Forever Friends

Just popping in to post a card for the Impression Obsession challenge, "Forever Friends". I used one of the sweetest dies I have ever seen. It's called Girl with Easter Basket (DIE260-I ), and it is fun to paper-piece. Instead of the Easter eggs that come with the die, I used IO's Tulip Set (DIE147-A), and Tiny Flowers (DIE140-D) to make a flower bouquet. I used the "hello" die from IO's Greetings set (DIE174-W) for the sentiment.

Thanks for looking!

Watercolour Sunflower

I've been taking another Online Card Class. I find these classes really help when I am uninspired by crafting. This class is Watercolor For Cardmakers - Intermediate Techniques. I have really enjoyed this class, but I still have the same problems*sigh*. I keep accidentally getting stray drops of water falling on my paintings and messing them up. I don't think clumsy can be fixed with a class.
I love paint and I absolutely am not deterred that most of my paintings are a total flop. Onward and upward!!
Most of the paintings that I did for this class were on premade thank-you cards I bought at Michaels. They are not made with watercolour paper, but the paper works really well ( I have no idea why).
This Sunflower is the only one that I liked that I did on watercolour paper.

This is done on Arches cold-pressed 140lb paper. I used a combination of Color Bursts (used as paint), and W&N Cotman water color from tubes. The sentiment stamp is by MFT. I heat embossed the sentiment with purple to go with the purple I used in the sunflower, although it's hard to tell in the photo. I die cut the paper with a die from SSS that does a stitched edge.
Here is a photo of some of the Thanks cards I did.

Getting Inky

I have seen such pretty cards made with silhouette stamps, so I got one from Impression Obsession (D5553) to try out that style myself. I have been making fewer cards lately, but I can certainly see myself making more of these. So easy!

The top and bottom of the card were masked off, and I used clear embossing powder to do some of the images, before adding Distress inks in two blues. I used Broken China Distress ink to do a soft inking and then a dark blue Versafine ink. The sentiment is from the lovely IO sympathy set ( CL114).
I was inspired by a card somewhat similar to this on Pinterest, but I can't find the original, only the person who pinned it from somewhere else, This is an old style though, around since before I started card making. I like the simplicity of it for sympathy cards.
This card is for the IO Challenge Flower Power.