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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

Painted Petals for getting better

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I was browsing Pinterest looking for inspiration the other day when I came across a water coloured card by Danielas Stempelwelt using my favourite little flowers from the Stampin’ Up! Painted Petals set. I thought I’d practice first on ordinary card stock before using the watercolour paper, partly to decide on the colour combinations and partly to check that I liked the water colouring effect.

I used soft saffron for the water colouring; I put a drop of ink from the re-inker onto a clear block and, using an aquapainter, scribbled some lines letting the colour get lighter as I went down the whisper white card stock. I then decided that the flowers would look best with the darkest colour at the bottom and, happily, I had put my yellow colouring pretty much in the middle of the paper. I used wild wasabi (you thought it was going to be pear pizzazz again, didn’t you?!) for the stems and rose red for the flowers. I also used rose red for the sentiment which comes from A Dozen Thoughts. And then I realised that I liked this look on the white and since it had only been a little wet, the paper was still flat. So I didn’t redo this on watercolour paper.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and A Dozen Thoughts

I then noticed that I’d managed to put a little smudge of colour right on the corner of the card. This was actually a good thing because my sentiment wasn’t quite centred. So out came my trimmer and I lopped 1/4 inch off the left hand side. This evened things up and removed the smudge.  This meant that I needed to cut 1/4 off the top and that made the card more balanced since my yellow lines had been a little too low (now that I’d turned the card upside down, that is). Sometimes you just get lucky!

The skinny mat is rose red and I fixed the white layer to it with sticky strip. Just in case the card was going to warp – yes it has happened to me before! Once I get some fast fuse, I’ll try using that. I mounted this on a so saffron card base. The envelope is lined with the matching paper from the Backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Spring Flowers and Painted Petals

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Here’s another card using the circle framelits to create a window to the inside of the card. The earlier versions can be seen here and here. For this one though, I decided to add dry embossing and used the Spring Flowers folder. I would point out though, that you need to cut the window in the card stock before doing the dry embossing or the embossing gets a bit flattened – unless you’re going for the “only slightly embossed” look. I personally didn’t care for it!

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and Spring Flowers

I cut the circle out with the circles framelits in both the pistachio pudding and the very vanilla cardstocks at the same time. I also had the pistachio pudding a little larger than I needed so that I could trim it to size afterwards. I then dry embossed the pistachio pudding with the spring flowers TIEF. As before, I cut out a small border circle using 2 of the circle framelits to put inside the card. To get the placement right, after putting some multipurpose glue on the frame, I opened the card and put the non-glued side around the hole. Then I carefully closed the card and the frame was in the right place.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and Spring Flowers TIEF

I now stamped the flowers from the Painted Petals set inside the frame, using pistachio pudding and strawberry slush inks. All that remained was to trim down the embossed piece of pistachio pudding to fit and glue it down securely using SNAIL glue. I dry embossed the envelope flap with the same embossing folder to match.

See you  tomorrow,

Liz

A dozen thoughts with painted petals

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My sister recently pointed me towards a new for us challenge site, CAS colours and sketches, which is all about clean and simple, my favourite type of cards. This week is a colour challenge (also my favourite) and the hostess has selected an awesome combination from Stampin’ Up!’s newest in colours. I don’t know why I haven’t been using them more often lately, they are gorgeous colours.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and A Dozen Thoughts

The challenge banner is These colours are totally luxurious and even better in person.

The flowers are from the Painted Petals set which I seem to be over using currently. I stamped the stems in mossy meadow and then the flowers in lost lagoon and blackberry bliss stamping off before some of the blackberry bliss flowers and doing a fair amount of masking since the flower stamp is three flowers together. The sentiment is from A Dozen Thoughts and is stamped in mossy meadow.

This is a deceptively simply looking card and this was actually my fourth attempt! I mixed up my ink pads on one occasion and stamped a mossy meadow flower. I ignored where I’d planned to stamp my lost lagoon flowers and I had blackberry bliss flowers half way across the card on another attempt. I was beginning to think that the card was doomed when finally it came out better than I had expected.

The envelope was lined with the backgrounds DSP in mossy meadow using the envelope framelits to cut out the liner. Since my stamps were inked up, I also stamped a trio of flowers on the front of the envelope.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals and A Dozen Thoughts envelope

See you tomorrow,

Liz

 

Spring for the Paper Players

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I saw that the The Paper Players’ challenge this week is Spring. What a great idea – as I sit here listening to the icy rain pelting on the windows. I really love the little flowers in the Painted Petals set and decided to feature them on my spring-like card.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals

The clip isn’t part of the card, it was just needed to keep the card closed.  I actually had a completely different design in mind, featuring a large piece of the pear pizzazz and that will likely happen later on. I had cut out the circle in the very vanilla using the Circles framelits and also cut another out of a piece of pear pizzazz as I was working on two cards at once. For the second, which will be featured later, I decided that I needed to have a larger circle but didn’t want to move the circular opening higher up the card and cut out this unusual shape in pear pizzazz that is now featured on this card. I like the interesting frame that it gives to the flowers. The flowers are stamped in blushing bride and pear pizzazz.

I decided to add another circle of pear pizzazz to the inside of my card.

Stampin' Up! Painted Petals in pear pizzazz

This serves two purposes – firstly it gives a good frame to the flowers but it also indicates where not to write on the inside! The envelope is lined using the envelope liner framelits and the Backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz.