Virginia's View challenge and Make it Monday #154

Since I've been playing around with watercolors for a week, I decided to play in the first Virginia's View challenge and since the card is sort of one layer (it's flat), I'm linking this up to Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday #154.

I could not capture the glittery accents on this card in a normal shot, so I included a close up of one of the leaves.  Like Erin Lincoln did in the MIM video, I stamped the sentiment and then embossed over it with clear embossing powder.

I used my watercolors to ink up my stamp--I had to do this a few times to get vibrant color--then smudged it after it dried a bit before I added some glitter with my Wink of Stella glitter brush.  I used regular, white cardstock and this technique worked well.

 

Speaking of watercolors...I use a cheap, $5 set of watercolors I found at Michael's and an old brush I've had forever.  I do have a couple of inexpensive watercolor brushes that are smaller.  You don't need expensive supplies to watercolor is my point.  I do have watercolor paper and like to use the thickest I can find.

 

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Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday # 153

I love the water color look but it's so hard for me to do...I'm 100% sure I'm overthinking the process.    I gave it a go for this week's Make it Monday  to water color a background and heat emboss a sentiment. 

 

 Please forgive the less than stellar photo, my lighting is terrible this evening.

I wanted to add more detail to this card but the background turned out so pretty I didn't want to take away from it.  This is the 3rd panel I water colored...the first 2 are hideous. LOL

 

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Make it Monday #126 and Summer Card Camp 2

I used this week's color combo and modified sketch 3 from Summer Card Camp 2 with Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday challenge.  The 3D die cut sentiment technique was challenging for me, but I'm happy with my first effort.

So sorry for the grainy photo...still can't find my camera battery charger. Grrr.

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