Sending you Love and Best Wishes

Via a couple of friends... Ros and Ina, I saw that Just Us Girls #453 challenge had a new technique for me to try... Fast Watercolours.... so here's my effort with a Hibiscus stamped and embossed with white EP and watercoloured with Distress Inks.... it's a very old stamp and the rubber is a bit hard so the stamping wasn't up to scratch but in the end I still thought it was ok to use on a card.  I dry embossed a border on the front of my card and stamped my sentiment and embossed with gold EP.  I am also playing along with Addicted to Stamps and More #304 - Clean and Simple. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.


 

Love and Best Wishes

Some more watercolouring from me today... this one with watercolour pencils.  I used the Stamplorations Blossom Bliss sampler and when finished colouring die cut a heart.  I arranged this on an embossed background with a strip of metallic ribbon and a stamped sentiment.

 I made this card with the leftover flower from the panel.... arranged on a lilac background with a strip of embossed white card.  Finished off with some metallic cord and a stamped die cut sentiment.

I am playing along again with Stamplorations Colouring book Hop and Linky Party, Stamplorations Never Ending Anything Goes challenge and Kathy's 30 day Colouring Challenge.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend


  

Two Butterfly Cards

For my two cards for Darnell's Twofer Card challenge #5 displaying Butterflies, I decided to use some of my designer paper stash... to help with my colour choices....then to choose a stamp or die cut.... never realised how many of both I to have, all sizes and shapes.  I decided on a stamped image.

My  first DP is faun, cream and pinks... then I stamped my butterfly on a bright pink and cream script piece from the same pack and fussy cut it out before touching up sections of the image with Distress Oxides.  I used the off cuts to die cut some foliage and a strip for my pink stamped and embossed sentiment.

My second DP is a butterfly background on textured card in beige and cream. I decided to stamp my butterflies in brown ink and used sponged Distress Oxides to colour them and then fussy cut them out.  I used cream card stock to cut two foliage sprays and dull gold metallic paper to die cut a label on which I displayed my die cut sentiment...used the same DO inks to colour this.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend

Love and Best Wishes

Here in Australia too, Mothers' Day is Sunday 14th May..... so our mum's (91 and 86) cards are in the post last week.  I love this stylish lady in  a hat stamp and thought it very appropriate.  I watercoloured it with Brushos - much diluted to get the soft colours and used some pink Liquid  Pearls on her jewelry. I stamped the sentiment and to finish used mauve card to frame my image and a cream card to bring out the colours.  I am posting to Watercooler Wednesday WWC118 challenge - theme 'Mum'and Just Us Girls #392 - Word Week - Mother.  Thanks for taking a peek