Happy Birthday

Hello, it's Liz here. Today my card features two different stamp sets, I like to mix and match! The flowers are from the Hydrangeas set and the leaves are from the Peonies set. I stamped everything onto watercolour card using my Versafine ink pad. I then coloured with distress markers, some water and a paint brush. I then fussy cut and attached to my card base using foam pads. 

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Peonies

Hello, it's Liz here. Today my card features the 'Peony' set. I stamped onto watercolour card using my Distress Markers. I used Aged Mahogany for the flowers and Frayed Burlap for the leaves. I like that I can use my markers directly onto stamps if I don't have the colour I need in an ink pad. Then I coloured with the markers, some water and a paintbrush. I know a lot of folks don't like to fussy cut but I love it! So relaxing.

Thanks for stopping by today, happy crafting!

Happy Birthday 60

Hello. It's Liz here again. For today's card I've used the Vintage Car set. I simply stamped onto watercolour card, coloured and then fussy cut the image. The background pieces and numbers are all diecut. 

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Thanks for stopping by today, see you next week!

For You

Hello, it's Liz here. Today my card features one of my favourite Colourific sets - Moderne Flowers. I have used this set over and over, I love it!

I stamped the flowers onto watercolour card, coloured and fussy cut. The background pieces and leaves are all diecut.

 The stamp set is available here.

Wedding Day

Hello. 

It's Liz here sharing my first Colourific card as a design team member. My card features stamps from the 'Vintage Car' set. 

I stamped the car, flowers and leaves onto watercolour card using my Versafine ink pad. I then coloured with Inktense pencils blending with a paintbrush and a little water. I then fussy cut all the images and popped them onto the card blank using foam pads. 

Included in the set is a 'registration number' to change up the card to Happy Birthday! 

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Hydrangea ~ Design Team Member, Karen

Hello everyone!  It's Karen posting for you today, and I'm sharing a card that started out as a wreath... but ended up being a hydrangea ( ??? ).  Scroll down for the details...

 I started out by stamping multiples of all three sizes of the outlined flower images from A6 Moderne Flowers, and a bunch of the outlined leaves from the A6 Leaves set on a large piece of watercolour paper.  My intention was to paint them all in autumn shades, fussy cut them out, and put them together to make a wreath.  But there was something about seeing 25 or so of the flower images side by side that made me think "hydrangea".  So my plan did a complete about take, I found a blue that I painted them all with, and got busy cutting.

 I gradually watered down the shade of blue that I was using, making some of the blossoms lighter, and lighter still, as I knew I wanted some to be hidden behind that would be darker, or in 'shadow'.  I used a bright yellow mixed with a bit of green to make up my limey/green leaves, varying the colour a bit on each one.  At first glance it looks like an awful lot of cutting!  But once I got going, it probably only took about 45 minutes - easy to do while you watch a little TV.  I added a dot of silvery Perfect Pearls to the center of each flower, and let them dry.
I ran a couple of rows of irregular stitching around my white cardstock piece, and then started building my flower from the bottom up.  I used a bit of adhesive just on the center of each flower back, so that the petals all curve up a little, giving a lovely bit of added dimension shown below:

By far the scariest part of putting this card together was adding those little blue spatters to the background - after all the work of stamping/painting/cutting/assembling, I was panicked that I might drop a big blob of paint onto my work!  So it was definitely a less is more situation, and I stopped after getting just enough spatters to cover it.  I white embossed my sentiment onto black cardstock and adhered it with a few pop dots, and called it a day.  Happy stamping!