CYCI#124 Water Color Sketch Challenge - Birthday Blooms

Hello and welcome to my blog.

I have been watercolouring and noticed that

Can You Case It - CYCI#124 had a watercolur challenge that my card 

would go nicely with

 

I started witha piece of Shimmery white cardstock that I added a wash of three of the new In Colors -  Peekaboo Peach from the bottom then Flirty Flamingo in the middle and then at the top Sweet Suagarplum - let that dry.

I then sponged around the edge of the shimmery white piece.

I added a piece of Flirty Flamingo cardstock to it and then I attached it to Whisper White cardstock as the main card.

I used the beautiful Birthday Blooms which I stamped onto the Shimmery White cardstock with Basic Black Archival ink

and then watercoloured the flower in 

AND then fussy cut it out which took a long time!

I then attached the flower directly to the shimmery white

and added some touches of clear Wink of Stella to the flower.

Stamped "for YOU" on the bottom right hand side.

Thank you for stopping by.

Do go to the link above and see all the lovely cards that everyone has 

made for this challenge

Bye for now

Maree

ESAD 2016 Annual Catalogue Blog Hop -

Hello and welcome to the ESAD 2016 Annual Catalogue Blog hop. This is my first ESAD hop and I am super excited. 

You may have hopped across from Tanya Bell and I can't wait to see what she has done.We love getting comments so don't forget to leave us a word ot two.

 I thought I would focus on the new In Colors 2016-18 with the Grateful Bunch stampset and Blossom Bunch Punch. I am loving the new In Colors - they are beautiful. I also included the Playful Palette Designer Series Paper stack as a layer to the main card of Early Espresso.

The In Colors I have used are Sweet Sugarplum, Peekaboo Peach and on the right Flirty Flamingo. For the leaves I use Emerald Envy stamped off once. For the punched flowers I stamped them in Crushed Curry. Added some Rhinestone Basic Jewels to finish the flowers off and lifted them with dimensionals.

Sweet Sugarplum

 Flirty Flamingo

Peekaboo Peach

Thank you for joining us on this blog hop. Now it is onto  Renee Lynch who is doing her first hop with ESAD as well. Either click on her name or onto the next blog button below.

Thank you for joining and hope that you get some great ideas. If you get lost here is the list of blog participants below that you can click on and hop around.

BLOG HOP PARTICIPANTS:

1. Barbara Williams

2. Libby Dyson

3. Rachael Lewsley

4. Nicole Wilson

5. Monique Fielder

6 . Cathy Pinchbeck

7. Lou Kitzelman

8. Andrea Buckland

9. Richelle Fletcher

10. Carolina Evans

11. Narelle Fasulo

12. Kelly Kent

13. Delys Cram

14. Rebekah Crisp

15. Tanya Bell

16. Maree McIntosh

17. Renee Lynch