Wildflower Designs – Happy Thoughts

Hi again!  Back to my favorite clean and simple style of card making…

Over at AAA Cards (#286), we are challenged to “follow the leader” and CASE (copy and selectively edit) a card created by Kristin Sluhan.

My takeaway was the single image, single sentiment and some splatter.

My design was influenced by the: Just Us Girls (#767) Mood Board for colors and subject; CAS on Friday (#305) with a Spring theme; Make My Monday (#248) to Make It Green; and I am sharing this card with Krafty Chicks (#760) for their CAS week.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Old Olive cardstock.
• Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”) Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper.
  • Using the Wide-Tipped Water Painter Brush, water was applied directly to the paper and then Old Olive ink was picked up from the Ink Pad Lid and added to create a watercolor washed background.
  • Just before the watercolor wash was completely dry, the Splatter image from the retired Quiet Meadow stamp set was stamped with 2^nd Generation (stamped off once) Old Olive ink.  This allowed for a little bit of blurring.
  • Once dry, the sentiment, Sending happy thoughts, from the Wildflower Designs stamp set was stamped with Old Olive ink.
• Focal image – White Tulips: (2” x 4”) Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper.
  • The Tulip image from the retired Blessed Easter stamp set, a particular favorite, was stamped with Old Olive ink.
  • Using the Fine-Tipped Water Painter Brush, the lines were blurred to create “white” tulips and green leaves.
  • Once dry, the Tulips were fussy-cut with Paper Snips.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble Kristin’s card.  The Tulips were popped up with Dimensionals.

So soft and pretty.  A really nice all occasion card.

Thanks for spending some more of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

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