More Floral Stem Collage

Hi,  welcome to my latest obsession...

Poppystamps Floral Stem Collage!

This time I cut it from mixed media paper and added watercolor to the flower
using my inkpads and an Aqua Painter.

It was super easy so I did another.

Don't you love it when you can get a lot of mileage out of one die?

In case you missed it, I used this die HERE and HERE.

There's still a few days left to enter at
CAS Watercolour

It's open until the 24th.

and the Poppystamps Challenge is open until the end of the month

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Special Wishes (PB)

Ink:   Whisper White, Watermelon Wonder, Wild Wasabi (SU)

Paper:  Neena, Mixed Media (Strathmore), Whisper White, Vellum (SU)

Other:  Floral Stem Collage Die (PS), White EP (SU), Charles EF (Cuttlebug), Candy Dot

Card Recipe (card 2)

Ink:  Watermelon Wonder, Wild Wasabi (SU)

Paper:  Watermelon Wonder, Whisper White (SU), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Floral Stem Collage Die (PS), Treillage EF (Cuttlebug-Anna Griffin), Candy Dot

CASEing Karen

Hi there.

I hope you're having a great day!

We've been at the Outer Banks and had beautiful weather.

I love the beach!

I'm CASEing (Copy And Share Everything) my dear and talented friend Karen (Snippets).

She is one of the DT at The Flower Challenge which has become one of my favorites.

(Have you noticed that I like cards with flowers on them?)

This month their challenge is to CASE one of their Design Team cards.

Here's Karen's card.

My background is done with alcohol inks and this fantastic die,

makes it's own frame.

This is actually one of the cards we did in this month's class.

Everybody loved this one and got to choose from different backgrounds.

Since I used this fabulous Poppystamps die, I'll enter it at

The Poppy Challenge

FLOWER POWER

 

In case your interested, here is a couple of pictures I took from the balcony off our room.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neena (110 lb. Solar White), Whisper White (SU), Photo Paper (Kodak)

Other:  Floral Stem Collage Die (PS), Charles EF (Cuttlebug), Candy Dot

Spring Flowers for CAS Watercolour

Hello friends.

I hope you're having a fine day!

There's still time to play at CAS Watercolour

Here's the Challenge

It's open until the 24th.

There are some beautiful floral cards in the gallery

and the Design Team has loaded in some more awesome inspiration!

I've splattered too, so I'll add this to the gallery at

CAS Mix Up

Everything used for this card was NBUS except for the sentiment.

I stamped this flower, the stem and leaves on a piece of Mixed Media Paper and
heat embossed them with white embossing powder.

Using my Aqua Painter and ink squooshed into the lid, I painted everything up.
I love that it when I don't have to stay inside the lines!

Then I die cut everything with the corresponding dies.

A little shaping (not a lot) and some pieces of dimensionals added some dimension.

The die cut rectangle is popped up with fun foam.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Spring Flowers (SSS), Kind Words (Verve)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Whisper White, Watermelon Wonder, Wild Wasabi (SU)

Paper:   Neena (110 lb., Solar White), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Floral Shapes Die (SSS), X-stitch Border Die (Gina Marie), White EP Aqua Painter  (SU)

Splattering Reminder for CAS Mix Up

It's CAS Mix Up  reminder time.

There's still time to join in.

Our challenge this month is

I used stamping, splattering, stenciling, watercolor and shaped die cut

I used the leftover from die cutting this iris as a stencil and

watercolored through the stencil on a piece of Acrylic Paper.

I love the texture of this paper!

Then came the fun part.

I still haven't pulled out a box so I splattered the card front and 

my work table and everything else on it!

But I got some good splatters on my design piece and 

none on the walls, so all is good!

Then I watercolored the die cut iris with Zig CCRBMs and my Aqua Painter.

I added layers of color until I had the depth of color I was looking for.

I had to be patient and let the flower dry then used a bone folder to shape it.

I used liquid glue on the stem and leaves and dimensionals behind the flower

so there's lots of dimension.

Stamped the sentiment and it was ready to put on a card base.

The Design Team have some more cards to share with you.

Can't wait for you to see them.

You have until the 24th to join us.

Hope to see your CAS cards at the Mix Up.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sprinkles and Smiles (PB)

Ink:   Concord Crush (SU)

Paper:   Acrylic, Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neena (110 lb.)

Other:  Single Iris Die (PB) Stencil cut from die, Zig CCRBM (#28 Pale Pink, #25 Pinnk, #43 Olive, #44 Deep Green, #80 Violet, #81 Light Violet), Aqua Painter, Paintbrush

More Distress Oxide Ink Smoosh

Hi, I hope you're having a wonderful day!

Here's another card from playing with the
Distress Oxide Inks (DOX)

I smooshed some ink on my craft sheet using 3 colors but not touching.

Then I spritzed with water and smooshed some cardstock into the wet ink.

I dried the piece with my heat gun, lightly spritzing more
water as it dried.

My friend Jan loves purple so I made into a birthday card for her.

The panel is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" so it's an oversized card (5" x 7")
She shared her butterfly die with me a while back.
It worked perfectly for her card!

AAA Cards

I see that I was one of the top picks there for the last challenge.

I entered this card

Thanks, ladies!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sprinkles and Smiles (PB)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Cracked Pistachio, Worn Lipstick, Wilted Violet (TH Distress Oxide Ink)

Paper:   Neena (110 lb.) Orchid Opulence (retired SU {Thank you Loll} ), Basic Black

Other:  Princess Butterfly Die (PS), Stately EF (retired Crafts Concepts), Black EP, Basic Rhinestones (SU), Sequins (stash)