Watercolor Bloom with Grace

Hello friends! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. We had good food and good times with family and now my craft room is overflowing with many new goodies! I can’t wait to try them all. It’s sure to be a fun filled crafty new year.

Today I’m sharing a card I made with the December Stamp of the Month from Not 2 Shabby. These rose images made me want to watercolor so I pulled out my Gansai Tambi palette and got to work.

I started out with a panel of Distress Watercolor paper and I stamped the rose images randomly around the panel with Versafine Clair black ink. Once that was dry, I went in with a wash of a light brown in all the white space around the flowers. I then watercolored the flowers, then stamped the Adore sentiment in the open spaces for some texture.

I had originally planned to cut the background in strips and use them on separate cards, but after I cut them I changed my mind. So I inked around all the wedges and then realigned two of the strips together to form the background.

Next I pulled out more Distress watercolor paper and stamped the focal flower and sentiment. These were both cut with coordinating dies and then watercolored in the same manner with a brown wash in all the white spaces.  I added a panel of Sweet Valentine paper that I sponged with distress inks as a backdrop, then finished with some Kraft matting. My final accents were lots of splatter and a few flat back pearls from my stash.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you are inspired to go get crafty.

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Warm Cocoa Wishes

Hi friends! It's crunch time for the Christmas crafting, so today I have a few more little treat holders I finished over the weekend to share with you.  I selected the Lattes Cooca and Cookies paper pack and ephemera and got started using Angie from Stamping with Amore's tutorial for these adorable little treat holders.

I picked out some coordinating colors of cardstock in midnight muse, gumball green, and cherry cobbler and got to work.  I love these papers and ephemera and everything came together so easily.  The sentiment is from the Mini Messages set in the Enjoy this Life Bundle.  I stamped it onto a die cut, then embellished with some doodlebug enamel hearts.

A bit of string and some jingle bells finish things off. I added two Ghirardelli peppermint bark squares to the inside and am excited to give them out.

Hope you're having a wonderful start to your week. Thanks for stopping by.

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