May All Your Dreams Come True

Edited Aug 5th:  Thrilled to have won an Honorable Mention for this card!

 

Oh, this week CAS-ology Week 106 Rainbow is right up my alley!  I love rainbows!
I've also entered this card in Less is More Anything Goes and Addicted to Stamps Anything Goes

I used a technique I call Watercolor VersaMark Reveal which I think is super cool but I seem to be the only one excited by it!  I haven't seen anyone else do it, have you?  You can watch my video on this technique (with a different card where I smooshed instead of painting on the watercolors) on my blog here. Or on YouTube here.  
 

I stamped the large row of circles from PTI Polka Dot Basics III with VersaMark onto watercolor paper then dried it with my heat tool.  Then I smooshed out my rainbow of distress inks onto my craft mat, spritzed them with water and painted on each color with a brush over where I stamped the circles.  The VersaMark absorbs the color more intensely than the paper so the stamped image really stands out with multiple colors blended beautifully over it!
The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted Dandelion Dreams.  I finished the card off with a strip of black cardstock across the top and rounded the bottom corners.

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Karen

Tag You're It! Challenge #2 - I think you are pretty darn AMAZING

 

This is my second entry for  Tag You're It! Challenge #2 using the inspiration photo above.

 

I just had to use the negative space I had left from my first tag entry, so this is what I came up with.

I used vellum behind the opening as the tag itself.  I backed the opening with a white cut out of the PTI's A-Mazing die mounted on black cardstock.  Sentiments PTI A-Mazing stamp set.  I used Paper smooches Quotables die across the top of the watercolor paper.  The little heart is a punch that I applied glossy accents to and sprinkled a few microbeads onto. 

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Karen 

Tag You're It Challenge - I Miss You

 

Here is my first entry for Tag You're It! Challenge #2 using the inspiration photo above.

 

I white embossed Hero Arts small open flower on watercolor paper before smooshing with distress ink in yellow, orange and red.  I die cut PTI Monthly Moments Instant Photo die 2 (I rounded the corners) from grey cardstock then backed it with patty paper (basically waxed paper that you put between hamburger patties - what can I say, I have very little vellum!).  I die cut around the flower using Wplus9 circles die and mounted it over the upside-down photo die cut out.  I stamped "I miss" from PTI's Phrase Play #3 and the "you" is trimmed from PTI's Wonderful Words Thank You die. I stacked 3 together and added a layer of glossy accents.

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Karen

Winnie & Walter Share the Love Ombre

This is my entry for Winnie & Walter Share the Love Ombre using distress ink. I have managed to get a fourth card, despite only having the Big Bang Confetti set.  This card uses the solid circle cluster.  Sentiment is PTI.  I added some Inkssentials white enamel accents, though now I wish I had just stamped on more of the dots and white embossed them.

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Karen

Winnie & Walter Share the Love Tag

OK, let me explain.  I have a friend who sometimes mixes up saying and says the most hilarious things.  Normally, you would say 'drink like a fish' or 'swim with the fishes', she would say 'Drink with the Fishes'.  She's the greatest, I would drink with the fishes with her anytime!

This bottle tag is for  Winnie & Walter's Share the Love Tag Day.  I inked out a few of the distress ink blues onto my craft mat, spritzed with water then smooshed the tag into it  a few times.  The second picture shows the W&W touch with the open circles (from the one and only W&W set I have so far) for some bubbles.  I added glossy accents to a few of the small circles.  The fish are an old All Night Media stamp called Fish Lips. Alphabet PTI.

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Karen

Winnie & Walter Share the Love Stencil

This is my entry for  Winnie & Walter, Share the Love Stencil Day using Distress Inks.  I blended my distress inks through the MFT Moroccan Tiles stencil.  Then I stamped and white embossed the diamond shapes from W&W Big Bang Confetti over the shapes.  If I had The Big, the Bold, The Happy, I would have stamped the Happy stamp on the Vellum, but I don't.  Yet. Instead I put a Hello from PTI Communique Curves stamp set.  I mounted it on coral colored cardstock to complete it.

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Karen

Winnie & Walter Share the Love Watercolor

I only have the Big Bang Confetti set from Winnie & Walter but I'm going to try to make it work for all 5 Days!  I'm putting this card in for Winnie & Walter Day 1 Watercolor since I brushed the distress inks on with a wet paintbrush.  Notice the Winnie & Walter colors and the logo itself (minus the words & it is much more subtle in person) on the card.  They are such bright happy colors.  The second photo better shows the true colors of the card and the W&W touch - the stars stamped over the colors then clear embossed.
 

Stars Background - W & W Big Bang Confetti
Circle stamp - SSS Lots of Dots
Sentiment - SSS Flower Friend
Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Inks

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Karen