A few cards

I started playing around with some Distress inks  and re-inkers yesterday andgot rather mucky fingers into the bargain, but it was fun.

Here are some of the cards I made.

For this one I spritzed the watercolour paper with water before stamping the Papertrey Ink images with Peeled Paint Distress ink. I re-stamped a couple of times without re-inking to get the lighter shades. When the paper was dry I stamped again to get a clearer image.

Then I used a Stampin' Up Gorgeous Grunge splat stamp in Tattered Rose ink. 

The butterfly is Memory Box and the sentiment is a double stack from part of  Poppy Stamps - Jumbled Birthday.

It's for Happy Little Stampers Watercolouring  Challenge.

Here I squiggled three shades of  Distress Re-inkers onto my glass mat and spritzed them with water.

(Peeled Paint, Weathered Wood and Antique Linen)

I then laid my piece of watercolour paper on the top and allowed the ink to soak in a little. I filled in any un-inked areas by just re-dabbing the paper  into the ink.

I dried it with my heat gun and then stamped the plant images with Versamark embossing in gold and platinum.

The panel was cut with a SSS Stitched rectangle die and the sentiment from Tattered Lace and the leaves from Wplus9 cut from golf mirri card and mounted over the panel.

I took the sketch from Case this Sketch

More Peeled Paint ink here, with the same Papertrey Ink stamp and a similar process as the first card.

I think the happy die is from Simon Says Stamp.  The birthday die is from Papertrey Ink.
I think all of these cards fit with the watercolouring challenge at Happy Little Stampers. I don't know how to add more cards from the same post to one challenge, unless I do a link to my entire blog as well as a specific one! Hey Ho!

Finally a card in a different colour!

This is for the Muse challenge and here is Vicki's inspiration card.

It will soon be time to put a chicken in the oven for the Sunday Roast, so I'd better get my skates on.

We sang in a Come and Sing performance of Haydn's Creation last night with my choir. It was super... so was the curry afterwards!