Watercolour Wednesday - Simply Zinnia

 Hello, I am posting this quite late now as the retreat has been taking over our lives for a few weeks now but more recently this week! It's crazy!! Anyway, I have winged enough. I really am looking forward to seeing everyone again. With the lovely Simply Zinnia stamp set, today I literally did watercolour the large floral image today. I started by embossing a white mat with the Painted Posies folder, added a piece of DSP from the Flowering Zinnias designer series paper pack. The DSP was added to a white card base, then a silver foiled mat and the embossed mat. On another white mat, I stamped the large flower in Stazon Ink pad then using the block to pick up the ink with my water brush, I started to colour in the whole flower spray. I added the spray with Dimensionals to add a little height. 

This or That Thursday - Cheerful Daisies

 Well, it's that time of the week when we ask you for your opinion. For my This or That today, I have made 2 blue and white cards both different but then both similar. Using the dies and stamp set for the Cheerful Daisies I die-cut several of the flowers in white card and stamped a few sentiments for each. Very simple but layered cards, I started with C6 card bases each one different. 

THIS                                 and                            THAT

 

THIS

The first card or THIS card is an upright card base and I added a mat 10 cm by 14.4 cm of DSP to the front of the card. I die-cut a frame using the Countryside Corner dies and embossed this using the Painted Posies embossing folder which was added by using Dimensionals to the back of it. The die cut daisies then had the surface petals added to them and adhered to the card base using Dimensionals. A simple sentiment to complete THIS. 

 

 

 The THAT card (BELOW) is a landscape direction card and using a piece of the same DSP as THIS card, I added to a strip of Night Of Navy card which I had Scalloped using the die from the retired Apple Harvest dies. I cut a mat 10cm by 11.5cm and embossed it using the Painted Posies Embossing Folder.  I added the white panel to the right side of the card front and the blue panel to the left overlapping the edge of the white panel.The flowers were raised and adhered to the card using Dimensionals and completed using a sentiment from the stamp set. 

 

 

Now it's your turn to decide which is your favourite. Please do let us know. 

Watercolour Wednesday - Dainty Delight

 Hello again. Today's card is a simple watercolour style of card. Using a piece of Fluid 100 watercolour paper, I spritzed it completely with water. Using a large acrylic block I spritzed that too with water and then added several little dots of ink refill from my Granny Apple Green refill. I used a waterbrush and worked the colour through the water on the block and then added the piece of fluid 100 paper on top keeping it moving the whole time. I wanted it to be completely covered with the ink and water. I took a piece of kitchen paper and dabbed the excess moisture up from it then set it aside to dry. once dry, I was able to ink my stamp with Versamark ink and stamped several of the images onto the now coloured paper. I poured White embossing powder all across, removed the excess and then heat set it. Using the coordinating dies, I die cut all of the images out. I used a white card mat with Night of Navy card on top. The front mat was dry embossed using the Painted Posies embossing folder. I stamped a sentiment onto the piece of watercolour paper and die cut it out using a circle die from Stylish Shapes dies. I die cut another in Night of Navy and another in White. It was then a case of simple construction.