4 ways to create images with Watercolor Flowers: MFT Stamps June New Product Launch

The fantastic June Release products from MFT Stamps are now available! You can get to these goodies in the online store by clicking in a few places. Click the words MFT Stamps and you can get there. Click any underlined word in my post and be taken to that exact product. OR click any of the photos at the bottom of this blog post and be taken directly to that product. So many ways for me to enable you! And I will be here waiting for you when you finish shopping. :)

Tonight I am featuring Watercolor Flowers and Die-namics Watercolor Flowers. I had way too much fun, as you are about to see! The versatility of this set of stamps and dies is crazy awesome!

To create these watercolor roses, I began by stamping a more open-lined image from Watercolor Flowers onto watercolor paper using Wild Cherry ink. But before placing it to the watercolor paper, I stamped it off once on an extra piece of paper. I did this to remove some of the ink. It helped me achieve a more controlled look, because once the image was stamped, I used a water brush to move the color around. I followed the lines of the image, making sure to leave behind white space. Once I was happy with the results, I went back with a little more ink (pressed into my craft mat) and added some darker patches. The same technique was repeated with Sour Apple ink for the leaves. How gorgeous is that? I mean really. Its as close as I am ever going to get to creating a real watercolor piece! Yay for stamps!

This card was inspired by a photo on Instagram. The photographer was using white anemone flowers against dark wood grain. The results were gorgeous and I wanted to re-create that look.

I cut Primitive White cardstock with Die-namics Watercolor Flowers. I stamped the coordinating flower image in Grout Grey ink, to give the pale look of petals. Then I stamped the center in Pure Plum and spread the color a little with a water brush. 

The stems were also cut from Primitive White cardstock using Die-namics Watercolor Flowers and the coordinating image from Watercolor Flowers was stamped in Field Day ink.

This card was an idea I had in my head. Wondering if I could layer gold on gold and it worked!

I stamped the solid base flower image from Watercolor Flowers in Delicata Gold ink, along with the leaves. To force the ink to dry faster, I heat set the ink. Then I stamped the coordinating inner flower image with Watermark ink, heat setting it with gold embossing powder. How cool is that effect? Gold on gold in tone on tone? Sweet! 

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A video tutorial for this card can be found HERE.

And my final card, which may be my favorite, but don't tell the other cards. It was inspired by a piece of art work I found on Pinterest.

I applied Coral Crush and Razzle Berry inks to a large solid flower image from Watercolor Flowers and misted the images lightly with water. I stamped the wet images onto a watercolor paper panel. I repeated the process for all the larger flower images, just slightly adjusting how much dark pink I used each time. Once they dried, I went back with a water brush and added more ink to the outer edges of the flowers for more depth. 

I continued by stamping the leaves and smaller yellow flowers in the same manner. The smaller yellow flowers are actually a flower center image, but it worked perfectly for this! The stems were hand painted with a water brush and ink. Another totally different look, just using different stamp images! Watercolor Flowers is brilliant!

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~kimberly

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