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Get Well Cards and my first crafting giveaway!

24 Jul

Unfortunately I’ve had to make a few get well/feel better cards recently.  I enjoyed making them but wish that the recipients didn’t have a reason to need a get well card.  But hopefully these cards will bring them a little joy!

IMG_0764The first card uses stamps from the June and July Simon Says Stamp card kits.  I loved the versatility of the flower building set from June and the sentiments from the July kit.

I started off by stamping the largest solid flowers in Hero Arts Lemon Yellow and Passion Flower ink.  Then I stamped the outlines with slightly darker shades of Hero Arts Butter Bar and Stampin’ Up Elegant Eggplant.  Next I added the leaves using Hero Arts Green Hills and Field Greens ink.  Then I added the larger green sprigs and small dot stamps in Field Greens and Elegant Eggplant.  I was planning on adding the small sprigs and then realized that I must have accidentally torn that stamp the last time I used it so I just stamped half of the larger sprig.  Finally I stamped the little stars in Butter Bar and added a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins.  After looking at it I felt like there was something missing so I added a little sparkle to the larger flowers with the clear Wink of Stella brush pen.

IMG_0761The second card was quite different from the first..I went back to distress inks for the watercolor effect.  I started off by stamping and embossing the background stamp on a piece of watercolor paper with white embossing powder.  Then I rubbed Wild Honey, Ripe Persimmon, and Mustard Seed distress ink onto an acrylic block in three separate sections.  Then I wet the paper thoroughly and then used a wet brush to freely paint the three colors onto the watercolor paper in a diagonal design.  I let the colors pool as they wanted because I was looking for the variegated shades of each color.  I was impatient so I did heat-set the ink but tried to not push the color around too much.

Then I took a piece of coral cardstock, stamped the sentiment from Clearly Besotted Sweet Little Sentiments and cut it into a faux banner.  I adhered it with foam mounting tape to give it a little dimension and added the pale orange jewels for a little sparkle.

So those are two cards that could be easily changed for different occasions and with different colors could fit different holidays or seasons.  Hope you liked them!

GIVEAWAY – After placing my last Simon Says Stamp order I realized that I accidentally ordered two SSS Dog and Cat Pawsome craft dies.

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Recently I’ve been getting a little more traffic to my blog (mostly from Splitcoaststampers and Facebook) so I thought I’d try to do a giveaway of my extra craft die!  For a chance to win please leave a comment before 11:59PM on Monday, July 28th and I’ll pick a random comment on Tuesday!  Good luck!

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Categories:
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clearly besotted, pretty pink posh, simon says stamp, watercolors

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  1. Kym says

    July 30, 2014 at 12:59 pm

    Two very pretty cards! I really like the first one, because I have both of those SSS kits. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  2. SmilynStef says

    August 8, 2014 at 10:39 pm

    Love both cards … especially the watercolor effect.

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