OLC - Kindness

Here's a card I created last weekend but I never got around to posting it on my blog until now.

I stamped the cactus and sentiments from the Winnie & Walter stamp set (Kindness with Evelin T Designs) onto light blue cardstock using my new Catherine Pooler inks. I then addded a little detail to the cactus using white and blue coloured pencils (Spectrum Noir) and also added a little shading to the Kindness sentiment using a white pencil.

Challenges:

Winnie & Walter July Colour Combo challenge, 

where Heather presented us with this lovely colour combination:

Less is More - OLC - #336/337 Coloured card base

AAA Cards - #94 One Layer, Coloured Cardbase

W&W Rerun No. 21 -  Kindness with Evelin T Designs

Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 3

Just popping in with one more card for the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, combining coffeee cups and trendy pineapples.

The coffee cup stamp is from a Christmas stamp set by Verve Stamps, while the pineapple themed suplies (stamps, die, embossing folder) all came as a free gift with a UK magazine. I did some basic colouring on the pineapples using Inktense pencils, adding a little shading to the fruits and adding just a hint of green to the crowns. I used vellum to emboss the pineapple texture strip.

I'm also linking up my card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

Colour Crazy - #26 Anything goes

Shopping Our Stash - #309 Lazy summer days

BTW, did you know that STAMPlorations are celebrating their 4th birhday with several fun giveaways. I know I would love to win items from my wish list.

Altenew Vintage Flowers

The current Masterclasses at StampNation have motivated me to get my gelatos out of hiding and give them a proper work-out.

After I had prepped my watercolour cardstock with gesso, I layered several colours of gelatos and worked them in using a moist finger and a paint brush until I had the look I was going for. I then took the middle layer of the largest flower (NBUS Vintage Flowers, Altenew) and stamped this repeatedly using white pigment ink. I also stamped layer 3 of one of the leaves stamp. Next, I stamped the 3rd layer of the flower using Grapevine ink (Altenew) and then used one of the small outlined flower images as a filler in a few spots. I adhered my panel to my white card base using liquid glue and foam-mounted my sentiment strip (Birthday messages, SSS, stamped in Grapevine ink). I did not set out to create a card with a vintage look and feel, but boy, do I love how this turned out.

I took my inspiration from the colour scheme and flower theme of the June inspiration photo at the Altenew blog.

I'm also linking up my card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes

Creative Artiste - #27 Anything mixed media goes

In the Pink - #122 Special occasion

Seize the Birthday - Anything birthday goes