There are more card challenges on the internet than you can count, and I keep coming up with new ones that I want to try. Recently, I found a series of challenges by Happy Little Stampers. One thing I like about all their challenges is they run for a month. Their watercolor challenge for January is “Anything Goes.” The CAS Mix-Up Challenge is for “Splatters” combined with one other mixed media element, in this case, watercolor.
I actually have two cards to share. A weekend or so ago, I sat down with a pile of already colored, die cut, and stamped elements to create a group of Thinking of You cards which I badly needed. Both of the focal images for these cards were already stamped, splattered, and watercolored. I just needed to add sentiments and assemble the cards.
The flowers are from the Waffle Flower “Bouquet Builder” set, and watercolored with Zig Clean Color Markers
After watercoloring the flowers, I added some black, purple, and green splatters. The sentiment is an old favorite from Papertrey Ink, “Penned Elegance.” I added the panel to a Plum Pudding card base.
The next card features a botanical from the same Waffle Flower set.
This was watercolored with Altenew’s 36 pan watercolor set, and highlighted with some Polychromos colored pencils.
The sentiment was die cut and assembled by a friend who gave me an envelope with a variety of the die cut sentiments from Papertrey Ink’s “Frame It Out: Wishes.” I love the modern font. The card base for this card is Gina K’s Asparagus cardstock which has become a favorite.
I’ll be linking these up with:
Two perfect CAS cards both with wonderful splatters and gorgeous colours. Thank you for sharing them with us at CAS Mix Up this month xx
The splattering really does add a lovely texture to the cards – and I like that ‘hello’ font too. Both the Zig markers and the watercolours provide lovely subtle shading – you’re a dab hand at that :).
Very nice. I like the top one for its colours and composition. I too like the splattering!
Both of these are awesome, Karen! Love those purple flowers and the bright green fern! Fantastic splatters too! Thanks so much for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up!
I like both of your cards. Your splattering is something I’ve been seeing recently on scrapping uTubes – oh no another technique I need to get with (lol).
Such pretty cards and especially the purple blooms with one of my favorite sentiment sets too. It’s been fun seeing the non-holiday cards popping up again. Stay safe.
Both the cards are super awesome Karen. Your coloring is beautiful and the whole composition and the choice of colors as well. the sentiment die really pops out to say hello to the recipient. Thank you for joining us at HLS Anything Goes with Dies. XOXO
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Two beautiful cards Karen. Isn’t it great when we have watercoloured images just waiting to be made into a card??!! First, I love the bright purple flowers. Your shading gives them lots of depth and dimension. And your leaf sprig is so sweet with the hello sentiment. Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up!
Such beautiful cards. I found your word on the CAS mix up challenge. Wonderful work.
Thank you for sharing with us at HLS Watercolour Challenge.
Your projects are beautiful
Two gorgeous cards with wonderful splatter! Your colouring is beautiful too! Thanks for sharing with us at CAS Mix Up:)
Beautiful cards!
Thank you for sharing with Happy Little Stampers!
Susan
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