Pinkfresh Hello

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The September Pinkfresh Challenge is Watercolor/Mixed Media.  Once again I used my PF Hello with a Bouquet die.  I ended up with 2 cards.

To begin I pulled out my Hero Arts Liquid Glimmer Inks to use as watercolors.  I did a wash of blue in the center of a watercolor panel & blended into green on the outer edges.  When it dried I die cut the bouquet.  Then I watercolored another panel going for darker blue & green to be the background.  However, I just wasn't happy with the lack of contrast, so I die cut the bouquet again from black cardstock.  The first card is the result.  I covered the letters with Nuvo Glaze & mounted them with foam tape.

The second card is made with my first die cut which I attached to black cardstock after brushing it with a shimmer pen.  I covered the letters with Nuvo Glaze & attached them in place without foam.  I still have a huge stash of gems, so added a few clear ones to finish it off.

Since I mostly send friendship cards, these are perfect to have in my stash.  I'm also entering Double D, SSS Wednesday & WAW.

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Happy Day--I have a new laptop!  So far no big problems, although I have a bit more set up to do.
I have been making cards, so here they are.
First is an entry for the Altenew Monthly Inspiration Challenge.  Finally opened the beautiful Flower Vine set.  I gold embossed an image & colored it with Zigs--mixing a purple & red to get close to the color in the photo.

I was making a one layer card, but didn't like the tiny sentiment I stamped.  Decided to save my colored image by using the coordinating die to cut it out, even though I had stamped off the edge.

I die cut a second one from the ruined card, glued the 2 together & trimmed them to fit the corner just like I had originally stamped.  Actually, I like it better with a bit of dimension.  The flower centers have Champagne Stickles for some sparkle.  I gold embossed the sentiment from Painted Greetings & added splatters with Distress Stain tarnished brass.  This is for my cousin's 50th wedding anniversary.  I'm also entering The Snippets Playground & SSS Monday.

Next is my Eclipse card for the ModSquad challenge.  I finally opened my Hero Arts liquid Metallic inks.

I added a drop of each ink, one at a time, on a wc panel, spritzed with very little water & used an airbrush tool to move the ink.  The shimmery inks are really beautiful in person.

W&W In a Word: Hello was die cut from the panel & from black fun foam to make an eclipse card.  The little word is made with Tim Holtz alpha stickers.  I think this would work for a guy or a gal.  I'm also entering Inkspirational & SSS Wednesday.

I haven't had much time on the computer without a laptop, but I did watch Jennifer McGuire's video using the Wreath Builder template with stencils.  It looked like something I could actually do, so pulled out an old MFT stencil & Distress Inks abandoned coral, twisted citron & pumice stone.

Gotta say, what a fun technique!  I used a darker gray cardstock for the mat & MFT die cut letters which I stacked 4 high & covered with Nuvo Glaze & Pico Embellisher Shimmer.

Can't wait to try other stencils & colors.  I'm entering MFT Color Challenge & WAW.


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