Watercolour background cards

It's a simple design today - but a great way to create a few cards. My apologies I have no process photos but I will explain what I did.

1. I took some watercolour card, not a necessity, any good quality card stock will do. I stamped the smaller flower from Emma Godfrey's - Bloom - stamp set (Paper Artsy) in versamark randomly around the card. I also stamped the little swirl in between the flowers. 

2. I then embossed with clear embossing powder.

3. I cut my card into 4 pieces 8.5cm square. The fourth card didn't work out too well - so it ended in the bin!

4. For each piece I took distress sprays - broken china and twisted citron, scattered straw and peeled paint (I think!) and vintage photo and milled lavender - and gave a little spritz of each colour followed by a spritz of water. 

5. I heat dried and edged the card with distress ink in a coordinating colour. I wiped away any ink from the embossed flowers which resist the ink.

6. I matted on white (9x9cm) and then coloured card (9.5x9.5cm) - coloured with the same two colours.

7. I stamped and embossed a sentiment from my stash, punched an oval and coloured with the two colours with ink again.

8. Finally I mounted on 10cm square cards.

See you next time!

Nikki

Addicted to Art

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Lady Rose

Hi, Jennie here today sharing a quick card made with the gorgeous new Lady Rose stamp set from Stampers Anonymous.

This card was a first quick play with these fabulous stamps but I can see they will be used for lots of lovely backgrounds too.

I made the background first, stamping the wonderful Rose Spray with Potting Soil Archival Ink, stamping off first so it was more muted.  I then added some background stamping with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, again stamping off first for a second generation stamp. A little Vintage Photo was blended around the edges.

 You can see how beautifully detailed the Rose Spray stamp is (and there are two in the set).

Lady Rose herself was stamped in Potting Soil Archival ink on a shaped piece of cardstock as I wanted to layer her on top of the background. I did nothing more than add a little Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges.

I finished off with a few vintage embellishments - the ribbon was lightly dyed with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

And my finished card - this came together very quickly which is always helped by using a vintage tonal colour way.

Thank you for joining me today!

Jennie x

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Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Lady Rose	Tim Holtz Distress ink - Gathered twigs	Potting Soil Archival Ink	Distress ink pad - Vintage photo
Flowers - All	American seam binding - White

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March Journal Page

For my first post this month I have made my March page in my journal (click to see the January and February pages!) I thought this might make a nice card and this is how I made it!
I started by adding blue and green Distress Inks directly to my page.

Then I misted water on it and tipped the page up and let the ink run (this is so much fun!)

Next I stamped the images directly on to the page - often I will stamp them on card, cut them out and then adhere over the top of the stamped image - as I started with a base of Distress Ink I knew that I could colour straight on top of the ink. Using more Distress Ink I added the pattern to the background around the stamped images.

The final flourishes were to colour the images in (I used Distress Markers) and to stamp and cut out clouds - adding the month to one!
I hope you like my page and that you feel inspired to make a journal page for the month!

Gabrielle x

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