Free Watercolour Printable Journal Cards
Late last year I vowed that I would post a freebie a week this year. That was a bit ambitious really given the amount of time it takes to put freebies together. Creating the cards themselves isn’t the problem, it’s the preview files, the pdf’s, the zips etc that takes time.. or maybe it just seems to because it’s tedious.
Anyway. This week I decided to try and create some 3×4 Project Life style cards by splattering watercolours on some grid cards and adding some stamps. I liked the finished product so much, that I decided to try and do something similar in Photoshop. I splattered some paint around on plain paper, scanned it, and turned it into photoshop brushes. I have to pause here and say how much I love the brushes. They turned out so well that my husband had trouble telling that the cards in the photo above are printed digitals, not hand done. After creating the brushes, I made my own grid pattern, some banners, then went silly with splatters, custom shapes, and text. Very silly. I made around 53 cards.
Download them, be warned, the files are large.
Let me know what you think! As always comments, pinning, and sharing are appreciated. Enjoy!
Rachel L
March 4, 2014 at 9:05 amThese are adorable Ren! It’s like a whole mini kit for free :)
Renae
March 4, 2014 at 9:10 pmThank you! I’m glad you like them!
Karla
March 4, 2014 at 8:05 pmGreat free printables, but I haven’t been able to download. Both browers I used (Safari and Firefox) have given me server not found errors.
Renae
March 4, 2014 at 9:10 pmHi Karla, Thank you for taking the time to comment. This appears to be affecting me too. I have found I can copy the link to a new tab and open it there as a temporary fix.
Thank you for letting me know!
Ren
Karla
March 6, 2014 at 5:24 amThanks for your quick reply. Just downloaded and they look beautiful printed out. I pinned them too :) Thanks for the great free printables!
Bri
March 4, 2014 at 11:06 pmHi Renae, I love these cards but all the computers and ways of opening the files I can not open them. Could you please e-mail me the files to the e-mail address provided above ?
Renae
March 5, 2014 at 2:00 amHi Bri,
Thank you for letting me know – it appears I left .com off every single link (the downside of copying and pasting!) they should be fine now.
Renae :)
Bri
March 5, 2014 at 2:16 amThanks lovely … THEY ARE AMAZING and you must a) do more creating b) SELL THEM! If I could I would donate to you for these .. they are just amazing!
Renae
March 6, 2014 at 9:57 amThank you Bri! This makes me smile :)
Renee
March 5, 2014 at 8:50 amThese are amazing gorgeous! Thanks for sharing
Loretta
March 5, 2014 at 9:32 amlovely!
Reina
March 5, 2014 at 10:16 amHi there! Thank you so much for sharing these lovely cards. They are amazing and you are so talented. May I ask you a question? When I print them they don’t come out 3×4 so I wanted to know if I am doing something wrong, maybe in the print setting? They are printing 2.75x 3.75 for me. Strange… Can you please let me know if I may be doing something wrong when printing why they do not come out 3X4? I hope you can help me. Thank you again and I cannot wait to use these in my PL layouts. I love the colors and the designs!
Shelley Orenstein
March 5, 2014 at 12:18 pmThank you so much. You do beautiful work and give me inspiration to do something like this.
Deneen
March 5, 2014 at 1:07 pmI just LOVE these! Thank you so very much.
Alicia Cross
March 5, 2014 at 3:29 pmOh my gosh, they are so cute! thanks for putting all the work into these and a huge thanks for sharing!!!
I love messy ink!
Amie
March 6, 2014 at 3:08 amRen! These are gorgeous!! I just love that you went to all the effort of making your own brushes! Very inspiring. x
Cathy
March 6, 2014 at 4:34 amThank you so much for the beautiful cards!
Ileana
March 6, 2014 at 11:57 amThank you so much! I love these.
Pheeebzzz
March 6, 2014 at 5:17 pmThank you so much for sharing your work. These are gorgeous !!!
Ulrika
March 7, 2014 at 10:15 amThese are soo beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Vanessa R
March 8, 2014 at 10:16 amLOVE them! Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful talent
Pam
April 17, 2014 at 3:52 pmLove these cards! Thank you so much.
lemondedis
May 4, 2014 at 1:52 pmthese are awesome ! thanks a lot ! I shared the link here : https://www.facebook.com/LMIlesptitscadeauxPL and there : http://www.pinterest.com/lemondedis/project-life-freebies/
Debbie
May 4, 2014 at 3:06 pmThank you for sharing your talent
LotusInFullBloom
January 19, 2015 at 8:55 pmAwesome freebie! ;)
ren
March 14, 2015 at 9:05 amThank you :)
Cassie
March 14, 2015 at 7:56 amthese are fab. thankyou
ren
March 14, 2015 at 9:05 amThank you! Glad they are useful.
Bree
April 28, 2015 at 7:32 amLOVE these! Thanks so much for offering them up as a freebie :)
ren
April 29, 2015 at 5:02 pmYou are most welcome! Glad you like them :)
Anthea Granville
January 10, 2016 at 7:37 pmThank you so much for your generosity – these are stunning x x Anthea in Botswana
ren
January 11, 2016 at 5:47 pmYou’re most welcome Anthea :) I hope you are able to use them.
Flat Bum Mum
July 20, 2016 at 5:39 pmThanks. Just downloaded these gorgeous cards.
ren
August 23, 2016 at 1:24 pmYou are most welcome :)