Secret Garden Meets Washi Tape

Today I want to share with you a card that I made the other day, it uses the Secret Garden stamp set and the matching framelits.  It makes this card come together really fast too!  For the sentiment I used one from the hostess set, Simply Sketched, I really like that set too!  As you can see, I used the new washi tape that is in the new catalog, Gingham Garden Designer Washi Tape.  The colors I used for the stamp pieces, Island Indigo, Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Pear Pizzazz.  Card stock is Whisper White and Daffodil Delight.  I added some Rhinestones to the center of each flower.  This card should not require any extra postage either!

Thanks for dropping in to see my card!   Mary

Secret Garden Watercolor

Happy Hump Day!  I hope your week is going smoothly too.

Here is a card that I found over on Pinterest and just love how soft and pretty the colors all seem to go together on here.  I tried a new technique, for me, using watercolor paper, a mister, aqua brush and re-inkers.  First I heat embossed my watercolor paper with the images I wanted with white embossing powder, then cut them out with the coordinating framelits.  Then I used a mister filled with water and lightly misted the paper with water.  I put a drop of re-inker on a clear acrylic block, picked up some with my wet aqua painter and dab it onto the center of my image and let it flow out to the edges.  Very simple but you do have to allow for drying time, so I let mine dry over night.  I die cut out the leaves and embossed my Pool Party background with the Honeycomb embossing folder.  Use a flag framelit from the Hearts a Flutter Framelit collection and used Pink Pirouette paper and used Pink Pirouette ink to stamp a flower image on the flag too.  Once the flowers were dried, I popped them up on dimensionals and adhered the background to a piece of Whisper White card stock.

Thanks for stopping in and I would love to hear your comments too,  Mary.

Secret Garden

Well it's the middle of the week and I hope you are all having a great one too!  It's chilly here today and yesterday, wish the sun would pop back out to warm it up a bit.

Today I'm sharing a card made with the Secret Garden stamp set, I also used the larger flower framelit  to make a mask with too.  This was an easy card to make, just takes about 5 minutes to color in the pink flower using ink from the pad lid and a blender pen or you could just cut out a flower too and not have to worry about coloring it in, but I love to color! This card will not require any extra postage to mail either.

Products used:

Stamp Set: Secret Garden and Oh, Hello, both are from the Spring Catalog 2013
Framelit: Secret Garden, Spring Catalog 2013
Card stock: Pear Pizzazz and Whisper White
Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso, Marina Mist, Daffodil Delight and Regal Rose (used markers to fill in gaps)
Embossing Folder: Needlepoint Border

Thanks for stopping by, see you soon!     Mary