Flower Bouquet. No line watercolour

I don’t consider myself an artist by any means but I have to admit to be quite proud of this project. Firstly, it’s my first no line watercolor at this scale, it took me about 2 to 3 hours to complete (within the course of a few days), but also because to me, it looks like something that could even be framed.

I’ve been practicing no-line watercolouring for sometime, and after watching several tutorials from Kathy Raccosin, Debby Hughes and Kristina Werner, I decided to apply the technique to this particular stamp from Gina K and Hero Arts, in fact, I actually bought it for that purpose. 

Just like with other similar projects, I started by preparing a piece of watercolor paper, taping it to another larger piece of hard cardstock, this will help to prevent warping. I stamped the image using Fade Out ink by Ink on 3 and I used the Altenew watercolour palette to colour with. I basically used the 2 lightest pinks and just a bit of a darker one to create shadows on the flowers and I used 2 of the greens for the leaves. There was a lot of colouring and drying time, then back again to colouring followed by more drying until I was happy with the results. Then I carefully splattered a bit of white gouache and I added accents with yellow watercolour to add interest and to break the pink and green palette a bit.

The assembling of the card was super simple as I didn’t want to take too much from the main design. I stamped a sentiment from the same set on a piece of vellum and heat embossed it in gold embossing powder and set it across the middle of the main panel. This is a fairly long stamp, I only trimmed just a few millimeters from each side so it was still pretty long afterwards. Then I cut a slightly larger panel from a soft pink cardstock to add it as a background. Finally, what’s a card without embellishments? I added a few pearls to finish off this simple but elegant project.

Originally, I didn’t have anyone in mind when I coloured this panel and I actually had kept it aside until I found the ideal occasion and person to give it to. So, who was the “lucky” lady? My sister. This was her second year as a mother, so it was her Mother’s Day card and she loved it. Mission accomplished!!!

Thank you for the honour of your time and for reading this far. I hope you visit me again soon.

“Through his ‘artistic creativity’, man appears more than ever in ‘the image of God’” _ St. John Paul II