Feliz Quinceanera

One of the ladies in our Bible study has been bringing her young niece to Bible study for the last several years.  This wonderful young lady celebrated her 15th birthday.

The invitations had a brightly colored sunflower on the front so I decided to use my Heartfelt Creations Classic Sunflower stamp to make a similarly styled birthday card.  I used a second generation stamped image to have "15" in the background of the focal image.

I'm pleased with how this turned out and am glad to celebrate such a momentous occasion with their family!

I'm entering this into the SSS Monday Challenge Down on the Farm since this card looks like it was made for the farm.

Watercolor Stamping with Prima Oil Pastels

There is no secret that Brandy and I have been on a bit of a watercolor kick.  It really started for me last year when Brandy gifted me with a set of the Prima Oil Pastels.  These were so simple to work with that I was inspired to try other media.  This set of cards was made using the Oil Pastels and a Heartfelt Creations Sunflower Stem stamp.  I simply colored the stamp directly with the crayon and then sopped the image with water and a brush to mix it up in a technique similar to what Kristina Werner used in this video.

You can see the difference in technique when I used less water and less "movement" of the crayon on the stamp (as is in the first card) as well as what happens when I added watercolor to the background of the image (second card).  I think both techniques have their charm and reason to use them.

On both cards, I used a black marker to ink a border to create these very simple notecards.  I left them blank so that I might use the cards for a purpose in the future.  Into the stash these go for that rushed day when I suddenly need a handmade card.  Yay!