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.

Altenew's Ultimate Challenge Blog hop

Hello! And welcome to the Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop

with Altenew!

The purpose of this hop is to raise awareness of all the challenge blogs

out there. Isn't that great? Love the idea of knowing what's available.

Tag You're It has been invited to join the hop, 

and I'm so excited to bring you some inspiration

from the TYI team!

My tag uses Altenew's: Coffee Love.

Our featured artist, Melissa Bickford, gave us the most beautiful double tag

for our recent challenge. I used it for my muse.

Such a lovely double tag! Plenty of inspiration there.

Here's my recipe for my double tag:

Tag: PTI's Tag Sale #5.

Background tag has all over embossed coffee beans from the set:

Altenew's Coffee Love

Coffee pot embossed with Ranger's Liquid Platinum.

Sentiment is also embossed, coffee in Zing: Chestnut, and the rest, 

Stampendous: Ivory

A few little stars and sequins, 

and some chocolate brown satin ribbon tied with 

embroidery thread, and my tag is ready to attach to a coffee gift!

There is incredible talent out there, so great to know and be able to join in!

Enjoy the hop!

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Happy 2nd Anniversary Card Concept!

The Card Concept is celebrating their 2nd Anniversary,

and they've challenged us with this dramatic photo.

What's so fun about the Card Concept is you get to choose your style,

and create your heart's desire!

Black and White, Elegant, lacy, and lots of drama.

Going with the Classy & Elegant Style.

I pulled out Lace Bouquet from PapertreyInk,

and embossed over a selectively stamped music score from Stampendous.

PTI Life is Beautiful die cut Butterfly,

first in True Black, also embossed with Lace Bouquet, and then in Dot Vellum.

'Happy' die cut sentiment and anniversary PTI's One Big Happy.

Ribbon banner flower also die cut from One Big Happy glitter card stock.

Happy Anniversary, Card Concept!

And thank you for always bringing the BEST inspiration.

The Card Concept #52 {2nd Year Anniversary & Prizes}