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Watercolor Florals for Beginners: Create a Greeting Card with Soft Wet-on-Wet Techniques

teacher avatar Brenda Jones, Watercolor Artist & Teacher

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Welcome to Class

      0:35

    • 2.

      Supplies and Setup

      6:26

    • 3.

      Choosing Colors

      4:34

    • 4.

      Practice the Concept

      6:51

    • 5.

      Painting the Florals

      13:29

    • 6.

      Transforming Your Painting into a Card

      4:28

    • 7.

      Final Touches - Follow for More Classes

      4:15

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Learn how to paint soft watercolor florals and turn them into a thoughtful greeting card you will be proud to give or keep. In this class, I guide you step by step through simple techniques that bring calm and flow to your painting process. We begin with playful color splatters, then use water and gentle brushwork to shape them into delicate petals. From there, you will add graceful stems, leaves, and subtle floral centers that capture the loose beauty of watercolor.

This class is designed for beginners and intermediates who want to enjoy watercolor in a relaxed, approachable way. You do not need advanced skills, only a willingness to experiment and enjoy the process. Together we create a painting that feels fresh and effortless, and then I will show you how to transform it into a one-of-a-kind greeting card. It is a lovely project for gifting, sending, or keeping as a reminder of your creativity.

By the end, you will know how to:

  • Use splattering and lifting techniques to create floral shapes

  • Blend and layer color for a natural wet-on-wet look

  • Add stems, leaves, and subtle details for balance

  • Cut and frame your painting to make a finished card

Many of the supplies I use can be found in my Linktree, which is in my Skillshare bio if you would like to explore them further. Whether you are painting for yourself or preparing a handmade gift, this class offers both a gentle introduction to watercolor and a meaningful way to share your art with others.

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1. Welcome to Class: Welcome to class. I can't wait to get started with you. And today, we are going to be working on these beautiful little flowers, and we're going to be making this greeting card. I can't wait to show you everything about this and how we're going to do it and all the extra added things that we're going to be using to make it even extra special. Join right along as we get started on this from going from a sample that I had to practicing it to a completed piece. I can't wait to see what you've accomplished, and I hope that you upload your finished project at the end of the class. 2. Supplies and Setup: I'd love to talk about some of the supplies for this class first before we get into how to do the artwork. So this is going to be what we're going to be painting. As you can see, it has some splatter on here, has pretty little flowers and that the flowers have multiple different colors inside of there. I want to show you how to do that. So let's get into these different colors and the paper and all the different things that I'm going to be using today in class. The Princeton brushes are great, high quality brush. I really enjoy these. The size six is nice for this kind of work. And then this one is called a liner brush. It could also be called a detail brush. You can see that it's nice and thin, really great for adding in the little details. You don't have to have these brushes. You could, in fact, have this set of brushes or any other set that you happen to have. I just want to show you this as an example. This set is from Transn. This set has pretty much everything you could possibly ever need. If you're just starting out as a watercolor artist and you're trying to figure out what brushes do what, I would recommend that you pick up this set I also always have some kind of a cloth with me or maybe it's a paper towel. Something that I can dab off. So when I put my paint and my water on the brush, if I have too much paint, I can drip it off of here, or if I need to clean off my brush a little bit more, I can always put it onto my cloth. So always have a cloth or a paper towel nearby. Now to talk about paper, there's several different things. Today we're going to do a practice run and then we're going to do our finished painting that we're going to put into a greeting card. So I have these wonderful watercolor pads. They're spiral. There's two different sizes. They can come in sets, I believe. If you don't have and this is watercolor paper. So make sure that if you're going to be buying a watercolor pad that it is made for watercolor, it's really going to help with the absorbency. These are not cotton. This is cheap inexpensive paper. This is not something that is a high quality. It's just for practice. But it's really great for practicing your brush strokes or for experimenting or to find out what happens when you do something or what colors mixed together and what is that going to look like? You can practice on this kind of paper. But if you're ready to move on and do an art project and you really want to make sure that you have something that you can frame and feel really proud about or give away as a gift, you'll probably want to paint something on watercolor paper that is 100% cotton. And this one, I always use a cold press. It has a little bit more texture. Let's see if I can pick that up on the camera. See how it has a little bit more texture in the paper than your hot press. A hot press paper is going to be very, very smooth. I personally want to use the cold press, but again, that is always up to you. You can use what makes you feel happy. I also was able to find this great big stack of paper, and this is all 100% cotton paper, watercolor paper, cold press. Again, let me see if I can get that. See. Can you see that texture in there? So that's really nice to have when you are painting in watercolor. If while you're looking at my different supplies that I have and you're thinking, Oh, I don't have any of those things, please just use the paper or the paints or the brushes that you have. There's nothing special or magical about what I have. I want you to start with whatever you have on hand, even if it means you're using your kids paint brushes and paint. Use scrap paper. Just have fun. Let's make sure that we're doing things not because it's the right supplies, but because we're just having fun. Now, today, I'm going to be using Daniel Smith. Daniel Smith paint is my absolute favorite, in most classes, you're going to be seeing that I am going to be using the Daniel Smith paint. Today I'm going to be using a cascade green, an indigo, moon glow, and sepia. These are four colors that I've already tried out. I tested them. I tried them to make sure that they would blend nicely together, that they looked cohesive on my paper, and I'm going to be showing you that in another lesson so that you can also figure that out for yourself. But if you don't have Daniel Smith paints or you don't have paints that are in tubes, that's totally fine. Maybe you have a watercolor paint set, something similar to this. This is also great. There is nothing wrong with using something like this. You do not need to use what I'm going to be using today. The most important thing for you to remember is that if you have a paint set like this, spray it down or wet it down with a dropper. I prefer a spray bottle because it's just easy and quick. And what I would do is just spray this whole thing down so that it gets a chance to start getting loosened up and ready and activated and ready for painting. I also have two different water containers. I just use mason jars, and I'm going to fill these both with clean fresh water so that they're ready to go for our project. The last thing I want to show you in our supplies is that for today's painting, we're gonna be turning this into a greeting card. And if you painted something like this, which is going to be our class project, you can cut it down and fit it inside of these cards. These are window cards, so you can put your artwork right inside of here. And then it also comes with a stack of envelopes, and then you could be making Christmas cards, or you could be making Mother's Day cards or thank you or whatever it is that you need cards for, and you can always have a stack of these ready to go. Okay, I think I have covered all of the supplies that we're going to use for today, and I'm going to get started. We're going to do a little sample before we move on to our good paper, and we're also going to test out some colors. So join me in the next class when we test out the colors on a little scrap paper. 3. Choosing Colors: Okay, we are going to start with a little bit of testing our colors. I'm just going to set these things aside. Sometimes I have scrap pieces of paper because I've painted something and maybe it didn't work out the way I wanted or it was a sample. I don't waste this paper because the back of the paper is just as good as the front of the paper. So I will cut it down into size. And here, I can even show you I have all of these other projects that I have worked on. I just cut them all down, and now I'm going to use the backside so that I can test out what colors work really well together. Okay, so I want to be able to talk about the different colors that I'm going to be using. As I mentioned in the last class, you do not need to use these two paints. You could be using the other kind. I personally am going to be using these four colors, but you could choose any color you wanted to. For this class, I'm going to be showing it to you in this color way. But I have done this before in pink or in yellow, all the different colors. Even a beautiful peach is absolutely stunning. So whatever color is your favorite for today, that's the color you should make this in. I have gone ahead and squeezed a little bit of these different colors into this palette that I have. And then I have activated them. All I did was spray them with water, just gently spray them so that there's a little bit of water in there, and they are now starting to get activated and ready to go. Put these four colors in order for you and hoping that maybe that will help. This first one is indigo, this is Sepia, cascade green, and moon glow. I want to talk about all four of those colors because I think it's important for you to understand what it is that I am working with. Your indigo is going to be just that indigo blue. Brush it off here on the edge so that it doesn't drip off of my paintbrush. Then as I bring it down, I might even just drop my paintbrush into the water so that I can get it to be a little bit more transparent as I move my paint brush down. The next color is sepia and Sepia is pretty much just a beautiful brown color. Here, I put it into my sepia and you can see how beautiful and brown that is at the top. And I'm going to bring it down, drip into my water, and then continue it down here a little bit further. Rinsing that off completely, drying it off on my rag. Now this cascade green is very special. This one's called a granulating paint granulating paint means that it has several different colors inside of the paint. It comes this way. It's granulating, which is going to have several different colors. I might have a brown and a green or a blue and as it dries, it's going to separate into the different textures of the paper and you're going to be able to see what I mean as this dries. Let's start it here at the top. You can see how nice and bold it is, and I'm going to bring it down, get a little bit more water and drag that all the way down here. I'll show you what I mean by having that be granulating paint. As soon as it starts to dry, you're going to start noticing that. This one is moon glow, which is also a granulating paint. This is more of a purple and so beautiful. This is one of my favorites for doing flowers because you never know exactly what you're going to be getting when you use moon glow, how beautiful they are. And you can see in here how this has got, like, some browns and even some golden tones, some teal, greens. Oh, I love that one so much. And then here you feel like you can pick up some pinks and then some purples and even, like, little shades of blue in there. So you can do the same thing if you are using a kit like this. Just go ahead and open it up and say, Oh, I think I like this green. I think I like this purple, and I like this blue. Just make your own and see what it looks like on here. And then if at the end, you're like, Mm, I don't know if I like that purple with it, trade out that purple and do it again so that you know what your color swatch is going to be so that you know that you're going to be satisfied with the project. So join me in the next class where we can dive right into our class and learn how to paint these. We're going to do a little sample so that you understand what you're working on before we move over to your greeting card. 4. Practice the Concept: We're going to do a quick little quick study so that you can see what it is that we're going to be doing. You want to make sure that no other paper or anything that's important is laying around because you don't want the splatter that we're going to be doing to land on anything else, like a plain piece of paper or another piece of art that you've done. We're just going to make one of these flowers so that I can show you what it's going to you want your paint to be really liquidy almost so that when you've got it fully filled up that it almost drips off, the are going to be smacking this against your hand or you could use another paint brush, but you're going to want to do this and splatter it a couple of different times, brush that off and start over with your indigo color and do the exact same thing here. Now that you have two different colors on here, that's going to really help you with your flowers. Now, I'm just going to make one and I'm going to make it a little bit on the larger size so that you can see what it is that I'm going to do. I'm using these paint um, splatter splotches as my paint for this. The only thing that's on here is clean water. This is just plain old clean water, and I'm going to dip into here from now on and just use this for this next part. But the reason I need to work fairly quickly is that I need to be able to use the paint that is here on my paper as the color. That is where my color is going to be coming from. You can see I'm just kind of squiggling my brush around making petal shapes, not really particular or fancy or anything, leaving some white spaces. They could be joined together or they could be not joined together, whatever you want it to be. Adding that beautiful the little dots so that they blend in together. Now, I could let that dry and that could just be a really, really faded, faint colored flower, which would be stunning. But I think what I'm going to do is dip back into my paint. This is the moon glow, and I'm going to just add a little bit in here and let that just bleed and blend and look how beautiful that is when that happens. I'm just adding a little bit of color. It's a very intuitive style of painting because you don't get to choose necessarily where all of your flower heads are going to be going. You put them where the dots are. Now I'm going to go into the indigo and maybe I'm going to add a little bit on the outside edge for the indigo. And just drop a little bit of indigo in here. You can even move it around a little bit if you don't like the way that it dropped. You can move it about. Because I'm working while this is still very wet, I have that opportunity. This is a wet on wet technique to just really manipulate it and make it move. Now that I have that done, if I wanted to, I could use these other dots and I could make another one. Maybe I want to add a bud there and maybe a bud up here and it's just a simple little oval shape. You could even make maybe a downward facing bud that's right here. I said this is just a sample, so I'm only going to do one or two, but it's hard for me to stop when I see those little dots that I think maybe I should be using. Just drop in some sepia into the corners and let that bleed and maybe a little bit of moon glow a little moon glow in there. Okay. I'm just going to let that dry. I'm going to move over to my small rigor brush, liner brush. You could also just use this one. But since I have this one, I like to use it. I'm going to be using the cascade green, again, putting it on my brush and then just wiping off what the extra is. This is the base of the flower, so I'm just going to draw it down, maybe jump over that flower and bring it all the way down here. Maybe the same thing with this one. This is the base, jump over and bring it down here. This is going to be the base and just arch it over. Same with this one. Now I have my stems. I'm going to use this one for my leaves. Doing leaves, I would edit and try to make as few leaves as possible. I've always feel that when you add in too many leaves, it sometimes gets a little distracting. So I would recommend that you use the fewer, the better, and stop while you're ahead. And sometimes that's the hardest thing for me is not adding in too many leaves. You can even add a little bit of brown into this because I think that would be really pretty to add a little extra brown color. I lift some of it up if you feel like you got too much in. It'll blend. I'll move around. Now I think I'm going to add in a little bit of the sepia into the center of this flour as it is drying. I think I'm going to avoid touching the wet parts, but you could touch them if you needed to. Maybe I'll just add a little bit of flour coming out like that. Okay. So there's your little bonus. It was supposed to be a practice and it got a little carried away. But here you can see you can make a whole bunch of small ones or you could just make a bigger one. So there's your practice. We're going to let this just dry naturally so that they can all flow and blend, and then we're going to move over to our nice piece of paper. Today I'm going to be using cotton and we're going to be making this one. Same practice, same principles, but just slightly different because we're going to be making a lot of different heads. 5. Painting the Florals: Our practice, you can see, is dry or almost dry and how pretty that is with this variegation of color because I added the moon glow and the indigo, I really gives it a stunning contrast of colors and a combination of colors in here. R gives it a great watercolor feel. So whether on your next piece when you do the project, if you want to make the tiny ones like this or you want to make a great big flower, it's up to you. It's your art. You do what makes you feel happy. I'm going to be demonstrating this one because we did practice this one larger so that you could see the strokes that I was making. But I think I'm going to go over and do this one instead now. I do want to show you this one. This is something that I have hanging on my wall. This is something I painted a while ago that I really like, and it is painted in more of a pink and peach color. So I did this last spring, and it really spoke to me, and I love it. But again, I just used two different colors in this splatter and then made all these beautiful flower heads out of it. And this is what I mean by you do it the colors that you enjoy in the season that you are doing this class in because this is what I did back in the spring, but this is so, so beautiful. And this one brings me joy every time I see it. So I just wanted to I just wanted you to see how different they are, but yet very similar. Okay. Again, we are going to be adding our splatter and I need to remind you that this needs to be liquidy like milk so that it's nice and thick so it almost drips off but doesn't drip off. Then if you just brush your brushstroke against the edge of your palate, that is when you know that this has just become the right consistency. I have enough water in here. I don't want to be having you just barely wetting your paint that needs to be wet so that you can really move your paint brush around. Look how that is almost dripping off. It's going to drip if I don't take my time and just just brush it off on the edge. I'm going to now do splatter and I want to remind you that we do need to work fairly quickly with this so that it doesn't dry on our paper. If the splatter dries on your paper, you're not going to get the effect that you're going for. I may not speak completely through this because I do have to concentrate and make sure that I am doing it. And not letting it dry. I'm going to get some big droplets off, dip back in, get some more droplets, maybe one more set. I like it when I get some nice big ones. So I'm keeping the droplets on the upper half because this bottom half is going to be where my stems are going to go. It's okay if they go down there, but I'm not going to be focusing on them there. Here I am going to put in some indigo because I like having, I'm sorry, this one is the moon the moon glow. I'm going to be adding in moon glow here and again, getting some nice big thixed ones. Now, because I have a big one right here, I'm going to make sure I incorporate that into one of the petals. I'm going to put this is just water on now, and now I'm just going to be painting with water and whatever paints happen to be on on the paper from the splatter. Always just dip in and grab a little bit more paint, a little bit more water. Now I drop some. That's okay. I'll just become the next spot. Maybe that's going to be where this happy flower is going to go. This one is just going to get three little stems though, I'm going to put a bud up here. I'm going to put another bud up here and apparently another one there. Again, whatever happens is what happens, and I am completely content with that because this is just intuitive painting and letting whatever happens happen. And it is really a fun way of letting go. Very few times in life, we get to just let go and see what happens. That is something that I really enjoy about watercolor. I get to just be okay with it and accept my fate. If it's something that I make and I don't love it at the end, it's okay. Just make another one. Try it again. It's just paper and it's just paint, and these things are completely, they're going to be beautiful no matter how you paint it. I think I'm going to put one more down in here, Maybe I'll put one more over here. You see, I'm not even really making a flour. I'm just making little blobs and they're jagged and they're disjointed and some blend together and some don't now that they're all wet and they're still wet, I want to make sure that I can move right into the next spot, which is adding in a little bit of the darker indigo right into it before they dry because I don't want that to dry or it's not going to blend correctly. And then I think I'm going to put a little bit more moon glow into some of these as well. Okay. I want you to take notice this one has dried. This flour right there that is almost that petal is almost completely dry. I tried to add a little bit of the indigo there and it just stayed on top. I didn't blend like these other ones did. I don't want to leave it like that. What I'm going to do is paint just with water on here, is I'm just going to pick that up and just move it around and rewet that surface and then maybe drop in a little bit of moon glow and let that blend again. So when I was painting this, I kept something in mind. I wanted my heads to be on the top half. I wanted to have a grouping of the bigger flowers, similar to this, I had a grouping of the bigger flowers. And then I wanted to have some buds dancing above the main big flowers. I put these up here at the top because they're just dancing along the top here. That was my thought process there. Well, these are very, very wet and I could let this dry or I can go ahead and add in my stems and not care if my green blends in with my flowers, and I don't care, so I'm going to go ahead and do that. But if that bothers you, then I would recommend that you let this dry completely before you do that. So what I mean by that is here I'm going to give you an example. This bud is still very, very wet. You see how it's shiny, it's wet. You could put a paper towel on it and pick that up. That is a very wet bud. If I touch this green into that center, I'm going to be getting that bleed, just like when we were adding the other colors. It bled right up into that. I'm okay with that. I actually like that. So I'm going to go ahead and do that and let it go. Then I jumped over the flowers so that this stem is coming behind these flowers. And I see I'm just wiggling my paintbrush as I go down because I'm not looking for a straight stem. I don't feel like anything in nature is straight, and so I'm okay with them not being straight. I'll do a couple more little stems. I don't always give every flower head a complete stem down. Sometimes the stems just aren't there, they just blend in because I also feel like if you put too many stems in here, it can get distracting and I'm not looking for that, so I will just bring in a couple more stems. Maybe I'll just throw them in like that, but they don't actually go anywhere, all the way down. So now that I've added in my stems, I am actually going to put some of that green out here and grab some of the sepia and some water. See how I've just changed that bright green into this brown green. I'm going to use some of that and just go back on top, just to add a little extra depth and interest. No, I'm not trying to follow the line. I'm just throwing it in there to add a little bit of added texture. I think I'm going to go ahead and touch the centers and create these little centers of the flowers. Now, here I'm going to be careful that I don't touch too much of the flower buds because I don't want them to bleed too much into the petals. It's okay if it beleds a little bit, but I'm not going to want a lot of it. I'm adding a lot of white space so that there's plenty, plenty of white space in there. That's that. Now, if you feel like some of these bled too much, you can always lift that up. Use your cloth to wipe it off. If you don't care for the way that blended, just lift it up, stop it from bleeding. But it is watercolor after all, and so I feel like that's the purpose, and I'm okay with it. But if you aren't you should wait until this dries before you add on your next layer. You're the artist. You get to choose that. I'm going to go back here and I'm going to dip into that nice brown that I had created, maybe put a tip of the green on here and add in flower some leaves. I just add a little stem. I'm going to lay my paintbrush over on the side and wiggle, I didn't have enough water and wiggle like that. Maybe I'll do a two for one here. Wigle down until it looks like a leaf. Maybe I'll want one up in here. Here, I'm going to just do a little stem and move one over here. Like that. 11 up here and here. Now, I highly recommend that you stop while you're ahead and don't add in too many or you sometimes can start to really regret that you added in too many leaves. That is often my problem and I don't want you to have that problem. So make sure you edit and don't add in more leaves than you really need because sometimes less is better. I'm not loving how bright green this leaf is. I feel like that's just a lot of green. With this paintbrush, I've washed it in my water. I've dried it off, and now I'm going to come in here and I'm just going to soak up some of it and just lift some of that extra paint up. Do it again, dry it off, and just lift up some of that extra. See how that worked? Wow. So all the other dots in here are just added interest and they're just for fun. I'm going to just leave those alone. You can see on this one that they're still in here and I like that look. But that is your project for the day. Come back in the next lesson after this is completely dried and move on to the next part of making this into a card. 6. Transforming Your Painting into a Card: Welcome back to making this beautiful little painting that you've made into a card. You could say, I don't want a card, I made this and I want to frame the whole thing, or you could say, I liked this part of the flower. I didn't really care for this part or vice versa, so you can find the area that you like the most and turn that part into a card and turn the rest of it into your scrap paper. That is what I'm going to do here. What I have is this is one of the cards. This little mat is the same size as this card. I'm going to use this mat to help you understand what I'm referring to. So I can take this mat and I can move it around and decide what area I like best. Do I like that as the card? Do I like it down here more? Do I like it up here? Do I like it this direction? You get to move it around and decide what you like best. Which direction do you want the card to go? Sometimes even I turn it all the way on the side and I say, maybe it's actually that direction that is really pretty. You get to choose whatever you want and you can really see it when you're using a mat like this. I think I'm going to choose something in this area. Let's see. Where I don't mind that these are getting cut off, I don't mind that that's getting cut off. I can start to see these leaves which I like. You can see this one plainly. I think I'm going to choose that area as the inside of my card. As you can see, that is going to be really close to that size. I'm going to use this pencil and frame it out on the outside edge. So that I know where let's see all up at the top. I know where I'm going to use my paper cutter and I'm going to use the paper cutter to cut out there. I'm actually going to go a little bit on the inside because I know that my frame is a little bit smaller. We're going to do this. Now, you might be saying to yourself, What? I can't believe she's cutting down that whole piece. What is she doing? Why did she do that? But for all of these pieces that I don't use, I'll just use the backside and do the same thing that I've done over here and use these pieces for scrap. There's nothing wrong with these things and I will use all of these. I have a big stack of them. I save all of this paper, and if there's something to be painted on the back side or even on the front side, I will use all of this. Okay. I think I've got this cut down to about the size that I want it to be. I have my card holder. I'm going to slide this in here, see if it fits, it's snug, but it fits. There you go. Now I have turned it into a card I have my envelope and the last thing I need to do is sign it. You always want to make sure that you are signing your work because that is your way of celebrating. You're saying, I made this, I did this, and I am proud of it and I am ready to sign it. Sometimes I just add my initials. Sometimes I add the year. You can put your whole signature, do it however you would like to do it. But that is the way I will be signing that one for today and that is ready to go into my cards, and I would be ready to sell that or give it hold on to it for when I have a special occasion. Then on the inside, I could put in all of my notes to the recipient, and that has turned it into a beautiful gift for somebody, and they could take this out and they could frame this inside a a wooden frame if they so choose, or they could just put this up on their wall or on their mantle or something. That is our lesson for today. Come back to the next lesson so that I can give you some tips and some tricks for the next for what you can do with this next. 7. Final Touches - Follow for More Classes: Now you certainly do not need to do this, and it does add some interest to it, but it is not something that would be necessary to do. That would be to be adding some little marker gelpen highlights to it. And I just want to show you what those kinds of things could look like. Because you've done a practice in the past, you can always pull your practice out and you can say, Okay, I have a white gelen or gold or silver. Which one looks best? What is going to be working the best for it. You could see does adding in some little dots. Or maybe adding in some little extras, something like that. What is the look that you're going for or maybe you put a little outline around the outside like this. You could do something like that with the gold or maybe you want to use the silver and just really put in a line for the leaves here or like this one and then put dots. So you can create anything that you want to or you might say, No, I like mine just the way it is. I am not adding anything to it. I don't want to do anything, and that would be perfectly fine, too. I just wanted to see that you could make it extra special if you so choose. I think what I'm going to do is go very light and use this silver, so it just shows up just enough and maybe add in some little dots up in here. And maybe a line. Then I think on this one, I'm just going to outline it. Just a little bit, maybe only on three of the petals and maybe this one only gets that much. Maybe on here, I'm going to put some dots around the outside of that one side and here too. So it is up to you what you do with it and how much and how many details you add as to if you like to have that or not. But I think that's it. I'm going to end it with that where you can pick up where you can pick up that it just has a little shimmer to it, but not too much and just adds a little bit of a sparkle, especially since it's a card. I kind of like to add just a little bit of added interest. Just don't go overboard. This is another area kind of like the leaves where you could go overboard with it, and I don't want you to do that. So thank you so much for coming to join me today and for making this card with me. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you had fun with making your practice and making your finished piece. Don't forget to save your scraps and use those for something else later. You can also always use these to make bookmarks out of. So there's always something to do with that. Don't consider making these a waste because you are going to be having such a beautiful gift. Um, be sure you take a picture of your work, whether it's your practice or your finished piece, if you've put it into card, or if you've decided not to put it into the card. Take a photo of it, upload it to this class so that I know that you have completed it. Tell me what you struggled with. Tell me what you enjoyed or what you didn't like doing so that I can learn so that I can be a better teacher for you. I would love for you to give me a review. A review on the class is really helpful. It lets other students know what you enjoyed about the class, and it would really be very helpful to have a review. If you're on social media, I am also able to be found on social media. I don't go into as much detail in my social media accounts, but I show you a lot of different ideas and things that you can do. You can follow me there, you can again find those different links on my bio. Thank you so much, and I will chat with you another day. Don't forget to send me a little review and upload your picture. I can't wait to see what you've made.