Watercolour Wednesday - Dainty Delight

 Hello. Today's card using the Dainty Delight stamp set, I used the large image stamp and stamped it with Memento Ink pad. Now I know you aren't supposed to use a water based ink when watercolouring but today I did! The reason being is that I wanted to used the water colour pencils but not the water!

I coloured the flowers and background in using the pencils and then chopped the image into 8. I added the small pieces onto a piece of one of the DSP papers called Dainty Flowers which are Free during Saleabration. For every £45 spent, you get to choose a free item from the special brochure. 

I LOVE the stamps and the papers together and apart. Really beautiful! Once they were all chopped up, I added them all to another white mat then onto the Starry Sky card base. I did keep the mat narrow on purpose so cut off the excess card to the right hand side. I didn't use the water brushes as I said but did rub my fingers across the mats to smooth the colours over gently. 

Technique Tuesday - Joyful Flurry

Today's card is a card that I cased from Donna Gray in Australia. She is soooo very clever and inspired me to make a card very similar to the one she made using the Joyful Flurry stamp set. I used a piece of white and stamped the snowflakes onto one side only. I then used pale blue of Balmy Blue, the light grey of Smoky Slate and the lovely in colour blue of Starry Sky. Once stamped, I embossed just the left hand side and tied a piece of the in colour ribbon in Starry Sky off centre to the left. All that was left was the sentiments on the front and inside. I added some more snowflakes on the inside too but I didn't heat emboss the images at all which Donna did. 

  

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?

 

Technique Tuesday - Jar of Flowers

 Hello, for today's card using the Jar of Flowers stamp set, I've gone back to my granddaughter's colouring pencils again. I used a piece of blue card in Starry Sky, and a piece of the paper from the Sun Prints DSP pack for the main background. The main colours of the DSP is a soft beige called Sahara Sand and several shades of blue. I added another strip of the striped pattern and then stamped the flower image from Jar of Flowers then coloured it in. I love playing with Bella's colouring pencils as she has so many different ones! I cut a piece of white card and embossed it using one of the Greenery set of 2 folders, which has sadly retired. There are a few more new ones out that will coordinate really well but I haven't yet been able to buy! After a few sentiments from the Celebrating You stamp set and then adding the flowers, this one is completed.

Fun Fold Friday - Nature's Prints

For my last card this week I have made a card like one that I made for our retreat back in March this year. Unfortunately, it went home with one of the attendees! I decided to make another this time using the Nature's Prints stamps and Sun Prints DSP. I believe it is called a floating panel card but I wouldn't swear to it. It's actually easier than it looks. I cut 2 pieces of card 10cm by 14.85cm and scored each in half at 5cm. A piece 19cm by 10.5cm which was scored at 1.5cm, 5.5cm from both sides. This is to be the floating mechanism. On top of that I added another piece of card which is 9cm by 12cm. I decorated each of the front facing mats and the rear facing mats too as I was originally going to add a message panel on the reverse and decorate the centre panel to the hilt but I changed my mind. 

I have been desperately trying to find out where I found this design from but apologies to the designer I cannot find their name! If anyone knows please let me know or let them know that I am very grateful for the design. 

 

 

 That's all from me for another week so thank you for stopping by. Cary will be back on Monday with some more of her creations, so please join her too. 

 

Until I return, please stay safe, keep well bu of course...

KEEP ON CRAFTING. 

😍 xx Gill xx 😍