One of my favorite things about the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions catalog is the Watercolor Wonder suite.  Oh, my!  So many fun images that you can watercolor. (And there’s a brand new   watercolor product coming soon!  Can you say, “alcohol markers in Stampin’ Up! colors?”)

I used the poppy image from Happy Watercolor for this card, and it just seemed a little flat.  So I stamped another one, cut out some leaves and popped them up on stampin’ dimensionals.  Better.

To watercolor this image, I used our Many Marvelous Markers.  Pretend that’s Real Red on the poppy.  (It’s actually retired Poppy Parade, because that’s my all-time favorite bright red.  I’m hoping it comes back, so I’m hoarding all my ink and card stock.)  The mat under the flower, though, is Real Red, and I used Soft Sky designer series paper and card stock for the bottom layers.  I also stamped and embossed the flower image on watercolor paper.  Markers blend so much better with the aqua painters when stamped on watercolor paper.  And I love that Whisper White organza ribbon.  It’s so elegant and pretty.

If you haven’t seen the Occasions catalog, you can view it here.  If you’d like a hard copy, please leave me a message and I’ll send one out.

Thanks for stopping by Stamping with Buffy.  Have a wonderful day!