Peace and Joy

Morning.

When I see all the gorgeous poinsettias decorating stores and homes I think of them as Christmas glories.  They always feel like the perfect finishing touch for the holiday decor.

I just love this stamps from STAMPlorations and I love using the loose watercoloring technique so I put the two together and this is what I came up with.  

I began by stamping the poinsettia on a piece of scrap paper so I could cut out a mask to use so I could get the look of a cluster of flowers.  I inked the stamp with black Memento ink again and stamped it onto my cardstock.
I got out my Brushos next and sprinkled some onto my pallet, sprayed with water and used that to do a loose watercolour on my flowers.  When it was all dry, I fussy cut the piece out so I could glue just the corner and pop the edges up to add more dimension.
Lastly, I stamped the sentiment from PTI, scored a border to pull it all together and added the small pearls to the flower centers.


Adding my card to these challenges:

Addicted to CAS- JOY

Little Red Wagon- TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS COLOURS

Addicted to Stamps- HOLIDAY

Just Add Ink- JUST ADD 'C'
(Christmas, colour)

Allsorts- CLEAN and SIMPLE


Thanks so very much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies:  stamps- STAMPlorations, PTI/ ScorPal/ sm. pearls/ Brushos/ paint brush/ Memento ink

Celebration

Phew....made it to Friday and luckily, had time to play along with the F4A challenge at Splitcoast this am.  The challenge was to create a card on a card base other then white or ivory.  I grabbed a piece of blue cs then stamped the flourish from Technique Tuesday, first in a darker blue then I white embossed the main image flourish and the sentiment.  

Thanks for stopping in today.

Supplies:  stamps; Technique Tuesday, Papertrey Ink/ wh eb powder/ twine