I love today's Free for All challenge "Happy Birthday to Me" - to make a birthday card that I would like. I've got everything I like here - some stencilling, some glitter, flowers, a nice quote, and not too fussy.
And today's Mixability challenge appeals to those of us who like more CAS cards - it is to have lots of white space but still have mixed media. My media are ink, watercolour paints, wink of stella, embossing paste, and glitter.
But the challenge that started the card was yesterday's Ways to Use It challenge - make a card associated with your favourite season. Mine is spring - just love the garden coming back to life and all the wonderful spring flowers cheering things up after the winter. Bunches of tulips and daffodils in the grocery store are one of my favourite signs of spring.
The image is watercoloured with Wink of Stella over the flowers. The flourishes are done with a homemade stencil kindly made for me by Loll Thompson. I sprinkled gold glitter on the wet embossing paste. And I used a technique I've seen Sallie (aka hobbydujour) use a lot lately - instead of using gold cs to border an image, just draw gold lines around the edge.
I'm also taking it over to Happy Little Stamper's CAS challenge "Colouring" as I coloured my image with watercolour paints and coloured the embossing paste with glitter : http://happylittlestampers.blogspot....challenge
Date: Friday, September 4, 2015 GMT Views: 1193
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Sat, Sep 05, 2015 @ 6:48 AM
This is beautiful! I really love the glitter flourishes - that really makes this special!!
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Sat, Sep 05, 2015 @ 8:00 AM
Susan, this is gorgeous. I love the image of the flowers wrapped in newspaper and all the sparkle is super. Wonderful flourish stencil from Loll.
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Sat, Sep 05, 2015 @ 8:14 AM
This is lovely Susan, I especially like the glitter on the embossing paste! Do you find that they stays on really well? I worry about glitter brushing off and leaving bits of glimmer everywhere. Faved, BTW!
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Sat, Sep 05, 2015 @ 8:59 AM
A lovely card, Susan. I like how the glittered flourish go on and off your main tulip panel. The image is beautifully colored...and the whole card seems to sparkle and shine.