip and a great time saver!!  Use your Petite Petals punch to punch out the flowers in the Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up!  Then add them to your project with a Stampin' Dimensional and finish the flower off with a Candy Dot!

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Stampin' Up! Caribbean Cruise Passport Packet

 

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My family and I are very blessed to have earned a dozen Stampin' UP! trips/cruises over the 19 years I've been a demonstrator.  I am grateful to my faithful customers for their orders all year long to help me earn these trips!  We will be attending the 2014 Caribbean Stampin' UP! cruise in May, and I thought I'd share my passport cruise packet with you as well as my thoughts on my swap card...

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Above:  Stampin' UP! sends us a lovely packet for each trip and it includes luggage tags, lanyard/name badges, agenda, tickets, and a beautiful passport wallet!!  Don't they have amazing attention to detail?

My friend Joy made me this gorgeous beaded lanyard and I'll be attaching my name tag to it, especially for the dinners in the dining room.. won't that be GORGEOUS!?

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Below:  Demonstrators are taking 25 cards on the trip to swap... Stampin' UP! will collect them and give us back 25 different cards... I'm working on designs for my swap... do you have a preference?  Leave me a comment below and let me know which one you like best :)

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I used my FAVORITE Watercolor Wonder notecards, and Watercolor paper for the Scalloped Tag punches, and the Butterfly from Backyard Basics.  There is a matching Backyard Basics die cut for the butterfly so it makes cutting them out easy!  The stamp set is called Simply Stems and is found on pg 33 in the Occasions catalog.

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Throw Back Thursday?

<<< This was the 3 of us on our 2nd cruise with Stampin' Up! in 2002.  We cruised out of NY City to Bermuda.. by far one of my very favorite cruises ever!  (except for the very rough seas on the way back!)

 

 Do you enjoy cruising?

 I'd love to hear your favorite cruise destination!

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Cruise 2014 Pinterest Board here!

 

 
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I love watercolor paper... I love blending Stampin' Up! markers and ink with Aqua Painters on the Stampin' Up! Watercolor Paper!  I am really really bad at freehand drawing, but I love to "color in the lines", so stamping and then coloring in is perfect for me.

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I stamped the Blessed Easter tulip stamp image on watercolor paper with the Black StazOn ink pad and then added some color with a Real Red Stampin' Write marker and a Pear Pizzazz Stampin' Write marker, then "blended" over them with a wet Aqua Painter.  I cut the watecolor paper out in a 2" strip and punched the top with the Scalloped Tag Topper punch.

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The card base is one of the beautiful printed designs in the Watercolor Wonder Note Card package, and I stamped the swirls on it with the Creative Elements stamp set using Pear Pizzazz ink.

The Blessed Easter stamp has an Easter greeting, but I stamped Thanks so Much on my card instead, since I needed lots of Customer Thank You Cards.  Thanks so Much comes from The Simply Sketched hostess set on pg 205 of the Stampin' Up! catalog.

 

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Yep, I know... I am going to have serious withdrawals when this gorgeous Watercolor Wonder Designer Paper retires from the current Occasions catalog on June 1st....  so, in the mean time, I'm using it EVERY chance I get!

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You might remember this basic card idea from Cindee Wilkinson... you can see that card here.

I wanted to switch it up with Crisp Cantaloupue and some Pansy Punch flowers I had left over from making a swap for the Control Freaks.

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Sponging the edges of the punched flowers makes such a difference.. don't you love the dimension that just a little sponging gives the flowers?

 

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Watercolor Wonder Note Cards with Too Kind

 

I'm sure you can guess by now that the Watercolor Wonder Notecards are one of my absolute favorite Stampin' Up! items of all times!  You can stamp right on them, or layer on top of them... here I chose to stamp on watercolor paper and layer that onto the note cards.

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I used a set that I had not used in AGES, it's called Too Kind and is found in the "big" annual Stampin' UP! catalog on pg 71.  It's referred to as "two step stamping" which means that the images comes in more than one part, and therefore takes 2 steps (or more) to complete the image.  For these pretty flowers, the stem, the large solid part of the flower and the detailed smaller part of the flower are all separate images, which makes it SUPER EASY to stamp in more than one color.

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I stamped the stems in Old Olive ink on the watercolor paper then the larger, solid flower image in Crisp Cantaloupe and then the detailed part of the flower in Calypso Coral. I stamped the dots (from Gorgeous Grunge) lightly in Old Olive to add a little to the background. 

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Happy Watercolor Wonder Card - Easy Flower Technique

 

Did you notice the pretty poppy flowers on my card from Stamp a Rama?

These pretty flowers are so easy to make even though they look like they were watercolored with care!

I am calling this my FAUX WATERCOLOR FLOWER TECHNQUE,

becasuse it looks like these pretty poppies were watercolored but they weren't!

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Aren't these tooo pretty?  I love how the colors are so soft..

Let me teach you how to make them!

You won't believe how EASY this is!

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I added the pretty flowers to die cut tags/labels from the Deco Labels framelit set, using Watercolor Paper and my Big Shot.

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The speckles are a fun added touch and are stamped in Old Olive using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.

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 And so then you are asking... how about the rest of that pretty card... right?

The beautiful roses are already printed on the Watercolor Wonder Note Cards, and so are the fun polka dots!

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Vivid Vases Watercolor Wonder Note Card with Stems!

 

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I really love this new Vivid Vases single stamp featured on page 20 of the 2014 Stampin' Up! Occasions catalog (or here online), but I wanted to add some STEMS to the flowers... so.. check out what I did!

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DId you notice the difference?

I added stems to one of the cards!

Here's how I made my Vivid Vases cards with the Aqua Painters, Watercolor paper and Stampin Write markers

STEP 1: stamp the Vivid Vases image with the Black Staz On ink pad on Watercolor Paper

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STEP 2:  fill Aqua Painter with water, press the lid of the Pool Party ink pad onto the closed pad, open pad and use that ink spot to pick up ink with your Aqua Painter, paint onto vases

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STEP 3:  color in flowers, leaves and stems with Stampin' Write markers, once the Pool Party wet ink is dry

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STEP 4:  add stems with a fine point permanent marker, like this Sharpie marker shown below

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So, what do you think.. pretty neat option to have stems... right?

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I mounted the piece of stamped Watercolor Paper onto a piece of Pool Party cardstock, then onto a printed Watercolor Wonder Note Card with some Daffodil Delight Seam Binding ribbon tied around the card for a pop of color.

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Starburst Sayings Happy Day Card

 

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Have you seen the fun Starburst Sayings stamp set in the Stampin Up 2014 Occasions catalog!?

It's on pg 34, AND it has matching framelit Big Shot dies, so you don't have to even think about cutting out the pinked edges!

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For my Happy Day card, I stamped the image in Gumball Green on Whisper White, then die cut the image with the framelit.  You can even SAVE 15% by purchasing the stamp set and the dies as a bundle!! How completely awesome is THAT!?

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The cute little orange banners are punched out of paper from the Retro Fresh Designer Series paper pack (pg 19 in the Occasions catalog #132993) with the totally adorable Banner Punch, coming on Jan. 28 as ONE OF YOUR FREE SALE A BRATION SELECTIONS!

 I started with the chevron printed Watercolor Wonder notecard (pg 22) and added more chevrons to the card with a piece of blue chevron printed paper from the Watercolor Wonder DSP pack (pg 23).

A piece of Pumpkin Pie Chevron Ribbon (#130015) finishes off this quick and HAPPY card.

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Petite Petals Watercolor Wonder Cards

 

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Oh my goodness.. do I have a fabulous card idea to share with you today!!!

I was skyping with my terrific downline members Jason and  Wendy the other night and Wendy showed me this oh so amazingly, fabulous idea!

I decided to use the Watercolor Wonder printed paper to punch out my little flowers and then add Candy Dots to the flower centers... these are soooo quick and easy and so pretty!

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I started with the Watercolor Wonder note cards (FAVE item in the new 2014 Stampin' Up! Occasions "Celebrate the Everyday" catalog!!), then stamped the flourishes from the Flowering Flourishes stamp set in Gumball Green (Oh How I am going to MISS THAT COLOR!!), then punched out the flowers with the Petite Petals flower punch and the Watercolor Wonder DSP!

Add a Stampin' Dimensional to the back of each flower, add 5 flowers per card, candy dots to the centers of each flower, and add a greeting and

voila.. you have the quickest, cutest card EEEEEEEVER!!

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Don't you love how the cards are already printed with these gorgeous watercolor backgrounds!?

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