Bottleful

Sending a bottleful of...LOVE!

Using Bottleful from Altenew and Bokeh Dots from Ellen Hutson.  Stamped the bottles with Memento Taken With Teal and aqua chalk ink, die cut and added more ink around the edges by sponging.  Used a kraft woodgrain cardstock for the base and stamped on the circles and dots with WPlus9 white ink.  Stamped the sentiment on white with the teal ink and cut the strip and popped up over the bottles.

I am entering this into the Ellen Hutson the Classroom Pin Sites Challenge for September which features Altenew and Essentials by Ellen.

This is also a fit at the Time Out Challenge for The Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop

And I am also sending someone a Bottleful of Cheer.

Using the Bottleful from Altenew once again, this time stamped with yellow ink and sponged the edges with Distress Ink in Scattered Straw.  This was inspired by the colors and patterns from the challenge at Altenew this month

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Watercolor Background with Iron-Off Embossing

Playing around with a technique I learned from Jennifer McGuire's Blog - Watercolor Backgrounds and  Iron-off Embossing.  Be careful when you visit her blog, she is quite the enabler, she makes you need things you didn't know you needed.

I stamped the flourish with Versamark on watercolor paper and heat embossed with clear ep.  Added Distress Inks with sponges randomly on the watercolor paper and misted heavily to blend the colors.  Got impatient waiting for it to dry, so used my heat gun to speed up the process.  Inked the flowers with Distress Markers, lightly misted and stamped on white cardstock.  Framed the flowers with Core'dinations Shattered die cut with an oval frame, lightly sanded around the edges and adhered with Tombow Mono.  Added the leaves, died ribbon with threaded button - attached with a Tombow Power Tab, vellum butterfly (sponged with Brilliance Ink) and some Paper Pen pearls in cream.

Challenges:  Mod Squad Challenge Blog - make your own background paper

                   STAMPlorations Blog - Monthly Challenge - Stamps and Favorite Technique

                  The Card Concept -in the Shabby Chic category

               Time Out Challenge

           Tombow Challenge - April Showers - they do bring May flowers

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Feel Better

Using the colors from Colour Me..!


The sketch from Freshly Made Sketches


And the theme from TIME OUT Challenges

Dancing in the Rain

The background is an old embossing plate with raindrops using Core'dinations White Wash cardstock, sanded and Wink of Stella added to the raindrops to make them stand out.  The stamp set is an old SU set. Added some metallic gel pen to the dots made with a stencil and a clear glaze pen to the little heart pills and heart on the bandaid.  

Thanks for taking a look!