Hello and welcome back for another video! Today, I watercolored our lovely Lucky Tulip with some zig markers.
First, I gold glitter heat embossed the tulip onto a 4 1/2 inch x 6 inch watercolor panel. I had a 9×12 inch watercolor paper pad and just cut the sheet in half horizontally and vertically for four panels.
Next I watercolored the petals of my tulip with No. 21 (Light Carmine), No. 27 (Dark Pink) and No 82 (Purple). I layered each color over each other. This is my favorite painting technique to use with my zig markers! For the stem and leaves, I used No 41 (Light Green), No. 45 (Pale Green) and No 44 (Deep Green). After the tulip was finished, I painted a black glow around the flower for a dramatic effect with my No. 10 Black zig marker.
Then I took the same black marker and created a background wash on the bottom right corner of my panel. This will serve as my backdrop for my sentiment. I used the Happy Retirement sentiment from the same Lucky Tulip set and heat embossed that with the same gold glitter embossing powder that I used on the floral. Before I put my embossing powder away, I heat embossed our Haute Stripes onto a side folding black A2 card base.
Next I die cut the watercolor panel with the second largest die from our Double Stitched Rectangle dies. I used the same die to cut out a rectangular panel from black cardstock. I adhered the black panel first onto my base. Then I adhered my watercolored panel over the black panel making sure to offset each layer for an asymmetrical look. To finish off the card, I adhered some Sittin Pretty Pink (8 and 5mm) and iridescent Fairy Pink sequins (6 and 4mm).
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed today’s project and video!
STUNNING!!
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Effie, this is absolutely beautiful! TFS!
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Gorgeous card, and thank you for your detailed tutorial on coloring and blending with the Zig markers. LOVE the beautiful tulip with the haute stripe background in black and gold. Simply stunning!
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