Simon Says Stamp Blog Party for STAMPtember!

STAMPtember is finally here - wootwoot - the entire release is HERE! I'm super excited about all these awesome new products and my two sets of watercolor card sets that have been released. One is a birthday watercolor card set and the other is a floral watercolor card set called Foral Sentiments with all different sentiments. Here are images of both:

Today I'll be sharing the floral set all painted and made into cards. I'll share the birthday set in a few days as they are all ready to go as well! Here are all 12 with two versions of one of them so 13 in total. I have some tips and techniques I used to color these at the bottom of the post. At the top of this post is the exclusive gift offering (this one is only on my blog) - make sure to go to the SSS Blog to see all of the participants in today's party as each person has a different gift offering on their blog.   

Tips/Techniques:

•  These card fronts are printed on Ranger Watercolor Paper so they are intended for watercolor, but any color medium can be used - the paper works great with Copics, watercolors, colored pencils, etc...
• Try using more than one coloring medium on each card; I start each with watercolor, but then I add shading and details with glitter pens or colored pencils.
• I add Tonic Nuvo Drops all over my images - I use them over the colored letters, in floral center, over flower petals (such as the white dots on the Gerber Daisy card, etc...
• Use a wet on wet technique for backgrounds blending several colors like greens and the colors in the flowers so it looks like a fuzzy background in a photo 
• Use an N2 Copic marker to add shadows behind the letters on the cards and some of the images to make them pop
• Sometimes after I paint and color the images with colored pencils, the black lines fade a lot so I redraw them with a fine tip black marker (especially the letters) to make them more prominent
• I use a white colored pencil and a white Uniball marker over the edge of leaves to add lighter areas 
• Tonic nuvo drops also add a nice finishing touch to the backgrounds instead of sequins

Here are some of my other favorite products in the release. I am working on a "one stamp, five ways" post with both of these sets - Birthday Numbers and Beautiful Flowers 2:

    

I also LOVE these two background stamps - I'm so into these cling background stamps lately as they are super fun to color with colored pencils. I have a card on my last "one stamp, five ways" blog post using the Plank Background Stamp one with an image of the card below (directions for this one are on THIS POST). I also love the Nature Mandala one as it is so detailed - I'm working on coloring it in with colored pencils after stamping it with natural colored ink).

    

Hey, guess what?!?!?! I'M DONE! With 100 blogs to visit, I bet that is a relief! Don't forget to post all of your products in the Stamptember gallery on the SSS Blog HERE. I'll have my other set of watercolor cards posted in a few days. If you want to know when the blog post goes live, click on the email me when I post button on the top left of my blog - and don't worry, I don't post that often haha. Thanks for visiting and have a great STAMPtember everyone! Suzy

Comments

[Bev Page]

Wow, you have been a busy girl. All your cards are super beautiful and I love them all. So varied in design and the flowers are all so pretty. Thanks so much for giving us so much inspiration.

[Peggy M]

Wow! Beautiful coloring & I love the background techniques! Thank you for sharing!

[Beth K]

Floral cards are my favorite. Such a beautiful variety. This set looks like a "must have" for me!

[Heidi Rees]

Wow beautiful cards! So bright and happy! I bet they were so fun to make and color! I just might need to had the stamps to my wishlist! Thank you for all the inspiration!

[Laura J.]

Wonderful cards!

[Dawn Young]

Maybe Simon can make some of your cards into stamps!!??? Love your artwork!!

[Marzee Carnes]

Love your cards, and your talent in creating these pictures! It is hard to pick a favorite, but I think it might be the petunias...Or, as a southern girl, maybe the magnolia!

[LC Lamothe]

Happy STAMPtember! Such gorgeous and fabulous cards! I love seeing how you color your doodle cards. They are always amazing!!! Thanks for the awesome inspiration!

[siobhan Burtlow]

Beautiful!

[Talitha Wright]

These cards are absolutely beautiful! Your coloring is just great. Thanks.

[Michele W]

Love your beautiful work and the fact you used colored pencils. You've really inspired me. Thanks for sharing!

[Joyce MC]

Beautiful coloring. I love your thanks card. Your color choice is fantastic.

[Ilda]

Beautiful cards, your work is amazing!

[Melissa SunshineHoneyBee]

Wonderful coloring on these.
Melissa
"Sunshine HoneyBee"

[Brenda Kuder]

I am in awe that you colored all of those beautiful cards and then made another beautiful card on top! Wow!!

[Pauline]

I'm so glad I found you! I've have always loved watercolor pictures, but I've just started playing around with them. I have the new Altenew watercolors after I watch your video using them. That's all the supplies I have now so I look forward to watching more of your videos for ideas and inspiration!

[Nana Griffin]

These are absolutely beautiful! They remind me a old fashion seed packets.

[Teri S.]

Holy cow!!! Your cards are absolutely splendid! I think putting together these watercolour card sets is a fab idea.
I am particularly "wowed" by your last card with the plank background. Love love love the colours!!!

[Jeanette Hebden]

Just amazing and the colours are beautiful and so different on each card.

[Toni L]

What a lovely bunch of cards--thanks!

[Beverly Jordan]

Coloring overload!!! LOVE your artwork and fun SSS release!!

[Jodi Warren]

I always love your drawings you create. The coloring tips are also really helpful. I would love for you do a video of how you use the different techniques you wrote about.