Hey everyone, it's Juhi. Today I'm sharing a super easy and quick watercoloring technique. It is my goto technique for creating watercolor backgrounds for most of my floral cards, today I've used the same method to quickly color flower images. I started off by wetting a piece of watercolor cardstock with a wet brush. I then dabbed paint on the wet watercolor cardstock with a size 12 round watercolor brush. I did not spread the paint, just dabbed in random...

Hello everyone, Karthikha here today, to share a bold slimline card made using beautiful flowers! The flowers and leaves are from Altenew Flowering Cistus stampset. I started by die-cutting multiple flowers and leaves using the coordinating die. I then used the negative as a base in my misti, and stamped the images. I've used 2 sets of inks from Pinkfresh Studio - Heartbeat and Indian Summer. I experimented with a couple of color layering combinations to get light and darker shades....

Hi everyone, It's Mansi again with a colorful, cheery post celebrating Pride Month and all that's good about humanity! Rainbows signify happiness to me and I love that these colors are deeply associated with the LGBTQ movement in America, signifying the diversity in the community but also each colors holds its own symbolism: life (red), healing (orange), sunlight (yellow), nature (green), harmony/peace (blue), spirit (purple/violet) Blending the colors in this card signified harmony and unity and the sentiment I chose...

Hello everyone, it's Juhi with my second post for the Craft Meraki blog. For today's post I'm sharing 2 very different cards I made using the Bloom & Grow stampset from Altenew. The stampset features a gorgeous large bloom with some beautiful sentiments. I have done no line watercoloring on the first one. I began by stamping the large bloom on a 4"x5.25" piece of watercolor cardstock with a very light colored then. I then colored the image with the...

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a great start to your week! Today is my first post as a Design Team member for Crafty Meraki. I am so excited to join Crafty Meraki and this amazing group of designers! Thank you so much to Hima and the AMAZING team for welcoming me! Today I am sharing the beautiful Paint -a Flower Poppy set by Altenew. I love this set and couldn't wait to create a slim line card with...

Hi everyone! Sindhu here. I hope you are all doing great. I'm back with yet another set of cards using one stamp set. For today's blogpost, I used a stamp set from MFT called 'Double the fun'. It has adorable images and I absolutely love the set! Here is a picture of all the cards together- You will see that I used very limited supplies.  For my first card, I started by cutting a piece of watercolor cardstock in the...

Hello everyone, this is Juhi with my first post for Craft Meraki. I am so excited and honored to be a part of the very talented Crafty Meraki design team. In case you haven't done yet, go ahead and check out the awesome new craft store CraftyMeraki.com. The store not only has a curated collection of card making supplies but Bindu from Crafty Meraki believes in building a community around this awesome hobby! For my first post, I am sharing...

Hi everyone, Mansi here from MansiMakes. I'm excited to be part of Crafty Meraki, where crafters can shop with convenience, learn new techniques, and be part of a community of like-minded people. For my first post, I chose a challenge: make two Father's Day cards in under 30 minutes. So you can easily get this project started and finished in 15 minutes if you're making just one card. It's hard to make cards for dad...not to be stereotypical, but the...