Watercolour Wednesday - Joyful Flurry

I have had fun with today's card. I took a pot and added 3 drops ink refill of Gorgeous Grape a really rich purple, then added about a spoonful of water to it. While the ink was mixing, I took a piece of watercolour paper and using Versamark Ink Pad, I stamped several of the different snowflakes all over the piece. I poured Clear Heat Embossing Powder over it all and then heat set it. It was quite shiny. Then using a wide water brush, I dipped it into the inky water and washed the colour all over the piece. I stopped occasionally to wipe some of the ink off of the embossed images but didn't really need to as it doesn't stick to it. I continued to do this a few times until I was happy with the colour.

I then dry embossed a small mat using the Wintry embossing folder, die cut one of the snowflakes partially on one end and added a sentiment and piece of ribbon. When it came to a card base I tried several different colours including Rich Razzleberry and Basic Gray but the Gorgeous Grape won. 

 Gorgeous Grape card base  

    Rich Razzleberry card base  

Basic Gray card base

 

Throwback Thursday - Love of Leaves

 Well, the weather forecast for this week was rain, rain and more rain. It hasn't let us down either!! Rain, rain go away, come again another day. Do you remember ditties like that from your childhood too? There are soooo many I can remember. Anyway, enough reminiscing! Today's card with the Love of Leaves stamp set is yet another very simple one. I know that I've said that every day this week but they seriously are simple! Today's is similar to Tuesday's in as much as it's an aperture with paper below. This time I used a piece 10cm by 14.4cm of the Simply Elegant Speciality Designer Series Paper and added to the Gorgeous Grape, purple card base. I then cut a White matt 9 cm by 13.4 cm and die cut the large maple leaf from the centre. I then embossed the matt on it's own using the Parisian Flourish Embossing Folder. I chose this one as the pattern matches with the pattern on the DSP. The mat was fixed to the DSP using Dimensionals and the leaf that was die cut earlier was added in the same way. Another simple 'Hello' completes this card today.