OCC watercolor for card makers 2

This is a second post to enable me to link up the second image for day 11. Please see my previous post for a description.

I'm also linking this card up for Seize the Birthday

OCC watercolor for card makers

Hi everyone, I'm back with several cards to show. I have finally found some time to craft again now that my husband is recovering from the heart operation he had to undergo about 4 weeks ago.

I have been enrolled in yet another Online Card Class, and I think it's the best one yet. As usual, there was so much inspiration and so little time, so I've decided to showcase the 4 cards I made so far in a single post.

Day 2: creating a soft wash using watercolour pencils. The fishes were heat-embossed with clear embossing powder onto vellum and then coloured with regular watercolour paint. I'm linking this card up for LCI (Anything goes), Papertake Weekly (Ohhh so cute), Sweet Stamps (170 Anything goes) and

Seize the Birthday (Anything goes/optional: tags).

Day 11 - Play day: monoprint using a stencil and distress inks, as shown by Tim Holtz. The sentiment was heat-embossed using liquid platinum embossing powder. I'm also linking this card up for Aud Sentiments (107 Bingo - die cuts, embossing, 2 word sentiment)

Day 11 - Play day: another monoprint, using Hero Arts daubers instead of distress ink. Love the soft colours. The sentiment was heat-embossed onto vellum using black embossing powder with multi-coloured glitter. I used a Versamark pen to trace the inside of the die so that I could heat-emboss it for some added contrast. I'm linking this card up for Cute Card Thursday (322 Text only)

Bonus day: dipping into distress inks after debossing, as shown by Laura Sterckx (except I used an embossing folder instead of scoring lines by hand). Afterwards, I stamped and heat-embossed the bird image with the same black/glitter embossing powder as in the previous card. The glitter does not really show in the picture, though, but I love how it looks as if the bird is in a cage. Because of all the glitter, I didn't feel the card needed any further embellishments. I'm linking this card up for the following challenges: Dream Valley Challenges (82 Things with wings) and Cards in Envy (Winged things - flat A2 cards)

CAS or failure?

A very special card from me today. I had originally printed this digital image and accompanying sentiment (Hamlet PigWit Think Spring) by From the Heart Stamps onto watercolour paper to do some watercolouring, but when I showed it to my husband he said it might be fun to leave the image completely uncoloured. Now that set me thinking...

I've seen others use uncoloured or largely uncoloured images a few times, and although I admired the crafters who did this, I didn't think I would have the guts to do it myself. Until now...

Since I wasn't going to do a lot of colouring, I printed the image again onto Neenah solar white cardstock and only coloured in the clover with 2 green Promarkers. I rounded the top right corner and popped the panel up using some foam tape. And now I'm debating with myself if the card is just fine as is or whether I should have added a little more colour...

My husband likes the card a lot and thinks it's just perfect. So what do you think of my card? Is it CAS or a failure? Would you add more colour?

Anyhow, I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

From The Heart Stamps - March stamp of the month challenge

Dynamic Duos - DD96 (I was going for green and pink, but ended up using green and white)

Cards in Envy - Anything A2 goes (no bulky cards)