Hello and thanks for stopping in!
I have a card today featuring water colour and the Winnie and Walter (Kindness with Evelin T. ) and one of the cutaways In a Word:Thanks die products. This stamp set has so many possibilities and I love the two sizes of the trees!
I first stamped in black Memento ink onto Arches cold pressed w/c card and used a combination of Zigs and Gansai Tambi w/c paints. I left the background free of any wash of colour or splatters, going for a CAS feel and cut the sentiment out of glossy black card and then layered onto a black fun foam Thanks and adhered to the front. I cut the panel down to 3 3/4" across and 5 1/2" and then layered onto a little larger black panel and then onto a PTI Tropical Teal card front. This card is headed over to the (new to me) CASMixUp challenge for June, the
Stamplorations CAS with optional colour blue and
Addicted to Stamps and More where they are open to "Anything Goes" challenge.
Another Friday...where did the week go?!
I made another card for Darnell's NBUS challenge. These cards are going out to a couple of my friends up north, in Montreal. They have both retired this year, Anne in May and Devon in February...I know, how late am I in getting this to her! Better late than never.
Well, I decided to use this sweet little image from Stamavie by Tina Wenke that I have had in my stash for a number of years. I did use this once or twice before, so this is not my NBUS item, but the sentiments are! I had this brand new set from SU, don't know what year, but I cut and mounted on the wood blocks this afternoon. Yes, that's before SU had the pre cut rubber. Here is a pic of the cut out bits.
I water-coloured on an acrylic block (the grid side...see the defined squares) and laid a card front over top, letting the inks do the special magic thing and let dry, then stamped the mouse in the hammock image over top in PTI smokey grey. I added some more inks with an aqua painter to the flowers, Copic marker on the leaves and stems and Spica sparkly pen on the bees. I stamped some of the SU sentiments in the same grey onto white card stock and used my trusty SU window punch.
These are now out in the mail to a couple of girlfriends for well deserved retirements!
Thanks for taking a peek!
Chriss
