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Thursday, October 24, 2019

flowers and leaves...

I have been pretty busy lately making cards.  Not sure what happened other than maybe I got some inspiration because normally I only make about two cards per week.  In the last two weeks I have made about 10 cards and a lot of them have involved coloring.  More specifically watercoloring.  Today I have another card that I created using the beautiful MFT Fresh Cut Flowers background stamp (which is on sale right now for 20% off).  I did some practicing of my no line watercoloring and while there were a couple of areas that didn't go so well overall I'm pleased with how the image turned out.  I used the layout from Freshly Made Sketches for my card so I will be posting it there.  I stamped the image on Canson watercolor paper using Antique Linen distress ink and then colored the smaller flowers with Worn Lipstick distress ink and the bigger flowers with Festive Berries distress ink.   The leaves were colored with a combination of Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint distress inks. When I was done I did try to add a little bit more shadow using Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils on just the flowers.  I used a red and a pink for this.  I die cut the image with a rectangle die and then foam mounted it on a light gray cardstock base.  The sentiment is from an older MFT set called Amazing.  I heat embossed it in white on vellum and then die cut it with the MFT Slanted Sentiment Strips die (these are no longer available as a two die set like I have, but you can get them in a set of 3 dies set.).  I adhered that with Nuvo Deluxe adhesive to the card front.  When I saw the new Time Out challenge I thought this card would work so I will be posting it there.




The second card is all about die cutting.  When I originally started the first card I had thought I would die cut the large Thank You word die that I had gotten from MFT from the center of the flower, but after spending all that time coloring the image (I worked on it when I had a free moment so it took two days!) I decided that I didn't want to die cut it after all.  But I still wanted to use that die as I had never used it before.  So I went the patterned paper route and pulled out the pretty Fall Market pad from Carta Bell.  I did the inlaid die cutting technique for this card using two different patterns from the pad.  Once I had that done I thought the card needed something more so I added the little leaves that I die cut from the scraps using the AJVD Leaves and Petal die set.   I'm posting this to this week's Paper Players challenge to make the sentiment the focus of your card, but now with the leaves I'm wondering if it distracts too much from the sentiment.  You be the judge.  I'm also going to add it to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to use fall colors.  Die cutting done with my Gemini Jr. and my Big Shot Plus.



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15 comments:

Lisa Elton said...

Two incredible cards Rosemary! The first one is gorgeous and I love the patterned die cuts on the second!

Amy O said...

These are both gorgeous! Your no-line water coloring is amazing. Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!

LeAnne said...

These are both amazing! I love the colors in your PP card, and how you left in some of the diecut! That polka dot background is sweet! Thanks for playing with my challenge this week!

Windy Ellard said...

Both beautiful cards..love the softness of your thank you but what a cute pattern for the dies! Thanks you for playing along this week over at The Paper Players!

TK said...

So, so beautiful! Your no-line is WONDERFUL, don't see any your "couple of areas"! And your sentiment die is unique! While having the leaves adds, it doesn't distract me from your sentiment!

Viv said...

Two beautiful cards here Rosie, great water colouring on the first one and love those gorgeous flowers too.The second one is so pretty too, such a clever design ;)hugs Viv xx

Jen Timko said...

Those flowers are stunning and I love the vellum sentiment panel with it. Perfect touch. So glad you joined us this week at FMS!

Gerrina said...

What a super-coloured flowers! Great! Thank you for joining us at TIME OUT!

Joyce said...

Your water colored flowers are absolutely stunning. So happy to hear of your creative streak. Thanks so much for playing along at Time Out.

Linda W. (ScrappinBari) said...

Two fab cards, Rosemary! Especially love your no-line watercoloring on card one and the patterned sentiment on card two!!

Greta said...

Sorry to be so late getting here--gotta get back into a rhythm. Sure glad I didn't totally miss this post, though--beautiful cards, Rosemary! Your coloring is outstanding in my opinion--love everything about the 1st card! Really fun, colorful thank you card--love those leaves & the font of the words!

Anita in France said...

What a fabulous look you created with the die cut pp sentiment and leaves, Rosemary ... sooo pretty! Your colouring on those gorgeous blooms is awesome ... no line loveliness ... and such a wonderful sentiment! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Time Out! Hugs, Anita :)

sandie said...

Congrats for getting honours at Time Out x

TK said...

Congrats from me too -- it's an awesome card!

Greta said...

Big congrats on Top Honors at Time Out!