#1043 – A Bright Hello

Hello and welcome! First of the month calls for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers Watercolor challenge and the optional topping this time is ‘Bright‘.

And here’s what I made –

I started with the background. Choosing some bright distress inks, I painted them across a watercolor paper panel using a flat brush. While painting, I didn’t let each color dry out too much, since I wanted a bit of the colors to mingle, while remaining vaguely separate. Finally, while the panel was still moderately wet, I added a few splatters of water, creating a splotchy effect.

Once this panel completely dried, I die cut it using My Favorite Things Stitched Wonky Rectangle and mounted it on a white card base, on which I had already stamped with My Favorite Things Crosshatch Background with black from an almost dried up ink pad (yup, even those have good uses! :D) For the parts above, I used Pink Fresh Studio Floral Squares and Paper Smooches Hello dies to die cut several pieces of black cardstock, adhered them together, adding a vellum piece for the flower die cut, and then added them to my card.

And that’s my card! Checkout more inspiration from the rest of the DT at the Happy Little Stampers challenge blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

#1039 – Always Here for You

Hello and welcome! It’s time for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers Watercolor challenge. This is an ‘Anything Goes‘ challenge with an optional theme, which, this time, is ‘Flowers‘.

And this is what I made for your inspiration this time –

I used a stamp from Pink Fresh Studio Fluer 1 stamp set and stamped it using Versafine Onyx Black ink on cardstock a couple of times, to cover up the lower portion of the card. I then watercolored them with distress inks. Once everything was dry, I added splatters of black ink on top. Finally, I added the sentiment from Pink Fresh Studio Delicate Wreath stamp set.

Since this is a one layer card, there are no extra layers or embellishments, keeping the card nice and simple. 🙂

I’m joining the Simon Says Monday challenge: Make Your Mark and Simon Says Wednesday challenge: Anything Goes with this card.

Checkout more inspiration from the rest of the team over at the Happy Little Stampers challenge blog.

Thank you very much for stopping by!

#1035 – The Tree of Love

Hello and welcome! As always, we start the month with the Happy Little Stampers Watercolor challenge!! It is an ‘Anything Goes‘ challenge and the optional theme this month is ‘Die cuts‘.

And here’s what I made –

I made this card using one of the die cut pieces sent by my friend and our Party Guest this time, Hilary!! Thank you for sending me these beautiful die cuts, Hilary – I’ve finally put one to good use! 😀

I first die cut the watercolor paper using Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangles die. I then separated the die cut pieces and colored them using water & distress inks. I then adhered the positive die cut onto another piece of die cut rectangle I had cut out of scrap cardstock and then adhered all the inlaid pieces. Thankfully, I didn’t lose any of them!

I then used an off-white cardstock to adhere the center piece and the frame and added the sentiment from Altenew Label Love and backed it with a couple of scrap cardstock for dimention and then adhered it on top.

This one looks so lovely with that die cut tree, I didn’t want to add anything extra at all!!

Hope that inspires you! Hop over to the Happy Little Stampers challenge blog to check out what the rest of our DT made for the Watercolor challenge. And join the fun with your own watercolored projects!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

#1031 – Vitamin Sea

Hello and welcome! We’re finally starting with the Happy Little Stampers challenge!! Yay!! As always, the watercolor challenge comes up first, on the first of the month! And this time, there is an optional theme ‘Wings‘.

However, this time, I didn’t go with the theme and went with the ‘Anything Goes‘ option. And here’s what I made –

I went seawards! I thought the mermaid would be fun to watercolor after such a long time. She’s from Waffle Flower Mermaid Mail stamp set, and so are all the other images. I stamped them in light toned inks and then watercolored them using distress ink. The watercolor paper is from Hndmd. Once everything dried, I added a few splatters of blue and purple, but dried them off with paper towel before they dried completely. This ended up showing off the splatters without the colors being too deep.

For assembling, I used a white card panel to cut out a window using the MFT Watercolor Wash, then adhered it over the watercolor panel. I had thought of adding the sentiment in the watercolored panel, thought after adhering the frame, I felt that there was too much space below, so I ended up stamping the sentiment on the top. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Be a Mermaid stamp set, which I stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink.

And that’s my card! Hop over to the Happy Little Stampers challenge blog to check out what the rest of our DT made for the Watercolor challenge. And join the fun with your own watercolored projects!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

#1025 – Happy Winter Poinsettia

Hello and welcome! We’re actually in the last month of the year!! Wow!! That came really quickly!! But on schedule, we’ll continue having the Happy Little Stampers challenges this month as well. We’re starting with Watercolor challenge.

And this is what I made for your inspiration –

I used the poinsettia from Stamplorations Christmas Flower. To stamp this, I mounted this on my MISTI first, since I planned to stamp it multiple times. I first used brighter shades of yellow, red and green distress inks, misted it well with water and stamped it. Since I had misted a lot of water, it pooled on the watercolor paper, which I used to spread the color. Where the pooled color wasn’t enough, I used some extra ink + water to add the color.

Once dry, I stamped again using darker shades, this time with lesser misting of water. Before everything dried, I used a wet brush to spread the colors outside the flower, adding extra color wherever required. I also added brown, covering the rest of the white space. Once completely dry, I added quite a bit of splatters, and also stamped a bit on the panel using a script/font stamp from Tim Holtz’s Entomology stamp set.

Once everything was dry, I die cut a panel from the paper using My Favorite Things Stitched Wonky Rectangle. I then mounted it on a white card base. For the sentiment, I stamped the sentiment from Paper Smooches Winter Sampler and used a frame stamp from Paper Smooches Fancy Frames, and I used partial stamping to cover the whole sentiment. I then trimmed it and adhered it on the card. Finally, I added a few yellow gemstones to the poinsettia’s center to embellish.

And that’s my card! Do checkout what the rest of the DT created in the Happy Little Stampers blog and join us with your watercolor projects as well!

Thank you so much for stopping by!