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1. Intro: Hi, I'm Kim Snider with
play art with kim.com. I'm a blogger about
creativity and I hold in-person
classes once a month. I am passionate about
helping others access their creativity and
just experienced that joy that comes
with playing art. I want to bring people in who don't think
that their creative, who don't take time
for themselves. That's my passion. I hold in-person classes and the one that I'm teaching today, the online class
and I'm doing for skillshare is a favorite. We're going to create a simple but elegant
watercolor card using just the wet
on wet technique. It is a beginner level class. Anybody can do it. It's very easy, clear, and yet it's a
beautiful end result. Here are some examples of
the cards that were making. Just going to show you here. And here's a blue one. So we're using the wet on wet technique, three
analogous colors, a gold paint pen, and maybe some stamps
for the sentiment. If you have them or hand
lettering the symptom. Once you get the
gist of these cards, the variations are endless. You can just take off and do
so many different things. So I'll see you in the
first-class. Let's get started.
2. Step 1 - Cut your card: Right here we are in step one. Now we're going to cut out our watercolor card out
of the watercolor paper. The reason why I do that and not buy ready-made watercolor cards is that I haven't found
watercolor cards that are good quality enough. I like this paper. This paper is wonderful and you can easily make
a card out of it. When you take your paper out. Keep this top side. In your mind because this is a side we're going to keep
on the outside of the card, the part that you're going
to put the watercolor on, the backside is
slightly different. It's slightly different. So I just always make sure that I have the top side of
the watercolor paper. Now, I'm going to show you you can use scissors
and a ruler for this. We're cutting out
in A2 size card, which is 5.5 by 4.25. You can use your scissors
and ruler to cut it out, or you can use this
type of cutter. I think many of you who are crafters might already
have one of these. Just a real simple,
inexpensive cutter. When we have our
paper right here, we're going to be able to
get 12 cards out of it. Make sure to not try
to measure it this way because you won't get two cards out of it any way
you look out of it. So keep your paper landscape. Since this is 4.25
and this is 4.25, my first cut is going to be 8.5. I'm going to do that. 8.5. Press it up and get rid
of this little one. We won't be using that
little skinny strip. Now. My first card will be, we're going to now do
the 5.5 measurement. The first card. So there's card one. Push it through to another 5.5. Now here's the part that really works well
if you have a cutter, so this is the top side
of the card, right? I'm going to flip it over. And I'm going to measure 4.25, which is one side of the card. So 4 fourth is right there. Be sure that I'm right. I'm going to take this and I'm only just going to
press it very lightly. I have to do with my left hand, so I'm sorry if
it's hard to see, I'm going to just
press down like half. I can hear it cutting
the paper a bit. Let's see if it leaves
this little nice. It cuts that first
layer of the card. You can bend it easily without getting a
bunch of wrinkles. But that's the
inside of the card. So we're gonna do that first. So that cuts side
is on the inside. Then fold it. This way. You can use a bone thing to
make sure your creases nice, but look how nice that creases. So there's a card, of course I'll do the
same thing with this one. Measure for 0.25. Let's see. It's always a little
tricky right there. And gently press through
that first layer, only making sure
not to cut through the whole card where we
go and then flip it over. Use my ruler. There we go. So now I have my two parts and my strip
for the bonus project. I will see you in step two.
3. Step 2 - Set up your work space: Alright, now we're going
to set up our workspace. So get all your supplies that
you need for this stage, you're going to need tape, your hard surface, your card, your watercolors brush
water and a paper towel to wipe your brush off when
it gets too much water, etc. If you're left-handed, you want all of this stuff
on the left hand? If you're right-handed, you want it all on the right hand. Alright, so now we're going
to tape our card onto our hard surface because
we don't tape it down. Watercolor will get on the underside and get on
the inside of your card, make kind of a hot mess. We don't want that
tape this side, the bottom, and the other side. Don't need to tape
this because we're not going to be
painting on that part. You just want to get a
consistent width around. I'd say just a pretty small this one got
a little too small. So you can just adjust
it and no big deal. There we go. Make sure you keep this
tape so it ends up BZ. Leave a little bit up
and you pull it off. Otherwise you spend
half your time trying to find the
edge of the tape. I have that happened
to me quite right. Okay. So there's that
and then the bottom, we are not going to tape this fault because no matter
I've done it so many times, I really have wanted
to make tape this. But each time it rips, when we take off the tape, it takes advantage of
this jagged edge and rips off a layer of the card no matter what kind of
tape doesn't matter. So we're avoiding
to put tape there. We're going to put a line there. And the next part of the video. Next step. Now we're going to get
our watercolors ready. For this project.
You're going to need three colors
that are analogous. Analogous means they are right next to each other
on the color wheel. Green, light blue, and blue are close to each other on the color wheel right
next to each other, and so is yellow,
orange, and red. For this card, I'm gonna do
the yellow, orange, and red. So I'm going to take my yellow. Just put a little bit here. Take my orange. Put
a little bit here. A little bit more
than that. And read. Really don't need a ton, a ton of it because
you're gonna be using a lot of water with this. Can always add. So here's a little water to help activate those and
get them ready for paint. If you have pan watercolors, you'll need to drop a couple
of drops of water over them and let them sit for a
minute until they're ready. Right now, I will see
you in the next step.
4. Step 3 - Wet-on-wet technique: Okay, here we are, finally at the paint stage. So this is the fun part. I think it's all
fun, but this is a really fun part where you get to see it coming together. So I've put a little bit
more water in my colors, and now I'm going to
begin to first of all, paint water on my card, water only this is the
wet on wet technique. So you have to get
your paper wet for this technique
to start with, you gotta have a wet paper and then apply wet paint to it. That is the wet
on wet technique. I'm going to just go around
this circle and only do about half of the card at first because of
water just dries quickly. You need to keep it wet. And I can't work
fast enough to go around this circle and
do the whole card. And make sure that I get
along this edge up here too. So when you're applying water, you want enough water on
there where the paint will be able to flow in the water, but not so much where it's
pooling in the edges. When you think you
have it all on there, you're going to
want to pick it up. There are some lint. And you're going to want to pick
it up and put it in the light so you can
see where maybe you've missed a few spots and not
have it all the way wet, the paint will follow the water. So you don't want to have
these little dry spots of the paint will
not go into it. I'm just going to pull
more water there. Okay? Now, I'm even going to
make these colors a bit more diluted in this part here. And I'm going to start with
the light color and just place it in big blotches
here, in there. In this section that
I'm working on, make sure you have some of
it touching the circle. That's about good for yellow. You could rent your
brush, you don't have to because the next
color is darker. And that's why I start
with the lighter color. Because when you're
moving quickly, you can go from light
to dark without really cleaning off
your brush too much. Just just kinda touch
up to that line. Don't feel like you don't make a line up here
to make sure you get the line because it will mess
up the style of this card. Alright, now I'm going to take the red and put it up
here and dilute it a bit more and drop some red and you see how the paint starting
to pool right there. I'm going to fix that
here in a minute. It's going to drop
some red in here and there and spread it out. I'm going to start
making this move. Lips and look at that. You can just kinda
push that along. Turn this and start keeping makes sure that I'm
keeping this wet edge wet. And I see some issues over here. You can dry off your brush
and just pick up some of that pooling paint
along the edge there. Just pick it up and it
will just fill back in. This is a bit of a pooling area. Alright, now I'm going
to get this next section covered in water. It's okay that it has a lot of pigment that's a little
much right there. It's okay because these are the colors that you're
putting on here. Really, it's only going
to affect the yellow. Just make sure I don't
listen to those birds. Birds are really wanting
to be part of this. Alright, Do I have it all wet? I see there's a section
right there that just resisting the wet. Back to it. I'm going to start
with the yellow again. I'm just going to put it
in some various areas. My goodness, birds. And I'm going to add the orange. So a little bit much water. So I'm going to
start doing that. You're just playing around
and if you have enough water, you have some time. If you don't have
a lot of water, it starts to dry before you can really get it spread around. We don't have enough water. It won't flow into each other like like these
colors are doing. Look, I'm spraying it
all over my table. No big deal because
it's watercolor. You can just wipe that up later. I'm going to add my red
in here a little bit. This is very big pigment,
lots of pigment. So I'm just going to
blend that in a bit. Okay, I think that's
good for this, this section. Look at that. So pretty. It's even more
beautiful when it dries. And if you want to, before you walk away, just make sure it's not pooling up into many areas right here. Wants to pool because of the papers buckling a little
bit right in this area. That's okay. This didn't quite
get up to the white. I'm just going to tap, alright. It's okay that this is going
over the line a bit and places because that's where the gold pins going to come in. So it looks a bit
messy right now, but I promise it's going
to be so pretty later. Let me add a little
bit more pink in here. Okay. I mean, bread, it really
looks pink but it's red. Okay? So now what you wanna do
is walk away because you, if you're like me,
you want to mess with it and then you'll
ruin the effect. So it is time to be done
with this step, walk away, go get yourself a cup of coffee, cup of tea, and then come back and I'll see you
in the next step.
5. Step 4 - Embellish with a paint pen: Okay, here we are at
the paint pen park. So we're going to first
take off the tape. When you take off the tape
is important to pull it like this at an angle and go slowly. And it might take up, nope, it's doing
great. Look at that. It looks like I'm going
to have a little bleed, but alas, this is
homemade work, right? Look at that. And that's okay. I don't mind those
things on cards or anything because it's
homemade after all. Handmade, like to say, pull it at an angle. It's going to take a
little of that off. If it starts to do that, go on the other side,
don't keep going. Then just took a little bit off. But again, it's okay. Now we're going to
do our paint pen. So here we are with the
secure a pen touch gold 1. And we're going to talk
about our options. So I'm going to
sketch out a few of the options we might have. And you probably have
even more options. But I've just drawn some
circles here on this page. And one of the options
is just to go over it with the pen. And you can make this as
thick as you need to to cover any of the of the paint
that got over the lines. So make this a thick circle
or whatever you want. If you hardly went
over the lines, you wouldn't have to,
but you get the jest. This is gonna be some
messy, messy, sketchy. I need to press
it one more time. Yeah. Alright. The next option would be
to do the same thing. But then to add a little
interest on the outside. Let's just, I like
real simple designs, but this just adds another piece of
interests to it, right? Okay, now, another option is to follow the circle
and make leaves. We just alternate in and I
just keep turning it because, well, I can and then out. You just really simple here, friends in. But even when it's simple, it's still shows up as elegant. That was my whole
theme for my wedding, was simple elegance
20 years ago. I still doesn't go out of style. Simple, elegant. So you just, I mean, again, I'm just doing a real rough
sketch here because this is not my actual just to
see what it looks like. That looks real nice courses. This one kinda went
a little crazy. But I might just, in that case, try to fix it by doing that. You can add a little, little memory like just to
nothing too intricate. Okay? And another idea would be to start at this edge and go
this way with some berries, and this way with some berries. So let's see. I'm gonna do the same thing as I did on the leaves
with the in and out. And it's just going to make
berries and these look really pretty and
dainty kind of. So we're just going
to keep going until we meet the top and
then go the other way. And I just kinda
try to match my, if I went out first
and then like that to see those birds, they really want to be part of this videoing
tensions, not on them. So that's a real
pretty idea as well. For this card, I am going to do what I like to
call messy circles. So here's the thing that I use to make
the original circle. So I'm going to just
put it right in the middle and start with
a trace right around it. And then I'm going
to let that dry, might help it along
with another card. Because the last thing
you wanna do is smear your gold paint pen
when you finally got the finished product
is not so pretty. Look at how these colors just
meld together. I love it. Now you're just going to
place it off, just slightly. Pick it up and look at that. So we're just gonna kinda
make little messy circles around and we'll let it dry. And other messy circle this way. I think. We might want one
more. Let's see. How about just like this. Okay. Okay. So isn't that pretty now? You could leave it just
like that if you'd like, but you could also just
put little dots around in various places, right? And that way you can
cover up some of these little places where it
might not look fantastic. Your eye has enough interests now that it really won't
go to those places. Make sure you do some on
the end. So I'm on the out. Right? Good. Right here. So that's pretty that's
the paint pen you could also go across here and down
in this way and that way. You could, if this is your card, beautiful, beautiful
rectangle there, you could make your corners with your gold pen and just
whatever you want there, but you could add some
interests that way. You could go, like I said, around the watercolor
the whole way, but I like the watercolor
edge just like that. So in this part I'm
going to leave it. Then in the next video, we will talk about
how to address the middle. See you there.
6. Step 5 - Add a sentiment: Here we are. We are on the
final step of our card. So I'm really happy with
how this one looks. It's so pretty. For this one, I'm
going to use one of these sentiments that I
showed in the beginning. I think I'll just do a
happy birthday when I have a lot of people
that have birthdays, lot of family members, etc, that have birthdays in June. So I'm gonna do a
happy birthday. I'm keeping this
paper here because I like to first try it out, make sure it works. I've got these very
nice stamp pads and I liked to maybe put two
colors on or three. I think I'm going to do this
on the top of each word. See how I'm doing that just, just on the top. And then I'm going to
put red on the bottom. I'm not even going to put
this on that paper first because I don't want to have to do that
both colors again. O and it worked out beautifully. Hey, so that's that. That is beautiful. Here's the card. Now, I want to show some other things
that show some ideas. Here. Is this one. This one I did with a heart
sticky note and just traced onetime around with
the gold and did the same thing with
this kind of stamp. There's that, Let's
kinda show these. This one I did in the
blue and green colors. And I just did a little
oval down in the corner. It was actually
part of my palette. I just trace this
little oval right there and did it in
silver with dots. And then I just
took the dots and put them around,
around the edge. This one is also blue. And I did The hoping
you can see all these. I did the leaves and then added this corners that
we talked about earlier. This one is red and
orange and yellow. And I put the berries this
way and that way on this 11 of the things that I didn't like when I
got done with this one, I made it's your day and I just not pleased
with how it looks. So I went and picked out some of these stickers that
I have and I think look at these so
I can just place a sticker right over
the top of that. If I didn't like it
looked at this one, I haven't decided
what's the best. And I've got several
more choices, but what if we added a little yellow just like that into it? Not pretty black
and white flour. I actually really
liked that one. I could cut off that stem and just have the
flower I really like. I think that's my favorite. It's a couple of more choices. A pink looks very nice
with those colors. And like a gold, just going with the gold thing. But, you know what? I just really liked this one. Let's see what it looks
like without that stamp. Yeah. Yep. So we're going to cut off that stem and put that in there. So you see you make
mistakes, no big deal. You can fix them so easy. With just a little engine,
ingenuity and imagination. I hope you had a wonderful time making
these cards and have fun, and I'd love to see what color
scheme you came up with. These are not the only two. And what kind of design you made and what kinda see how you did your sentiment.
Oh, look at that. That's beautiful. So just use what you have and, and do something fun
and make it your own. But there's some ideas. Happy card making.
7. Outro: Friends, we did it. We made a simple
but elegant card. I really want to see yours, so please post it in
the class projects. Thank you for joining me
and making these cards. They're simple, they're
elegant, they're beautiful. Whoever you send them
to is going to love it. They're going to want
to know how you did it. You're going to send
them right over here to this class, right? Thanks. Just to recap. In this class, we learned to cut watercolor cards out
of watercolor paper. We learned to paint the
wet on wet technique, and we learn to get creative
with gold paint pen and the sentiments that the sentiment don'ts doesn't
always have to be words. It could be a stamp, et cetera. If there's one thing I really hope that
you take away from this class is that it's
okay to make mistakes. In fact, you're going to make mistakes and it doesn't
mean you have to scrap the project is just another
opportunity to get creative. I love mistakes. It's actually sometimes
it turns out even better. If you enjoyed this class, please follow me here on
Skillshare or on my website, subscribe on my website, play art with kim.com. And you can follow
me on social media, on Facebook and Instagram. Links in the description. See you soon See you next time.
Kimberly Snider, My motto is: "Play Art & Spread Joy"
