Monday, July 15, 2024

Birds of Paradise

Welcome back, friends! It's July 15th and time for a new Beautiful Blossoms Challenge.  Here is our inspiration photo:
Gorgeous colors and I used the flower: Birds of Paradise as my theme.
Trying to capture the ombre in my card, but not being very successful. 
I used the following to create this card:
-Hero Arts Birds of Paradise Bundle;
-Ranger Distress Watercolor Card Stock;
-Altenew 36 pan Watercolor Set;
-Altenew Elegant Sayings & Die Set;
-Altenew Obsidian Black Pigment Ink;
-Spellbinders - Embossing Folder of the Month April 2024-Faux Stitched Petal;
-Distress Ink Rustic Wilderness.
Thank you for stopping by and please come join us at the Challenge this month!
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Lawn Fawn for Paper Funday

Hi friends! Can you believe it is July already? I should be making Christmas cards now...but I was in a summer mood.
For this month at The Paper Funday Challenges one of our sponsors is Lawn Fawn! Who doesn't love all the cuteness of Lawn Fawn?
I choose 3 Lawn Fawn sets (stamps and dies): Gleeful Gardens, Oh Gnome and All the Speech Bubbles and mixed and matched them for these 4 cards. I stamped multiple images on Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Card Stock with Altenew Obsidian Black Pigment Ink. I added Altenew Clear Crisp Embossing Powder while still wet and heat set. All images were water colored with Altenew Watercolor 36 Pan Set.
The base cards each have a different Masking Stencil from Taylored Expressions: Oval, Rectangles, Circles and Square Windows. I just bought a few Gina K. Designs inks and wanted to try them out with ink blending. I just used 2 on each card: Turquoise Sea and Jelly Bean Green. I really liked how they smoothed out after blending.
Then the fun began - just playing with the images and seeing what look good to me. So fun! 
Thanks for stopping by and come join us over at the Challenge page this month and let's see what you create. Anything Goes!
I will also be submitting to NBUS for I have not used the Lawn Fawn or Gina K. products before.

*Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive a small affiliate commission at no extra cost to you. All opinions remain my own.