Thanks a Million
Good morning! Jess here and I am so excited to be sharing my first post as a DT member for MarkerPop! I’ll admit that I couldn’t quite decide what to share first but flowers are always a classic and I dearly love my zig clean color real brush markers so I thought that would be a good place to start! 😉
The florals in the Best Mom stamp set from Altenew are hands-down one of my favorites and they’re so fun to watercolor! I started by stamping the flowers with versamark and then heat-embossing them with white embossing powder. I stamped the flowers three times on my card base, rotating the stamp each time to get a different angle which helped fill the space with a more organic looking design. Then it was time to watercolor! First I scribbled a tiny bit of color into the petals using my zig clean color real brush markers and then I blended the color out with a waterbrush. I used a combination of Lilac, Violet, Deep Violet, and Light Violet.
I kept the darker colors towards the middle of the flower and let the color get lighter as I worked towards the end of each petal.
I let the petals dry naturally and then went back and added a little Yellow to the centers. Before the Yellow dried completely I added a touch of Orange. After the centers dried I added a second layer of purples to some of the flower petals. I repeated the same process using Emerald Green and Green Shadow for the leaves. Finally I added green shading around the entire image with Green Shadow.
Next I die-cut an A2 card base from black cardstock using stitched rectangle dies. Then I die-cut my watercolor paper with a slightly smaller stitched rectangle die. I laid the thanks word die over the watercolored panel and ran it through my die-cutting machine. I made sure to keep all of the pieces of the die intact so I could fit them back into the card later. I also cut the same thanks word die from 4 pieces of black cardstock. I adhered the black cardstock word dies together and adhered the watercolored word die on top. I fit them back into the watercolor paper and adhered them. I like how the peek of black cardstock on the sides of the word allows the word to pop out! Finally I stamped the rest of the sentiment from Halftone Thanks on a scrap of black cardstock, heat-embossed it with white embossing powder, and popped it up on the top of the watercolored panel with foam mounting tape.
And that’s my card! But I have more exciting news! We have a fun giveaway all this week in celebration of the new Design Team. Each day the Design Team will be giving away a $20 Gift Certificate to the MarkerPop Store. Enter for a chance to win by subscribing to our newsletter and leaving a comment on each post welcoming each Designer and letting us know what type of projects you are looking forward to seeing from them. The giveaway will be open until Friday, July 15th at 11:59pm EST and we’ll announce the Winners* on Sunday, July 17th. *International Winners will need to pay postage. Good luck!
Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day! 🙂
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Tags: Altenew, Jessica Frost-Ballas, Zig Clean Color Real brush markers
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Louise
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This is a beautiful card and I love how you explained everything. I look forward to seeing more inspiring ideas like this.
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Lou Wittmer
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Lovely watercolors. Thanks for the tip of using the black layer under the “thanks”….love that look.
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Celeste Goff
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Congrats on the DT spot Jess…well deserved! Love your beautiful watercolored card!
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Michael Bakeler
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What an exquisite card! I truly am amazed with the raised Thanks die cut. 5 stars for sure!
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~amy~
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WOWZA.
This is gorgeous!
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HEATHER WOODBURY
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Love it! LOVE subtle details and that title is fantastico!!
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Becca Yahrling
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Your card is just stunning. My favorite color is purple so I love it, of course.
And I love how you did the “thanks” and want to try that myself one of these days.
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Sue D
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Welcome Jessica–love your watercolored floral card. I really like how you die cut and popped up the Thanks.
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Janet Labadie
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Beautiful watercolor!
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Aileene Fitzpatrick
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Welcome to the Marker Pop DT. Enjoyed your card design very much. It was light and airy reminiscent of spring.
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KT Fit Kitty
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Congratulations, Jessica! Your card is gorgeous! The sentiment really pops! I love your creativity and I look forward to seeing more of your cards! I especially enjoy seeing your Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker colouring so that’s what I’m looking forward to most!
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Ann McGuire
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Welcome Jessica. Love the beautiful card!!
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Oh You Made Me Ink
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Jessica, you knocked it out the ballpark on your first time at bat! Great job! I love the way you explained everything, step by step! I would love to see more Zig Clean Color Markers and Copics! Thanks!
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FeM
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Wow gorgeous and elegant.
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Beverly Jordan
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Am loving all the beautiful wash of watercoloring! I don’t have but one of each color, so am loving the depth you were able to achieve with the different purple! Gorgeous card and great inspiration! Welcome again, and have been a follower of you since before you became a MP DT member! You are so talented and looking forward to all you are going to share with us!
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Denise Bryant
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Gorgeous card, Jess! I love the coloring tips using Zig clean color real brush markers!
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conll
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Jessica has done it again. Beautiful, perfectly colored card. Gorgeous.
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Carla Hundley
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Jess, love this
gorgeous card!
I follow your blog
so I know you will
have wonderful
creations here
also.
Carla from Utah
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Trina
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Congratulations and Welcone Jess. Your card is absolutely beautiful! I love your watercoloring and love the camouflage die cut technique you used for the sentiment. Looking forward to seeing more stunning cards.
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Janis in ID
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How beautiful!!! I love your technique. These soft colors make just the prettiest, dreamiest card. Lovely work.
<3 J
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HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com
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Karen B.
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This is gorgeous! You are a great addition to the team. I would love to see more uses for zigs.
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Melissa Friedrich
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Beautiful card, love your watercolor tutorials!
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Iris Esther López
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Lovely card. I love to see cards with watercoloring.
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Kathryn Phillips
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Gorgeous card!
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Mary-Anne V.
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Stunning watercolouring and I love the black die cut sentiment under the original die cut.
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HEIDI BRAWLEY
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Oh it is so very Beautiful Jessica!!!
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Helen Gullett
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Jess, this gorgeous amd stunning watercolor technique with markers! Wow! Looking forward to see more from you!
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Patt H.
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Gorgeous card! Your cards are always awesome & you will be a great addition to this team! Thanks for the tip on the black layering for die cuts. Very clever!
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Jennifer K
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Such a beautiful card Jessica, I love the colours you used. I love seeing any project you create but I especially love your watercoloring with Zigs.
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Crystal L
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I love the watercoloring! Definitely want more of that
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D.Ann C
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Lovely – as your cards consistently are! Congrats on making the MP team! Looking forward to seeing more of your lovely card inspiration!
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Andrea Shell
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Absolutely gorgeous! I knew I would see some beautiful flowers from Jessica, and I was not disappointed. I can’t wait to see more of her watercoloring!
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Christine Canfield
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gorgeous coloring as always! i’m obsessed with this inlay die technique right now. love it!
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Rachel vass
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Beautiful card. Congrats, can’t wait to see what you create in the future. I love watercolouring at the moment so would love to continue seeing more like your card today.
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Gabriella B
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Lovely card. I do like when I see others use purple, I’m not that good at picking shades of purple and making them look sophisticated. I also like when designers tastefully add sparkle to a card. My glitter decisions could use some guidance. I also like when specific colors of markers are listed so that I can replicate a project without guessing as to what color to use. Have a great day
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Taunya Butler
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Oh my goodness gracious – so pretty and soft in the Flowers but striking in the overall card!!! Oh, my!!! I am soooooo excited that you are now part of the MarkerPop team. You are so talented and will offer so much to this favorite blog of mine!
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Monique C
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Love the watercoloring on this card!! It has inspired me to want to try watercoloring my stamps. Thanks for sharing. Welcome to the DT, looking forward to seeing more projects! =)
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Lisaerica
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Beautiful Jess! I love the colors and the matching popped up,sentiment. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
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super stick chick
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Love your work, glad you are part of the Marker Pop Design team. Beautiful resist and love your Zig coloring.
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Kristina Song
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Really beautiful card! I love the soft elegant floral and then offset with a little bold pop with the sentiment shadowed in black. Looking forward to seeing more great design ideas like this!
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D Ann Comer
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So pretty!
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Vivian C.
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Stunning card. Fabulous coloring job. I’m inspired to try this technique. P.S. Your underwater bendi card was amazing.
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Emily M.
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Absolutely gorgeous, Jess!
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barb macaskill
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What a gorgeous card!!! Absolute perfection! Welcome to the team, I look forward to seeing more of your stunning work!! 🙂
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barb macaskill
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Just can’t help stopping by again to look at this magnificent creation! It truly is breathtakingly gorgeous!!! Thanks for sharing it with me!!
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Indy
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Wow! This is a GORGEOUS card! Beautiful flowers!
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Kathryn Phillips
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Just beautiful!
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Iris Esther López
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Beautiful card!
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Dawn~DesignsbyDragonfly
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Thanks for sharing your gorgious card. LoVe your water color flowers.
Crafty hugs,
Dawn
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Robin W
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Simply beautiful card…
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