Guesting for Color Throwdown #359!!

Hey friends!!  Today I'm guesting over on the Color Throwdown challenge blog... YAY!!  The color combo is a fun one of light, dark blue, orange and kraft.    I decided to go outside my box and do some water coloring.   I'm not kidding when I tell you that this card took me two days to make... two days, lol!!  That was because I wanted to make sure my water colored piece was completely dry before I completed it.  I also spent a good deal of time making sure I created a piece that I was happy with.  I started by spritzing my water color paper (Ranger/Tim Holtz distress water color paper) in one corner and then adding the light blue color using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi water color paints.  I let that dry a bit and then moved onto the stamping portion.  The current Essentials by Ellen challenge is the "Mix it Up" challenge.  That means you need to mix your Essentials by Ellen products with those from another company.  This month it is Impression Obsession.  I own exactly one IO product... the large feather die.  Initially I wanted to use it as a stencil but after trying it I decided I really didn't like the look.  The next option... cut a feather an pop it on the card, but I didn't want that either.   What to do... what to do??  Then it hit me... use the die to create a stamp.  So that's what I did.  I die cut the feather from some thick fun foam, inked it up with dark blue ink, spritzed the "stamp" and water color paper with water and stamped my feather!  Love how it turned out.  Some splatters of orange water color paint finished off my panel.  Once it was dry I die cut it using an Avery Elle die.   The Essentials by Ellen product I used is the Be-you-tiful die.  I cut it from a panel I had water colored, but then ruined, and from kraft cardstock.  The two where adhered with the kraft slightly off set.  To bring in more orange I added a nest of orange hemp twine and adhered the die cut sentiment on top.  Mounted the panel on a kraft card base and then added a few wooden stars.   I also going to enter this into the current Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge:  stamps and dies.   I put a bit of a twist on the idea by using my die to cut a stamp so hopefully that counts.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft; Tim Holtz/Ranger water color paper; Inks:  Stampin Up! Night of Navy; Paints:  Kuretake Gansai Tambi; Studio Calico wooden stars; Dies:  Essentials by Ellen, Impression Obsession and Avery Elle; orange hemp twine
 

hello... times 2...

Hello friends!!  Hope your week is going well.  Mine was until Wednesday... well actually things started going down hill on Tuesday night.   I occasionally get migraines.  Most of the time they aren't too bad and I can manage them, but the one I started getting on Tuesday evening was a doozy!   I'm not sure how I got the two cards I made on Tuesday evening done, but I did.  Now that I'm mostly back to normal after an awful day on Wednesday I finally have a chance to post them.   I will be adding both cards to the current Ellen Hutson Mix It Up challenge, as well as to the current ColourQ challenge.    Adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge:  April Showers/Flowers

 

 

For this month's Mix It Up challenge we have to combine Essentials by Ellen products with Lawn Fawn products.   I used the Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Scripty Hello and the Essentials by Ellen Bold Blooms stamp set.   As I set out to make a card I did a lot of experimenting with the arrangement which is why I ended up with two cards.   On the first card I only die cut the "hello" three times (once from the main panel and then two additional from plain cardstock).  On the second card I die cut the "hello" four times (once from the main panel and then three more).   I prefer the card with the four die cuts as I think the hello stands out more.  Anyway... I quite like both of them.   I did brush a bit of clear Wink of Stella on the flowers and leaves, but it is very subtle.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Recollections white; SSS fog; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen Bold Blooms; Dies:  Lawn Fawn Scripty Hello; Inks:  SU! Really Rust, Crumb Cake, Hello Honey and Hero Arts Tide Pool; Wink of Stella clear