Hearts with Love

Welcome to my studio!  I have created 2 cards for the Twofer Card Challenge which is Hearts.  I used the same small hearts stamps from GKD You Have My Heart set.  I also used the same Scalloped Heart dies from Spellbinders but that just happened by chance.  The Musical Valentine card shown on the left features partial die cutting and  guitar and sentiment stamps from the same set as the hearts.  I doodled some dots around the white heart. Used Memento Lady Bug ink and Red and White CS. 

The Birthday card uses the same heart stamps hanging from a GKD branch stamp that I modified to be a tree. The word stamps are from Winnie & Walter set.  Used Memento Lady Bug, Bamboo Leaves, and Rich Cocoa inks with White and Fresh Asparagus CS. Embossed white layer with Cuttlebug Wicker Weave EF.  I was going to make the theme of this card All Things Grow with Love but that did not work out. 

Challenges:

Twofer Card Challenge: Challenge #23 Two different designs for two different occasions using the same stamps, stencils, and/or dies. Theme is Hearts.

Happy Little Stampers: January Anything Goes with Dies.

Dies R Us Challenge: #136 Anything Goes using any brand of metal die that DRU sells. 

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge: Partial Die-cutting + Stamping + Your Choice.  Did some doodling with Alcohol Marker. 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Whimsical Flowers

Hello!  I've decided to try and make more than one card at a time since it is easy to do once you have stamps and supplies out.  I have used Gina K Design stamps and a die from Whimsical Wildflowers for these cards using partial die cutting and water coloring on both designs. I stamped the floral image twice on watercolor paper and heat embossed one with gold EP and one with white EP.  I water colored each with DOI Picked Raspberry and DI Forest Moss using a water brush. I used the GKD Die to partially cut the image.  The top card was finished by placing the cut portion on top of a Pattern Paper that I created with GKD Background Stamp Petite Flourish using GKD Fresh Asparagus ink on white CS.  Finished this one with a card base of GKD Fresh Asparagus CS and a Gold Embossed GKD sentiment. . 

I kept the second card clean and simple by simply adding the partially cut image to a card base of Yellow CS and stamping the GKD sentiment with Distress Ink Forest Moss.  I found it hard to water color this image since it was embossed with white EP but I just tried to follow the lines by looking at the first card that I colored first 

Challenges:

Top Card-

Mod Squad Challenge: Create Your Own Patterned Paper

Seize the Birthday: #180 Anything Goes Birthday,  I love their new graphics. 

Alphabet Challenge: T is for Try Something Different. First time to try partial die cutting in this way.

 Bottom Card:

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge: January Partial Die Cutting + Stamping + Your Choice.  I chose to use water coloring and heat embossing.

Happy Little Stampers: January Watercolor Challenge-Anything goes + Optional: Die Cuts

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa