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I made today's card for Winnie & Walter's Rerun # 10 In Bloom: Addie's Garden.

I used Ranger Watercolor cardstock & Versafine Onyx Black to mask & stamp a selection of blooms & leaves. They were coloured with Peerless watercolours and then I cut around the bottom edge of the blooms. Mounted with foam tape onto base card and used my MISTI to stamp the sentiment.

The colours in the second photo are more accurate of how the card looks. I inadvertently mucked up my camera settings while in the middle of taking photos (yeah, I know. How did I manage that? Right?) and for the life of me couldn't get it right again.


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While I am on a bit of a roll I thought I would enter this weeks CASology Challenge - Stencil

Now I don't do true CAS very well. I admire the masters of the style immensely. For me it's a struggle as I always want to keep adding that something extra so this was really hard. The frangipani stencil was something I found in my stash & I have no idea who it is by. I used Ranger Texture paste for the flowers & inked with Mustard Seed and Worn Lipstick once the paste was dried. The sentiment is a Winnie & Walter digital element cut on the Silhouette.

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I made today's card to enter into the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 360. This will be the first time I have entered this challenge but always love seeing their inspiration photos. Since looking at cupcakes is all can do these days I may as well enjoy the creative aspect.

I fell in love with the colours right away as these were the exact colours I had at my wedding long, long ago!

 With my limited photography skills this card was so hard to photograph. I tried something different for the background. I really love my embossing/texture pastes but the gold is very bright & brassy and I wanted something more subtle. So I used Ranger Texture Paste with a Tim Holtz stencil & then when the paste was dried I applied Kuretake Gansai Champagne Gold over the top. I wasn't sure if this would work but it was perfect. It is such a lovely soft gold with so much sparkle.

The Altenew Wild Hibiscus flowers were stamped & embossed with AC Zing Gold EP & then coloured with Altenew inks using a waterbrush.

I am also entering this into the following challenges -

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge 

Happy Little Stampers Mixed media Challenge - Shine 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Flowers

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Sending hugs

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Venturing back into using watercolours now that the weather has cooled a little & we don't need the fans at full speed. I don't know about everyone else but the weather here is a little bizarre at the moment. We are into the last 2 weeks of autumn & our nights have only just dropped below 20C and our days are still around 29C. It's like one long summer!
Anyway, I decided to use my Zigs on this card with a newly arrived WPlus9 stamp from a voucher I won.

I used WPlus9 Beautiful Bouquets Dahlia stamp with white embossing powder on Arches Cold Press watercolour paper. The SSS sentiment was gold embossed & I finished with some very fine gold splatters all over the card including flowers & leaves. I used Kuretake Gansai Light Gold for the splatters & although it is hard to see in the photo it looks like fine gold dust all over the front. So pretty!
I am entering this into the following challenges -

Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday - Flowers

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Flowers

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Bright & happy

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Needed something bright & happy so I dragged out the Dylusions sprays & stencils. You've got to love the vibrant colours in these ink sprays & how you can get some fun backgrounds in minutes.

I used 3 ink colours on mixed media paper with a Dylusions stencil. Added a Winnie & Walter die-cut in gold foil board with the matching sentiment gold embossed on black. Finished with some matte gold sequins & a few shiny star sequins.

I am entering this into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Stencil It

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