Another Floral Invite card

Here's the second card I made using Art Impressions new Floral Invites - I had fun doing a little ink blending for the background:

The flowers are coloured with Copic markers, then fussy cut and adhered with foam dots over the geometric outline & sentiment.

Floral Invites

Art Impressions has really knocked it out of the park this season with their amazing floral stamp sets.  5267 Floral Invites is one set that I can't get enough of... so I'm going to share a bunch of cards over the next few days.  Here's my first:

I started by choosing my colour palette, and colouring the image with Copic Markers.  I knew that I wanted an ink blended background, so I fussy cut the image out to show it off.  On my white cardstock base, I started by blending Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink, and then went overtop with Shaded Lilac to create that blue/green colour - I know, it's a little bit of an odd combination, but I was really pleased with the results.  I scribbled my Tombow Dual Brush marker in #565 Deep Blue onto a palette, and picked it up with a wet paintbrush - then created spatters over the whole base, along with a few sprinkles of straight water to add a little interest.  I die cut one of the sentiments included in the set and mounted it and the wreath with 3D foam tape onto the base.

Bouquet for Watercolour Weekend

Time for another Watercolour Weekend post.  I love the 5194 - WC Shoe Set for it's versatility!  Each of the shoes in the set can create a totally different kind of card, and today I've chosen the work boot:

I began by colouring the boot with my Tombow Dual Brush Marker #565 Deep Blue, and stamping it off on scrap paper.  Then I reinked it with #969 Chocolate, and stamped it onto my Canson XL Watercolor Paper.  I used my damp #4 paintbrush to soften the lines and pull out the colour, concentrating it where the shadows would be: the lower edge of the boot, under the creases, and in and under the laces.

I always build my bouquets from the bottom up, so using the two trailing sprigs from 5007 - WC Foliage Set 3, I coloured them with #249 Hunter Green, and stamped them trailing over each side of the boot.  Next I used three different blooms from Flower Set - 4052, stamping the daisy bunch in #837 Wine Red, always 3 times in a circular pattern to create a cluster (this is a filler flower, and appears lower in the bouquet, so I start with them).  Using the Lupine-like bloom, coloured in #993 Chrome Orange, I stamped it twice.  Finally, with the tall bloom, I stamped it in #565, filling in areas that needed some shape, being sure to vary the height and angle of them.  After touching everything with a damp brush, I could see which spots needed to be filled in with greenery.  I used the small green from 5009 - WC Mini Flower Set coloured in #177 Dark Jade, stamping it repeatedly in and around the blooms, filling out the shape of the bouquet.

With my image complete, I picked up #565 from my palette, and added a few shadows, in and under the flowers, and on the boot as well.  I also painted the suggestion of shadows along the ground, and after watering the blue even more, I painted a background around the bouquet.  I stamped the sentiment from 5136 - WC Sentiment Set 2 using Versafine Onyx Black ink, then used my sewing machine to stitch the rectangle to some indigo cardstock.  I decided to mount it to my base on an angle, and added a few deep pink enamel dots. 

Teachers Rule

Using up a few images that I had already stamped, and some older Schoolhouse papers from October Afternoon.  Here are a couple of cards for my sister, using Teachers Rule Set from Art Impressions:

 I love this sentiment!  Most teachers that I know do, too!

 Nothing beats October Afternoon!  One of my favourite companies.  Everything is coloured with Copic Markers.

And I have a spiffy new Ai signature to show off today!

Even More Greenery Invites!

Can you tell that I stamped a bunch of images from this stamp set?  Here's my third card using the new Greenery Invites set from Art Impressions:

Quick and simple - with just a limited colour palette, it coloured up quite quickly.  I plan to make up a bunch of these to have on hand, without sentiments - then I can just stamp "thank you", "thinking of you" or "happy birthday" when I want to use them.

More Greenery Invites

I have another card to share using the Greenery Invites set from Art Impressions.  There are two gorgeous wreath images in the set, so I made up several cards, all in the same basic design:

I coloured the image up first, and then went in search of paper to mount it on - and found this ancient patterned paper from my CTMH days that fit the fill.  Love it when I can use up something from my stash.  And another card is ready to send to my sister :o)  This one also works for the current challenge from the Papercrafter's Workshop! (You can find this stamp set on their site, here!)

Greenery Invites

This is my favourite new set from Art Impressions!  I used Greenery Invites to put together a card for the current challenge by the Papercrafter's Workshop:

Sigh.  It's always much prettier in person - this is a beautiful blue/green shade, and a slightly creamy cardstock, but my photo is looking a little washed out.  Oh well, use your imagination!  I've stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, and used Copic markers to colour the image.  I am playing along with the current challenge on the Papercrafter's Workshop facebook page, which is to use squares on a project.