Waving Hello - Lawnscaping No. 74

I'm here with card # 2! I used the same supplies as my first card but chose a different lady for inspiration. This time I chose Jenn! I adore all of Jenn's cards, especially anything with glitter. So this time I chose her card from this post. I took the rest of my piece of water color background and layered it onto a piece of navy card stock. Originally I had the whole card out of Navy but I ended up not liking it, so I just cut it down. The first and bubbles are from Lawn Fawn's critters of the sea stamp set. I clear embossed them as well. I accidentally stamped the fish in non permanent ink on the vellum, which smears if you aren't careful so I embossed it. The edges, like the inspiration card, are edged with clear sparklie glitter. I didn't like how it looked all chunky so I burnished it with my finger.

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Whale of a Time - Lawnscaping No. 74

So I have like a million ideas for all the cards I wanted to make for this challenge. All the Ladies are just so talented, its hard NOT to be inspired by their creations. :) I'm sure I will do one or two more today.

To start I chose Karin from Peppermint Patty's Papercrafts ; she does all these lovely watercolors and though I'm not one to watercolor very often any more, I did used to do it all the time. Since now I'm into card making, I love using distress paints & inks to water color with. I didn't choose a particular card, just the idea of water colors.

The whale is from Lawn Fawn's critters in the sea. I stamped him on some vellum & colored the other side with broken china. I smeared the ink on my craft sheet & then used a water brush to paint it on. The background I made using some water color paper and all my blue shades of ink/paint. I dabbed each color on my craft sheet & then misted my sheet of paper. Using a paint brush I picked up various shades and just blobbed them on the paper and misted some more. The thing I love about distress paints is how much they move around and run like water colors can. The mixture of the paint which is more opaque and the inks which are more transparent is what gives so much depth to the card. Its really hard to see the the photograph but I also used some perfect pearls mist as well.

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