Pastel Flowers

 Today I have another water coloured paper that has been die cut to make a flower.   Last Tuesday (my birthday) Grace and her Dad popped in to say Happy Birthday.  Of course, Miss Grace decided she need to do some ink blending..  she chose some Distress inks and added them to some mixed media paper.   When she left, I spritzed the paper to mix the colours... they turned out so pretty - all pastel colours. 

I took an Altenew 3D flower die - Fantasy Floral die and cut two flowers.   Love the combination of the colours.  I added some white paint splatters and some fine black splatters.  I used Altenew Mixed Frames to cut the panel and added a Happy Birthday sentiment from Altenew Sentiment stripes 3 set.  This card is for a friend who's birthday was on Friday.  She lives in Australia but arrived today for a two week holiday here in NZ to catch up with her whanau (Family).  We are heading into the city very soon to meet up with her for dinner.   I haven't seen her for 5 years - when I last visited the Gold Coast just before my Mum passed.   Will be great to catch up with her and her two daughters.

I'm entering this into this month's Inspiration Challenge at Altenew

Thanks for stopping by.   

Watercoloured Dies.

 Recently I watched a Gina K Facebook Live (here) where Gina made watercolour backgrounds with her Zig Markers and then die cut them to use on cards.   Over the weekend, I tried it out.  My Zigs are getting a bit dry so didn't get the same bright colour ways.   I still managed to get some fun backgrounds that I used for a couple of cards.  I recently bought some Mixed Media paper - and it's perfect for watercolouring on.  

First up - using some of the pink and orange watercolour papers.    I was inspired by the cards Gina made but using Altenew Itty Bitty Branches die cuts.  

I used Gina K Master Layouts #2 to cut my centre panel.  I cut a circle die and stamped my sentiment and then added the die cuts.   I had an issue with my glue going everywhere.  I still like how it turned out - not as noticeable in real life.  

My next card I die cut some more of the pinky watercolour and some of the green one I did,

 For this card I cut the layers of the Wild Rose 3D die  and added extra ink blending over the other layers.  I made my background panel with some Marble patterned paper.  The sentiment is from a Pinkfresh studios hotfoil and die set.   You get a lot of sentiments at once... 

I'm going to make a few more backgrounds to have on hand.  

Tomorrow is my birthday - officially an Old Aged Pensioner.... 65 years old.  NZ'ers get the pension at 65 so my holiday fund will get an extra boost every two weeks!   

Watercoloured background

 Hi there.  I'm sharing another of the card I started when I was away.  

I had taken some watercolour paper I had purchased cheaply.... and found out why!  It was 180gsm - and not really the best but I did manage to add some watercolour paints to it.  Once it dried it didn't look too bad.   As it was very light colours, I was able to use the Altenew Craft your life - Hello Beautiful stamp and stencil set to add the flowers.  I used some black ink to add colour to white card to make the mat layer.  I finished it with a Taylored Expressions sentiment strip and some silver baubles. 

Today was another scorcher here in Auckland.  We went on another MG Club outing - this time to a vineyard for a luncheon. 

Once we got back and went for a swim.   It's now 9.50pm and it is still 21C.  A little bit warm!  I think sleeping tonight will be a bit hard.  

Take care everyone