Pink Florals Card

Hello crafters! I hope your weekend was good! Here new signs of spring appear almost every day, which is wonderful. 

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This week we have a Bright & Cheerful theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. Lots of options! Don't miss the beautiful project by our April guest Thom Santilla.  

I made a card with very bright and cheerful colors and some glitter and bling too. The flower was stamped with Simon Says Stamp Beautiful and Curious (I just love the name of that stamp set) and everything was colored with watercolors. 

I die cut a square from watercolor paper with Simon Says Stamp Basic Shapes Squares. White emboss the floral stamp from Beautiful and Curious. 

Paint the flowers with watercolor paint, dropping yellow paint into the pink before the pink paint was dry. 

Paint the leaves and stem and then paint the background. I didn't use green for the grass, but instead dropped in yellow paint letting it mix with the blue paint on the paper.

When the paint was dry, I white embossed dots from Tim Holtz Halftone background as a frame around the flower.

The embossing will resist the paint. Don't worry about trying to get perfect coloring. 

I die cut squares from Simon Says Stamp White glitter cardstock and from watercolor paper, using them as mats. Distress the edges of the watercolor paper squares. A Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker was used as a sentiment. 

Add Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Opal Gems to the flower centers. 

The sentiment was die cut with Tim Holtz Handwritten Celebrate from Simon Says Stamp Color Blend cardstock and white glitter cardstock. The Color Blend cardstock is glossy. The stamped sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Cool Birthday.

I used mummy cloth / cheese cloth as a border together with an old heart ribbon.

Join us this week in our Bright and Cheerful challenge! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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