Floral Twofer

Most of you know that making Christmas cards throughout the year is my main focus but today I've got a floral twofer, both very CAS, one watercoloured, one coloured with coloured pencils - I love both colouring mediums so like to vary what I use.   

 This is the watercoloured one, inspired by this image at the Inspired By challenge:

The shape of the bouquets made me think of a "never before used" stamp I have, and I tried to get close to some of the colours in the Inspired By image.  The sentiment is part of the flower stamp so that made it even faster to make this card.  I added a bit of splatter for interest.

The second card is inspired by the colours in the Four Seasons challenge mood board and the Color Throwdown challenge.

This one uses coloured pencils, blended with Gamsol, trimmed with a stitched rectange die, with a blue heat embossed sentiment and a blue border.

Challenges:

NBUS (never before used stuff)

 

Inspired By challenge

Color Throwdown

 

Four Seasons - Spring 

Triple B (Birds, Blooms and Butterflies) - I just went with Blooms today

 

Shopping our Stash - Flowers 

 

Supplies for Card 1:
Stamps - Chocolate Baroque
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, off white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - watercolour paints, fun foam

Supplies for Card 2:
Stamps - Penny Black flowers, unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne, ColorBox True Blue
Paper - white and blue cs
Size - A2
Accessories - coloured pencils, Gamsol, clear embossing powder, Lil Inkers stitched rectangle die, fun foam

Art Deco Flowers

Do you ever finish a card and wish you'd done something differently?    This is one of those that I like for some things but wish I'd done something else with the background.

I wanted to use my long neglected Distress stains so followed this tutorial on watercolouring with them.  It's harder than it looks. 

I used three shades of blues and mauves for the flowers and two shades of green for the stems and leaves. Once I was done pulling the colours out, I felt I'd lost too much definition in the flowers so I went over the outline again with the stains and restamped - that is the joy of working in the MISTI!

The sentiments are part of the stamp and I did them at the end by going over them with the dew drop size Memento Tuxedo Black.

I trimmed my panel and sponged the edges, blending together Bundled Sage and Iced Spruce.  A bit of black splatter finished it off. I mounted the panel on fun foam for dimension.  In hindsight, I wish I'd done lighter sponging and used the shades of green I used for the stems.  Or left the sponging off altogether and just done a bit of splattering.

 

I'm linking it up with:

We Love Chocolate Baroque - "I Love..." - what do you love when you are creating.  I love trying new techniques, I love using Distress products, I love the Art Deco style of these Chocolate Baroque flowers, I love flowers as a theme for my cards.

The Paper Players - "A Colour Challenge"

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Supplies:
Stamps - Chocolate Baroque Wish Flower
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Iced Spruce and Bundled Sage
Paper - watercolour paper, cream cs
Size - 4.75x6.5"
Accessories - Distress Stains - Bundled Sage, Peeled Paint, Seedless Preserves, Faded Jeans, Milled Lavender