HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS #IC340

I hope you are all still doing well and managing to carry on crafting. We have an Inspiration Challenge for you today at Hand Stamped Sentiments.

I used some old Kaisercraft Stamps for my image.  I used some Tim Holtz Distress Inks to sponge the background and used Ranger Archival Ink in Library Green to stamp the flowers.  I then used some new watercolour brushes from Lime Otter to colour them in.  The die cut is from Crafters Companion and came as a freebie when hubby bought me the Gemini electric die cut machine for my birthday - I'm still playing with it and working it out!  























 

WATER COLOURING

Hubby was very clever for my birthday and bought me some lovely water colour brush pens which I hadn't even heard of.  From a company called Lime Otter and they are wonderful.  Such lovely vibrant colours and I've been having a play.

The word stamp in the middle is from Visible Image stamps.  I can't remember where the flower stamps are from. I did a first one as below but then thought it needed a little something extra so found some very tiny butterflies from SU's set Special Someone and just added them to give the card a bit more movement.  I started off with putting a wash of Tumbled Glass Distress Ink over the white water colour paper just to soften the background. The cut out butterfly is from SU's Bliss retired set and cut out with their retired butterfly punch.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

TGIF - Watercolour Challenge #TGIFC264
Simon Says Stamp - All Abuzz
Crafty Cardmakers - Butterflies
International Art and Soul - Butterflies and Flowers
Stamping Sensations - Flowers