Houses Built of Cards: Watercolors

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Bright Day Tulips - Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge

Good morning! Stopping by with a card this morning for this month's Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge - the fun monthly challenge at Reverse Confetti!

This month's theme is Easter and/or Spring:

My card is pretty clean and simple - and uses just one single image from the adorable Spring Pals stamp set repeatedly to form a simple border for watercoloring. The sentiment is from the new Word Up stamp set - pretty much a must have stamp set in my book!

Once I watercolored the image, I trimmed it into a thinner strip and mounted over a panel of Premier Polar White cardstock that I had used the Diagonal Stitches Cover Panel on - perfect for fun texture!

Finishing touch is a bit of jute twine tied in a nice loose bow - one of my favorite embellishments!

Here are the Reverse Confetti products I used on this card - click on the picture if you want to learn more about any of these items!

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Friday, November 30, 2018

Watercolor Tree Silhouettes - Simon Says Stamp DieCember

Hello! Happy DieCember with Simon Says Stamp! This month is all about celebrating die cutting - and there is, of course, a fabulous NEW DieCember RELEASE for the occasion as well! You can check that out HERE!

I'm kicking off the month by sharing this set of watercolor cards featuring the beautiful new Tree Frame Wafer Die! Make sure and check back on Sunday for the first day of a 2 day blog hop to celebrate the month - I am SUPER excited to share my cards for that! LOVE how they came out!

For these cards, I created several simple ombre watercolor backgrounds, just using random colors that looked fun as I did each one. No rhyme or reason, just playing with watercolor - so relaxing and fun!

Once those dried, I added some white paint splatters to each panel.

I die cut the Tree Frame Wafer Die 4 times from white cardstock. For two of these cards, I trimmed the panel down with my paper trimmer, and for the other two I used Stitched Squares - the second to the largest size was PERFECT to trim around the edges of this!

I also used that same square die to trim down my watercolor panels, then layered those together, then mounted with foam on white cardbases. I stamped a sentiment on each one using Let Us Rejoice - and they are simple and ready!

Now I did notice something kind of funny when I finished...noticed how the color schemes almost seem to fit and reflect a certain season on each one? Totally unplanned - but I thought it was kind of neat how it worked out!

Monday, September 17, 2018

Pinkfresh Studio Liquid Watercolor Video Hop

Good morning! Stopping by today to share a few projects I made for a special YouTube Video Hop today featuring the Pinkfresh Studio Liquid Watercolors - I am SOOO in love with these beautiful paints! There are some great giveaways up for grabs - so make sure and head over to my YouTube channel HERE to check out the details!

Here is my video - remember you must leave a comment on the YouTube channel to be eligible for the giveaways - click HERE to go watch it there!

I have lots more info on my video - but I combined a few different colors of the watercolors with a wet-on-wet technique over Tim Holtz Woodgrain Distress Cardstock. I loved the additional texture this gave the backgrounds!

Next, I layered on some floral frames using Floral Squares Die Set (currently out of stock at Pinkfresh Studio I noticed, but in stock at Simon Says Stamp).

I also added a sentiment to each one using Bird with Flowers. I love the fun and quirkly sentiments that Pinkfresh has in their stamp sets - so unique and fun to use! Here is a closer look at each card:

Another thing I love about the awesome Pinkfresh Liquid Watercolors - the Licorice (black) one makes the BEST tiny splatters on cards! I have been using it for that a ton lately!

I hope you will hop over and check out all the videos along the hop - and enter to win some of the fabulous prizes! Full details and links will be available on the Pinkfresh Studio Blog as well!

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Ombre Tinted Embossing Paste - Pinkfresh Studio Video

Good morning! Today I'm sharing a couple cards and my first ever video created for Pinkfresh Studios! You can find the video in HD over on the Pinkfresh YouTube Channel HERE, or watch it below in this post. I had tons of fun combining lots of dies, stamps, and liquid watercolors from Pinkfresh Studio for my cards today!

BONUS: head over to the Pinkfresh Blog where I have two MORE cards posted using the "leftovers" from these cards!

The video gives lots of info on how I created these - and it's a fun new way to use your liquid watercolors - as a tint to color white embossing paste! Combined with a die used as a stencil, it's a super fun technique!

Here is the video with all the details:

Here is a closer look at the texture and color of the design on each card:

For this card I used the Geo Leaf Die and Key Lime Liquid Watercolor for the background:

For this one I used Geo Floral Die and Aquamarine Liquid Watercolor for the Background.

It was also fun coloring the beautiful florals from Bloom Stamp set and coordinating Bloom Dies for these cards.

The perfect sentiments came from a combo of Bloom Stamp set and Let's Flamingle Stamp Set.

So which color combo is your favorite? Have you ever used liquid watercolors to tint your embossing paste?

I definitely want to try it again with even more colors! I can't get enough of these lovely watercolors - so beautiful and versatile!

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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Star of Peace

Good morning! I'm back again this morning with another card using some of the new Simon Says Stamp Making Spirits Bright release! I used another one of the many galaxy backgrounds I made some time back and had been sitting on my desk just waiting for a home. As soon as I saw this die, I knew it would be the perfect use!

So hard to get great photos of this card - but it is so full of texture in real life! I die cut the larger star from the new Holy Stars Dies from the center of background, and then die cut it again from white fun foam to tuck behind it. I mounted the panel on a white cardbase, adding the foam layer behind the star to pop that section up.

I then added TWO nice thick layers of Tonic Crystal Glaze, allowing it to dry between layers. This made it SOOO fun and even more 3-dimension!

I heat embossed a sentiment from Stained Glass Greetings on a strip of vellum using Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing powder, then added one of the smaller sentiments from the set heat embossed in white on a thin strip of black cardstock. This allowed me to attach the thin black strip over the vellum with sturdy adhesive, then use that spot to hide the adhesive I used to attach it to the card base, tucking the top of the vellum under the bottom tip of the star.

Monday, July 17, 2017

Penny Black Guest Design Day 1

Good morning! Super excited this week to be guest designing for Penny Black with a week of Christmas cards! Today I have these two cards over there - pop on over and visit the Penny Black Blog HERE to see details!

Thanks for stopping by - have a wonderful day!!!

Friday, May 26, 2017

Unity and MISTI Blog Hop

Good morning! Super excited to be part of a HUGE and FABULOUS Blog Hop with the Unity Stamp Company and MISTI Design Teams! TONS of inspiration - this is a super picture heavy post just so you are fairly warned. There is also a giveaway for those who leave comments along the hop.

Everyone who leaves comments on all the blogs in the hop will go into a drawing for 3 prize packs from Unity and winner's choice of an Original or Mini MISTI. Please leave comments by May 30th at noon Central to be eligible. Winners will be posted on both the Unity Blog and My Sweet Petunia Blogs on May 31st.

There are so many wonderful ways to use your MISTI with your Unity Stamps - I've highlighted a couple with some Quick Tip videos to share today - I have a couple past videos you can see HERE and HERE if you are looking for more inspiration.

Here is the video showing how using both my Original and Mini Misti helped me quickly put this set together - as well as be able to layer the embossing for a seamless card front:

This is the card I did in the video - after the video, and once I finished the other color combos, I added some splashes of water and of gold watercolor and die cut with a simple rectangle die.

Here is a closer look at each of the color combos I did - so much fun playing with distress inks and color combos! Makes me so happy!

I love how all together they look like a pile of different colors of sherbet...yummy!

And for the next technique, I also used the brand new Mirror Stamping Tool - so many fun techniques I'm looking forward to trying with this! I paired it up with the Baby Boy Plaid and some stamp kissing to create these backgrounds:

Here is a closer look:

I love that I was able to use both backgrounds. No waste, and two cards for the same effort - perfection!

This technique worked very well with distress oxide inks. I would imagine pigment inks would also work well - not sure about dye inks as I haven't attempted that yet!