MOJO Monday 401 - Wishing you a Fabulous Birthday!

What a fabulous sketch Julee Tilman designed for today's Mojo Monday#401 which just celebrated 8 years in business and will say I love their stamps. Today I pulled out these beautiful flowers to play along this week.  

As you can tell, I've been having fun with watercolors lately and wanted to also join in on the Pretty Pink Posh Water Color Challenge which is ending later today. Also, today is day 8 of the 30 day color challenge Kathy's is hosting over at The Daily Marker . 

Here is my card:

Again, I just love these flowers from the set called: Surely Goodness where I white embossing them first to create a resist background before applying the watercolor to them. Next, I scribbled some water colors onto my craft mat using the Spectrum Noir Aqua markers. 

Since I wanted to soften the color a bit, I made sure to take my water brush and mix the color on the craft sheet before applying to the water color paper. As the saying goes, you can keep adding more colors to intesify the look or add more water to soften the look. 

Stamped the sentiment from the set called: Let it Be and added a very light blue on top of the saying and around it adding just a bit of color since the flowers had enough color. At the end, added some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and added foam mount under the Stitched base rectangle panel.

As always, if you haven't checked out the challenge sites, please go take a look to see fabulous inspiration and creativity.

Supplies Used: 

Stamp Set: Surely Goodness (Verve), Let it Be (Verve), 

Card stock and Paper: Watercolor Paper (Crafter's Companion), Black Licorice (MFT), Newspaper DSP (SU)

Inks: Black Licorice Hybird (MFT), Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers

Accessories: Blueprint 13 (MFT), Goodness Flower Dies (Verve), White Embossing Powder (Ranger), Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Foam Mount Tape

Viva La Sketch - Congratulations

I'm late on posting this for VLVJul2013Week and for whatever reason, I didn't start in order for the sketches in July, so this post is July's Week 1 of Viva La Sketch Challenge, designed by Amber Hight over at Splitcoaststampers . Will get on track for August upcoming sketches.

Here is my card:

Made this card as a Congratulations for my daughter and the grand opening of one of the new PINK stores from Victoria Secret out in Northridge, CA tomorrow August 3rd. Her and her team have worked really hard and long hours, so wanted to make something with pink and bright colors to get a smile.

Love this DSP paper on top, but not sure what the name is, but for the base and mats, I used Island Indigo (SU) and the Island Indigo DSP from the Regal Pack (SU). Playing with more stamps that I bought from Verve, the cute butterfly is from the set: So Fluttery and I used A Cut Above Die Flutterby to cut it out along with Melon Mambo ink. For the sentiment, I used the set Let it Be which has some fabulous sentiments and flowers which I plan on using for more upcoming cards.

My Spellbinders Lacey Circle dies were used for the center circle and added foam mount under to pop it up. Also added basic rhinestones in the center of the butterfly. So excited yesterday when I saw the hugh sale over at Verve which is celebrating 6 years that I went crazy buying more stamps and dies on my wish list and forgot to finish my other cards for the month of July.  Enjoy and give it a try!

Supplies Used:

Stamp Set: So Fluttery (Verve), Let it Be (Verve)

Paper: Regal DSP Pack (SU),
Cardstock: White, Island Indigo (SU),
Inks: Distress Black Ink (Tim Holts), Melon Mambo (SU)
Accessories:  Lacy Circles (Spellbinders), Circle dies (Spellbinders), Flutterby Die (Verve), Basic Rhinestones, Foam Mount