Do I Love These Flowers!

I purchased this set of flower and leaf dies from Ellen Hutson and oh how I love them.  

 I know I could use them in a whole lot of ways and so here is one way.  I started out making a very simple background with Distress Stains.  I wanted green to be my main color for the background and I wanted the watercolor effect to be minimal.  That amazing sentiment is from a new set by Tim Holtz.  The font is so fun. 

 I cut out the two sizes of flowers and the two leaves from watercolor paper and then added various colors with Distress Stains.  I then coated the leaves with gold Distress Stain and some gold paint.  I love how easy it is to created a neat color combo with the dabber top of the stains.  

This fits the CAS on Sunday challenge to use GOLD.

And the Addicted to Stamps challenge by using the Photo Inspiration.  I love all of the whites with the splash of pink in the middle.  I thought my card slightly fit with that with the simple background and the pink flowers. 

It also fits the Paper Players color combination.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

AAA Cards - Springtime

 The perfect AAA Cards challenge, spring time flowers! 

 And I used a brand new set of flowers stamps to me from Alternew.  After I stamped the flowers and leaves with white ink and embossed them with white embossing powder, I colored the entire front of my card with Distress Stains.  

Because the Distress Stains have a dabber top, it is very easy to apply ink to specific areas so I used them to "paint" the flowers and to create the background on watercolor paper.  I used a stencil to add a little scattering of silver dots with embossing paste. 

Be sure to play along at AAA Cards.

It also fits the Colour Q challenge.

And the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, Spring Flowers.

Plus the great colors from the Card Concept challenge.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Spring Chicks

One more card with a fun Easter and Spring theme. 

 I used a set of stamps with their matching dies from Reverse Confetti.  I have used this set so many times, I love it.  That background was created first with a stencil and two shades of green Distress Stain on watercolor paper.  I loved how you can barely make out the pattern of the stencil yet it ended up a neat mix of the greens. 

 I used several of the stamps in the set and I am a huge fan of having the matching dies.  They make cutting out the pieces so much faster and so much neater.  Everything was colored with Distress Stamp pads or Distress Stains by Ranger Ink.  

 My card fits the colour combo at Colour Q.

Plus it fits the Spring theme at Cas-ology.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

The happy bunny

Here we go again...

 Another card with the Easter bunny in mind. I used a set of stamps by Tim Holtz.  

 For the easiest way to color the image, I just used some Distress Stains on watercolor paper.  Once that was dry, I cut it out with a tag die.  That helped it fit the two sketches that I used.  The entire background was cut with a stitched die from Avery Elle.  I also added some accent with white embossing paste and a stencil.  The die cut word is from Clearly Besotted. 

 Here is the CAS(e) this sketch I used.

 If you turn this sketch, my card also fits the Sunday Stamps sketch.

And it fits the Addicted to Stamps Holiday challenge.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Hip Hip Hooray for Easter Eggs

 Oh, just a background with a bunch of fun colors!!! This was such a super simple background to create with Distress Stains yet I am so in love with the magical mix of colors.  They just seem to go along with coloring an Easter egg.  The egg stamp is from Tim Holtz and the sentiment is from Wplus9 Designs.  

I applied some Distress Stains directly to an acrylic block, gave that a little spritz of water and then placed it directly to a piece of watercolor paper.  I picked it up but there was still plenty of ink on the block so I blotted it here and there to add more color.  I didn't even need to color the egg because the background has so much color to it.

My card fits the CAS-ology Spring challenge.

And it fits the Crazy 4 Challenges Spring challenge.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

AAA Cards Easter Colors Themed challenge

 I am having so much fun creating Spring or Easter colors themed cards lately.  Who can resist bunnies and chicks and flowers!!! So I am a fan of the newest AAA Cards challenge. 

 I created my background with a Simon Says Stamp stencil, some embossing paste and some Distress Inks.  In order to get the embossing paste yellow, I simply added some Distress Stain ink to the stencil first and then spread the embossing paste over the stencil. This combines the paste and the ink.  

I then gave it a quick spray of some spray inks.  That adorable little chickie and the cute sentiment are stamps from Reverse Confetti.  More coloring with Distress Stains.

Be sure to check out the AAA Cards Design Teams cute creations and take some time to play along. 

This also fits the Fusion challenge because of all of the yellow and the celebration of Easter.

And the Addicted to CAS challenge of CUTE.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

A Little Love

I am so in love with this particular flower stamp set from Alternew.

 I also love finding more ways to use it.  For this card, the style is pretty casual as far as not really defining each flower, just making all the flowers and leaves and colors just flow together.  I also made it fit the Sketch Saturday since I also love my banner dies from My Favorite Things.  

 I just stamped the outline of the flowers and the leaves on watercolor paper with black ink, embossed them with clear embossing powder.  I like to emboss the black stamped images because it adds definition to the black and makes the ink stable for adding more colors.  I then added color with Distress Stains.  Nothing was exact, I just let the inks and colors flow.  

 Here is the Sketch Saturday.

It also fits the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge because it is Anything Goes.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)