Thanks for your kindness

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My second post today as I sneak this card into Hero Arts Fabulous Flowers Challenge before the deadline

 I made this with an older Hero Arts wood mount stamp Flowers on a Stem. I've used this stamp a lot & also have the clear stamps as well but I really love the red rubber for use with markers or stains. This time I used Distress Stains in 3 colours to ink my flowers & spritzed my Ranger water colour card first although that ended up being pointless with the heat. We had another 36°C day & the ceiling fans were on high so by the time I inked up each of the flowers the paper had dried so I just gave up. Same reason I haven't been watercolouring lately either as it is too hard keeping the paper wet. Once I had finished randomly stamping a border I then added Diamond Stickles to some of the flower centres for a bit of sparkle. I cut & stacked 3 of the Hero Arts Thanks for the middle & finished with the stamped sentiment.

I am also entering this into Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday - Floral

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

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Congratulations

One more SSS Single Roses die card! This one is using the left overs from yesterdays card.

I went with a softer look this time & used Simon Says Stamp Stacked Hearts die to create a stencil out of cardstock. I thought the peachy-pink flowers would look nice over pearlescent white embossing paste but the lovely shimmer is a little hard to photograph as it has a tendency to look grey. Love this embossing paste but you have to be so careful not to smudge or make mistakes as the high pearlescent sheen is impossible to remove. Some creative placement of leaves & stamped words were called for!

I am entering this into the following challenges -

Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday - Floral

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

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For you

So I've been playing with SSS Single Roses die again. A little bit addictive with so many possibilities!

The roses were cut from gold foil card & also from an ink smooshed piece left over from an Altenew class I did. I used the inlay die-cut technique and added a another smooshed piece down the side along with some gold foil washi tape.

I am entering this into the following challenges - 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday - Floral

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Hello there

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I was so excited when an order from Simon Says Stamp arrived with this Single Roses die set in it. I usually have to wait about 3 weeks most of the time for anything from the US but occasionally I might be lucky & items will arrive in 2 weeks but not often.

I loved this die as soon as I saw it & could see lots of options with scrap pieces I have laying around. I die-cut from a reject watercolour piece that I wasn't happy with and layered over a blue inked background. Finished with a Hero Arts sentiment & foam mounted on to Audrey Blue card base.
I am entering this into the following challenges -

Muse Challenge # 153 -   where this weeks Muse Tracey McNeely made this lovely floral card.

I was inspired by the bright colours Tracy used & just happened to have a watercolour piece with all the colours in it.

The Card Concept # 49 - Floral Radiance

I'm going with Clean & Graphic style I think, not sure.

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Heartfelt Wishes

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Today's card is for the Hero Arts Fabulous Flowers Challenge

This is only my second challenge for the year. Not what I was intending but we have had such an awful start to this year in so many ways that I took the pressure off myself & have been just playing a little when I can (and when it's not stinking hot!). 

I went through all my Hero Arts stamps, which made me feel a little guilty at how under-loved some of them are, and came up with this card - 

I used Hero Arts Dotted Grid Background with Tumbled Glass Distress ink & then stamped Hero Arts Large Flower Background in black Memento & coloured one of the flowers with Copics before fussy cutting. Sentiment is from Hero Arts All Occasion Messages.

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Watercolour wash background

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My second post for today as I sneak in one more homework sample to the Online Card Class Watercolor Intermediate gallery before wrap-up day.
This card was made with the best of my background wash practice pieces. Still not entirely happy with the blending between the different colours but will enjoy more practice :).

It was interesting to note that some marks appeared on the background after heat embossing which weren't there before so I am guessing that maybe that particular paint or paper didn't like the heat.

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Pattern on pattern emboss resist

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This is a homework piece from day 2 of Watercolour Intermediate. As you can see I'm way behind still with my homework samples but with good reason. We have just had the most awful week of hot weather with temperatures ranging from 33 - 37 degrees celsius & so still and humid. We don't have air con but rely on ceiling fans & good air flow (open windows) which is normally enough. With the extreme heat & the fans on full speed I found that I wasn't able to keep my watercolour paper wet enough & had to give up all hope of continuing with class homework pieces. Yesterday was probably the first bit of relief we've had with temps down about 5 degrees.
Today's card was a class technique by the wonderful Laura Bassen.

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