Ink and Spritz

One of my favourite techniques is to ink then spritz with water to give that watercolour effect.

My entry to ...

... Colour Hues #43 : Blue & Green

... Seize the Birthday #240 : Favourite Technique

... Addicted to Stamps & More #431 : Make Your Mark

... AAA Birthday #38 : Flowers 

B&W Inchie ... plus 1 more!

As the stamps I ordered are trickling in ever so slowly due to covid and the restricted flights in, I was delighted to finally receive one of my black Friday orders. That only took 3½ months.  But I have many outstanding still ... even from May 2020! I do hope they arrive.

It's been quite a while since I've created an inchie on a card. But I had just the right image in mind from my newly arrived Pinkfresh Studio set called Hello hello.

I added white enamel accents to the hearts.

Then I thought, why not make another !

I coloured the letters with Prismacolor pencils and added Glossy accents to the hearts.

My entry to ...

... AAA Cards : One inchie (opt B&W)

... Colour Hues : Black & White

... NBUS #24

Watercolour dots

A quick masculine card. Ink and spritz the dots, and add some interest with the wonky spoked circles, with liquid pearls. 

My other trick is to flatten the enamel or liquid pearl drops once they have dried. Great for a masculine card.

My entry to ...

... Just Us Girls - Circles

... AAA Birthday - For the Boys

... The Male Room - 6th Birthday

Masculine and Feminin Versions

I'm so happy to be up as guest designer at Color Throwdown this week. 

When I came to do my card, I remembered the colours were grey, blue and orange, and went with a floral card. But when I went back to look at the inspiration photo, I thought I should have gone with something more in a clean graphic theme. So I have also made a masculine version.

I started with grey cardstock, and stamped Pinkfresh Studio Dainty Botanicals in grey and blue. Then I moved back to white cardstock and I stamped flowers from The Stamp Market Botanicals stamp set, and tiny flowers from Concord & 9th "Love you. Mean it." stamp set, in grey ink and coloured with copics. The solid leaves were partially inked and spritzed with water.

For the more masculine version, stamped up the stripes using Impression Obsession Thick Stripes in grey and trimmed. I stamped the triangle pattern from Ellen Hutson Wonky Backgrounds in blue. Stamped the "wheels" in SSS Apricot, and cut out. Popped everything up on foam.

I will also enter this to ...

... The Flower Challenge : Focus on Background Stamping

... Seize the Birthday : Cover the Card

... The Male Room : Multiple Layers

Pantone Color Trend

I was so taken with the lovely colours of the Pantone Color Trend Challenge at Ellen Hutson ... and been wanting to get out the Wonky Backdrops stamp set for a while now. Some distress inks and a spritz of water gives a lovely watercolour effect.

I popped up the panel on pink foam to give added interest.

Abstract Watercolour

I was so inspired by THIS pin, I decided to have some fun with a few stamps and some watercolour. I just swished some circles with different colours. And don't you love those wonky lines from the Ellen Hutson Wonky Background stamp set?!

This is my entry for ... 

... the Colours and Sketches Challenge #271 : Sketch. I inverted the sketch and replaced the one square with a bold sentiment. 

... CAS Watercolour Challenge : Rainbow

... Addicted to Stamps and More : Anything Goes

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