Watercolor Cards

A little while ago I pulled out my aqua painters and some water color paper and played around a little. It was very therapeutic and I liked the results.

I stamped random leaves using 2 different stamps. For the water color I put a couple drops of Garden Green on an acrylic block, then used an aqua painters to pick up a little ink and painted away.  The flowers were stamped but then watercoloredbut it washed away the details on the petals. 

Another card. This time I watercolored a piece of the water color cardstock, 

then stamped the detail.  That worked better. 

Here are all the cards I water colored.  I think I’ll be doing more soon. 

Leap year cards

One of the great things about cardmaking is you can come up with something for any occasion. Recently a friend asked me to make a leap year birthday card - all of the store cards had frogs on them and she was wanting something different.

Definitely a unique card for a special person. 

Another friend saw the birthday card when I shared it on Facebook and asked me to do a wedding card. I was even able to incorporate the wedding colors of dusty blue, cream and gold accents into the card. What a unique special card for their very special day. 

And a year has passed ........

It’s been over a year since my last post!  I’m going to try to post regularly, mostly with cards I’ve made or food I’ve cooked.

Today I want to share a quick and fun one sheet wonder that I found on Deb Valder’s Blog. You can see it here.  I like it because her template prints at scale so as you cut your pieces you can pay them on the template.  You wind up with only 3 different size pieces so less to keep track of when you assemble the cards. And the little triangle pieces add some interest to the card layout.

Here are some that I made ( with a little variation).

This is actually the last set I made. I have lots of Night of Navy card stock so the cute little butterflies with embroidery on the reverse was a perfect design. I found a couple big packs of 6 x 6 DSP squares on E-Bay and love the variety. 

This was the first set I made. This DSP was also in an EBay package.  It went well with Blushing Bride and Shaded Spruce. I used Poppy Parade on the stamped flowers to pick up the little splashes of red in the paper. 

I was trying to come up with a class idea and I think this would be a good one.  The EBay stack had 3 pieces of the gingham paper and I have the Gingham Galas set of DSP and matching ribbons so I made a couple changes to allow me to add ribbon to the schedule card.  I like the basic black and white with the gingham.