Watercolour Wednesday - Heron Habitat

I really had fun making this card for today with the Heron Habitat stamp set and dies . I had a piece of Fluid 100 watercolour paper and using a tablespoon of water and a few drops of Balmy Blue ink refill. I washed the blue right across the whole piece of paper. I dried it with my heat gun and repeated the process again using a stronger mix of colour. I continued to do this again but this time using Pear Pizazz and quite a wide, dry brush. Just building up colour and adding drops of ink to the water, I eventually got a muddy sort of colour where the trees and the riverbank came from. I did add a little more colour by squishing my Crumb Cake ink pad and adding a little more colour. Ink refills are absolutely brilliant!

Now as a young girl and one of 5 children, I remember my big brother Trevor, drawing swans and riverbanks. He used to stick his tongue out around his lips while he was drawing! We still take the mickey out of him for doing it. :)) I was remembering him as I was painting the card, it still brings a smile and a chuckle to my face! He's so far away now as he lives in Canada with his family and sadly I haven't seen him for about 4 years. :(  One day...

I continued this time but this time I used the Heron dies and found it really quick too. I cut the legs from the lower heron to show that she's nesting. I hope she is anyway! I cut the paper down to 10cm by 14.4cm and mounted it onto an Old Olive card base.

 

Technique Tuesday - Heron Habitat

Today's card is another simple-ish card. Now I do not like the fact that because something has retired, I cannot use it so..... waste not want not, I do use many things as I have them and really love them. Today's card with the Heron Habitat stamp set I used a piece of the New Horizons Designer Series Paper 9 (DSP). As I said, it has retired but I'm sure that many, many of you still have some. The images are gorgeous and lend themself perfectly to the Heron stamps.

The technique of course is using DSP and add images onto the paper. Obviously, I can't stamp straight onto the paper unless it's a silhouette, which I initially forgot about! Yes, like everyone else, I make mistakes but thankfully, I can cover them up nicely. I stamped the 2 herons onto white card and fussy-cut them out. Yes, I do have the dies but I didn't want to use them. I adhered the paper straight onto the Starry Sky card base.

 

 Above, are the gorgeous papers of the New Horizons. I used the 5th one from the left on the bottom row. The back of that is the next one along in shades of pinks, and blues. Aren't they gorgeous?

 

Make It Simple Monday -#simplestamping - Heron Habitat

Cary made the most beautiful cards last week didn't she? How do I follow that? Well, I will have a go. This week I am using the Heron Habitat bundle, this includes the amazing dies too but for today it's a #simplestamping card so no dies. I wanted it to be slightly different to my normal Monday cards and I hope I have succeeded. I started by stamping the Herons in flight and stamped the Happy Birthday stamp above them all. Nope! I didn't like that! So, I chopped the top 2 off. I had half a sheet of Smoky Slate on my desk so I mounted it onto a C6 piece of that.