Monday 23 June 2014

Monday Moments

I've recently been playing with water colours - bit of a hint of something coming up at AAA Cards soon - and signed up for an online class at www.onlinecardclasses.com 

Now I've done a few online classes, some excellent, some good and some not so good. This one falls into the excellent category - which I suppose I should have guessed as Jennifer McGuire is involved and she's a real class act. And the price is brilliant too - $25.

I didn't make the live run of this class, but I think I actually prefer to work at my own pace and absorb things slowly - I find I hate to get behind in live classes and rush through the experimenting stage trying to keep up.

All this preamble leads me into sharing a card I made for Less is More's current challenge to use watercolours. And it's a card that turned out so much more than I hoped and I'm totally in love with it!  Don't you just love it when things turn out better than you expected?

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Our challenge is to use
WATERCOLOUR 


First I prepared the background by applying ink to an acrylic block, spritzing it with water and stamping onto watercolour card.  Once it had dried out I stamped the butterfly and then did a second generation stamping set slightly off the first to get a bit of a blurred image.  I then just finished it off by stamping the sentiment. Hope you like it as much as I do!
Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko Studio, English Country Garden Butterflies, All Occasion Sentiments #1
Inks: SU, daffodil delight, rich razzleberry, tempting turquoise; Memento, tuxedo black
Thanks for dropping by today, I do appreciate you taking the time.
Jane
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6 comments:

  1. I enjoyed this class too Jane... I must admit to not keeping up with all the sessions but it is something that you can return to again and again!
    This is stunning I can see why you are so enamoured with it!
    Just lovely!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  2. Gorgeous card Jane :-) I love the colours and design of this ,, absolutely stunning ! :-)

    luv
    Lols x x x

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  3. This is fab Jane, love the colours and your butterfly
    Perfectly CAS card and so glad you've joined in again this week.
    Sarah
    Less is More

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  4. Love this technique and you've done it beautifully too

    Kathyk
    GDTM Simply Less Is More

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  5. Absolutely love this! The colours blend beautifully together and the colours themselves are gorgeous. It looks like you've been watercolouring for years!! I haven't tried it yet but the more projects I see like this, the more I want to give it a shot. Just have to dig out some brushes......

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  6. Ooh! I love it too, fab background
    Thanks for joining us at Less is More
    Anne
    LIM Designer

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