To add colour to this card. I used   Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours paints, these are beautiful, easy to use,  great quality at amazing value and you will get all the colours you will ever need including gold, silver and pearl in the 36 colour set.

 You can spray water on the paint and mix different paint colours on a pallet to create thousands of new colour shades... the sky's the limit.

 To apply paints to your artwork, you can use a water brush or watercolour brushes. For the card today  I only used a round tip Silver Black Velvet brush #4. 


 I started by stamping the image on the left side of a 6"x8" inches piece of Arches watercolour paper using Antique Linen Distress Oxide Ink.

I used red shades mixed with white to add colours to the flowers.  To add lights I used yellow, orange and white. To add dark areas I used brown and black and to add colours to the leaves I used different shades of green.

I then applied a wash of aqua and green watercolour paints on the background and around the floral image.  I mixed the paint with loads of water to get a very soft look.




I couldn't resist and I  heat embossed the large floral image on the back of the envelope using Versamark and Gold Nuvo Fine Detail Embossing Powder.

I also heat embossed the sentiment using Gold Embossing Powder and I made a little banner layered on gold cardstock.

To finish I embellished the card with crystals.

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