Winnie & Walter January Leading Lady: Watercolored Flowers

Hello, again!  I’m back with the third installment of my favorite crafty things.  Long before I ever heard of papercrafting, I was a gardener, specifically of flowers.  I absolutely love flowers – the colors, the fragrances – everything!  Therefore, I HAD to include flowers in my list, and Winnie & Walter has some truly beautiful ones.  My card today features In Bloom: Anna’s Flora and In Bloom: Addie’s Garden.

I started by creating masks of all my flowers.  My images were stamped onto Bristol Smooth paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  Using my MISTI, I stamped the large flower (It looks like a dahlia to me.) in the center, masked it, and then stamped the two adjacent to it.  I continued masking and stamping until I was satisfied with my arrangement.

Once my ink was dry, I colored the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and a waterbrush.  For the background I ink-blended Tumbled Glass Distress ink over Scenery: Grand Trellis Creative Screenings, making sure not to get any ink on my flowers.

After heat-setting my panel, I stamped a sentiment from The Big, the Bold and You with Versamark and gold heat-embossed it.  I trimmed down my panel and adhered it to a white card.  To give more interest to the background, I added some clear Nuvo drops.

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36 COMMENTS

  1. Linda Carson | 20th Jan 18

    Stunning card Andrea! Great job masking all those flowers! Love this colorful beauty!

  2. Liz mca | 20th Jan 18

    I think these two flower stamp sets are perfectionist

  3. Denise Bryant | 20th Jan 18

    Beautiful card! Love the mix of flowers and the colors! Addie’s Garden is one of my favorite sets!

  4. Arianna Barbara | 20th Jan 18

    Wow! Awesome colouring!!! Love so much your gorgeous card!!!

  5. Beth Bray | 20th Jan 18

    Great coloring on the flowers.

  6. Jean Morin | 20th Jan 18

    Your card is absolutely gorgeous. I have been trying to stamp flowers and mask them like this for weeks now and still they don’t look like this. Any suggestions? I can’t seem to get the flowers in the back to look like yours. Do you have a videos? But again your card just pops out at me. Stunning..

  7. Trina P. | 20th Jan 18

    Gorgeous floral card and beautiful colouring with Zigs, Andrea. Wonderful stamping and masking of this flower arrangement. Looking forward to your final performance.

  8. Sue D | 20th Jan 18

    Love the colorful flowers and the gold embossing.

  9. Greta H | 20th Jan 18

    Another inspiring Leading Lady post, Andrea! The trellis mask is now going onto my wishlist–absolutely love your background! Gorgeous bouquet showing how effective masking can be–something I almost never do, but admire the work of those who do!

  10. Dee Earnshaw | 20th Jan 18

    Stunning card – love the wonderful coloring and design. The gold sentiment is just perfect 😊

  11. Jean Marmo | 20th Jan 18

    A gorgeous card.

  12. Carol R. | 20th Jan 18

    Such a beautiful card. I felt like I was walking through your flower garden! The colors are so vibrant.

  13. Kirsty Vittetoe | 20th Jan 18

    Oh how gorgeous!!!!

  14. Christa Marie | 20th Jan 18

    love the background, the colors, the font, the crystal drops! every detail about this card is just so perfect together and it turned out just beautiful! amazing job!
    ~Christa Marie
    cre_ativebynature@ymail.com

  15. Pai | 20th Jan 18

    those flowers are awesome!

  16. Marjorie DUMONTIER | 20th Jan 18

    Hey Andrea ! I knew I saw you somewhere ! 😉 Your card today is really magnificent !
    [margessw(at)icloud(dot)com]

  17. Lea | 20th Jan 18

    Fabulous card x

  18. Amante del Papel | 20th Jan 18

    This card is stunning, super beautiful!!!

  19. Sarah Biswabic | 20th Jan 18

    Your card is so beautiful and cheerful. I love the colors of the flowers.

  20. Becca Yahrling | 21st Jan 18

    These are such lovely sets! And your card is so beautiful. I am a lover of flowers, too. My hubby’s passion is Bonsai and he always brings in the blooming ones for me. Such a treat!

  21. SusanME | 21st Jan 18

    This is beautiful! I tend to not do masking, as it is time consuming, but it gives such a wonderful result.

  22. MelissaF | 21st Jan 18

    Gorgeous card, love this flower garden you’ve created – masking was worth it! And your water coloring is awesome.

  23. Debbie | 21st Jan 18

    Absolutely beautiful! The instructions are so easy to follow!!

  24. Kathy J in Ellicott City | 21st Jan 18

    Beautiful Card! Love the coloring of the flowers!

  25. Janis in ID | 22nd Jan 18

    This is so incredibly gorgeous!! I love flowers, too, and you have captured the beauty of a garden in full bloom. I love the addition of the gold sentiment and the subtly patterned background. Fabulous card!!!
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

  26. karenladd | 24th Jan 18

    Those luscious watercolored flowers and the gold embossed sentiment make such an elegant and beautiful card

  27. F. Andre | 24th Jan 18

    The gold embossing is so lovely with the pretty flowers. Love this card.

  28. shartl | 24th Jan 18

    The shading on your flowers are so beautiful and I really like the gold embossing. This is making me long for spring and all the pretty flowers that pop up in our garden!

  29. Carol Jones | 25th Jan 18

    Your card is stunning! From the composition to the colors to the sentiment, it’s perfection.

  30. Ellen Crawley | 25th Jan 18

    I too am a gardener and love flowers. Yours are beautiful!

  31. Deepti | 27th Jan 18

    Gorgeous Card..Love your flower arrangement..beautiful colours..Love it totally.hugsxx Deepti

  32. Ava Gavloski | 27th Jan 18

    Great masking = wow factor card

  33. Von Marie Design | 28th Jan 18

    This card is perfect!! I love the bright colors!! Makes me think about Spring!!!

  34. Bunny Dobbie | 28th Jan 18

    Such a perfectly balanced design. Flowers intimidate me as I don’t think I can do them justice but you truly have a Gardner’s eye. Stunning!

  35. Mary-Anne V | 30th Jan 18

    I really like the masking you did at the bottom of this card to create this border of flowers. I also like the gold embossing.

  36. Cathy Lillie | 30th Jan 18

    Such a beautiful card! I love the soft background you did. It really lets the flowers maintain the focus of the card.

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