The whole time you were painting, I was thinking is that an ornament in the center? I actually went and got out my stamp and looked! 🤣 Great save with the gray!!
Stunning! Listening to you explain how you kept a cohesive color scheme...it was a light bulb moment for me! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiments/learning with us. 💖
Absolutely stunning! I love the way that you walk us through each step as you color, I haven’t done much watercoloring yet, I do have the paints, but too many things at home of getting in my way of picking up the brush. I certainly have learned a lot tonight watching this excellent video. Thanks Amber for sharing your God given talent! Hugs!💜😘💞💞💞
Having the sentiment separate like that means you can change the orientation of it within the floral background - such a clever design and a gorgeous, gorgesous card! You're such a great teacher, Amber!
I absolutely love this video! Love this stamp set and your painting is fabulous! I really enjoyed being walked through your watercolor mixing/painting process. Please do more videos like this one.
I'm so glad you found me and finding the videos helpful! I had a lot of fun with these colors and that embossing powder is so unique. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
So many great tips! I’m definitely going to give the quin pink and veridian combo, and also the deepening of colors without adding straight grey or more intense colors.... I’m a huge fan of these muted colors!!!
Thanks so much, Shraddha! I had a lot of fun muting the colors down. I'm still learning my paints so I suspect I will have more of these color mixing videos. I still can't decide if I want to do color swatch exercises or just experiment like this. This was definitely more fun, so we shall see. Thanks for watching and I'm thrilled you enjoyed it.
Hey Amber...I too prefer background 'Cling' stamps to 'clear' background stamps as I just think you get crisper lines and less chance of 'thickening' the lines when stamping. I so need to practice watercoloring and when I'm ready, I plan on investing in a couple of watercolor classes for beginners. My issue is telling the difference between warm and dark tones as this seems to be a factor when mixing your own colors. Is that something that you learn with practice? I'm not sure how to go about that issue because isn't that something that I should be able to 'see' when I look at a single color? I'd love to see more of these educational watercolor tutorials and learn more about color mixing. Thanks for sharing sweetie.
That's a great question, Nancy. It's difficult to classify many colors as warm or cool in their own right. It's much easier to classify them when you compare them to your other colors. There are a few colors like Hansa Yellow Light and Yellow Ochre where it's easier to tell all on their own that they cool and warm respectively. But, the blues can be more challenging for me unless I compare them. Once you start using your colors more, you get to know them better, and will easily recall which are cool and warm. There are two things about watercolor everyone says and I really didn't believe it until I tested it. 1) High quality paper makes a huge difference in your results and success 2) Getting to know your colors by mixing and swatching improves your watercolor tremendously. You just have to make the learning process fun so it doesn't feel like a chore. Happy painting and practicing! Thanks for watching!!
you probably dont care at all but does anyone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account? I was dumb lost my account password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me.
@Stephen Benton thanks for your reply. I found the site thru google and Im trying it out atm. Seems to take a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
I'm sorry if I sound like an ignoramus, but what is this stamping card technique? It's wonderful and I've never seen or heard of it before! Would someone please advise?
Hi Diana, That's a great question. So sorry I didn't explain that better in the video. This card making technique is called heat embossing. You stamp with a clear, slow drying, sticky ink, sprinkle on the embossing powder, and melt it with a heat tool. Here's a link to my Heat Embossing playlist for more inspiration. ru-vid.com/group/PLF7zFhmc1aC_Qa08d5GnImn8-hnXZHaG3 Heat embossing is definitely a technique that gets artists into card making. Watching the powder melt never gets old. Enjoy.
@@dianamanis2403 You're so welcome, Diana! You're going to love heat embossing. I highly recommend WOW! products as I get consistently great results with them. Here are their website links. US Store www.wowembossingpowderusa.com/ UK store www.wowembossingpowder.co.uk/. Use code "wowdtard" for a 10% discount. Happy shopping!
