Silver White Winters

It's time to concentrate on my stash of Christmas cards, and I'm way behind!

How about you? 

HLS Watercolor Challenge has a new inspiration for the month of November,

Anything Goes with a twist TAG. Play along for a chance to win a 20. GC to 

shop on  the HLS website.

Here's my card, hopefully it will inspire you to play along.

Background stenciled with watered down inks (PTI) on watercolor paper, 

and PTI's snowflake stencil.

Then I die cut the tag PTI's Holiday Tag Along die, out, and also cut 4 more from

Winter Wisteria Cardstock.

Silver White Winters also from PTI, snowflakes watercolored and embossed

multiple times. 

If you have waterbased inks, they work fine as a watercolor medium, and 

blend beautifully!

Hope you'll play along this month, I'd love to see you create! 

Happy Crafting!

Happy Little Stampers September '17 Watercolor Challenge

Happy September to you! Oh yes, it's September all ready.

Kids in school, temperature cooling (Hopefully), and the colors change

from bright pastels to fiery hues! Love it!

And, to launch September HLS has a challenge for all the 

Watercolor fans, Anything Goes with an Optional Twist - Spritz

Here's some inspiration for you, stamping and watercoloring with your water based inks.

My sentiment is from Year of the Psalms April from PTI, stamped in Ranger's 

Archival Waterproof black ink. 

The berries are also PTI, a set called Beautiful Berries: Summer, which allows 

2 step stamping.

The inked images were spritzed with water before stamping on watercolor paper.

While still wet, the 2nd layer of defining stamps were added, bleeding just a bit,

not enough to blur the definition.

Some added color around the berries, and leaves, and then some Lindy's Stamp Gang

Starburst dropped onto the card, randomly.

Hope you play along this month. Remember winners receive a $25. gc to the HLS shop.

See you in the linep!

Happy Valentine's

Hello and welcome to HLS 2nd Watercolor Challenge!
And this month we're featuring an anything goes challenge,
with an optional twist... dies.

This square card features 'Especially For You'. 

I masked a heart to add the surrounding posies, and watercolored with

my Zig brushes

Play along for a chance to win a 15.00 gift certificate with HLS!

Can't wait to see what you do with this month's challenge!