Art of Life

This will be a sympathy card but the sentiment is inside the card instead of on the front. The colors are from this week's SCS color combo CC311 of Always Artichoke, Rose Red and Perfect Plum.  The flower on the right is actually plum although it pretty much looks gray in the photo. The flower on the left was stamped off once to get a softer look.  After stamping the flowers I used the color spritzer to spritz on a little Always Artichoke. It softens up the flowers a bit. The flower panel is up on dimensionals over the Vintage Wallpaper embossed layer. A few brads and seam binding finish it off the card.

Stamps: Art of Life (ret)

Paper: Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla

Ink: Always Artichoke, Rose Red, Perfect Plum (markers)

Accessories: Always Artichoke seam binding, Always Artichoke brads, Vintage Wallpaper EF, dimensionals, color spritzer

Sweet Summer

I saw a cute card on SCS by Bar. Check it out here.  I just got the SAB set Sweet Summer and thought it would work nicely to CASE that card.  I also wanted to do this week's SCS color challenge CC310 which uses Pacific Point, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi and a neutral.

I stamped the middle flower in Pacific Point and then used the marker to fill it in. I also used a So Saffron marker to fill in the centers of the flowers.  The flower on the right was stamped in So Saffron and then filled in with the Saffron marker. It was too light and so I stamped over it with Soft Suede and think that looks much better. The leaves were stamped with Wasabi Green and then I used an aquapainter to watercolor the leaves.  I put a light wash of Saffron around the bottom of the flower stems.

Stamps: Sweet Summer, Just Believe

Paper: Kraft, Black, Confetti White (ret.)

Ink: Black, Pacific Point, So Saffron, Wasabi Green, Soft Suede

Accessories: Twine, aquapainter, Pacific Point & Saffron markers

Techniques: watercolor