Course Overview

Enliven your cards with dreamy watercolor effects! In this step-by-step course, card designer Deepti Malik shows you how to create gorgeous backgrounds and enhance your stamps, die-cuts, stencils, and more. You’ll discover easy techniques for brushstrokes, gradients, vibrant washes, painting images, and adding dynamic and textural effects—perfect for crafting unique watercolor cards for any occasion.

Video Lesson List

1. Mastering Brushstrokes

Meet Deepti Malik and learn the essentials of becoming a watercolor card artist. Explore the impact of card weights, brush sizes, and palette shapes, and practice foundational brushstrokes for beautiful watercolor effects.

Duration: 23 min

2. Applying Color: Flat Washes

Experiment with flat wash techniques to create free-flowing, striking color as a card base. Learn to combine paints, stencils, and stamps for stunning backgrounds.

Duration: 26 min

3. Soft Gradient Backgrounds

Build on your skills to craft softly blended gradients with one or more colors. Apply these techniques to backgrounds and stamped images, plus discover creative rule-breaking tricks.

Duration: 26 min

4. Bold & Colorful Washes

Explore variegated washes for bright, lively backgrounds. Learn expert tips for color selection, incorporating embossed resists, die-cut panels, and even muting tones with a bokeh effect.

Duration: 19 min

5. Beautiful Watercolored Images

Move beyond backgrounds: watercolor stamped images, add shading and detail, and blend colors for no-line effects using outlines from stamps and embossing.

Duration: 28 min

6. Dynamic Watercolor Effects

Create eye-catching effects such as starry skies, crisp stripes, foamy beaches, and more. Use color glazing to make stamped images pop.

Duration: 25 min

7. Textural Watercolor Techniques

Experiment with household items to add playful textures—cracks, speckles, cuts, clouds—and apply them to your watercolor cards for added interest.

Duration: 19 min