December Challenge at ME and Me - Valentine

I have been making so many Christmas cards, that it was fun to get out of that mode and try my hand at my first Valentine for 2015.  Wow where has this year gone?

 

I have 3 or 4 Mama Elephant stamp sets none of which are Valentine themed; so I needed to be creative.  I decided to use Waterblooms and a mask to create my card.  I cut a heart from a folded piece of copy paper and taped the negative portion onto my white card panel.  Then I grabbed some inkpads - Simon Says Stamp in Green Leaf, Blue Violet, and Lipstick Red. I also grabbed Hero Arts inkpads in Neon Pink, Passion Flower, Pale Tomato and Silver.

I pulled a few of the stamps from the ME set, and began stamping. I started with the leaves, then the bigger flowers. The dots were added at the end in neon pink and silver to fill gaps.  Then I masked off the heart with the center piece I had cut earlier and added some Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Primrose.  I have to admit I love splatters, but wow the card was way too bright.

Vellum saves the card front, I heat embossed in white a Craft Smart Valentine sentiment onto the vellum and wrapped it around the card front. Then it was too muted!  So I glued down parts of the vellum over the stamped flower images. This allowed more of the images to show through the vellum.  I added small moonshine sequins from SSS to cover up the glued places.  I  added some red to frame the sides of the card.

Tired of making holiday cards? Give this challenge a try, its open until December 29th!

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A new to ME challenge

I have a card for a new to me challenge, the Mama Elephant and me challenge. I couldn't resist the challenge watercolor plus birthday.  I still love to play with watercolors, so this was a fun challenge for me. It runs through August 28th, 2014.

 

I started with a piece of Canson 140 cold press water color paper.  I taped it down, wet it pretty good with a misting bottle, then added a wash of soft blue from my set of Koi watercolors.  Then I added a periwinkle and some soft lavendar strokes to give a striped feel.  While that dried, I added some diagonal lines to my card base with Hero Arts Cornflower blue ink and a stamp from the Mama Elephant set Basic Borders. 

Once my panel was dry I heat embossed the main image from the Mama Elephant set Water Blooms. I added a small strip of glitter paper from DCWV. Other embellishments include Hero Arts pearls, and Pretty Pink Posh sequins.  My sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.

I am also linking this up to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes.

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