Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

Gosh this year is really going fast!! Time for the June challenge at Happy Little Stampers. As always it is Anything Goes but the optional twist is Smile

 I decided to be a bit different this month and move away from my usual white card, and use black instead.I have used a NBUS stamp set  which I embossed using gold embossing powder and then  I dug out my H2Os which I havent used in ages. I'd forgotten how lovely they are to use, and how good they are on black card. IRL this is really shimmery.

I mounted the panel on some turquoise glitter card, then on to a black card base. Then I made another on acrylic paper, mounted on to a turquoise card base. I used exactly the same colour paints, just to see how different they look.

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Oriental Family

I made this card for the Simon Says Stamp challenge this week. They are celebrating the Simon Says Stamp Blog's 1st birthday. they are also having a blog hop on Sunday - why not pop over and see what's going on?

I used the Simon Says Stamp My Family set of stamps - stamped in black then heat embossed and coloured with twinkling H2Os. The flowers on the left are stamped and embossed in blue and red pearl lustre embossing powders, ribbon is from my stash and the sentiment is from Woodware. Originally I scanned this but the flowers didn't show up.

I do wish Blogger would sort out the ongoing problem with the followers gadget as I have terrible problems getting on the Simon Says blogs. Still getting the message that operation is aborted and when I press the back button the page sometimes reloads but then stops me doing anything else until I close Internet Explorer down. So at the moment I'm having to look at some blogs through Firefox!

Happy New Year (Belated!!)

Happy New Year to everyone. I can't believe that we are already half way through January! I've been a bit lax at posting since Christmas but it has been due to various nasty bugs that have been doing the rounds. Here are some recent cards.





These two were made using up some left over bits on the craft table.




This one is an image from Card Creations Art Deco cd decoupaged onto black glitter paper on a peach pearlescent card.





I made this one for the January challenge on Crafty Cow forum. The theme was to use mainly green and a stamped image. I made the background using Twinkling H2Os on some glossy card then stamped and embossed some flowers.




Another Crafty Cow challenge card - this time following a sketch.