Spring Thank You Card

This little kitty is waiting for some important mail, it seems.  Or maybe it's just a good spot to see the birds!  Either way, he seems content, perched on top of this mail box.

Stamps:  Art Impressions watercolor stamps
Other:  Watercolor paper, MFT dies, Tombow markers, watercolor brush, stamp positioner

I stamped the mailbox onto the watercolor paper, using a sepia Tombow marker to ink up the stamp.  I painted the mailbox with markers.  Using a stamp positioner, I stamped the kitty on top, painted him, then added foliage and flowers, inking the stamps with the markers, and dabbing them with some water from my brush.  

A handwritten thank you, and some die cutting and layering finish off my card today.  I am enjoying my Art Impressions watercolor stamps.  I will keep practicing, and hopefully will get better.  I think it will take some time to really get good at this technique.  In the meantime, I am having fun with them.  

I am adding my card to  The Daily Marker 30 day color challenge.  I am also adding it to:

Art Impressions Challenge - Springy cards

Stampin' Royalty Challenge - Spring

House of Cards Challenge  - Make a scene and/or colors

Thank you for visiting.

Blessings,

lynda





 

Love You Card For The Ton Challenge

Hello peeps....

My card for today primarily features the cherry blossoms background stamp from The Ton.  I made it for The Ton Challenge , where the theme is LOVE. 

I embossed the background stamp with white embossing powder onto a piece of light blue card stock.  I colored the open flowers with my Tombow markers, shading and blending with my blender pen.  I colored the openings behind the flowers with my Faber Castell soft pastels in gray.  I used the love die from Simon Says Stamp, and cut the backing with blue card stock, and the top 'love' word with white, which I also embossed with white powder. I stamped the word 'you' from the same stamp set.  The heart die is Spellbinders.  A few gems from Paper Studio sprinkled here and there finish it off.

Other challenges for my card:

 Freshly Made Sketches

Stampin Royalty - Use dies   

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge 

Anything goes 

Addicted To Stamps - Photo inspiration

 

 Since I did not use the entire panel, I decided to make another card with the piece that was left.  Sadly, I need a sympathy card, so I grabbed a piece of gray card stock, and a sympathy stamp (Flourishes), and made this...

That's it for today.  I can't believe Ash Wednesday is this week!  Spring is coming...and it cannot be too soon for most of us.  I've been welcoming the flocks of geese as they come honking their way back north.  There must have been at least ten flocks yesterday, and several more today.  I have been restless, and have the urge to be outdoors, playing in my garden.  I will have to settle for gardening pins on Pinterest, and floral, springy cards for now.  But it won't be long..the robins are here, and my hostas are showing their sprouts.  

Thanks so much for stopping in today.  Hope to see you back soon.

Blessings,

lynda