Crazy Card Party #32 - Watercolour (Birthday Wishes)

This weeks Challenge on Crazy Card Party is create a Watercolour Card - now there are so many ways to go about doing this so I decided to try out my Distress Inks and created the background in the larger Quote!

Details:

1. Use your Distress Inks to create a Watercolour effect on the Tim Holtz watercolour paper.
2. Let it dry completely.
3. Then Using White Embossing Powder emboss the Sentiment Birthday wishes.
4. Die cut the Large Quote and use the negative piece for the front of the card.  Pop dot this over the watercoloured piece of paper.
5. Stamp the Happy Birthday Quote in Red Ink and diecut using the matching die.
6. Colour in the leaves with a green copic marker.
7. Diecut the 2 flowers from blue felt and add to the the happy birthday quote  Add some bling to the centre of the flowers.
8. Pop Dot the Happy Birthday Quote.

Supplies:

Cardstock:  American Crafts White, Tim Holtz Watercolour paper

Copic Markers:  YG17

Ink:  Hero Arts (Pale Tomatoe) Distress Ink (Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers), Versa Mark

Stamps:  PTI (Think Big Favorites # 7), (Sweet Speech)

Embossing Powder:  Hero Arts (White)

Felt:  PTI (Hawian Shores)

Adhesive:  Beacon 3in1 Glue, Pop Dots,

Tools:  Cuttlebug

Dies:  Simon Says Stamp (Life Bubble Horizontal 1), PTI (Sweet Speech)

Crazy Card Party #21 - One Layer Card

Ok - so I know you all thought I would fail this challenge!  But I think I rocked it - so much so I even made 2 cards!  The first card I tried a really cool technique with some Ranger Sticky Embossing Powder and some Distress Glitter!

This second one I did using a stamp set that my friend Patricia let me check out from Studio Calico!

Crazy Card Party Challenge #5 - Sympathy

The challenge for this week is to create a Sympathy Card.  I decided to try a stamping techquie with my Distress Inks!  I used a the distress pad in two different ways to get the same ink to have two different tones.  One more of a color wash look by watering it down and applying it with a paint brush the 2nd being to use it full strength for it's true tone!  Here are the results!

Details:

1. From Vintage Cream Cardstock cut a cover for a card base at 4 ¼” by 5 ½” and glue to card base.
2. Cut a piece of watercolour paper to 3 ½” by 4 ¾”.
3. Using Versamark stamp floral images and emboss using white embossing powder.
4. Take the distress ink and mush it onto a piece of clear plastic. Spray with water and using a paint brush cover the entire piece of watercolor paper.
5. Using the same ink – stamp the Background script to create a full background over top of the full watercolor piece.
6. Using a paper towel dab the embossed flowers to remove any of the ink.
7. Stamp the sentiment in black ink.
8. Cut a piece of black cardstock and use a border punch to create a decorative bottom edge.
9. Glue stamped watercolor piece to the black piece of cardstock and then tie some ribbon to the top of the back and stamped piece making sure to tie a bow.
10. Then using pop dots attach it to the card and add embellishments and black stickles to the bottom decorative edge.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Vintage Cream(PTI), Bazzill – Black
Stamps: Gelatins –Big and Wild Things (flowers), PTI-Background Basics Textile (Script background), PTI-Framed Out #4 (Sentiment).
Ink: Distress Ink – Tumbled Glass (Blue), Versamark, VersaFine (Black)
Embossing powder: Scraptivity (Off White)
Adhesive: Beacon 3in1 Glue, pop dots, Stickles (Black)
Tools: Fiskars Border Punch, Embossing Gun
Embellishments: Black Seam Binding Ribbon (Misc), Cream resin flower (Freckled Fawn), Enamel Dots (My Minds eye)