Pretty Pink Posh Watercolour Blog Hop

Paulina over at Pretty Pink Posh is hosting a Watercolour Blog Hop all weekend with some fab inspiration and prizes!

For my card I black heat embossed the Penny Black Demure flower image onto watercolour paper and used Distress Inks in Seedless Preserves and Picked Raspberry to paint them.  After the flowers were dry I added a layer of sparkle from my Wink of Stella Pen in clear.

I used Distress Inks in Mermaid Lagoon and Salty Ocean to watercolour the background and added a sentiment from the More Fresh Cuts Stamp Set from WPlus9.  The sentiment was black heat embossed onto vellum and I finished off with a sprinkling of Sparkling Clear Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Thank you for visiting my blog today and thanks to Paulina for organizing the hop!

Window Card

I'm back with another birthday card, this time using WPlus9's Embroidered Bouquet set.

I stamped the flower image in red on yellow card stock and coloured a few of the flower with a white pencil crayon and the other flowers with Wink of Stella.

The sentiment from Hero Arts, is black embossed on vellum with the floral panel popped up with foam adhesive. I added some lovely silk ribbon and pearls to finish off the card.

I'm entering this for Simon Says Stamps Happy Birthday Challenge here.

Thanks for popping by!

Ellen Hutson 12 Tags

I have a tag today for Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist Challenge.  My tag was inspired by Julie Ebersole's day 1 tag here.

I was inspired by Julie's ombre background, using a wreath and adding touches of gold.  I die cut a WPlus9 wreath in white and gold, added texture to the white piece with an embossing folder and offset the gold wreath behind the white one.  The background was done with Distress Paint and I added a few (too many) gold stars.

Thanks for visiting today!

WPlus9 and A Blog Named Hero

This week we are showcasing WPlus9 and Hero Arts products at A Blog Named Hero.

If you're not familiar with WPlus9, it was founded by Dawn and carries high quality clear stamps, dies, inks, paper and more.

Today I used the Fresh Cut Florals stamp set and matching dies.  The flower images are designed to layer on top of one another so each individual element can be inked up in a different colour.  It's a great flower building system that allows for endless possibilities.

Don't you just love the pretty flowers set against the stamped mirror frame?

I used Tim Holtz Ideology Mirrored Sheets.  It's my first time using it and I have to say it's a fabulous product.  The only negative about it, is that it's hard to photograph because it is a mirror and reflects everything in its path. Hence, the visible body parts and such :)

I die cut a window with a wafer die, not a steel rule die which is recommended by the manufacturer.  I ran the wafer die 4 times through my Vagabond and it did not cut all the way through but it was attached only in a few spots that was easily cut with a pair of scissors.  I then stamped the Leaf & Floral background with white Stazon onto the mirror.

Here's a shot from another angle, including some more body parts :)
 


Please stop by ABNH all week to see the fabulous projects created by the rest of the team.

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