Bountiful Birthday!

Hi friends!

Happy Fall!

I love this time of year 

with all the wonderful colors and scents and freshness to the season!

It's all still VERY green here as it will be all year

but a girl can dream!

My card is for Splitcoaststampers Watercolor Wednesday 

and we're up to the 17 in the series!

This week's theme is watercolor imprints

and this is easy to do with a stencil.

For my card's background, 

I've used the randomness stencil from Picket Fence Studios.

I started with Canson #140 watercolor paper and my Kuretake Gansai pans.

The flora is die cut papers using Honey Cuts from Honey Bee Stamps

and I added a sentiment from one of my My Favorite Things stamp sets.

After watercoloring the stencil, I set it onto the watercolor paper 

and put a book on top to press the color into the paper.

After about 30 minutes or so, I let it dry  naturally the rest of the way

and then put the card together pretty easily!

For the final touch, I used some gold watercolor paint and

used my paintbrush to splatter bright pops of gold color onto the background.

And that's it from me!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

Card entered for consideration to:

  The Rainbow Card Challenge - autumn

Funkie Junkie - Create your own background

The Card Concept - inspiration photo (leaves!)

Mod Squad Challenge - Autumn Foliage

You are MER-MAZING!

 Hi friends!

   Happy Fri-YAY!   

 And here's your reminder that YES!!

You are MER-mazing!

 

 

This little cutie is Mermaid Samantha and she is a stamp set

from the Ink Road Stamps.

I was smitten with IRS (and Lara's humor!) when they debuted on Instagram 

and my friend Von Marie enabled me tempted me to take a closer look!

Mermaids need WATER-color paper (heehee!) and SEA-quins (okay, I'll stop!)

so that's what I envisioned when putting my card together.

I colored Samantha with my prismacolor markers 

in the same palette as the watercolors

so it would all come together nicely in a warm under the sea feel.

 

I hope whatever your plans are for today - for the weekend  -

you get to have fun!

 

And never be afraid to make waves :)

Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE1744 ~ Thanks!

Happy November!

Can you believe it - this year is flying by!

Before we know it, it's Thanksgiving 

and then Christmas and a brand new year ♥

For this week's theme at the CCEE Stampers,

Joanne is our hostess and challenged us to create a card with thanks.

Here are her words:

This month I am going to keep it simple.  The holidays are coming, and times will be busy. 
This will be a month of celebrations.  This week I would like you to make a Thanksgiving card
OR a card of thanks.

I decided to create a Thanksgiving card for 2 reasons.

First, and most importantly, I needed one :)

And second, I was so very lucky to win a digital stamp

from 2 Cute Ink in their Instagram contest ♥

Isn't it cute!

 

This little turkey was colored to match the watercolor

background piece that was originally on my card.  

The small square around the sentiment was originally a window frame die.

It wasn't quite what I wanted, so I peeled her up 

and attached her to this watercolored background.

The turkey is 3d ~ printed, then printed again and fussy cut,

and popped up on 3d foam so sideways, there's a lot of dimension going on!

 

These colors are very bright and bold.

The pigment in the Kuretake Gansai Tambi 

set of watercolors is AH-MAY-ZING!!

I am so in love - these watercolors are just dreamy ♥

I did color the turkey with my prismacolor markers, the rest is paint! 

Be sure to stop in and see what the rest of the CCEE Stampers

created this week ~ you can find the blog here.

If you'd like to create a card using this theme, please link up

your card and/or use the keyword CCEE1744.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you again, Heidi, and 2 Cute Ink!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly