Category Archives: Thinking of you

More Watercolor Words

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I made this card on Sunday when I was stamping with my sister at my very over crowded kitchen table. My father was suggesting that he needs to make me a bigger one – perhaps just some organization and tidying will do it. If we can stop making cards long enough to do so. This is using a stamp set, Watercolor Words, which my sister owns and I do not. There was a phone call before Caro flew to NJ to compare what we have so that she could fill in gaps. She’s here for ten days so I need to concentrate on the new to me stuff!

Stampin' Up! Watercolor Words

This card uses two of the stamps from the Watercolor Words set. I started by stamping the sentiment in watermelon wonder and then filled in the corner gap with a flower stamp. After that I worked my way across the card, making sure the flowers weren’t in a regular zig zag. The very vanilla piece was then mounted on a watercolor wonder cardbase.

Unlike recent posts, I actually possess the new designer series paper stack in this colour. I really love the words paper – and of course it felt right with this card.

I passed over this stamp set in the catalogue because I thought that if I wanted words in a watercolour like way, I could use my aquapainter and write them myself. Completely forgetting that I’ve never actually hand written on a card! But I may get out my aquapainter and play with this stamp set this upcoming weekend.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Too kind

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I didn’t mean to share this card today, I was going to make a card for a challenge but I had news that my amazing physical therapist died yesterday. He was in his forties and leaves behind a wife, two children and an unborn child. He was an incredible person – always happy and joking and absolutely miraculous at his job. I once sprained my ankle nine days before a marathon and called Matt almost in tears the next day. He said to give it a couple of days and then come to see him. I ran that marathon after a couple of treatments. As I said, Matthew Loughlin was miraculous. He will be greatly missed. So a “sending good thoughts your way” card seems apt today.

Stampin' Up! Thoughts and Prayers, Too kind

I used a template that I’d made using a plastic sheet from photopolymer stamp packaging and square framelits and sponged crushed curry and elegant eggplant onto it. I was trying to make a card using these colours and garden green for a challenge but it didn’t work. But introducing gold made me happy. I stamped the tree from the Thoughts and Prayers set in versamark and then covered it in gold embossing powder. The sentiment is from the Too Kind stamp set and is in elegant eggplant. I mounted the piece of whisper white onto an elegant eggplant base. The envelope flap was embossed with the spring flowers embossing folder.

Rest in Peace, Matt.

 

 

Perpetual Birthday Calendar – May

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I’ve been meaning to use the May image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set this month since I have a bit of a streak going. And then the CAS Colour and Sketches showed up with the double challenge. Normally colour challenges and sketch challenges alternate but since there were five Thursdays in April, this week it’s a sketch AND colour challenge. I thought I’d give it a go despite my usual reluctance to try sketch challenges.

Stampin' Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar and Sheltering Tree

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I took the May image from the set and coloured the various flowers using my Stampin’ Write markers in calypso coral, wisteria wonder and island indigo. After breathing on the stamp to re-moisten it, I stamped it onto my whisper white cardstock and then repeated it another four times across the diagonal. I then found that I had one little island indigo star sticking out too far so added another on the other side to balance it. As Staples says, that was easy! The sentiment is from Sheltering Tree and is stamped in Island indigo. I mounted this piece onto a layer of island indigo to give a skinny mat and then put this onto a wisteria wonder card base. I really love the wisteria wonder but I don’t use it as much as I thought – I’ll have to work on that!

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Finally the Painted Petals stripes

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I’ve been wanting to use the three lines in the painted petals set for a while but they just wouldn’t fit onto a card. Yesterday afternoon, I finally realised what I wanted to do with them. I wanted the sentiment front and centre and very obvious – I have a couple of people that need such cards to be sent to them at the moment.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and Lovely Amazing You

I first stamped the sentiment from the Lovely Amazing You set in the middle of the very vanilla card using blackberry bliss ink which I stamped off once onto scrap paper. Then I stamped the lines from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals set in lost lagoon about midway between the edge of the card and the sentiment. One of my favourite tools then came into play – my ruler – so that I could ensure that the second set of lines were at the same distance.

I then decided that the card needed a lost lagoon mat which necessitated some trimming of the very vanilla piece. The stampin’ up! trimmer is great at trimming off little strips. After adhering the very vanilla to the lost lagoon mat I glued it to a blackberry bliss base. A nice easy CAS (clean and simple) card.

Painted Petals Watercoloured

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I can definitely see that there’s going to be a lot of watercolouring going on at my house for a while. And the Painted Petals set already gives the watercolour look, so I had to put them together!

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

I used the same technique as last week but the circle is smaller. I cut out a circle using the big shot and the circles collection and then held that over my watercolour paper. I used so saffron and wild wasabi to create the background. Once it was dry, I stamped the stems from the Painted Petals set in wild wasabi and the flowers in rose red. The sentiment, also stamped in rose red, comes from the Sheltering Tree stamp set.

I tried various mats with this but nothing actually added to the card and most detracted from it. So, after applying the sticky strip (I have fast fuse on order which I think will be perfect for this) I mounted the card onto a rose red base. I lined the envelope using the Envelope Liners framelits and the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz