Just Add Ink.....Black Eye Susans

Happy Sunday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the challenge this week at Just Add Ink.

They have a fun challenge and it is: Just Add  "B". It could be whatever you want that begins with a "B" as the main focus of your card.

I choose this great stamp from the Stampin Up Helping Me Grow stamp set for my "B" and I colored them to be Black Eye Susans.

I watercolored my entire card using my Tim Holtz Distress Inks.

I love coloring with these inks.

I stamped the image onto some water color paper with Black Stazon ink.

I then taped the piece down to my water color board using some painter's tape. That is the white "frame" you see. 

I colored the flowers and stems first and made sure they were dry before moving onto the background. I used a couple of colors and blended as I went along being careful to not get the flower portion wet.

I used my heat tool to dry as I went along.

I added the sentiment and corner frames using black memento ink after all was dry.

This main panel was then glued to my card base. 

I used my Wink of Stella brush on the flowers, it does not show in the pic but adds just a nice shimmer.

Happy, Happy Birthday

Happy Tuesday  peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made today.

I was playing around with my distress inks again and made this fun background.

I used Squeezed Lemonade, Salty Ocean and Picked Raspberry.

This time I applied my ink to a piece of acetate and then spritzed with some water and squished it onto my watercolor paper. I started with my middle color, the Salty Ocean and then went to the Squeezed Lemonade and then to the Picked Raspberry.

I really love how these colors combined and ran together. I spritzed a bit more water onto the piece as needed to get the colors to blend and flow. I hit the paper with my heat gun in between each color to set them and keep them from muddying up.

I used the MFT Pure Innocence Happy Banner  girl and colored her dress to match my BG using my copic markers.

She is die cut out with her matching die.

The balloons are from the MFT Somebunny stamp set and colored with copics as well. I cut out the balloons and added them to the base with foam tape. I just hand drew in the tails.

The happy banner girl is added to the base with foam tape as well.

I stamped the rest of the sentiment onto the base with Black Memento Ink. 

I am adding this to the Curtain Call Inspiration challenge:

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki