Floral Essence and GDP #200

Another challenge for me this week. What a beautiful card to CASE. I love how soft her card is and so I wanted to have that same feel with my card and that is why I decided to add water with the aquapainter to my stamps after I had inked them up. I love this look.

Check them out here.

The floral essence stamp set is great for this technique. The colors really blend nicely when stamped.

I also like the addition of sequins in the card by Janneke, so I just had to add those as well. I love how these lighter colored ones really pick up the colors in the card.

This card will make a pretty wedding card. I hope you enjoyed my spin on the amazing card created by Janneke de Jong. What an inspiration her stamped work is.

Perennial flower punch

I am so in love with this new punch and coordinating stamp! I know I have used it a lot lately, and I am hoping you like the ideas that I have some up with.  Most of them are pretty basic and easy but I think that is what I like most.  Quick and easy!

I love to white heat emboss images and watercolor them! These images took me no time because they are so small. I stamped them a few times with versamark ink and then embossed them on watercolor paper. I used mostly bermuda bay ink and pool party for the flower colors. Every time I use bermuda ink and paper I wonder why I don't use it more often. I love the color!

For the leaves I decided to stamp the same flower on pear pizzazz. For the card base I used bermuda and swiped my white ink pad across it for a subtle look.  I love this technique. If is kind of hard to see it in my pictures but in person it looks so soft and pretty. The greeting is from the free as a bird stamp set and the die I used to cut that out is from the stitched label dies. This die set has great dies for sentiments. If you have not gotten this bundle yet, I would highly suggest it! The price is affordable and you can use it in so many different ways.  Let me know what you have done with this bundle.  Enjoy!

All days are beautiful!

The card I have made today I finally got the chance to use the stitched die that I cut out the other day. I don't know about you but I keep all my scraps, some may say I keep too much! I love to use them in creative ways. Although today's way is not that creative, I think that it turned out really cute!  Below is the card that I cut the die out.

The bird ballad designer series paper is so pretty! I have such a hard time cutting it up! But then when I make a card with it, I am so happy that I did cut it.

I really wanted to keep this card simple because the paper is kind of busy.  The perennial essence stamp set has a simple flower that when stamped in the calypso coral looked great.

I stamped the greeting and the leaves before I ran the piece through the big shot with my subtle embossing folder. This folder is good for when you want to add texture but not to much busyness.  Keep your scraps and you will never know what you can create with them! Enjoy!

Special Day

I love to make cards for special people in my life!  This card was made for a friend of mine who's birthday was last month. I also love a punch for my flowers because it makes the whole process so much quicker. 

I stamped the flower with calypso coral and then added dimension with my coral stampin blends and my white water color pencil. I used a few of the new dies: stitched nested labels and wild rose.

The sentiment is from the stitched all around stamp set and the designer paper is from the bird ballad DSP. I saved the negative portion to use on a future card. Check back and see what I did with that. Make someones day special and create a work of art for them! Enjoy!

Beautiful days!

Hello and welcome to my blog! If you are new to my blog I invite you to leave a comment! I would love to hear from you and what you think of my cards and my blog. For the card today I have been practicing my watercoloring again. I am currently doing the 30 day coloring challenge started by Kathy over at the daily marker website. She is an amazing colorist and I have learned so much from her. I have always loved to color and what a wonderful thing to give my self permission to color each day. It doesn't have to be for a long time but enough to relax and enjoy the process. Sometimes I find that I am hard on my myself and compare my work to others and so I am really trying to enjoy the process and relax and color. For this project gold heat embossed one of the flowers from the  perennial essence bundle.

I gave the old school try on the watercoloring of the images. I know that I need a lot more practice and I am learning so much from the experience. I think I got a little too dark with the colors and needed a little more highlighted areas to really make this flower pop. I tried adding some white highlights with a gel pen but I am not sure that it really helped.

The sentiments in this set are beautiful! I gold heat embossed the one that I thought looked best to fit on this card. Let me know what you think about the watercoloring of my flower. I would love to have all the input possible to help me grow in my watercoloring. Thank you so much for visiting and have a great day! Enjoy!

Water color petals

This will have to be quick post for today. I am still enjoying my "coloring time" and wanted to share my card for today. I started by silver heat embossing the petals from the perennial essence bundle. This bundle comes with a great punch that coordinates with this stamp. I made 2 sets of petals to stack for a 3D effect. I water colored the petals and I really like the colors and how they blended. It made the most beautiful color!

I used the stitched label die to cut out a base for my sentiment and continued the silver heat embossing. I was afraid that you would not be able to read the greeting but I was pleasantly surprised that it showed up nicely!

I did not want to leave the background completely white and so I sponged on some balmy blue with my brick looking stencil. I thought turning it sideways would give it a different look and I was very happy with that but after putting the card together I decided that I think it would have looked better if I used a soft green in the background. I think the blue just didn't really go well with the rest of the design. Have a beautiful day! Enjoy!