The reason I smile..

I made a few cards today since things are a little quiet in the house. My hubby and the two youngest are out camping with the boy scouts for the weekend. Today's card was made with the Colour Me...challenge in mind. 

Sticking to the monochromatic colors, here is my card...

I used a Hero Arts background stamp and swiped my ink pad across the stamp to cover it with ink. I used an ombre' ink pad and kept the lighter color toward the center when inking. I stamped the image and sentiment on cardstock before cutting it down to size, then using the ink I colored in the leaves. I cut a panel of vellum and adhered it to my cardstock panel. before attaching both panels to the card base I added 3 brads under the sentiment.

I'm also adding this to Virginia's View  Challenge

Since it's fitting with it's background pattern!

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!
Monica

Supplies:

Hero Arts- Background, Lil' Hoot (CL755), Ombre ink (lime to forever green)

Misc- cardstock, brads, vellum

ETA 9/8/15:
I was the captivator

and a connoisseur

Birthday Wishes

Hello everyone! I'm posting a card that I made following the Colour Me card challenge blog. This is my first time playing along since I just stumbled across the blog, but I love a good color combo to play with!

Here is the card I came up with after seeing the (team Hayley) inspiration colors!

I watercolored the navy on the panel. While it dried I die cut and watercolored the feathers with a coral. Once everything was dry I added the feathers to the panel and the stamped the sentiment. After adhereing the panel to the navy cardbase, I finished off by adding some sequins and a twin bow.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!

Monica

ETA:

Supplies:

Stampin' Up- Night of Navy, Sentiment (from watercolor kit) and sequins

My Favorite things- Feather die

Tim Hotlz- Abandoned Coral distress ink

Lawn Fawn- Twine

Misc- cardstock and watercolor paper