Shimmery Wildflower Smile

Have you tried the Shimmering Bliss sprays from Technique Junkies yet? They are gorgeous and just look at that shimmer on the card. I stamped the new Wildflower Silhouettes (my favorite stamp!) and a sentiment from the Five Fab Phrases set onto some white cardstock and then I sprayed the Shimmering Bliss sprays over that. The colors I used are Festive Flamingo, Just Squeezed, and Ocean Depth. Use code TJ10Holly to save 10% when you shop at Technique Junkies.

Wildflower Silhouettes - https://techniquejunkies.com/wildflower-silhouettes/

Five Fab Phrases - https://techniquejunkies.com/five-fab-phrases-set-of-10/

Shimmering Bliss sprays - https://techniquejunkies.com/shimmering-bliss/

 

Wavy Framed Impressionism Print

 

I used the awesome new Marvelous Masks Wavy Rectangle stencil from A Colorful Life Designs to frame this Impressionistic floral scene that I created on my gel press plate. Remember when I did this technique for the Beyond the Blue challenge #8? I smooshed some distress oxide inks onto my gel plate and stamped the flower over the inks, spritzed with alcohol, and then I placed the Marvelous Masks Wavy Rectangle over this on the gel plate before I pulled the print. Such a fast and easy way to frame your gel press prints!

Use code HollyFan10 to save 10% when you shop for stencils at A Colorful Life Designs. You can find this Marvelous Masks Wavy Rectangle set here: https://acolorfullifedesigns.com/marvelous-masks-wavy-rectangle/

Healing Power

Sometimes you just need a quiet moment to yourself, and this card is a reminder to enjoy those moments in the garden this spring.  This beautiful sentiment is from the new In The Garden set from Technique Junkies.  I stamped the beautiful Spring Flowers with a pink ink onto some white cardstock and then stamped the sentiment with black ink right onto the pink flowers.

Please feel free to use this code, TJ10Holly, to save 10% when you shop at Technique Junkies.  There are hundreds of stamps to choose from and tons of inspiration.  You can also pick up some distress oxide ink pads, some foils, and some Shimmering Bliss sprays (my favorite!).

 

Beyond the Blue #13 Ombre Trio Silhouettes

 Good morning!  I'm back with a Beyond the Blue card today.  This week is #13 for the Beyond the Blue challenge, and we are doing easy watercolor techniques.  I chose to try the watercolor ombre technique.  I picked three colors from my Gansai Tambi palette and used lots of water to achieve this gradual fade on each color.  After they dried completely, I cut them down and added the die cut silhouette frames (Penny Black) to each one.  The sweet little sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.

Head on over to the Beyond the Blue blog to see what my fellow team mates created.  Watch the video for this week's challenge to see all the easy watercoloring techniques.  I hope you will be inspired to play along with us!

Basket Weave Birthday Sunflower

This new Basket Weave stencil from A Colorful Life Designs is such a great versatile stencil.  You can use it either horizontally or vertically, and you can make it as subtle or as bold and colorful as you want.  I chose to go with soft and subtle today by placing this Basket Weave stencil on some kraft cardstock and brushing some kraft ink all over it.  I colored the sunflower image with Copic markers and added the birthday sentiment across the top.

Use code HollyFan10 when you shop for stencils at A Colorful Life Designs.  There are hundreds of stencil designs to choose from, and you can save 10% when you use the code.

Basket Weave stencil - https://acolorfullifedesigns.com/basket-weave/

 

Dream Big Wildflowers

I love this new Wildflower Silhouettes stamp from Technique Junkies. I paired these wildflowers with the new Big sentiment for an inspirational card. For the background, I brushed distress inks (Speckled Egg and Rustic Wilderness) across the top and bottom and then I flicked some water over them for that fun textural grunge look. Use code TJ10Holly to save 10% when you shop at Technique Junkies.

Wildflower Silhouettes stamp - https://techniquejunkies.com/wildflower-silhouettes/

Big stamp - https://techniquejunkies.com/big/

 

 

Beyond the Blue #12 - Salty Fire Flower

Happy Friday!  I'm back today with this bold and bright watercolor card for this week's Beyond the Blue challenge.  The challenge this week (#12) is to pick one of a variety of watercolor techniques, and I chose the salted watercolor technique.

I misted my watercolor paper with water first, and then I randomly brushed on various watercolor paints (yellow, orange, dark pink).  While the ink was still wet, I covered the paper with salt.  Yeah, salt!  The video for this challenge actually shows the paper being covered with regular fine table salt, but I wanted to see what would happen if I used a chunky, coarse, kosher salt.  So I left the salt on there until the paper was completely dry, which took several hours.  Then I picked up the paper and rubbed as much of the salt off as I could.  There's still some tiny flecks of salt adhered to the paper but it kind of looks like glitter so I'm leaving it alone.  :-)  You can see the awesome granulation of my background below.  Isn't that cool??

 Head on over to the Beyond the Blue blog to see what my fellow teammates created and watch the video on watercolor techniques.  Use whichever technique inspires you and share your creations with us!