Growing Green Thank you!

Today's card is also made with the

 growing green stampset

and it was a little more time consuming (but not by much) as it has been watercoloured, sponged and stamped.

I have stamped the flowers in Early Espresso and watercoloured with melon mambo ink (using an aquapainter). By roughly masking the three flowers I was able to stamp the background leaves (in lucky limeade green) and sponged around the edges for a little depth.

Featured stampset:

Growing Green, page 66 (2011-12 Idea book and catalogue)

Wood mount $39.95

Clear mounted $29.95

Aquapainters (2) $19.95

Happy Father's Day!!

 Father's day ... waking up early, eating pancakes for lunch, made by 78 year old father in law, and getting 30 minutes to update my blog while daughter goes with dad to swing in a tree up the road and ride her bike.

In my opinion, Father's day cards should be simple and clean, in order to not embarrass the receiver or admit to investing too much effort or time, as it will usually end up in the recycling pile with the wrapping.

I sponged inside a masked frame to create a window using the new Lucky Limeade in-colour.

And Early Espresso ink to stamp the leaf image from Growing Green and some appropriate words from Teeny tiny sentiments.

See I can do really simple cards when I want to !!!

Fabulous Folds (2) Growing Green and Easy water colouring technique

Is this another fabulous fold?

So simple, to fold half a piece of A4 cardstock into a zig zag shape and add a square of mounted cardstock on the centre panel to stamp on.

The Pretty in Pink cardstock with Perfect Plum inked flowers and Certainly celery leaves is very soft and subtle for a feminine card.

 For texture there is Big shot Embossing on the back fold of the card using the Elegant lines textured folder.

A Crimper strip on the front fold is edged with the Eyelet border punch, and the three jewelery tag punches are stamped in black stazon ink with the Tiny tags stamp set.

The technique I have used is called Easy water colouring.

Why is that you ask?

You take a piece of glossy white cardstock, stamp it with an outline stamp (using white stazon ink), spritz it with water and put drops of re-inker into the flower segments.

The water runs the ink around in patterns, then you can cut them out or leave as is.

Once its dry the flowers have a mottled water coloured look.

No two flowers are ever the same with this technique. 

Recipe:

Stampsets:

Growing Green (p.78) $29.95 Clear mounted

Tiny Tags (p.93) $28.95 Clear mounted

Jewelry Tag punch (p.146) $20.95

Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Perfect Plum,

Gloss white (25 sheets) $9.50

Ink: white Staz-on ink, pretty in pink

Black staz-on ink

Perfect Plum and Certainly celery re-inkers

Crimper, Eyelet border punch, small heart punch.

Big shot, Elegant lines embossing folder, Pearl Jewels.