LIM Animal Challenge

A second entry for this week's Less Is More where the theme is Animal. I was feeling a little bit of a fraud as my first entry was so tenuously linked to the challenge theme! The owl is a Dawn Bibby stamp, coloured with Promarkers with the background sprayed with Promarkers.

The "tree" is, of course, embossed kraft cardstock & the sentiment is computer-generated.

There, now I feel better for submitting a "proper" entry!

Summer Seascape

My lovely husband bought me an early birthday present of some "proper" watercolours & brushes, which arrived the other day. And of course, I had to test them out! This was my interpretation of a summery seascape for the "Summer" challenge over at Simon Says Stamp, using a watercolour cardstock offcut. I'm also (VERY tongue-in-cheek!) going to enter it into the Less is More challenge where the theme is "Animals" - well, there are birds!!

Paints: Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours

Stamps: Inkylicious

Inks: Distress Peeled Paint & Pumice Stone, Hero Arts Charcoal Gray

Third Time Lucky!

This card is for the one-layer challenge over at Less Is More where the current theme is Foliage. 

The greeting is by Clearly Besotted & was stamped in Distress Peeled Paint onto watercolour cardstock. The leaf stencil was a downloaded image (modified in Craft Artist 2 Professional to add an extra branch) then cut on my Sizzix Eclips. As embossing paste is all the rage right now I used my own version which is known in the US as "spackle", but I know it as "One Strike Filler". I mixed it on my craft mat with Distress Peeled Paint ink. A few arty water splashes were all that was necessary to finish it off.

This was my third attempt - the first couple of attempts initially turned out fine but I managed to ruin each card in different ways! Although I could reuse parts of them they wouldn't have been one layer so watch out for them over the next few days as they turn up in modified form.