Sparkly Flowers

I'm pretty sure this image is from Penny Black. I colored it with watercolor pencils and an aqua brush. I added Wink of Stella to all of the flowers, which you can not see at all in the picture! They are so shimmery:) Purple is so hard to photograph - the purple flower and the matting are actually more of a reddish violet. Oh well! I cut the image out using a Memory Box stitched rectangle die.

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Long-Time Friend #2

The second card I made using the stamps from the Stampin' Up! set called "Long-Time Friend."  This card uses the sentiment, the large image stamp and the smaller flower stamp - stamped twice.

I stamped these stamps on watercolor paper and used water color pencils and an aquapainter. I matted with a terra cotta cardstock.

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Birthday Flowers

Finally - I had the time and the mojo to make a couple cards! A little pressure of the upcoming birthdays may have helped, too:) At any rate, I made three cards last night. You'll get to see two of them. (One really isn't very blog-worthy.)

I stamped the background with a stamp from a Hero Arts set with Memento London Fog ink. Then I stamped the flowers (from Penny Black) with Versafine Black Onyx. I colored them with some watercolor pencils and then used my Aquabrush. I matted with some Stampin' Up! cardstock - Riding Hood Red, I believe. I added some black "gems" in the flower centers.

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Repeat Impressions - Designers Choice Challenge: Watercolor

The Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge for this time is to watercolor an image on your card or project.  Not something I normally do, but I really did enjoy it!  We'd love to have you join in.  One lucky participant will win a full sheet of unmounted rubber!  Please visit the Repeat Impressions blog, The House That Stamps Built, for all the details and to see the other Rock Stars' creations.  Or follow these links to their blogs:

Darsie ~ Harriet ~Joy ~ Karen ~ Maki ~ Michele ~ Miriam ~ Robin

For my card, I started with the Bird and Blossoms stamp, found on this page.  I stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black ink on watercolor paper.  (The watercolor paper I used is some old stuff from when our kids were younger.  It says it's watercolor paper for kids, so I'm guessing it's not very good quality!)  I used Stampin' Up! inks - Rose Romance, Old Olive, Brocade Blue and More Mustard.  I "smooshed" them on to my Stamp-a-ma-jig plastic and used an Aqua Painter.  I even tried doing some shading! I matted with Kiwi Kiss cardstock from SU! and covered the card base with some patterned paper from Cafe Mediterranean from Die Cuts With a View.  I mounted the image panel on Dimensionals, too.  I added the pearls to the corners and the sentiment, which is also from Repeat Impressions.

We'd love to have you join us.  Just create your card or project, upload to your blog or an on-line gallery, and link it to the Repeat Impressions blog.

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Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week - Great Blue Heron

Today is Monday again, which means it's Repeat Impressions Stamp of the Week day!  This week's stamp is the Great Blue Heron.  Please visit RI's blog, The House That Stamps Built, for all the details you need to know to get this great stamp at 50% off - through Sunday only.  Also, check out the marvelous creations from the other Design Team members!

Dana ~ Harriet ~ Joy ~ Julie ~ Makiko ~ Robin

For this fist card, I stamped the image on white cardstock with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  I colored it with Stampin' Up! markers and chalks.  It's mounted on a textured, pebbled gray cardstock which I scored with my Martha Stewart Scoring Tool.  The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions, also.

For this second one, I stamped the image with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink on Papertrey Ink's Kraft cardstock.  I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.  I used a distresser on the edges and rubbed Tim Holz Distress ink on them.  I mounted the image on the same gray paper as the above card, then on to the Kraft card base.  The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions and is stamped in the Sepia ink.

For this card, I stamped the image with Sepia ink on to Vanilla cardstock.  I colored it with watercolor pencils and then used a wet paint brush on it.  I cut an oval out of the textured paper and put it over the image for the matting.  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

And one more!  I stamped the image this time directly on PTI white cardstock.  I colored it with SU! makers, except for the bird's body, which I colored with a gray Copic.  I used a little chalk on the water.  The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions.  I used my Scor-Pal to emboss a border around the edges.


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