Clean & Simple Makes Me Smile

I love the look of a Clean and Simple card and add watercolouring to it too and it is guaranteed to make me smile. Today, I am sharing such a card on the Magenta blog.

Supplies: XL 140 lb watercolour paper (Canson), Floral stencil, Happy Birthday stamp, Aquamarine, Spring Green and Violet Nuance powders (Magenta), white cardstock (CTMH), black cardstock (Bazzill), Clear and white embossing powder, Wonky Rectangle die (Simon Says Stamp), Emboss It dabber (Ranger), jewels (Offray)

I started with a piece of 140lb cold press watercolour paper and clear heat embossed using the Floral Pattern stencil. Next, I used a wet on wet watercolour technique to add colour. I pre-wet the area around the image emboss resist that I wanted to colour and then added Nuance powders (Violet, Spring Green and Aquamarine) pre-wet as watercolours. While it was drying, I stamped and white heat embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment on black cardstock and cut it to size. Once the panel was dry, I die cut it and mounted it on a cardbase. I popped up the sentiment and added some jewels to the flower centres.

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Magenta products used:

TM188

MNU012

MNU019

MNU020

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I hope my Clean & Simple Birthday Card made you smile today and that you are inspired to give it a try.

TTFN,

Magenta Smile Rainbow Style

With the absence of spring like weather here in Ontario (we are forecast for another snow storm which is not the norm for mid April), I am in need of some sunshine cheeriness. So today's card that I am sharing on the Magenta blog is bright and rainbow colourful.

I started with a piece of 140 lb watercolour paper and clear heat embossed the background with the Flying Butterflies stencil. Next, I added colour with a rainbow assortment of Nuance powders used as watercolours along with little splatters as I completed each colour. Once dry, I used a black marker to outline the butterflies and stamped the Smile sentiment with black heat emboss. Lastly, I matted it on black cardstock, added it to a cardbase, and added a few bitty jewels under the sentiment. 

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Magenta products used:

TM252

MNU005

MNU008

MNU002

MNU009

MNU001

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I hope this Smile card brightens your day!

TTFN,