Best Thoughts

Oh my goodness it is so long since I have posted. The end of the year got a bit crazy and during January I have become a little addicted to getting all of my old photos out of those awful sticky albums and into safe acid free albums. I have also collected all my photos from various parts of the house and have tried to collate and mount them into albums too. I have been using Project Life to do this and am starting to get into the rhythm of the process I am most comfortable with. It's been great as I feel I have re-lived some great parts of my life

However, back to card making! I bought the hostess set Best Thoughts a while ago and wasn't that excited when I started using it. But then when I got out the aqua pen it started to come alive.

This is Mint Macaroon and Tip Top Taupe. All I did was to stamp the image in the new Archive black ink and colour the leaves with a blender pen and Mint Macaroon ink. The ribbon is the Sahara Sand Lace trim. I coloured the stamens in So Saffron and rounded the edges. How easy! I am pretty sure that I cased this card but can't find where I cased it from. Sorry!

Pool Party is the card base, the Matt was embossed with the Fluttering embossing folder. The flower was embossed in white and then coloured in Pool Party with highlights of Wisteria Wonder and Lost Lagoon. The leaves are Old Olive I think. The secret to colouring these sorts of images I think is to emboss them. This makes using an aqua painter so easy and quick as the ink tends to stay within the embossed edges. The colour combinations were cased from Helene Den Breejen. She has a great video, although not in English, which shows her painstaking watercoloring technique. Beautiful result but I am too impatient to do it like that!

This one was cased from Linda Higgins. It is embossed in white on Pink Pirouette and the same colour ink is used with an aqua Pinter on the petals with careful highlights of Rose Red. Again yellow stamens.

Card base is Elegant Eggplant and the card from is Wisteria Wonder. Again I have embossed the image in white and coloured it with Wisteria Wonder with Perfect Plum and a small amount of Elegant Eggplant as highlights. I love this tone on tone technique.

This last one was cased from Alisa Tilsner. Again the image is embossed and Pink Pirouette is used with small highlights of the same colour but less less diluted ink. The Matt is the Brick Wall embossing folder.

I ended up just loving this stamp set.