Watercolor Birthday card using SSS Pretty Peonies Stamp

Happy Saturday!

Today I am finally back for a blog post for the card I made for this weeks Color Throwdown #540. 

I have been posting mostly on my Instagram.. you know life. lol 

The colors this week are Yellow, Orange, Blue and Green. 

I heat embossed the background onto Bristol card stock with SSS Antique Gold embossing powder.

I then used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker in:

Orange

Bright Yellow

Yellow

Light Green 

Yellow Green

Light Blue

I colored the SSS Big Happy Die cut with the same Light Blue marker

 but did not add water to lighten up.

 The birthday comes from the Altenew Mega Greetings 3 set and heat embossed with the same SSS Antique Gold embossing powder . 

I popped it up with the SSS Big Momma Foam Tape. 

Thank you for visiting and hopefully next time will not be too far away. 

Cher 

More Watercolored Birthday Cards using the Honey Bee Stamps STAMPtember Exclusive Tie One On

Welcome Back!

I have a couple more cards using the technique I saw from Amy R  video with the overlapping watercoloring.

This time I made two cards. They are both stamped with the Honey Bee Stamps STAMPtember® Exclusive Tie One On  balloons in SSS fog ink onto watercolor paper. 

They both used Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors 

but the top is more concentrated in color and the bottom is more watered down. 

I used watered down white acrylic paint to add the splatter. 

The sentiment is heat embossed onto vellum and Ranger Silver Embossing Powder. 

The strings and bows are stamped using the Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Ink.

I put both onto some black and white patterned paper in my stash and mounted onto a white card base. 

Thank you for coming by and have an awesome rest of your day!!

Cher 

Birthday Card using the SSS Beautiful Flowers stamp set

Welcome Back

Today I have a Birthday card I made for my co worker. 

I just love the SSS Beautiful Flowers stamp set and wanted to make her card using it. 

I heat embossed the image onto water color paper and rose gold embossing powder. 

I used the Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colors to color the images and then flicked on the purple color for some splatter. 

The sentiment is the SSS Painted Happy Birthday Wafer Die.

I used the stamp and SSS Fog ink for the inside as well. 

Thank you for visiting and see you next time!

Cher

Rainbow Birthday Card using Zig Clean Color Markers and Honey Bee Stamps STAMPtember® Exclusive

Hi!

I have another card I made using this fantastic 

Honey Bee Stamps STAMPtember Tie One On Stamp Set. 

This set is going to be my go to set for birthday cards. Sorry in advance because I know there will be more posts with it.  

I went step by step with Nichol Spohr's technique from this video. 

It is such a great video and she taught me so many techniques and made this sooooo much easier than I thought would be. 

I stamped the balloons onto some Bristol Smooth cardstock and left the masks on to then use a cloud stencil to ink blend with Distress Oxide Tumbled Glass. 

I used the same ink to add some splatter and used Broken China Distress Oxide for the sentiment. 

I  colored in with 

Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

You can see from the pic above...I used a bunch of them. 

I decorated the inside with the same stamp set and Distess Oxide Inks. 

I hope you also give Nichols technique a try because it was so fun to create and will definitely not be the last!

Till next time.......have a awesome day!

Cher 

Color Throwdown #531 using Gina K Designs You Make Me Smile stamp set.

Happy Wednesday!

Today's post is using the colors for the Color Throwdown #531 which are Rust, Purple and Gray. 

I was a a little perplexed at what I was gonna do but decided to play with some watercolors. 

I used Distress Oxide Inks in Rusty Hinge, Wilted Violet and Hickory Smoke for the background. 

I heat embossed the floral image from the Gina K Designs You Make Me Smile stamp set with white embossing powder. 

I die cut the SSS Small Hello die 5 times from some gray card stock so that it was raised up and didn't get swallowed by the background. 

The missing you sentiment is from the SSS Tiny Words stamp set and heat embossed with white embossing powder and popped up this time with thin foam tape. 

I finished it off by putting on a gray card base and adding some Nuvo drops in Pale Perwinkle. 

Thank you for visiting and hope to see you next time!

Cher 

Valentines Day Cards using SSS Foodie Friends stamp set

Welcome back!

I had bought a Brother Scan N Cut 2 and wanted to test it out with some images.

I didn't want the images to go to waste so I have these three Valentines Day Cards to show you. 

The images come from the SSS Foodie Friends Stamp set and 

were all colored with Zig Clean Color Marker. 

I was also playing around with Alcohol Inks and cut up to use as a backer to showcase the images. 

I used the MFT Peek a Boo Window to make the stitched openings. 

I then used white embossing powder to heat emboss the different SSS background stamps. 

Cora Background

Kaleidoscope Background 

Flora Background 

I thought it looked to plain if just white so this embossing adds some interest without taking away from the images. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and see you next time!

Cher 

Color Throwdown #529 using SSS Best Ever

Happy Saturday!

Here is my submission for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge CTD#529.

The colors this week are Yellow, Orange and Red. 

I was inspired by the design Kristina Werner used a few weeks back on her You Tube Channel.

I used Distress Oxide Inks in Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin and Candied Apple 

for the blended background. 

I used white embossing powder to heat emboss the heart images onto the background after was completely dry.

The larger heart image comes from the SSS Best Ever stamp set and 

the tiny heat is from the SSS Birthday Numbers stamp set.

I used some embroidery floss in a deep orange like Kristina but omitted the bow. 

The love die is the SSS LOVE wafer die and the smaller strip is from the SSS All My Love stamp set which was stamped with Candied Apple ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. 

Thank you for coming by!
Cher 

Sending Love Card using SSS Elizabeth Background Stamp

Welcome Back!

Today I have a card I made by pure accident.

I was using Distress Oxides to make that Panda Shadowbox card and I had a bunch of ink still on my mat and I just didn't want to waste it. 

I took a piece of white card stock and smooshed throughout all the colors. 

Distress Oxides used:

Wilted Violet

Seedless Preserves

Dusty Concord

Shaded Lilac

Crushed Olive 

Squeezed Lemonade 

I then used  Ranger Silver Embossing Powder to heat emboss the SSS Elizabeth background. 

I cut the vellum circle from the SSS Stitched Circle Die. 

The love die cut is the SSS LOVE Wafer Die cut from some random lilac and grey card stock.

I then heat embossed the rest of the sentiment with the same embossing powder and the SSS All My Love Stamp Set

I used the same background stamp to the inside of the card and on the envelope. 

 

I love how it came out and really showed me to not just toss out what I think I may not need because beautiful things can come out of it.

Thank you again for checking this card out and I will see you next time!

Cher 

Color Throwdown #527 using SSS Beautiful Flowers

Happy Saturday!

It has been a hot minute since I did a Throwdown post but I am back with

 The Color Throwdown Challenge #527.

The colors this week are Navy Blue, Green and Gray. 

I stamped the large floral image from the SSS Beautiful Flowers stamp set in Versafine ink. 

I scribbled the markers over the images and spayed a whole bunch of water 

to get it moving to give it a messy watercolor look. 

I used a heat gun to dry it and did that process again.

I used Zig Clean Color Markers in :

Deep Blue

Blue

Green 

May Green

The sentiment is from the Beautiful Flowers stamp set and the Tie One On stamp set and stamped tie Distress Oxide Ink in Hickory Smoke

. 

I put the piece onto some gray card stock and added some Nuvo drops  in clear.

Thank you for visiting and see you next time!

Cher

Watercolor Birthday Card using Honey Bee Stamps STAMPtember® Exclusive Tie One On

Hey Guys!

I have a card today that is inspired by the one Amy R did on her channel. 

Water color especially when overlapping is intimidating to me but 

she gave me the confidence to try it. 

I stamped the balloons from the Honey Bee Stamps STAMPtember® Exclusive stamp set Tie One On in  SSS Fog Ink onto some watercolor paper. 

I used Distress Inks for all the watercoloring of the balloons. 

Distress Inks Used:

Candied Apple

Abandoned Coral 

Mustard Seed

Carved Pumpkin

Mowed Lawn 

Peacock Feathers

Salty Ocean 

Wilted Violet 

Seedless Preserves 

I used Distess Oxide Ink in Hickory Smoke for the bows and strings. 

I heat embossed the sentiment onto some vellum with Ranger Silver Embossing Powder  and then put onto a piece of black cardstock so that just the black strips showed on top and bottom. 

I used the same set for the inside sentiment and then used more Distress Oxides for the balloons and confetti falling. 

Thank you so much for coming by and I will see you next time!

Cher 

Birthday Card using Honey Bee Stamps STAMPtember® Exclusive Tie One On

Hi!

Today I have the card I made for my Dad's Birthday!

I love using that Tim Holtz Wood 3D Embossing Folder and had to incorporate it in the card. 

I used some brown paper in my stash to emboss and then used some 

Ground Espresso Distress Oxide to "dirty" it up. 

The balloons come from the Simon Says Stamp and Honey Bee Designs collab Stamptember set called Tie One On. 

I stamped them with Versafine Onyx Black Ink and water colored with 

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors. I fussy cut them out, popped up with foam tape and used some embroidery thread for the strings. 

I heat embossed the sentiment ( from the same stamp set) onto some black card stock using Ranger Silver Embossing Powder. 

I used the same balloons in the inside with various Distress Oxide Inks.

Thank you so much for visiting and I hope to see you next time!!

Cher 

Color Throwdown #524 using SSS Even More Spring Flowers

Happy Saturday!

Its a new year and a new Color Throwdown Challenge. 

The colors for the Color Throwdown Challenge #524 are Green, Yellow, Black and White. 

I wanted to water color some flowers so I decided to use the 

SSS Even More Spring Flowers stamp set. 

I did some masking to keep it be a one layer card. 

I stamped with Versafine ink and heat embossed with Hero Arts clear embossing powder. 

I colored the images with Zig Clean Color Markers and a water brush pen. 

I used :

No.40 Green

No. 41 Light Green 

No. 50 Yellow

No. 52 Bright Yellow

The sentiment comes from SSS Beautiful Flowers stamp set and the Honey Bee Stamps Exclusive STAMPtember Tie One On stamp set.  

I used Distress Oxide Ink to stamp the flower on the inside and used the green marker to ink the stamp for the leaves. 

The sentiment on the inside is also from the SSS Beautiful Flowers set. 

Thank you for checking out my submission and I hope to see you next time!

Cher 

Thank You card using SSS Beautiful Flowers stamp set

Hey There!

Today I have a thank you card I made at same time I made that Birthday card for my boss. 

I used the same Oxide colors  but went for a muted matte and sentiment in grey. 

I first embossed the SSS Beautiful Flowers stamp with Ranger Silver
embossing powder onto watercolor paper.

I then watercolored with Distress Oxide Inks in Wilted Violet, Fossilized Amber and Forest Moss.
 I also used the Wilted Violet to splatter onto the background.

The sentiment strip is made using stamp from the MFT All About You stamp set.

The  You is from the MFT All About YOU die set.
I die cut it four times then coated in clear embossing powder to add some shine and dimension.

I then used SSS Fog Ink to stamp the same image onto the envelope to tie them both together.