Watercolor flowers three color blend

This is a card that was inspired by a Kay Miller card that I saw on Pintrest. And it was also inspired by the MFT lesson on Secondary colors. I was inspired by Kay's colors and the flowers in the center. So, I did some ink smooshing on water color paper with Salty Ocean and Mustard Seed and it blended together to make the green in the middle.  Then I flicked it with pearl water color. 

I used the water color flowers stamp from My Favorite Things. They were stamped with Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Cracked Pistachio, Mowed Lawn and Mustard Seed. Then the sentiment was heat embossed with white Hero Arts embossing powder, with Birthday Messages from Simon Says Stamp. 

The water color panel, the flowers, and sentiment were all popped up on foam. The card base is Dove grey card stock from Wplus 9.  Such a fun card to make, and I love smooshing the ink. 

Virginia's View Challenge with Mums

This is a card I made this week. I stamped this with WPlus 9 Coconut husk on water color paper. Then I water colored the flowers in layers and added embellishments. A very straight forward card made in my spare time so I could just relax and enjoy myself playing with paper, ink, and embellishments.  Entering this in the Virginia's View Challenge 100% stamped inspiration. Hope you enjoyed this short and sweet post and my card.

Supplies:
110lbs white card base
140lbs water color paper
Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Flower Garden stamp
WPlus 9 coconut husk ink
Gansai Tambi 36 count water colors
Distress ink vintage photo
Simon Says Stamp Birthday Messages stamp
Hero Arts gold embossing powder
Copper/ Brown glitter tape trim
Sequins in gold, brown, and yellow

Peace like a River - Art Journal layout

Today I have an Art Journal layout to share with you. This is in honor of Heidi Swapp. Jennifer McGuire shared that Heidi had lost one of her sons. I have never meet her or spoken to her before but when someone loses a child I can not imagine the pain and hurt that they must go through. I pray that God would bring her and family comfort and peace. 

The scene that I am try to show with this art journal page is a peaceful river with flowers fallen from the trees and floating in the water, and the water ripples gently as the flowers land on the surface of the water. 

The words on the page are from the hymn "It is Well With My Soul" there is a very profound and moving story behind the writting of that song. I don't think that I could do the story justice but I encourage you to google the song and read about the man that wrote the song and what he went through before he wrote that beautiful hymn. 

The background was done with Mermaid lagoon stain, with Broken China paint, and some Vintage Photo on the edges. The flowers and leaves were heat embossed with gold heat embossing. The sentiment was gold heat embossed on vellum and the rest of the words were stamped with black versafine ink. I used a white gel pen to highlight the ripples in the water. 

I am also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge the theme is anything goes. 

Copic Ballerina encouragement card

I  stayed up last night to make this card for my daughter. She has learned how to read this year and not without some tears and frustration. She tends to be hard on herself and she knows more than she thinks. I wanted her to know what a good job she is doing and that I am proud of her.
 Last night I pulled out one of my practice sheets from taking the Online Card Classes; there is a fabulous  Copic marker class they have. I like to color when I am stressed or need to unwind, so last night the kids were making me crazy, being with them only with no break was starting to wear me out. So, I decided I needed a coloring break.

 I decided to cut this Ballerina out after I colored her with Copic markers. I added a wink of Stella to her outfit and shoes, then a white gel pen to add a scalloped trim to her outfit too. My card base isWplus9 Dove grey card stock and die cut vellum scalloped panel to go between the grey and white stitched panel. Next I heat embossed my sentiment and then splattered the white panel with pearl water color paint. I glued the Ballerina down with multi medium matte. Then adhered the vellum and white panel to the card base and finished with the hearts and a tiny gem on the Ballerina.

My daughter was so excited that I made a card just for her. I hope you enjoy my card and have a great weekend.

Recent favorite color trio with Congrats

For my card today I used a color combo that I fell in love with. Cracked Pistachio, Shaded Lilac, and Worn Lipstick.  I heat embossed the Quilt Prints from WPlus 9 first on water color paper. Then I used my distress inks to water color. 

 After that I heated embossed my sentiment staying with the gold as an accent color. Next I heat embossed the humming bird on vellum and fussy cut it, positioned it and glued it down. 

Then I put the panel on Dove grey card base. And for some embellishments I added gold sequins and some twine with gold thread. I am entering this in the Wplus9 throw back Thursday challenge since it goes with her wedding and congrats theme. Hope you enjoyed my card, I sure had fun creating it and sharing it.

Art Journal - Celebrate Freedom

In anticipation of Independence day on July 4th for those in the United States I made this art journal lay out.

The colors in the picture are little bit washed out. I wasn't sure the direction I was going with this page when I first started it. The whole page was painted in distress paint with fired brick (after a gesso base of course.) Then I decided that I wanted a flag for whole page and wished that I had masked things off to begin with. But I was going to make it work and not start over on another page. I went over the red in the upper left with a blue gelato and masked off the stripes with post it tape and painted gesso for the white stripes. For the blue field I sealed it with gel medium before gluing down my die cut stars.

Before removing the mask for the white stripes I used some Antique Linen distress ink and a blending tool, I also did that on the stars before gluing them on the blue field. The fireworks and stars were heat embossed with gold embossing powder. The highlights and stitching lines were added with a white gel pen. And of course some vintage photo distress ink to frame the whole layout. I finally got myself a really art journal instead of using a regular old notebook, my goodness I should have done that sooner. It was well worth it. I am going to enter this in the Work It Wednesday Simon Says Stamp Challenge. Hope that you have a safe fourth of July with your family and friends and thank all those who help keep us free. 

Summer Simon Says Stamp Challenge

Summer... it goes by way to fast. I was thinking of summer roses and flowers that come after summer cool weather pansies too. My newest stamp water color flowers from my favorite things was something I keep coming back to to  try different things with and see what works. Since  Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is about summer I figured these cards would be good for that challenge.

 It's a little bit hard to see but a layer of the roses has been stamped with versamark and heat embossed with WOW silver embossing powder.

The roses and the sky have been done with distress inks: Salty Ocean, Tattered Rose, Victorian Velvet,   Shabby Shutters, and Peeled Paint.

These little flowers on the stamp looked little pansies so I stamped them in typical pansy colors and I used my ink to color my ribbon to match with mustard seed. I drew the centers in with a gold pitt pen. If you enjoyed my cards please leave me some comments, it is nice to know what you think. 

Supplies: 

110 lbs white card base

140lbs water color paper

 Distress inks: Salty Ocean, Tattered Rose, Victorian Velvet, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed, Dusty Concord, Cracked Pistachio,Mowed Lawn, and Vintage Photo

MFT Water color Flowers stamp

MFT Get Well wishes

Lawn Fawn gold trim

Wow ultra fine silver pearl

Hero Arts gold embossing powder

WPlus 9 Hand letter Hello

Paper Studio honey comb embossing folder

ribbon