Floral Watercolor Dry Embossing

Hello crafters! Today I have a dry embossed and watercolored tag to share, a fun technique to do with embossing folders.

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I used an embossing folder from the brand new Moments in Time release by Simon Says Stamp.

I used the gorgeous Simon Says Stamp Floral Bunches embossing folder for my tag and watercolored the design. One of the fun things with watercoloring on a dry embossed paper is that the paint will usually sink into the debossed areas and look darker there, even more so, if you drop a darker shade of paint into still-wet paint.

You can of course make a card instead, if you would rather do that. 

I die cut a tag from watercolor paper. Mist the paper on both sides and emboss in the Floral Bunches folder.

Paint the background with watercolor paint, working one area at the time. I dropped a light shade of paint into the first paint to get more color variation and texture. The blue paint is Lunar Blue by Daniel Smith. 

Paint the flowers pink and drop in a little purple.

Paint the leaves green and drop in a darker shade of green.

When the paint is dry, stamp here and there with Simon Says Stamp Thank You Text.

Add some highlights with a white gel pen and some shading with a black pen. I also added a little Frosted Lace Stickles around the edges.

The new Simon Says Stamp Giggle Thank You was die cut from paper painted with the same pink as the flower, from Soft Navy cardstock and from Ice Vellum (not included in this photo).

Distress the edges of the tag. I really like the blending of the paints in combination with the text stamping.

I added Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Opal Gems to the center of the flowers.

The Giggle Thank You is a great size and I also really like the font.Yesterday I used it with the coordinating mat, today I decided to use on the the words. You will find that post here, the Snake Plant Art Journal Page.

The text on the Thank You Text stamp is very small, which I like, since you can then stamp words on small areas, such at the petals of flowers.

For more Moments In Time inspiration, don't miss the blog hop that was yesterday and the second blog hop today.

Thank you for visiting! See you again tomorrow!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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