Watercolouring

I have tried some water colouring recently. I heat embossed stamps from the SU What I love set and coloured them with distress inks. This is the result. I used a birthday die from Avery Elle and a wishes stamp from Papertrey Ink. I splashed some ink as the final touch.

Enjoy the weekend! 

Mishmash

Today I've got a bunch of cards for you which seems at first a mishmash of ingredients. However, they do have certain things in common: kraft for the card base and a square shape.

I couldn't resist the new Lawn Fawn set, gleeful gardens. I received the set last Tuesday. I just played with it this afternoon and hopefully I will have some time to create a bit more with it this weekend.

For the second card I used again some Lawn Fawn materials.

I've got a bit of mixed feelings with the next card. I tried the technique Betsy Veldman showed on the PTI blog, but I'm not quite satisfied with the effect. I think I used some blue colours which were too dark. The flowers are from Avery Elle, the sentiment from Lawn Fawn.

The last card for today was made just before bedtime. I pulled out a stamp set from PTI which I have possessed for long time and it is still such an elegant set.  

Enjoy your weekend!

MiM #196 Colourful Card Corners

Inspired by PTI's Make it Monday I made this card. I used PTI's Natural beauties. The flowers are two-step-stamps. I inked the leaves stamp first with a lighter green and the edges were softly pressed in a darker green. I used a text stamp for some filling and I used distress ink and a drop of water for the water colour look. The sentiment is from PTI's mini blooms.

Enjoy your weekend!

CFC #61 Splashes

A new challenge has been launched at Crazy for CAS: splashes. As I don't own a stamp with splashes or something similar I messed around with glimmer mist. I used some papers from Crate Paper, a die from Clearly Besotted Stamps, a star punch and some thread.

I should be honest, it wasn't my first card for this challenge. I doubted a little bit if I would show the first card to you, but well, here it is. For this one I used water colour paper, a dauber and ink from SU and for the splashes I mixed some drops of the same ink with perfect pearls for a bit of glimmer. The die is from Lawn Fawn and I stitched it on the card. However, in my opinion this one is a bit boring...

Head over to the CFC blog for more details and a link up. You have time until 10 January
The Design Team of Crazy for CAS is going to take a break. The next challenge will be at 28 March. Hopefully we'll see you back then!
Enjoy your weekend!

Watercolour circles and a winner

I stepped out of my comfort zone with today's card. I heat embossed some golden circles onto watercolour paper  as well as a sentiment (stamps from Papertrey Ink). I filled the circles with blues and greens, using distress ink and sprayed it with some water. It looks like modern art, don't you think?

Taking pictures was a hard job, the gold shone too much...

Last week I promised you I would draw a winner for the give-away tonight. So, I put all names in a box and picked one. The winner of the give away is:

Willy

Willy, could you send me your address and I'll send the parcel as soon as possible.

Thanks for visiting me! 

CFC #48 Butterflies

I didn't have much choice for the new challenge at the CFC blog. This week's theme is all about butterflies. It really is a theme which will give us summer feelings. The problem is that I own only one very small butterfly stamp. However, I managed! Today's card is made with SU inks and a waterbrush to give the watercolour effect as background. I added some glimmer mist and heat embossed the PTI sentiment with white embossing powder and the butterflies with gold embossing powder. I adhered it on pink cardstock. The base of the card is neutral cardstock, which gives the card a bit more warmth than white cardstock would do.

When I look at the card I won't say it is a 'Gerdine' card, but I am definitely happy with this result.
Are you going to join us at the CFC blog? You can link your card until Friday, 18 July, 18.00 pm. Looking forward to seeing your creations.

watercolour

I have seen so many beautiful cards with watercolour techniques, that I had to give it a try. I neither followed any course nor read any tutorials about this technique. I only watched this video by Betsy Veldman, altough I used distress inks instead of dye inks. It is quite fun and I love the quick result you have. The stamp set is perfect for this technique. I will practise a little more and maybe I can show you some more cards in the future!

I'd like to participate in the CASology challenge for this week where it is all about flowers!

Thank your for coming by and I wish you a nice Sunday!

add: The watercolour challenge is still open at the 'bij oma Dee' blog, so I linked my card there as well!