Feeling Blue....

 No I'm not feeling "blue" but had fun making some blue cards today.    It was a wet and windy day so decided to finish work a little early so I could spend some time in my craft room.  I knew we were going out for a curry dinner, so didn't have to prep a dinner so spent time playing.   

I thought I'd do a card for Less is More - butterfly - but didn't get my card done in time.... I knew I wanted to try a technique I saw on Gina K's 5-minute You Tube video a couple of weeks ago.  

This card used older Hero Arts stamps.  The butterflies from Antique Engravings (2010) the sentiment from Share Laughter (2008)   I stamped the butterflies onto some white card and then coloured with some white Prismacolor pencils.  I then took some blue and purple Altenew inks and blended over them.  I tore the panel and inked the edges with some Walnut Stain Distress inks before adding to the white die cut panel.  I added the sentiment and some clear sequins.    I looked at it and realised it was not quite as CAS as I had wanted - but love it anyway!   Believe it or not... I messed up this card 

I ended up getting some blue ink onto the card.... but due to my trusty sand eraser... I managed to get it off.  

So the latest challenge at "Less is More" is One Layer Card - Favourite Flower.   This I can do! 

I took a piece of mixed media paper to make my card.  I have taken a stamp from Altenew's Craft Your Life Hello Beautiful and white embossed it onto the card front.  I then took some Altenew Turquoise ink and blended over and around the embossed flower.   I then used Turquoise and Tide Blue inks to watercolour the flower.  The leaves were painted with Evening Grey and Lava Rock inks.  A few splatters of the grey inks were added.  The sentiment from the same stamp set was inked in black ink and embossed with clear powder.