Hand-Penned Petals Thanks - a catalogue sneak peak

 This stamp set has some images that look delicate and rich and lends itself to a variety of techniques.

For this card, I used watercolor paper, ink pads and water brushes to create this art piece.  The colours I used were pulled from the DSP.

After embossing the image with Black embossing powder, it was coloured with the following colours:  Highland Heather with shading done with Gorgeous Grape; Daffodil Delight with shading done with Bumblebee; Just Jade.  The background wash is done with Pool Party.

The sentiment was stamped using Black Memento ink on the lower right.

The completed image was die cut with the new Scallop Contour Dies and added to the card front using dimensionals.

The card base is Gorgeous Grape layered with Basic White embossed with the Wrapped in Texture embossing folder.  A strip of Hand-Penned DSP was added to the left side.  Some Gorgeous Grape organza ribbon was added in the center of this DSP.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Hand-Penned Petals

Inks:  Black Memento, Versa Mark, Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, Daffodil Delight, Bumblebee, Just Jade, Basic Black, Pool Party

Papers:  Water color, Basic White, Hand-Penned DSP, Gorgeous Grape

Accessories:  Wrapped in Texture Embossing Folder, Black embossing powder. Water color brush, Stickles glitter (purple, black), Pastel Pearls, Scallop Contour dies, 1/4" Gorgeous Grape organza ribbon.

Let's Ride

I was thrilled to see the stamp set featuring horses in the Occasions catalogue.

Seeing the horses took me back to an earlier time when my children were young.  My daughter was 'horse crazy'.  She would read books about that animal, and draw them and she was absolutely thrilled when I arranged for riding lessons.

Her special horse was brown with a white star on his head and white socks - and so does the horse on my card today.

The horse was coloured with watercolour pencils and a blender pen, with some areas 'touched up' with a Stampin' Blend.  It was masked so that the trees could be stamped in the background.

An Oval framelit die cut the completed image, which was layered with a crimpled Crumb Cake oval.  The two ovals were off set from each other to give the illusion of movement.

Dimensional were used to adhere this focal image to a 'sliding barn door' background.  This background was created by adhering four 3/4 by 5" pieces of the Wood DSP to a piece of Whisper White card stock and this in turn was adhered to a 4 1/4 by 5 1/4" Crumb Cake layer and then to an Early Espresso card base.

Using the Sliding Barn franelits, the hardware for the bard doors was die cut in Basic Black and adhered to the card front as shown.  The door doesn't actually move, but it looks like it does.

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Let it Ride

Inks:  Black Memento, Watercolour pencils, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede

Papers:  Early Espresso, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Wood DSP

Accessories:  Layering Oval Framelits, Crimper, Sliding Barn Framelits, Dimensionals, Blender Pen

Hummingbird at Trumpet Vine - The Friday Mashup #211

I spent all day in the garden today because my plant sale is tomorrow.  All the flower beds had to look perfect, and so did my little transplants.
I started splitting my perennials 3 weeks ago and the use of a root booster really helped them to thrive.  The growth experienced by each plant had been phenomenal!
Today I put up the tent in my driveway (the forecast is for rain) and arranged 4 tables in front of it along the sides of the driveway.
Each plant was assessed, priced ,watered and labeled with their name.  Some names I absolutely could not remember - I hope I remember by tomorrow.

When I saw the challenge with the Friday Mashup late this afternoon I was absolutely delighted.  I love watercolouring, and the challenge this week is just that.

This week's Mashup! Challenge is:

• Create a project with "Watercoloring".
• Create a project using "the Sketch".
• or Mash it Up! and create a "Watercolored Project using the Sketch".

I grabbed my Stampin' Up Wonder Watercolor crayons and my Aqua painter and spent several enjoyable hours watercolouring. The stamp set I used was from Stampendous,  Here's the result:

 

The images were stamped with Memento ink on Whisper White cardstock.  They were coloured with  watercolour crayons and an aqua painter, using 3 shades of each colour. Some pink glitter was applied to the hummingbird and the trumpet flowers.

The ribbon and bow were coloured with a Perfect Plum marker and added to the right side of the card.

Stampin' Up Supplies Used:

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