Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Creative Sketches Week 4 Holidays


This week at Creative-Sketches.com we are creating a card for  a Holiday. Since Spring is coming our way, and I made about 5 valentines day cards this week, I was in the mood for something else and went with a Mother's Day Card.

I really love the stamp set Just Believe, but so far I have not tried using it on moist watercolor paper. I colored in the flowers and inked up the grass then pressed firmly on my damp but not wet paper.  I also tore the edges for the deckle edge.  I also just got some wonderful new ribbon, Blushing Bridge Stitched Poly Ribbon.  It is heavy weight stuff, but makes a great bow!  My final step was to turn this into a Mother's day card.  The modern label punch would have worked, but instead I used a smaller approach with the Word Window punch, then embellished it with another stamped flower. This time I did not use moist watercolor paper, but colored it and cut it out. I added a Pearl in the center to give it a little more polish.  Now to store it somewhere safe until it is time to send it to my Mom!  Pop over to Creative-Sketches.com and post your holiday card.

So when I started the card, I just chose the colors myself, or so I thought.  After I was popping around on a few other sites, I remembered seeing the Inkspirations Challenge Color Challenge this week.  So my first version was all but perfect except I forgot the Early Espresso on the card.  So I stamped it again, and here we are!...I just found another fun challenge site, and had to submit this there are well.  They wanted a card with a bow :)  Thank you Pals Paper Arts!  I love bows!  I also submitted it to CraftyCardmakers Challenge site with their Floral Challenge.

9 comments:

  1. Just gorgeous Heather. I love the torn edges, and the stamp set used...it looks great on the moist watercolour paper. Thanks for playing along with the Inkspirations challenge this week.

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  2. This is a beatiful card. I often mist my stamps to create at waterclour effect but will try damping the paper. Thanks for the tip. And thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers this week. xx

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  3. Great mother's day card. Thank you for playing along with Pals Paper Arts.

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  4. Beautiful card - love how you used the watercolor paper. I will have to give that a try soon!

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  5. Your card is beautiful!!! Love the colors as well. Hugs,

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  6. Lovely creation Heather!
    Thank you for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers this week!
    Hugs
    Eiglas
    x

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  7. this is a gorjuss card hun, you need to link crafty cardmakers to your entry

    thank you for getting crafty with us at Crafty Cardmakers xx

    hugs
    Judie xx

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  8. Gorgeous card Heather. The subtle stamping you have created with this technique is lovely & the little popped up flower is so sweet. :)

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  9. This is so pretty! I love the Just Believe set! Now following your blog from SC #342

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