Connie Can Crop - Watercolor Challenge

This month's challenge over at Connie Can Crop is Watercolors. You need to use watercolor somewhere on your project.

This month's sponsor is Paper Nest Dolls.

 

 

 

 

I used watercolor paper because it doesn't curl up as much as regular paper does when you get it wet and it is very heavy duty. First I used 3 different shades of blue watercolor paint on the background. When it was dry I used StazOn to ink the background.

 

I also colored a scrap of watercolor paper with yellow, pink and green paint then stamped the image directly on top of it.

 

I used blue cardstock for my base.

 

Please come and  join in the fun at Connie Can Crop.

Inspired by a Song

I have a musical card for you today.

I created the background using watercolor paints on heavy white cardstock then I used red ink to stamp a musical background stamp I won from a give away from Alicia over at: Golden Goddess Designs.

The card base and banner were scraps from my mess. The stickers are from my kids in Tokyo, Japan. I also added a few pearls and sequins.

My son and his wonderful wife live in Japan, David plays guitar as a hobby and has even played onstage with a band in Japan where he is a triple whammy, blond hair, blue eyes, left handed and speaks Japanese like a native. This is going to be his birthday card.

I am entering this card into this challenge:
Blog Quick Quotes - 68 - Inspired by a Song
 

Blues & Greens

I decided to have some fun with my favorite colors, a stencil, a bit of texture paste and some embossing powder.

 

I used watercolor paints to color a white base, I used 2 blues and 2 greens then I used an old background stamp I have with some azure blue Staz On ink. I added some texture paste with a Clear Scraps stencil I have had in my stash forever. I actually bought it at the Archiver's that used to be in Novi, Michigan before moving to Arizona.

After adding some azure blue ink to the upper corner I decided to leave the texture paste I had added to the bottom corner white.

The sentiment was stamped with VersaMark and I added some blue embossing powder. I also did one using gold embossing powder but I liked the look of the blue one better. Then I used VersaMark and green embossing powder on the butterfly and cut it out with it's matching die, a set from Art C (there are no names on the packages but this one has 2 different size butterfly stamps and dies with an embossing die for the larger butterfly).

I am entering this card into these challenges:

Jo's Scrap Shack #157 - Anything Goes Entry #2
Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge #18

 

For the Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge I went diagonal with: Stencil, Blues and Greens, Texture (texture paste and embossing powder).

 

Inkspiration Septembery Mystery-Challenge

I stumbled across this challenge a couple of days ago and I thought it looked like fun so I decided to play along.

 

Recipe:

 

Card Base - Pumpkin cardstock from my stash

Stamp - Pumpkin with sunflowers from Plum Purdy - colored with Pumpkin, Light Pumpkin, Yellow, Green on Pale Beige Watercolor paints on Watercolor Paper

Sentiment - Computer generated

Die cut - Spider Web and Spider - Cricut's October 31 and Happy Hauntings

White Ribbon with Pumpkins

Button with Twine from my stash

After I painted the flower centers a pale shade of Pumpkin I added a coat of Champagne Craft Twinkles from DecoArt

 

I want to enter this challenge:

Inkspiration.blogspot.septembery-mystery-challenge