Altenew Blog Hop!

Altenew is having a Blog Hop and several members of the DT at Less is More are joining in. Here is my card using a stamp from the Celebrations set, stamped onto vellum and embossed in silver, then coloured with markers on the reverse. The backdrop is embossed with a Sheena Douglass snowfall EF. I thought it echoed the sketchy small blossoms on the image. The sentiment is from the same stamp set and the die cut was made with a stitched edging die from MFT.

Look on the Less is More site for full details!

Favourite flower

We have a simple 

One layer Challenge 

at 

Less is More 

this week.

Practically every month someone either forgets the one layer part or the actual theme for the card, which this time is a Favourite Flower. This time I remembered both!

I particularly love spring flowers, they always seem so fresh and new,.. a promise of things to come. Here is a favourite stamp of a favourite flower of mine... the tulip... from Stampin' Up.

It was simply coloured with water colour pencils, blended with a water brush and glazed with a layer of Glossy Accents... apart from the newspaper that is.

I don't think it needs any more!

Peacock Feather Colours

The colour challenge at "Less is More" this week is to use the colours of peacock's feathers... I decided to use an image of  a peacock's feather too as had I picked one up in a Grab Bag from Rubber Necker stamps at Ally Pally some time ago.

Essentially the colours are blue and green, but there is also quite a bit iridescence in these glorious shades. 

To achieve this I used  a variety of glittery powders from WOW; St Lucia Surf, Antigua Breeze and Jamaica Green.

The sentiment is from a die cut from Hero Arts, also inked with Versamark and embossed.

Here's the same stamp, this time stamped on white card, embossed in silver and then painted with a water brush. Various shades of blue and green Brushos were then sprinkled over and allowed to react with the water.

When dry, the feather was cut out and a twinkling of Glamour Dust was added for good measure!

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted and embossed in silver.

Watercolour Spritzing

The CAS challenge this month at Happy Little Stampers is
Watercolour Spritzing

I made this card at the HLS Retreat in Swindon a few weeks ago... using Brushos. It was such fun to do! I had had some Brushos for quite a while but needed this input to get me going on the right lines.  Now I can't stop!
I spritzed a piece of watercolour paper with water and sprinkled a couple of shades of Brushos onto it and waited for it to react, adding a little more water as necessary. I also took a print from the paper and so got an extra background into the bargain.
The backing of the Sizzix butterflies and the Clearly Besotted sentiment were cut from the same piece of card, which was placed behind the Sizzix honeycomb corner, aperture die.

This challenge is sponsored by

Tutorials:
Watercolour Spritz by StampTV (3:49)
Watercolor Spritz Technique by Joslyn Nielson (0:43)
Spritzing Brushos by Kylie Purtell (1:57)

Why not have a little fun and join in with this challenge....don't forget to keep it Clean and Simple!