From Me to You

Good Morning.

I hope the sun is shining in your part of the world.

Here is a card I made while playing along with the sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

A basic sketch with 3 circles as the focal points.  

This is what I came up with.

I began with a piece of heavy white cardstock.  

I think this technique is called Bleeding Tissue Paper but I'm not totally sure about that.

Basically the tissue colour transfers to your paper.  So, I die-cut some circles from tissue paper that I had laying around. I must tell you though, that not all tissue paper will transfer colour.  I had a bunch of colours but only the red and the blue would work.  I went with that so I didn't have to go out.

I laid the circles onto my card panel and using a paint brush, I painted over them with some water.

I set them aside to dry, then removed them.  I was left with 3 lovely coloured circles.

To help pull the design together, I added a few smaller circles, again cut from the blue tissue paper.

I filled in some of the open areas using the Simple Grid stencil and some Blueprint Sketch ink.  I placed the panel into my Misti, stamped the flowers and embossed them with some clear eb powder.  I pop dotted the sentiment that was white heat embossed on the black cardstock and splattered with black paint.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Hope you are keeping safe and hopefully busy creating.

Discount code for Simple Grid

Adding my card to these challenges:

Little Red Wagon- MIX EM UP

Simon Says Wed.- SPRING MOODBOARD

Addicted to Stamps and More- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Supplies

Stamps- Insightful Meadow (Unity); From Me to You (Your Next Stamp)

Inks- Versafine; Versamark, DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Simple Grid stencil (A Colorful Life Designs); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

white eb powder; heat tool; pop dots; tissue paper; black acrylic paint

Queen Anne's Lace

Good Morning.

Meet today's card.

I made this one using a very fun technique called Tissue Paper Watercolour.

Please check out the great video my friend 

Loll Thompson made here.

So I began by re-inkers directly onto my non-stick craft mat, sprayed with water then pressed the tissue paper into the wet ink.  

It is good to have some wrinkles and bumps in it, they add interest.  

I then set it aside to dry.  That's the hard part, the wait.  You could also help it along by drying it with a heat tool but I decided to be patient.

When it was dry, I glued it onto a piece of acetate and let it dry.

** I didn't have any regular acetate on hand but I do own a laminator, so I laminated one of those sheets together and used that.  It was nice and sturdy and great to use!! ** 

I die-cut the flowers from the TH Wildflowers and glued it over the acetate side.

Lastly, I die-cut the Wonky Stitched frame, mounted my piece behind the frame and pop-dotted it onto my plain white card front.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look!!

Adding my card to these challenges:
Crazy 4 Challenges- Bright and Cheerful
CAS on Friday- EXOTIC
Crafty Creations- ANYTHING GOES
Paper Minutes- SUMMER


Supplies
Stamps- none
Inks- Re-inkers- Peeled Paint, Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers (Ranger)
Paper- heavy white (local store); tissue paper
Accessories and Tools- Wonky Stitches (Avery Elle); Wildflowers (TH); laminator; 
laminating sheet; Tombow Mono Aqua glue