Leftovers From This Week's Better Together Card Making Challenge

I had mentioned earlier this week that I had some extra backgrounds from my Better Together - A Mix and Match Challenge trials.  I watercolored these backgrounds and then added to them with a mixture of Art Anthology Dimensional Medium in gold, white acrylic paint, spray stains and stencils.  Some of these effects are very faint, but they are there.  The color scheme's came from the challenge Brandy made to me and so the colors are bright and cheery.  The challenge theme was Whimsical Nature.
  

The floral and greenery is stamped on Bristol cardstock and colored with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers using my three sets of Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers, More Spring Flowers and Even More Spring Flowers stamps and dies.  The sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink Congratulations mini-stamp and die set.  They work perfectly with the colorful parts of the background.

This last card is my favorite.  I really love the color green and the offset from the green leaves with the blue makes my heart sing.

I'm so glad Brandy inspires me to step out of my comfort zone.  If these don't exactly match the theme, they are a close fit and I really had fun making these cards and those from the challenge.

I'm entering these into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Flower Power.

A Blooming Get Well Card

I needed a get well card and I realized that I don't have good get well sentiments.  In fact, most of the get well sentiments that I have are rather tiny (like the one on the inside of this card.  So, I knew I needed to create a front panel that carried the design and this is what I came up with.  White heat embossed Bristol cardstock using Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers, some More Spring Flowers and a few Even More Spring Flowers.  I colored the images using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers - easy to do and a fine result.

I'm hoping this card cheered my niece during her convalescence. 

Distress Oxide Painting with Water

I am so in love with this technique using Distress Oxides and water.  I followed the almost exact same technique as Jennifer McGuire.  The cards are more stunning in person that these pictures show.  I used multiple die cuts layered to create some dimension with the sentiments. 

These cards will go into the stash and probably become gifts.  I enjoyed this technique and will most likely use it in the future again as the cards turned out to be wonderful.