Time for stripes

Here is another card which I coloured while recovering in bed. This time I used watercolour pencils, trying to match colours from Le Jardin designer papers.

Supplies:
Stamps: Time Well Spent, Hugs and Wishes
Inks: Basic Black
Cardstock: Whisper White, Le Jardin Designer paper, Almost Artichoke, River Rock
Also: Watercolour pencils, Stampin’ dimensionals

More pretty petals

While I was sick in bed, I had this set, my markers and plenty of time to colour. I coloured each petal in Regal Rose and then each little flower in Rose Red. Another day I cut them out and it wasn’t until I was up and about again that I made it into a card. To make the background I stamped the canvas stamp in Pretty in Pink and then added the little flowers and the Rose Red sponging.

Supplies:

Stamps: Pick a Petal, Stem Sayings
Inks: Regal Rose, Rose Red markers and stamp pads, Pretty in Pink
Cardstock: Whisper White, Regal Rose, Rose Red
Also: Stampin’ dimensionals

Stripes and swirls

More cards using designer paper. I have only started using it in the last few months but I am really enjoying all the colour combinations and background patterns.

These two cards were not hard to make as the designer paper takes up most of the card. I like the way the swirl from Priceless coordinates with the swirls in the stripes.

Supplies:

Stamps: Priceless, Fundamental Phrases
Inks: Almost Artichoke
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Le Jardin Designer paper, Almost Artichoke, River Rock
Also: Antique brass brads, ticket corner punch

A good thing

A little more blue and green with a bit of yellow this time. The colouring was done, once again, with watercolour pencils and a blender pen. I stamped the Wasabi card with the canvas background stamp for a bit of added texture.

Supplies:

Stamps: Time Well Spent
Inks: Basic Black, Wild Wasbi, Not quite Navy
Cardstock: Whisper White, Not quite Navy, Wild Wasabi
Also: Faber Castell watercolour pencils, blender pen, yellow grosgrain ribbon

Time for blue and green

Here is my first card using one of the hostess sets from the new Spring/Summer Stampin Up catalogue. I matched my pencils to the designer paper from Porcelain Prints. The flower and leaves are raised using stampin dimensionals.

Supplies:

Stamps: Time Well Spent
Inks: Basic Black
Cardstock: Whisper White, Not quite Navy, Blue Bayou, Porcelain Prints d.p.
Also: Faber Castell watercolour pencils, blender pen, stampin dimensionals.

Made my day

I am having fun with Pick a Petal, borrowed from a friend. For this flower I embossed the petals and centre in clear embossing powder before sponging real red around the centre part of the petals and rose red on the ends of the petals as well as the centre circle. The background is stamped with the flower from Background Basics and the stem sentiment is embossed in white e.p. I stuck the centre down and the petals that have been trimmed but the remaining petals are not glued down.

Supplies:

Stamps: Pick a Petal, Stem Sayings
Inks: Real red, Rose red, Versamark
Cardstock: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red
Also: White and clear embossing powder

Purple Petals

We have had a lot of sickness at our place over the last two weeks resulting in my daughter and I finally visiting the doctor last week to find out why we were not getting better. I now have medication and we both need to continue resting.

So, even though I had made a few new cards before I got sick they didn’t make it up here. This is one which I was quite happy with in just the vanilla and eggplant. I am not very happy with the photograph however as it was very hard to get the colour and focus accurate. I pulled out the scallop edged scissors to repeat the scallop design in the petals and used the eggplant marker to add dots in the scallops and add a little flower to the sentiment.

Supplies:

Stamps: Pick a Petal, Stem Sayings
Inks: Elegant Eggplant stamp pad and marker
Cardstock: Elegant Eggplant, Very Vanilla