Watercolor Gradient Die Cutting

Hi everyone! Today I’m sharing a fun clean and simple card I made this past weekend. When I started this card I knew I wanted to do something fun with watercolor and I wanted to do something fun with a large cover plate die. So why not combine them both?

To start my card I watercolored a large section of a piece of watercolor paper gently fading from coral to yellow using Gansai Tambi watercolors from Zig. To start this I brushed a fairly generous amount of water on my watercolor paper using a 1″ wide flat Grumbacher watercolor brush. Then I picked up a bit of the coral color and brushed on 2 strips of color then I dipped my brush in clean water, tapped it off on the side of my water container lightly blotted on a paper towel and brushed on 2 more strokes. I continued this same process until I the brush strokes ran clear. I did this same technique with the yellow fading it up into the coral. After this dried I die cut it with the Cover Plate Mighty Bloom Die from PTI. After die cutting it I kept the negative so I could arrange the petals back in their original spots with foam tape. I was very carful to make sure each petal went back in it’s original spot. To finish I die cut one of the Many Thanks Die-namics from MFT out of black cardstock and attached it in the center with foam tape!

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To make it easier for readers to find the supplies to make this card all supplies are listed below. Each item is linked to where you can buy the product. Affiliate links are used when possible. Items marked with a * were purchased by me. All others were given to me by the company or borrowed.