Blue Birthday

This is the birthday card I made my 15year old for her birthday back in August.  I was not late in giving it to her, just late in posting it for you!

I chose these colours because she wears them and looks great in them.  I also chose lots of white space because she is my “less is more” girl.  I inked the flourish in versamark and then Turquoise before stamping and embossing in clear.  The fine shadow details on parts of the flourish were added with the Brilliant Blue stampin’ marker.  The flowers were stamped in Brilliant Blue also.  The matted panel is popped up on stampin’ dimensionals.

Thanks so much for dropping in, I hope to be posting with a little more regularity soon.

Supplies:

Stamps: Baroque Motifs, Fundamental Phrases
Inks: Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue
Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White
Also:  Turquoise grosgrain ribbon, Turquoise brads

Gum blossoms blue

When I received my new Bloom Away set from the Australian catalog, I stamped each image in black and then looked up the colours of the flowers to try watercolouring them as realistically as possible.  This is the first image I did after searching online for my colours and finding this painting.   I should have looked even closer to home as there was a beautiful picture that my dad had taken and included in a calendar he made and sent us last year.

After I had finished the colouring I wasn’t sure what I wanted in the background and tried several arrangements of blue blossoms before deciding to fill in the entire background.   On one hand it seems a bit busy, on the other I feel like I just made my own patterned paper.

Supplies:

Stamps: Bloom Away
Inks: Basic Black, Not quite Navy
Cardstock: Not quite Navy, Whisper White
Also:  Faber-Castell watercolour pencils