You're in My Thoughts - SUO Challenge#130

The challenge at SUO challenges this week is to make a card for a friend.  These are always good to have around as its amazing the number of times a friend really needs to get a hand made card.  Last week I sent out two of them.
For this one I made a background painted with clear blocks, markers, and a spritzer (filled with water) and used the stamp set "Remarkable You"

• The base card is Melon Mambo, layered with the watercolor background. 

The Background

•  This background was made by colouring a clear block with a SU marker, spritizing it lightly, and then painting with the block on a piece of Whisper White paper.
• After it was dry, the piece was covered with Versa Mark ink, and embossed with Clear embossing powder.

• Some White Tulle ribbon was adhered to a piece of Melon Mambo cardstock and adhered to the watercolored layer.

 The Image:

• The floral image from "Remarkable You" was stamped with Black memento ink onto Whisper White cardstock
• A blender pen was used to colour the flower - Melon Mambo & shaded with Smoky Slate. Some Soft Sky colour was added around the outside of the flower.
• The circle framelits was used to die cut the flower image.

The Sentiment:

• The sentiment, from "Best Thoughts" was stamped in Melon Mambo on Whisper White, and matted with Melon Mambo cardstock.

To finish the card, some bling was added in the form of gold sequins.  Five were added randomly on the front of the card.

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Sweet Hope Merry Christmas - Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #282

For the Sweet Sunday sketch challenge I challenged myself to make the flower from "Best Thoughts" into a Christmas flower, and the card a Christmas Card.

 

• The card is a 5 by 5" one with Real Red Cardstock as its base.  It is matted with Whisper White cardstock  the edges of which have been sponged with Real Red ink.
• The next layer is Merry Moments DSP again with Real Red sponged edges.
• A small strip of Real Red cardstock was adhered to the left of the DSP.  It extended over the DSP on the top but did not go beyond it on the bottom.
• The next layer of DSP is adhered at an angle.  It is the reverse of the first piece, and is mainly Old Olive green in colour.  The edges of this piece was sponged with Old Olive ink.

The Flower:

• It was stamped with Versa mark ink onto White cardstock, and embossed with gold embossing powder.
• It was coloured with ink pads and an Aqua painter - Real Red, shaded with Cherry Cobbler and then Smoky Gray.  The stamens were coloured with a Smoky Gray marker, and later Gold Dazzling Details was applied to them.  The leaves were painted first with Old Olive , and shaded with Always Artichoke and Smoky Gray.
• The flower was then cut out and adhered to a Dazzling Diamond glitter paper die cut with the larger of the Star framelits.
• A 1/4" red ribbon was tied into a bow and adhered to the center of the flower with a glue dot.  A Dazzling detail glimmer star was attached to the middle of this ribbon.
• Gold Dazzling details was used to outline the flower and highlight the stamens.

Sentiment:

• It is from the stamp set "Petite Pairs" and stamped in Real Red ink.
• The Modern punch was used to punch the sentiment out.
• It was adhered below the flower using dimensionals.

Supplies Used:

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