So, today I'm going to post my first ever tutorial...exciting stuff! :D Please bear with me and all my pictures!

Materials:

  - Some sort of material for your card. I use ready to fold kraft paper cards from Hobby Lobby. The main reason I use these is that they come with ready made envelopes as well (although to be honest, envelopes aren't hard to make). If you want to use what you have I'd go with a sturdy paper or card stock. If you're using watercolors or sharpies be sure that the color doesn't bleed through to the other side.

  - Your text on a piece of tracing paper & a piece of graphite paper. Now, you could totally just handwrite your text (or not even have any text). However, I like to keep the same size and font for each card. 

  - Small paintbrush, clicky pencil, uniball pen. The paintbrush is for paint, obviously. The pencil I use to trace the text, and pen I use for literally everything.

  - Watercolors. You can use anything you want to decorate your card. For this tutorial though, I'll show you how I use my watercolors for my puffy flowers.

I usually start by tracing my text onto my card using my graphite paper.

You should end up with something like this.

Next I break out my lovely water colors (and water bottle I use for portable paint water.)

For my flowers I just go ahead and paint a bunch of colorful circles. I let the color and placement decide itself as I move along.

Once those are done it's time to bring out my trusty uniball pens. (I use different sizes for different things but it honestly doesn't matter.)

First I go in and begin to trace my text.

Then I color it in.

It usually ends up something like that. 

Now it's time to begin my flowers.

The flowers I've been doing lately are just a series of curvy lines one on top of the other in a circle. The circles that I painted earlier give the flowers a place to stop and help differentiate between them.

And somehow it ends up coming out like that. 

After I finish the front of my card I like to stamp the back with my signature (a homemade stamp made out of an eraser.

And there ya have it! All the deep dark secrets to my funky little cards. Let me know what you guys think about this tutorial! And if you're interested in purchasing any of my cards go ahead and check out my etsy shop in the shop tab at the top of this blog!