This Timeless Arrangements Watercolor Birthday Card is a card you can make for almost any occasion. You can also change up the colors for the season or the occasion. It does require some die-cutting! It’s probably a good idea to cut out extra pieces of the foliage, as long as you are die-cutting, so you have plenty for your project and maybe pieces you can save for another card. You could even save up scraps of cardstock and then do a bunch of die-cutting all at one time in lots of different colors.

This card even has something extra about it! The card base is Petal Pink, but the layer is Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. You may already have some from previous Stampin’ Up! years. Watercolor paper really holds up better, even to a small amount of water, than Basic White cardstock. If you have the now-retired Shimmery White cardstock, that holds up pretty well to water. To add some color, I just used my Water Painters and some ink. Water Painters are like a small paint brush filled with water. Either put a few drops of reinker on something else, like a clear block or in the lid of the ink pad. Then just pick up some of the ink with as much water as you like from your brush and just “paint” across the watercolor paper, preferably pretty lightly. Use whatever color combinations you like. Let the paper dry or use your Heat Tool to help it along.

Place your diecut stems and foliage on the backside of the greeting. You can use Stampin’ Seal to hold it all in place, then if you want to pop up the greeting you can use Dimensionals. I tied a little bow to adhere to the greeting and added a few Iridescent Rhinestones.

If you didn’t want to do the watercoloring, you could select some designer paper that had more of a solid color background, some even have watercolored looks, so as not to distract from the foliage. Just have fun with it and see what you come up with!

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