Muse flowers

Tracey McNeely has created a lovely card using watercolours for this week's Muse challenge.

I liked the stitched border and the watercoloured effect of her card and tried to recreate this in my card.  I'm not sure about whether I should add some splatters - I like the clean and simple look. 

Materials used:-
Stamps -  Jofy 14
Stitched border - Lil'inker designs
Distress inks
Adler Rowney Aquafine smooth watercolour card

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LIM sketch

It's great to be back after my holiday when I wasn't able to do any crafting - I really missed it!

This week's challenge on Less is More is a sketch.  I don't usually like sketch challenges but this was a very easy sketch to follow and I was pleased with final result which was clean and simple.

 

I'm also going to enter this card in the August Uniko Studio challenge which is summer.

Materials used:-
DI - dried marigold and ripe persimmon
Versafine black onyx ink
Stamping Up flower stamp from Flower Shop set
Sentiment - Uniko studio Fontiments birthday


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Muse flowers

This is my take on Michele's card on Muse #113 - I really liked the contrast of the clean stamping with the fluidity of the watercolour. I also drew a line under the flowers to ground them and mounted my sentiment to match the background of my card.

Materials used:-
Stamp - Little Claire Designs - Cherish, Hope, Dreams
Sentiment - Tim Holtz simple sayings
Distress inks - salty ocean and mermaid lagoon
Versa fine black onyx ink
Coredinations card

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See the flowers smiling

I was delighted to see that this week's challenge on Less is More is Watercolour. Although I am not an artist, I do like water colouring my stamped images with distress inks or watercolour paints. For this card I used distress inks to colour the stamped images and then softened the colours with some water to produce a more muted effect.

Materials used:-
Art Impressions and Chocolate Baroque stamps
Distress Markers -various colours
Sentiment - Hero Arts Anytime Messages

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LIM flowers

The theme at Less is More this week is flowers.  For my card I embossed the main flower and coloured it using distress inks. I added perfect pearls to the centre of the flower. I used the same stamp to create a background which I then outlined using a scoring board.  I was pleased with the final result which I felt was a clean and simple card.

Materials used:-
Distress inks - Victorian Velvet and Worn Lipstick
Sentiment stamp - from Stampin Up "So Happy for You" set
Perfect pearls
Stamp - Hero Arts Small Striped Flower
White embossing powder

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