Today I am sharing a card I made with some gorgeous products from Classy Cards ‘n Such. It’s an autumnal watercolored card, with a wonderful verse embossed on vellum. Watercoloring is very relaxing. I had not made a watercolored card in a while so I enjoyed making this card a lot!
I started off by heat embossing in white some pears from Inky Antics’ Holy Spirit’s Fruit stamp set. I stamped the images trying to create an opened frame.
Then I painted the pears with Faber Castell watercolor pencils. I usually don’t color directly on the image, instead I color on a scrap piece of paper, and just pick up the colors with a wet brush, that way I don’t leave pencil traces on my final image. I used various tones of greens and browns to achieve these shades.
Once done, I went ahead and die cut the colored piece of cardstock with Spellbinders A2 Matting Basics A. The die cutting and embossing helps flatten the cardstock, I should add.
Next I heat embossed in Gold Detail a verse from the same stamp set on Heavyweight Vellum. I added the vellum across the watercolored layer, horizontally, and tucked the ends on the back.
Finally I mounted the colored layer on a leather textured card base, in sand beige, which matches the tones of the pears perfectly. To complete my design I added some Baby Pearls – LeCreme on each corner of the vellum layer.
I hope you feel inspired by seeing my card. I invite you to try out this technique, it’s one of my favorites. Remember that all the supplies used are listed above. For more please visit Classy Cards ‘n Such store!
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Vellum – Addicted to CAS
Graciellie Design 
Gorgeous Gracie! I love the soft colours you used for the water colouring and the sentiment on the vellum is stunning! hugs 🙂
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Gorgeous! Your watercolor cards are always my favorite – you should do them more often! 🙂
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It's pretty beautiful!
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Oh, Gracie, this is absolutely stunning! I love your watercoloring and how you've arranged the pears for this beautiful Scripture verse that is in a lovely font! Beautiful gold embossing really is rich, along with the pearls! Gorgeous, Gracie! I love it and will have to try this technique! It's always a delight to see your beautiful work! Hugs, sweet friend!
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Beautiful card. Love how you colored and “frosted” the pears. How appropriate to use this scripture with your fruit! Love it.
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Oh my, your card is beautiful, and your watercoloring is awesome. I love those soft colors and the vellum with the gold, luscious!
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What a fabulous work of art the water colouring is so delicate and the colours are beautiful. The embossed vellum is such a great contrast and beautifully embossed love the gold. Thanks so much for joining us at ATCAS and good luck.
Marie
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Beautiful watercolouring and the gold embossing on that vellum is breathtaking! Thanks so much for playing along at ATCAS xx
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Beautiful card 🙂 Thanks for playing along with our vellum challenge at ATCAS 🙂
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