Build a Bunch: A Bright Hello

This is my second card using a collection of watercolored blooms from Build a Bunch.  This time, the softly colored blossoms are layered over a vivid floral panel which was muted with a vellum frame.  A script-y hello from W Plus Nine completes this  card......now I must be off to cook dinner.

Thanks for visiting,
Christine




Linking to:
Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash
Word Art Wednesday
SSS Wednesday Challenge--Bright and Cheerful
Four Crafty Chicks

Build a Bunch: Thinking of You

I am most grateful for a Reverse Confetti prize won during a blog hop and have had a wonderful time playing with this new set called Build a Bunch!  After heat embossing a whole sheet of watercolor paper with blooms and leaves, it was fun to color them with various inks using a water brush.   These were layered over PTI's Oval Shape Shifter die, and the Verve greeting is stamped on one of RC's tags from the Tall Tag Trio.

Many thanks to Jen and to Kelly for this awesome prize!

Christine

Linking to:

Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge
Word Art Wednesday

SaveSave

Grace Art Journal Page

Is this an art journal page?  I've never made one before, but I was enchanted by the one Esther shared at Crop Stop.  Her use of a bit of a tissue paper sewing pattern and the incorporation of the scripture was just so clever, and the whole page is so bright and eye-catching.

Anyway, when she challenged participants to a twist in the current challenge, I decided to give it a try.  Rather than an art journal, I chose to use my work as the first page inside a disk-bound journal I use for sermon notes.  I made a mistake when punching the holes, so I mounted the whole page on a sheet of metallic card stock which left a pretty gold border and covered the back of the watercolor paper.

Project steps:
1. Watched youtube videos by Tiffany Solario...fun and informative.
2.  Sponged Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink over watercolor paper.  Added water, Prima watercolors, and metallic gold paint splatters.
3. Dabbed gold paint through a MFT Magical Mandala Doily (=homemade stencil)
4.  Printed Amazing Grace from a website, cut with a deckle-edge Spellbinder rectangle and stamped "grace" from a Verve Plain Jane.  I actually masked off the rest of the text with an extra die-cut banner in my scrap bowl.
5. Stamped the scripture and butterflies from Verve's Butterfly Grace.
6. Smooshed Peacock Feathers ink directly on a chipboard cross I won forever ago from Word Art Wednesday.
7.  Added "Flower Splatter" stamping from YNS and a butterfly corner stamp from ODBD and put the whole thing together.
8.  Added gold cards tock after making a cutting error!!!

Actually, this was a blast, but I don't know if my fingernails will ever be clean again.

Thanks for looking and reading (or skipping) my ramblings,
Christine

Linking to:
Crop Stop
SSS Wednesday Challenge (Bright and Cheerful)
Word Art Wednesday

Newton Scoots By

Love the cheerful colors in the Newton's Nook inspiration photo, and it was such fun to color Newton Scoots By and to create a background using the Frames and Flags dies.

Linking to:
Inky Paws Challenge
SSS Wednesday Challenge (Bright and Cheerful)

Rosy Hello

I combined Reverse Confetti's Stock Your Stash challenge to make a hello or just because card with the gorgeous inspiration photo from The House that Stamps Built.

Card Recipe:
Reverse Confetti Rose Garden stamped in Canary Ink (CTMH)
Reverse Confetti Wreath
Reverse Confetti tag fromTall Tags Trio
Verve Elegant Leaves cut from vellum
Scalloped Background Newton's Nook Frames and Flags

Thanks for dropping by,
Christine

Linking to:
Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash--Hello
The House that Stamps Built Inspiration Palette
SSS Wednesday Challenge Bright and Cheerful
Word Art Wednesday A/G

Cast Your Cares on the Lord

I knew just which scripture I wanted to share on this card and found a Verve sketch to showcase the vertical sentiment from Scripture Medley Five.  I already miss the Verve sketches, but lucky for me, there are many that were around before I started stamping.  It will be fun to try out some of the older ones.

Thanks for your visit,
Christine

Linking to:
Word Art Wednesday
Crop Stop

You will find refuge

This dear scripture is from Papertrey Ink's Year of Psalms and works beautifully with What the Doodle Feathers.  Praying it will comfort a friend.


Thanks for taking a look,
Christine

Linking to:
SSS Wednesday Challenge Frame It
Word Art Wednesday