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Fall Card with a WOW Factor

August 24, 2025

Hey everyone. Welcome back to the blog and a fall card with a WOW factor. I finally had time to get back in my room and record a tutorial for you.

For my card today, I used the new Thankful Leaves stamp set from Kristina Werner. Kristina always inspires me when she watercolors so today I’m doing just that. I paired her beautiful stamp with the my Iuile watercolors.

The richness of these watercolors against the black watercolor paper really makes this a WOW card.

The photos of this card really doesn’t do it justice. You will love watercoloring with these watercolors.

Here is the tutorial. You can watch it here or over on my Youtube channel @danajoy.

Here are the supplies I used on the card. Affiliate links have been used at no cost to you. So now it’s your turn to make a fall card with a WOW factor. Happy creating.

Watercolor Cherry Blossoms

March 14, 2024

Hey everyone. I’m on the Hero Arts blog today sharing this beautiful watercolor cherry blossoms card using the new Cherry Blossom Cover Plate.

I must admit, I really like how this card turned out. The softness of the watercolor and this beautiful cover plate really make such a pretty spring card. Head on over to the Hero Arts blog for all the details.

Altenew March 2024 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway ($300 in Total Prizes!))

March 6, 2024

Welcome to the Altenew March 2024 Release Blog Hop + Giveaway! I’m excited you are here today. You can start the hop here at the beginning if you missed anyone along the way.

Let’s get into the cards I made today. For my first card I used the Rustic Rose Stamp and coordinating die. I started the card by first stamping the rose onto watercolor paper. Next I mixed colors from the new Altenew Tube Watercolors to create these beautiful colors for my rose. Mixing watercolors to create a custom color is a wonderful way to expand your color palette.

Once the rose was completely dried, I used the coordinating die to cut it out. Now it was time to work on the background.

Using the same Altenew Cold Press Watercolor Paper, I made this background by mixing blues and grey watercolors together. For added texture I splattered on gold paint before I adhered the rose. For the sentiment, I decided to use the you are the best so this card could be given at any occasion. Finally, I trimmed down the panel and adhered it to a white card base.

Let’s get into the next card. This card is featuring the Paint and Stamp Butterflies from the Altenew March 2024 release. I stamped the images in a very light grey in for a no-line watercolor look. For each butterfly, I carefully painted it in a color and allowed the next color to blend a little into the next one. I love a cool rainbow feel on a card.

Once I was finished painting each butterfly, I splattered the coordinating color above it to give it a whimsical look and added just a touch below each butterfly was well.

A simple sentiment and a black cardbase really finished this card off nicely. Now it’s time for the giveaways.

There is $300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $100 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $50 gift certificate to 4 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 03/12/2024 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 5 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 03/14/2024.

*The winner of the $100 gift certificate will be chosen from comments left on the Altenew blog.

Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll see you back here soon!

No-Line Watercoloring with Hero Arts

August 28, 2023

Hey everyone. I’m back with a tutorial sharing no-line watercoloring with Hero Arts. The adorable Hero Arts Fall Fox is a perfect little critter for me to show you how to easily do no-line watercoloring.

With a few tips and tricks I can show you just how easy it is to do. Find out how over on the Hero Arts blog and YouTube channel.

Thanks for stopping by. See you back here soon.

California Dreaming With Hero Arts

August 20, 2023

Hey everyone. The new Where To Next stamp set from Hero Arts will have you California dreaming your way into cardmaking. This stamp set has four great images inspired by the California landscape. I loved watercoloring these images.

Watercoloring with Hero Arts Liquid Watercolors made this super easy. Each image has several colors that I created by mixing my liquid watercolors until I got to the color I needed. Trying to make sure each image had colors from a previous image made the card really work.

My advice when watercoloring these images is to take it slow and to use a small paint brush. Several of the design team have shared their cards with this stamp set and I absolutely love what they have created as well.

Once the images were colored, I fussy cut out each one using the outline as my guide. The background for the card was created with Hero Arts Sand cardstock and the new Trail Map Bold Print. Stamping the bold print in watermark ink keeps it simple so it doesn’t contrast with the colorful images. If you want to see more cards from this month’s release make sure to click here.

I hope I have inspired you to create with this stamp set. It sure in one I will color up again and again. Thanks for stopping by and I’ll see you back here soon. Take care everyone.