WATER COLORING CHALLENGE DAY NINE

HEY BLOGGIES,

Today I have a card for you that I did watercoloring with distress inks for my background.  I also used white embossing powder for a resist with this coloring.  It was fun playing with the colors to come up with something I was happy with.

 I used two star stamp sets by Stampin' Up! - BE THE STAR and SIMPLY STARS.

Some of the distress inks I used include cracked pistacio, peacock feathers, salty ocean, pine boughs, mermaid lagoon plus some concord grape ink from SU.  There could have been some more, but these are the ones I remember these being used.

I added some sequins, a banner with the sentiment embossed with hero arts bright blue and a scallop square die from SSS.

Thanks for visiting my blog.  I would love to hear your comments on my water coloring background and of my card design.

Join Kathy at THE DAILY MARKER for her 30 days of coloring challenge, there is still time for you to jump right in and practice with the rest of us!!

EASTER CARD CLASS LAST NIGHT

HEY BLOGGIES,

I had so much fun last night with my friends creating beautiful cards with the BLESSED EASTER single stamp.  First thing we did was cut the sentiment off the stamp and now we had TWO STAMPS - the image on one side of the block and the sentiment on the other side.  This way we can keep using our stamp even after Easter is over!!  woot woot

We used the WATERCOLOR WONDER NOTE CARDS to make our cards.  It was so much fun to have these note cards all scored and ready to go!!

 Karent is showing the one card we just used regular card stock and embellished with the doily and a starburst die cut around the 3 tulips.

 Heather is clowning around while showing the vibrant crushed curry and cajun craze card from the notecard set.  We created a mask and stencil (you can see it in the bottom right corner of this photo) so we could add more sponged inks to make it really vibrant.  We also spritzed some seam binding ribbon to be the same two colors and pleated it along the bottom.  Really a FUN and beautiful card!!

 Leslie is also showing the two tone card and you can see the pleated ribbon we created with our spritzers.

 Vina and Heather are showing you their versions of the bright tulips and wisteria wonder ruffled ribbon on their doily cards.  I LOVE these Easter colors, don't you?  Lookie here - Heather matches the ribbon!!

For this pretty note card of different watercolored greens we did some white embossing and then only watercolored a few flowers for a different effect.  It really focuses on the white embossing and the greens which are so pretty. Oh, we also pressure embossed the tulips around the outside of the card for an additional feature.

Here are the three cards without the beautiful women to distract you:

Thanks for visiting with me this morning. Please stop back again to see what I am creating next.