A Prayer for You

Welcome everyone to Summer and July's HLS Watercolor Challenge!

Is it hot where you are?

We finally broke 100's for 2 weeks! 

So not complaining about the 90's!

This month's challenge is an 'Anything Goes' with a twist... Blue!

Watery blue? How about seashells on the beach?

Looks 'cool' to me!

Here's how I did this layered watercolor.

The outside card is 4 x 5 1/4". The top is 3 1/2 x 4 3/4". 

I wet the watercolor paper completely and just dabbed on the colors randomly.

On the top card, I left the edges a bit white to stand out against 

the bottom card.

Don't mind my dirty work table. It cleans up at the end!

Added a bit of Mr. Huey's Color Mist, Shine and 

Shabby Pink Embossing Enamel (Stampendous), to simulate sand.

Stamps and dies: PapertreyInk

Simple Seashells, Inspired: Prayer

I used my tube watercolors this time. Truthfully, the translucence is 

unmatched!

Play along for a gift certificate to the HLS shop.

Easter Blessings

Happy Saturday everyone!

Hope you're enjoying your weekend.

We've had rain the last few day, over 2", a blessing for all of us

in the Central Valley. Today has some sun peeking through,

just enough to take a photo of a card.

I don't usually do things this way, but this card came before 

the challenge. 

I googled and found an Easter Challenge blog, Crafting with Dragonflies,

and am playing along.

My PTI order took a long time to arrive, and couldn't wait to play 

with a couple of beautiful dies, Cutaway Tags: Spring

and Mix & Mat: Flourishes.

I cut the tag from black card stock, and colored with Finetec Pearls.

The Finetec Pearls let you watercolor on black, or any color,

giving the image intense vibrant color with a pearl finish.

The sentiment was stamped with Versamark, then 

heat embossed with copper.

The Mat frame was first sponge inked, then sprayed with 

Mr. Huey's Shine Mist.

#78 : Easter Cards