More Mother's Day cards

Hi everyone!

It’s a new month, so new challenges at Paper Issues! Check their Paper Issues Friends and Fans Facebook page for all the May challenges.
Today I have been playing along with the Mom challenge and made some Mother's Day cards. One stamp, three different looks! I like how you can make a stamp look so different, just by using different techniques and colors. This flower stamp is from the Mondo Sakura set from Ellen Hutson.

Recently I decided to step up my watercolor game and get a more decent watercolor set. I bought the Gansai set and started practicing with it. It is amazing how pigmented these colors are and it is absolutely a different game than the cheaper sets, but it requires some practice for sure!

For the first card I used two different blue tones and a pearlescent for the ends of the petals. I used two green tones for the leaves and a pink/red color for the small petals coming out of the flowers. For the second card I used pink, blue and yellow for the flowers and a lighter green for the leaves. For the third card I inked the stamp in rainbow colors with Distress Oxide ink, sprayed it with a bit of water and stamped it. I have done this technique before with Vicki Boutin art crayons, but I like it better this way. The oxide inks give such a beautiful print!  The sentiments are from the Best Parents stamp set from Honey Bee stamps and I added some Nuvo Crystal Drops to the cards.

Mother's Day cards

Hi everyone!

Today I have two Mother's Day cards to share. They are quite similar, I just changed the sentiment.

First I made a couple backgrounds with Distress Oxide inks, one with green tones and one with orange and yellow tones. Then I used the Totally Tropical stamp set from Altenew and stamped some flowers and leaves on the backgrounds with Versamark, white heat embossed them and then fussy cut them. Because I made the backgrounds on thick watercolor paper, I didn't need any foam tape to create any dimension on the card.

The Mother's Day sentiments are from the Best Parents stamp set from Honey Bee and I added some Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Paper Issues - Scraplift Sunday

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Last Sunday I played along with Scraplift Sunday at Paper Issues. I love these challenges, to get inspired by some super talented ladies.

For my layout I used the Paper Issues March kit with the Vicki Boutin Kaleidoscope collection. First I put some pink and teal splatters on my background paper, then build up the page and finished it with some Nuvo Crystal Drops. The title is made with an old favorite Thickers alpha from Dear Lizzy.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Birthday cards

Hi everyone!

Today I'm sharing two new birthday cards.

For this first one I created the background with the Hero Arts waves stencil and Vicki Boutin art crayons. The mermaid tail is from a Ellen Hutson stamp set that I gold embossed. The sentiments are from the same mermaid stamp set.

For this second card I created the background with the Dylusions fish tail stencil and Vicki Boutin art crayons. The seahorse stamp is from Deep Red, the Happy Birthday sentiment from Technique Tuesday and the Shell Yeah sentiment and shells are from Ellen Hutson.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day!

Paper Issues - Craft the Rainbow challenge

Hi everyone!

Today I'm sharing two Mother's Day cards, one of them I will enter for the Craft the Rainbow challenge at Paper Issues.

I stamped this Ellen Hutson flower stamp with Vicki Boutin art crayons. I applied the rainbow colors to the stamp and then sprayed it with a little bit of water to create a water color effect. I water colored the background lightly with purple watercolor and then stamped the phrase from a Honey Bee stamp set.

For the second card I used the same technique with the Wplus9 Hibiscus stamp and another phrase from the Honey Bee stamp set.

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy your Sunday!