Flowers in Spring

Hello!

I have a few floral cards to share today.  First up is a card made using my new Floral Beauty stencil which I have simply inked through:

I used a combination of Wild Honey and Abandoned Coral distress oxides and simply highlighted the flowers with black pearls.  The butterfly is punched from black glitter cardstock and the central panel uses black glitter cardstock too.  The sentiment is from Stamplorations.

I shall link this card up at Simon's Monday Challenge where the theme is Flower Power and at Addicted to Stamps where the theme is CAS.

I have also used sparkle pens to watercolour some Tim Holtz florals - they add a subtle shimmer to the image:

The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I added some extra splatters to emphasise the watercolour look.  I shall link this card up at Simon's Wednesday Challenge where the theme this week is Anything Goes. 

I hope you like these cards :)  Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x

Getting Messy

Hello,

When I get the chance to have a good crafting session, I often like to try out more 'messy' techniques and this weekend I was playing with colour bursts and pixie powders along with my stencils (of course!).

First up I created a soft watercolour background with creative expressions pixie powders as a background for my elegant lady stencil:

Once the background was dry, I used poppy stencils black gloss paste through the stencil and admired the effect!  The sentiment is from Papertrey Ink and I used black glitter card to highlight the edges of the panel.  I shall link this card up at Simon's Wednesday Challenge where we are using sparkle and shine.  The pixie powders have shimmery mica in them and the black glitter card adds a bit more subtle sparkle.  I shall also link up at Happy Little Stampers watercolour challenge (without the optional rainbow twist).

I also have another new stencil - Floral Beauty - which I layered over a slightly more vibrant background created using colour bursts and pixie powders.  I simply inked around the edges of the stencil aperture with black soot distress ink.  I then added doodling in black and white pens to help give the flowers definition and finished off with a black glitter butterfly.  I shall link this up at Simon's Monday Challenge where this week's theme is doodling.

I hope you like them :)

   

As always, you can find them in my Folksy shop!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sarah x