guardian angel

 hi there crafty stampers!

I have a lovely little card today inspired by the latest challenge from the sisterhood of snarky stampers #188 W is for Watercolour.

I don't know why but watercolours always make me think of the ocean and undersea creatures.  All those dreamy colours and blurred edges.

The background is distress oxide inks, watered and swirled over the card panel. After stamping the main images, the panel edges were inked with speckled egg. The sentiment is a Big Talk sticker, stacked onto card and also watercolored with speckled egg. 

Come join the sisters and have some fun with watercolours! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

inks: distress oxide inks

stamps: darkroom door under the sea, seaside inchies

sentiment: Tim Holtz Big Talk sticker

Edit: Thankyou lovely sisters for choosing me as a Princess for this card - had a ball doing the watercolour!

if nothing ever changed

 hello fellow stampers!

I've been feeling crafty lately (I might have to lie down till it passes). I have found myself happily stamping, blending, even watercolouring. I know! A new me?  I am pointing the finger squarely at my latest acquisition - my first distress oxide inks - just a few - but they are great! Awesome at blending (I have never been happy with my previous attempts), awesome as watercolour, and many many options with how to use them. Brilliant.

Today I made a card using the inks as watercolour. My first one, but they are so easy to use. I thought I would take the challenge thrown down by the lovely people at AAA cards, #187. 

Quite a tricky one - I played around with a few options for quarters but decided to go with what suited the sentiment on the card - the uplifting idea of butterflies had to be at the top! I also decided to do a square card so the quarters looked like quarters!

I started with watercolouring a rainbow - quite simple with 3 colours and blended to get the in between colours. Then I stamped the butterflies using black archival ink. In a similar way, I watercoloured the green using blue and yellow, and stamped using archival ink. They were cut out to the quarter size.

Stamping the sentiment twice on different coloured cardstock, they were then cut them in half so I could use each half on each quarter. They were stamped in versamark ink then embossed with white. They were then glued at the edge of each quarter. Lastly the quarters were adhered to the card base using foam tape for dimension. 

I am quite pleased with the result, and so happy with the new inks - I must get more. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

inks: distress oxide inks: abandoned coral; scattered straw; tumbled glass, archival ink jet black, Versamark ink

card: whisper white, highland heather, mossy meadow,  watercolour paper

stamps: Darkroom Door wildflowers vol 1