Birthday flowers | Mama Elephant and Clearly Besotted

Hi there! I am here for a quick blogpost to show you my recent cards. I used the stamp set 'timeless tulips' from Mama Elephant and played with my Gansai Tambi watercolors.

For each of the cards I applied three layers of color. The first one is a very light base layer, then a darker one and a very intensive last layer. I used only one color for the flowers and for the leafs - only the amount of water changed.

With black and the beautiful pearlescent color included in the 36 color set I mixed a light silver color and applied it around the bouquet. 

Last but not least I added the sentiment from Clearly Besotted.

Thank you for stopping by and have an awesome day!

xo
Lisa

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Happy Birthday | MFT

Hey there! I am back with a birthday card which turned out just the way I imagined ;-)

 
I created the watercolored background by white heat embossing the 'etched flower' background stamp from My favorite things and colored it in with green Gansai Tambi watercolors. Then I blended green, brown and yellow distress inks on a piece of watercolor paper and diecut the images from 'jungle friends' from that paper. I added some details with Zig clean color real brush markers and adhered everything to the background.

I also diecut the 'birthday border' (Lawn Fawn) from some pattern paper and added yellow enamel dots from my stash. In order to round up the color scheme I chose a craft card base.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!

xo
Lisa

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Zig clean color real brush markers used: 043, 046, 065

Mr. Dracula | MFT & LF | Lawnscaping Challenge #140

Hi there! Halloween is right around the corner so I decided to make a last card inspired by the color scheme Lawnscaping challenge no. 140.

(In reality it's far more purple than on the photo :-( )

I did a bit of masking for the background because except for the vampire the whole scene has only one layer.

To mask off the ground I diecut one of the 'landscape trio' dies from Mama Elephant and created a diy mask. I did the same process to mask off the moon. For the sky and earth I blended distress inks (earth: ground espresso and black soot; sky: milled lavender, wilted violet, chipped sapphiere and black soot).

The other images I colored in with the Gansai Tambi watercolors. Beside the two colors purple and black I decided to use a blueish grey.

After everything was dry I added some stars with opaque white and adhered the dracula with a small action whobbler to the card to create more interest. 

Last but not least I adhered the whole scene to a silver cardbase (I used silver because I ran out of grey ones and it was the perfect color to create a little bit of contrast but not distract from the actual scene).

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day! 

xo

Lisa

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Howdy! | Mama Elephant

Hi everyone! I tried to create a masculine birthday card so that I have at least one at stock. It's not so easy for me to choose the images and so on for masculine cards and often I end up with a more female looking one nevertheless :)

I used the Clearly Besotted stamp set 'all in onesies' to stamp the background. Then I chose Gansai Tambi watercolors to color them in. For the brown background color I used distress inks.

While letting the background try, I stamped the rest of the images from 'rowdy raccoons' with Memento tuxedo black and colored them in with Copic markers. I love the coordinating dies because they also cut the details around the lasso. I used a white paper strip to stamp the sentiment with Lawn Fawn walnut ink and diecut a vellum circle to soften the area around the raccoon a bit.

Last but not least I adhered everything to a green cardbase.

Thank you so much for stopping by and have a great day!

xo
Lisa

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Copic Colors: E30, E31, E35, E37, E55, E59, G12, Y000, Y11, Y15, YG11

Gansai Tambi colors: 42, 44, 46, 53, 54