Make It Simple Monday - Beautifully Happy

 Hello and welcome back. Cary as usual did an excellent job showing her projects last week! How do I follow that? Well, I will try. I chose to use the lovely Beautifully Happy stamp set this week along with the odd sentiments. Today's project I have made 4 cards! I used a 6" by 6" piece of DSP from the In Colour range of papers from 2022 -2024 and I picked the Orchid Oasis coloured paper. 

I marked each left hand side with a small pencil mark and then joined up the opposite lines on my trimmer then cut them into 4 pieces. It was just a case of adding each one to a card base, stamping a sentiment onto a strip of matching card and a few flowers here and there. All 4 cards were made in half an hour. 4 different occasions and I have spares ready to sign and post.

What do you think?

Place the pieces how you want them and then adhere them to the card bases.

Overlap the strip of card on both sides and then trim off from behind the card. You get a better sight there. Don't forget that the DSP has 2 sides and 2 different paatterns.

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Encircled In Friendship

 I really had fun getting messy with today's card. Now, those of you who know me, know that I HATE getting messy when I craft. So for me to get messy it probably isn't as bad as when Cary gets messy. She just LOVES it! Using Encircled In Friendship stamp set, I took a C6 mat and washed some very light blue of Balmy Blue over it. I picked up the colour from an acrylic block that I stamped onto the ink pad. I find it's so much easier watercolouring that way. Once it was dry, I stamped the flowers across the centre using a Stazon Ink Pad in Tuxedo Black and then added a piece of paper from the NEW Sunshine and Rainbows designer series paper, DSP. Stazon ink pad is a pigment based ink pad and it's not affected by water colouring. Using the same block, I added 2 drops of ink refil in the Balmy Blue  onto the block and started to add water from my brush to it. I coloured in the flowers and then the leaves in that gorgeous green of Granny Apple Green in exactly the same way.

Once they were all dry, I added 2 more drops to the colouring block and got the darker blue to do the highlighting on the flowers. I stamped the interior with the main flowers and repeated the same process as I did on the front. I had some tiny strips of DSP left over and added them to the inside as a highlight and completed this card.