Just a Note

I created this card for a few challenges: The SCS color challenge was to use Wisteria, Coral and Saffron.  I used the sketch from Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge for the layout and I was inspired by the Runway Inspired Challenge to use these Penny Black flowers (and the colors in the dress are close to the SCS challenge colors!  ETA: I meant to submit this earlier to the Penny Black and More Challenge for August: Summer Flowers.

I watercolored the flowers with Distress Inks and a paint brush.  The patterned paper is from paperTrey and I watercolored a piece of Tim Holtz card stock with the distress ink for the vertical strip so it would match the flowers.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti.  I colored all of the flowers with a clear Wink of Stella glitter pen.

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Happy Birthday

This is for the Online Card Class - Mask-erade, Day 3: Liquid Masking.  I really need to practice with this technique a lot more.  I first used a liquid mask with the fine tip and spread it with a paint brush and waited for it to dry.  I then used the Zig Clean Color Brushes to watercolor the background.  It was all good until I tried to remove the mask.  I carefully rubbed the mask but part of it tore the watercolor paper with it! That got tossed. On this card I used Rubber Cement for the masking.  It was harder to put on but it sure came off more easily.  I see some of my watercolors seeped through the mask or I didn't have a good covering of the rubber cement.
The flowers are from Stamplorations and the sentiment from Reverse Confetti was heat embossed with Hero Arts white detail embossing powder.

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ATCAS #58 - Distress

Wow we had great entries for our last ATCAS challenge - thanks so much for playing! This challenge is brought to you by our fabulous team leader and owner of the ATCAS challenge, Kylie!  Kylie has chosen the code word: DISTRESS

Our wonderful sponsor for this challenge is Uniko Studio:

Please go to the ATCAS Challenge Blog for information on the prize details and to see all of the inspiration from the design team and our guest designer Ellen.

I used Distress inks and an ink blending tool and blended the inks onto white card stock.  I sprayed a flower petal die cut with water and put it onto the inked panel which removes some of the ink and leaves a "ghost" image. I then cut out a white panel with Simon Says Stamp (SSS) stitched rectangle die and then a circle with a SSS stitched circle die.  After adhering the inked panel onto the card front I adhered the white panel with foam tape over the inked panel.  I then placed the Memory Box die cut flowers over the aperture.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti.

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Bokeh Thanks

I learned a new to me technique, Bokeh, from a video that Dawn from WPlus9 created.  It really is so easy to do.  Here is the video.  I used blue and green watercolors and created my own stencil with Spellbinders nested circles.  To make the Bokeh effect I used Colorbox Snow White pigment ink and a dauber to fill in the various size circles.  The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti and I embellished with MME enamel dots.
I am submitting this to the Friday Mashup:

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