Spring Blooms watercolored card....

I realized last night that I haven't been able to put much up on my blog lately with all that's been going on. I needed to stamp to get some creative energy out. With Mother's Day approaching, I wanted to make something "mothery" (yes, that's a word because I said so). *wink*

I chose to work with GinaK's Spring Blooms set.

I recently got some of the new "Afternoon Tea" Designer Series paper (SU) and thought it would look so feminine and old fashioned with the rose in the Spring Blooms set.

I started off by swiping my Groovy Guava cardbase with the same color ink pad. Then I started layering a few different pieces of the patterned paper together, overlapping them.

This paper has such a nice distressed look to it already that it kind of felt wrong not to distress the edges after I cut it. I used my distressing tool from the Cutter Kit to rough up the edges.

The big gold brushed brads were also from GinaK......a freebie that she offered a couple releases ago. They have a nice victorian look that matched so well with the patterned paper and distressed look.

For the rose, I colored directly onto the rubber stamp with my Watercolor Wonder Crayons. I used Cameo Coral and Ruby Red on the rose and Certainly Celery and Old Olive on leaves and stem. I then spritzed my stamp with what I THOUGHT was water. I realized after I'd spritzed the stamp that I spritzed it with my rubbing alcohol/Pearl Ex mixture. Because there was Lavender Pearl Ex in the rubbing alcohol, it gave the Cameo Coral that I had colored onto the rose a little bit of a different color. I actually like how it turned out.

I stamped the image onto a piece of watercolor paper while the stamp was still wet from the spritzer  and let it dry. I punched it out with the Giga Oval Scalloped punch and then sponged around the scalloped edge with Groovy Guava ink and a stamping sponge.

You can just barely see it on this picture here, but there IS glitter on the leaves and the rose. With all of the patterns going on in the papers, I felt like the stamped image needed something a little more. I actually haven't used much glitter the past few weeks, which is really unusual for me. It was nice to take it back out again and use it.

I wrapped a vanilla organdy ribbon around the card and secured the ends on top of the blue patterned paper. The stamped image is mounted on top of the card with pop-dots.

The stamped greeting in the bottom right corner of the card also comes from the Spring Blooms set and it was stamped with Basic Brown ink. This stamp set has a lot of possibilities with female greetings. You can mix and match so many of them. There's even a mother-in-law stamp! Those are hard to find!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Creating!

-Stampin' Mama

Comments

[Bee]

A very Happy Mother's Day to you, Erika!♥ :-)

[Carol]

I'm so sorry to hear that things didn't work out with the pooch :( As long as he gets a good home, that's what really matters most. Although it's unfortunate, certain pets just don't work in certain families and that's just how it is.
Your card today is so pretty! I got some of that Afternoon Tea paper and I'm still sitting on it waiting for the right project to use it. I guess that might be considered hoarding huh? LOL
Have a wonderful Mother's Day tomorrow and make it a fun weekend:)

[Susan]

What a lovely card! I enjoyed the details of how it was put together as well. Thank yo for sharing them. I had not thought of using my watercolour wonder crayons on a stamp before, and certainly never sprtized alcohol on even on purpose! LoL!

By the way, I found your blog via Suzanne from Stampin' and Kwiltin'

[Andrea]

Wow, great card!

xAndrea

[Lynn]

I loved how you used these papers here! I will be using this card for future inspiration.

[Vee]

I am sorry you didn't know that Airedales do not often make good pets for families. I hope you find another dog soon. Please research them carefully.