Monday, July 5, 2010

Garden Bouquet, take 2


This time I started with watercolor paper and stamped the image after "painting" it with markers and spritzing it with pearlized water.  After die-cutting it with a scalloped circle,  it was lifted above a background of 4 panels, each dry embossed with a different pattern, and separated with some lace.  The butterflies are stamped on 2 pieces of polished stone papers that I had in my scrapbasket, adding wire antennae.  I finished with a PTI sentiment that I trimmed to fit in the corner.  This will be my second entry into The Shabby Tea Room's challenge to use embossing.


Supplies:  HA CG172 Garden Bouquet, CL383 Antique Engravings, PTI Vintage Picnic Sentiments, watercolor paper, coral, blue, and green cardstocks, embossing folders: Cuttlebug Textile and Victoria, Sizzix Large Flowers and Dots, Marvy brush markers, versafine onyx black ink, lace, black wire for antennae

12 comments:

Alice said...

gorgeous card! love the watercolor look and the background!

Barbara said...

SO many gorgeous details in this Lin! I love the colours of the flowers and the dry embossing! Beautiful!!!!

Pajalu said...

Lin this is such a lovely card. I love the effect with the watercolouring. Good luck with the challenge xoxoxoxoxoxo

Dawn T said...

This is just so pretty Lin. Love the watercolour look.

Barb said...

Love this one, Lin. So pretty with the four embossed panels and gorgeous lace.

Sanne said...

Such a harmonie in this card Lin - beautiful!

Audrey Pettit said...

How very, very pretty! I just love your stamping technique here, and those butterflies are beautiful. Love the wire antennae you added. I also really like how you trimmed the sentiment in the bottom corner, and the embossed panels are fabulous. Thanks for playing with us again in the Tea Room.

Debbie said...

So pretty ... I {heart} the watercolor effect you achieved on the flower image! Thanks for sharing your design with us this week in the Tea Room :)

PapierGirl said...

Lin - you are one busy lady! This is beautiful - I love how muted the stamped image is. Thanks again for sharing! :)

Joanne Leddy said...

Love the butterflies! Thanks for sharing!

Suzanne C said...

Beautiful card! Love the bouquet and the mixed colors.

Deb Hickman said...

So pretty,love those butterflies.