Watercolour Wednesday - Sale-A-Bration - Delicate Dahlias

 Today I used the Delicate Dahlias again but I had even more fun than I did on Monday. I stamped the large onto the white mat using a Stazon Ink Pad. I encircled it with the 5 smaller flowers and then stamped 2 more Dahlias onto spare white card. I coloured each of the flowers from the centre of the flower using the Watercolour pencils from Stampin' Up! Then using a water-brush I lightly washed the colour outwards to the edges of the flowers. I used the peachy pink of Flirty Flamingo again and the gorgeous bright yellow of Daffodil Delight. I wanted a little more colour on the larger flowers so I stamped an acrylic block onto the Flirty Flamingo ink pad and picked up some of the ink with my water-brush and added the extra colour. I then cut out one of the flowers complete and the other, I cut into the flower and took the outer petal off and gave the dahlia some extra dimension. Both of the 2 flowers were added to the card directly over the original flower. Now I have a decoupaged flower. A few sentiments using 1 from the Dahlia stamp set and the other from another Sale-a-Bration stamp set called In Your Words. I mounted the white mat onto a piece of the Flirty Flamingo card to help make it jump off the card. 

For more information on the products that I have used this week, please click HERE and it will open up a link on a new page to the shop. You'll be able to browse all the way through the catalogue.  

Make It Simple Monday - Saleabration - Delicate Dahlias

 Hello. Have you ever had one of those weeks when you wish there more hours in the day? I had the week that I wish the days were longer to achieve more! This, I feel is going to be another one of those weeks too. Cary goes away for 3 days on Wednesday so wants to get everything sorted for when she gets back after her mini Disney Cruise. She's really excited but as she's so busy, she hasn't had much time to get prepared for the trip! This week sees me making the most of the remainder of the Saleabration for this year. I have used for my first card a set called Delicate Dahlias.

I stamped with the outline stamp randomly over the white card mat then using the blending stamp, I filled the image in. It's called 2 step stamping. Now I wouldn't ordinarily use a 2 step stamp set for a #simplestamping project but this one is so very easy to use. I used the lovely peachy pink coloured ink of the Flirty Flamingo Ink pad. A simple Happy Birthday message on the front and another on the inside. The 2 sentiments were from another FREE stamp set called In Your Words.

  The stamps and dies that I use this week are all from the Saleabration booklet that started in August and ends at the end of September. So less than 2 weeks to go. To acquire any of the products in the booklet, when you make a purchase of £45 or more from either of the Stampin' Up! catalogues, you have the opportunity to choose a FREE product. I like FREE stuff. Don't You? In this booklet, there are DSP's (Designer Series Papers), Stamp sets and die sets. There's quite a choice.