some spring like cards...

Hello!!  Made a couple of spring like cards to share.  Right now it is gray and dreary here in the Pacific Northwest so I thought a couple of bright cards were in order.  The first one uses the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers and a sentiment from the SSS set Friendship Blooms.  I partially colored a panel of watercolor cardstock using a medium blue ZIG and let it dry.  The flowers and stems were all stamped with watermark ink and heat set with white embossing powder before being colored with ZIGs.  Once everything was dry I die cut everything with the matching dies.  Once I got everything arranged and adhered I stamped the sentiment in black and then added a few yellow sequins.  I'm going to add this to the 30 day coloring challenge.

The second card was made using the Concord & 9th Butterfly Beautiful set.  I stamped the butterfly in watermark ink and then embossed with white embossing powder.  The current color combo at Color Throwdown is a combo of my two favorite colors (blue and green).  I'm taking a bit of a break from challenges, but since I love those two colors I decided to use them for my card.  I colored the butterfly with a blue ZIG and then added green around it with a green ZIG.   The sentiment was stamped on vellum with watermark ink and the heat embossed with black embossing powder.  Used some rolled up glue dots placed behind the sentiment to pop the sentiment up slightly and then added some sparkling clear Pretty Pink Posh sequins.  Simple, but I like how it turned out.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS Fog, Sea Glass, Ranger Watercolor, PTI vellum; Stamps and dies:  Simon Says Stamp; Ink:  VersaMark and VersaFine; Filigree white and black embossing powder; Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins; yellow sequins; Watercolor medium:  ZIG clean color markers