Watercolor cards

I found some time to play with my Distress Inks today to make a few thank you cards (always need plenty of those!)  The firs card uses a Hero Arts stamp and a Distress Ink bleed technique from Jennifer McGuire on the sentiment:

It was sooo relaxing to color in the flowers.  I haven't used this stamp in ages, so it was good to pull it out again.

 

On my next card with a banner, I used the weekly Kerri Bradford freebie (Flower in a square) on top of a watercolor background:

It's funny how watercolor backgrounds come out - I started out with an idea of multiple colors, but it just stayed in the orange/yellow scheme, so I went with it!

 

I'm entering this card in the June Mid-month throwdown over at Operation Write Home and of course, I'm adding this to the 30 Day Coloring challenge over at The Daily Marker.

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 



30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 8

Woohoo!  I'm absolutely loving the Instagram inspiration for the 30 Day Coloring Challenge The Daily Marker .  There are sooo many talented ladies - it just blows my mind to see their creativity! 

 

I've been making many Thank You cards lately and my latest is a CASE from Jennifer McGuire:

I watercolored the strip with Inktense pencils, then heat embossed the sentiment and dry embossed the card front for some extra interest.

 

Since this is a girly-girly card (gotta say it twice), I'm also entering it into this week's challenge at Cards In Envy .

 

Stay happy!  Monday is almost over!

 

 



30 Day Coloring Challnge - Day 4

Today it's watercoloring fun!  I'm entering this card in the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor bloghop.  I wanted to make my mother-in-law a feminine birthday card and I used pretty colors for the background:

 

The sentiment is embossed on a vellum strip and those butterflies are leftovers from another watercolor card I made.  I cut the lattice front on my Silhouette (#590481). 

 

Next time, I think I'll try a more unorganized background and just let the watercolors flow!  Ha ha

 

 

 

30 Day Coloring Callenge - Day 3

I finished my Art Journal page!  It wasn't that hard to get back into making one and I hope to do another one soon.  I used a Silhouette file for the words and the MFT Butterflies stamp set:

There's so much inspiration from this challenge and I'm addicted to the Instagram feed (hashtag #thedailymarker30day2) with the wonderful work people are doing for this challenge.  I'm so inspired by everyone!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 2

Somedays, I don't have a time to do much coloring and that was definitely today.  I watched Kathy's video and practiced Copic coloring a few butterflies:

 

I usually never use two different colors together, and this was a great lesson for me.

 

I'll use these in my Art Journal layout.  Thanks for stopping by!