Virginia's View Challenge and Throwback Thursday

Hello everyone!! It is finally Thursday. It seems that I have been living for the weekends as of late so I am always happy when Thursday comes around.

Today I am posting a card that I created for Virginia's View Challenge #1. It was to use water colors on a card.

I originally tried to watercolor something on my own and it was an epic fail. I decided to pull out a PSX stamp I have had for over 12 years. It is of a lily and I knew would be fun to water color.

Instead of using water colors, which I do have, I decided that I was going to use my re-inkers instead. I only have a few. (roll eyes)

Here is the card I created. I will say that I am not a huge fan of how it came out. The pink is too bright for me.

I also framed it with bright colored papers. I originally was going to put it on a black card base but it made the pink pop even more.

I used a Wink of Stella glitter pen to add a little sparkle into onto the petals of the flowers.

That is all for today. Thanks for looking!!

Nora

Supplies:

PSX Stamp

Various Re-inkers

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Summer Card Class, Week 2, Day 1, Card #2

I had a little time last night to try my hand at the first sketch for my summer card class I am taking.

I used Kristina Werner's technique of inking a craft mat and misting water on it to make the banner on this circle card. What a fun technique!! I want to try it on a rectangle card next to make my own patterned paper.

I also had fun stamping a little border with stars around the left edge. I was going to layer different patterned paper on top of each other but I just didn't have the right shades. (and if you saw my stash, you would say that there had to be something that went with it. I was in a hurry and only looked through my plethora of scraps.) I think the stamped border was a fair compromise.

Things I learned from this homework:

• I still do not love embossing. I have all the supplies and a great heat gun but I don't like that the embossing powder gets all over everything every time I try this technique. 
• designing for a circle is harder then designing for a rectangle. I do like that I stepped out of my box a bit and for the most part, I like how the card came out.

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my project. I am off to check out today's class.

Nora

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