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Natasha and I did the online watercolour for card makers class a couple weeks back…I'm finally finding some time to make good use of the awesome techniques that we learned!!

this card involves a couple techniques in it! First I heat embossed the roses to get my background pattern then I rubbed my distress pads on my craft matt and sprayed it with water and laid the water colour paper in it…After the card was dried I ironed off the embossed areas so I was able to stamp the sentiment! Die cut some pretty butterflies added the ribbon and of course sequins and voila! Here you have it!!

Hope you enjoy!
Chera

Edited to add-For those interested, Jennifer McGuire has a nice video featuring this technique here. The background technique that Chera used is different than the video, but the video shows how to use an iron to remove the heated embossing powder.

Flowers are from this set.

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Happy Friday!

I have returned! (I didn't actually go anywhere, just needed some time to focus on wedding things). It all went incredibly well! The weather was perfect and everyone had a super fun time!

Anyway... here is this week's sketch!

Here's my take on it. After over two weeks of not creating anything, I was in the mood for making something a bit messy. I created a stencil using the circle coverplate from PTI and then sprayed over it with a gold shimmer spray. That just wasn't enough for me, so I added some brown paint splatters.

I finished that off with a layered butterfly and some lace and ribbon!

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Hi everybody. It's Cindy here again. Natasha is getting married on June 1! We are all so happy and excited for her. Natasha has faithfully provided us with the best sketches for years now and we're going to change it a bit while she's away and then we will resume our regular programming.

In honor of Natasha, your challenge this week is to make a wedding card! And I bet she would love for you to mail it to her as well :) This can be an ensemble, tag, an altered item 3D, no restrictions and let your creativity just go where it leads you.

I don't have mine ready yet because I have no mojo and don't even know where to start because I've only made one wedding card, ever. I will have to hunt it down and perhaps post it here. I do remember making a wedding card that was in the yellow hues of Papertrey Ink when they first came out with the Triangle Triology and Simply Jane.  I will hunt it down and post it and then make a better and beautiful wedding card for Natasha. On second thought, I do have more wedding cards. I will show you them here and then make another one for Natasha. Enjoy!

I think I've found a lot of examples to hopefully inspire you, which will be posted on Saturday, and I hope that you like them too! I will be back with something I specifically made for Natasha.

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Here's my card and you can expect to see something better within the next few days. Enjoy your holiday weekend and please remember those who have given their lives for our country. God bless and enjoy your family this weekend. Blessings to you all.

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Hi everybody. This is Cindy with a super fun card from Natasha's super fun sketch. I used a lot of new Stampin' Up! products on here and so this card was super fun to make! You can check out my blog for more information. I hope you like my card. Be sure to come back tomorrow for another great clean and simple sketch. God bless and have a great day.

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Happy Friday!

I hope you're all having a good week! Here is this week's sketch:

For my card, I was inspired by this fun video by Jennifer Maguire. I decided to make a fun splattered background. I started by sponging distress ink on white card stock, then I splattered various inks all over (Peacock Feathers, Peeled Paint, Gold).

Supplies:

Stamps: Feather Finery, Signature Greeting

Ink: Peacock Feathers, Peeled Paint, Gold, Ripe Avocado

Paper: Bermuda Bay, White, Gold

Accessories, etc.: Scalloped edge die (small)

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