Get Well Soon

Well maybe it's just the right timing for me to be making a 'Blue' themed card for June CAS Watercolour challenge - Something Blue...... because that's just how I'm feeling this weekend with news that my mum has had a fall and broken her leg, she's 88 - thankfully she's still healthy and fit and of a positive nature and will be taking Dr's order to stay off the leg for 6 weeks seriously, and she won't like me for putting her photo in here... Love you Mum and that's why I decided to make this a Get Well card.
I used Loll's Splash watercolour technique for the background and hand painted some flower stems with Twinkling H2Os.  I stamped my sentiment to the bottom of one of those leftover frames you create when you die cut a rectangle, then attached blue card to the back of the opening and trimmed my painted panel attaching it to fit leaving a narrow blue frame.
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'4' Today

An NBUS stamp in use today for this childs birthday card....  I stamped the image in grey ink and coloured it with watercolour pencils.  The square image panel led me to make a square card and used some matching bright pink to frame the panel and bright blue for the background.  To finish I added a die cut number to a die cut scalloped circle and added a stamped sentiment.  I am playing along with CAS Watercolour May challenge - For a Child.  Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it, happy card making.

Popping in to say Hello

Enjoying so time to catch up with challenges this weekend and today I have another card for the CAS Watercolour April challenge - Poppies.... I love them and I love to watercolour.
First I stamped my image in Antique Linen DI so I could watercolour a no outline image but I left both the stamp and image secure in the Misti. After the watercolouring was completely dry I re-inked the stamp in Brushed Corduroy and overstamped the image - it's a lovely fine line stamp so the fine outline reappeared.  I added some depth with coloured pencils and a 'soft yellow' glow around one side of the flowers.  To finish I used a deep yellow card and a grey blue layer, then popped my sentiment up with foam tape.  I am also playing along with Simon Says Monday challenge - Beautiful Blooms and Stamplorations Theme & Sketch April challenge - Stamps and Watercolours.  Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it - have a lovely weekend.


  

Live for Today, Dream of Tomorrow

Hello again, I've another poppy card to share for the CAS Watercolour April challenge.... after my first browse through my stamps I found five or six images but today I'm looking again and it seems I really do like poppies... another six or seven, so the tricky part is selecting just three...
I going with this one showing how the outline looks when Distress Oxide ink is used - gives a nice soft finish and quite different to Distress Inks.  I used Pumice Stone DO on the stamp which includes the background and then colored with DO and added more definition with pencils.  I tried to choose a grey card stock that would work with the card colours as a frame and then stamped a mini sentiment strip and attached with foam tape.  Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate it, have a great week

Thinking of You

I was rapt when I saw that Loll had chosen "Poppy" as the theme for the April CAS Watercolour challenge... I do love these bright cheerful flowers, and ANZAC day here in Australia is April 25, we can all relate with them as Remembrance for those who lost their lives at war.
I used the Misti to stamp my poppy image and left the card and stamp in place so I could overstamp at the end.  I used Antique Linen DI first and Distress Inks to watercolour the image, then used Distress ink in Frayed Burlap to overstamp...wish I'd taken a photo of before and after to share, it really adds dimension....next time.  Next I chose the stitched frame I had floating in my stash and decided to fussy cut the bottom of the image so it could escape the frame. It was all a bit 'white' so I lightly smudged on some blue and added a shadow with the blue pencil too. To finish I assembled the card and stamped on my sentiment...this card is for my friend who has been undergoing radiation and chemo for a brain tumor, yesterday we heard a positive result from her MRI - unbelievable and so very relieved.
I am also playing along with Double 'D' challenge - Watercolour.
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Wishing You a Wonderful Birthday

Tried my hand at Watercolours on Vellum for the CAS Watercolour March challenge.
I stamped my image in grey and clear embossed it and used watercolour pencils to colour the image on the back.  Die cut a double stitched circle on my front panel and stamped on my sentiment.  To add some interest I used a sharp blade to cut the points on some of the leaves so I could lift them through the circle to extend onto the front and used some thin foam tape to hold them up off the card.  I am also playing along at The Flower Challenge #30 - Anything Goes and Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge for March - Special Day.  Thanks for visiting I really appreciate it, happy stamping.


   

Lady in the Red Hat

So I've had this large stamp out on my desk since the beginning of this months CAS Watercolour challenge - Red and Pink... and at last I've stamped her in grey ink and watercoloured her with Distress Oxides. I used a curved mask to reduce the size and then used a die to cut a curved border on that bottom corner before attaching to a white card with foam tape.
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Happy Birthday

Siiggghhh ... maybe this should've have been a Be Thankful card, I'm so over the flood clean up but it continues with mould now growing and this morning I'm seeing that I'll have to have a clean up in here before anything else happens... and shake myself and be oh so thankful that our problems are minuscule compared to whole flooded homes and businesses that have lost everything...

First I die cut my flowers from scrap leftover from my heart card earlier this week, then some white leaves.  Decided to go with a red background panel and stamped and embossed my sentiment in silver.  I used the moulding tool to give the flowers and leaves some dimension and added the die cut flower centers and arranged them on the card.

I am playing along with CAS Mix Up February challenge - Dimensional Diecuts ... my elements are Dimensional die cuts, stamping, heat embossing, die cuts.
Also joining in at CAS Watercolour February challenge - Red and Pink, Watercooler Wednesday  WWC208 - Charlottes "All about occasions" challenge, and Stamplorations Cutplorations February challenge - flowers are my inspiration.
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Love

I have a simple CAS style Valentines card today -- for my hubby....
I sprinkled peony scarlet Magical Micas over my large heart/love script stencil, and lightly sprayed with water.  I didn't quite lift the stencil quick enough so some areas are a bit washed out - still I love the shimmer of these powders.  The heart is a little too large for a card so I used a die to re-size it and simply added it to a red square card and to finish - just the right stamped sentiment for us.

I am playing along with CAS Stencil February challenge -- Powdered Inks, and also CAS Watercolour February challenge. - Pink and Red theme, also Inkspirational challenge #180 - Text , and The Card Concept #108 - Love is in the Air.
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Reach for the Stars

Well I decided to run with a different take on the 'Winter' theme at CAS Watercolour and made a male card with a football player - seeing as Aussie Rules Football is played in winter here - in the cold and the slush and the mud.  For my watercolour element I sponged Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide onto white card and then when it was dry I sponged damp baby wipes through a stencil to achieve this Bokeh effect.... the water drew the ink from the card and varying the amount got me the effect.  Then I watercoloured my footballer (from my stash) with DO ink and fussy cut him out.  To finish I stamped and embossed my sentiments and die cut one with a stitched rectangle die.  I am also playing along with Watercooler Wednesday WWC204 - Gail's Masculine "Anything Goes" challenge
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