Faith in Dreams

Happy Thursday!  Longest week ever... :)  I am back playing with a tag and some flowers. Trying to de-stress with a little flower power.

I combined A Vintage Journey's Texture Challenge with the Mixed Media Monthly 2nd Year Anniversary Challenge of which I am  using the "Texty" Challenge.

I started with a tag that was lightly spritzed in green ink. I had it in my scraps and pulled it out to play. Whilst creating another project to be shared next week I picked up the pink and brown ink along the edges.

I wanted to  use the flowers so I stamped them and colored them with watercolor. They weren't popping the way I wanted them to so I came back in with a charcoal pencil and added the black shading to make them stand out.  I then added some splotches of white paint, gold embossing paste through a stencil and the test stamped over the background in brown.

It should have been a quick tag but I won't tell how long it took me! :)

After I finished I thought it might look better horizontally:

What do you think?

Have a great one!

Suzz

Challenge Photo:

Misty Garden

Stencils + sprays/mists  + flowers = Misty Garden!   A mix of cards made with these combinations.  I love sentiment stamps and used some of my favorites garden inspired sentiments by Impression Obsession on these cards. 

Although I see I have been in a summery color kick with lots of yellows and oranges. I was trying to pair it with the grays to give it a soft color and new edge.

I even added a layer of paste on this one to raise up the texture in the background.

and three more scraps that didn't finish up on a card.

The stencil is from Memory Box.  The sprays were a mix of Dylusions, Ranger Distress Stain Sprays and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists.  The embossing paste is Wendy Vecchi.  The sentiments from Impression Obsession.  The tiny words is from Stampers Anonymous. The shadows on the images are from STAEDTLER watercolor Pencils.   I did use Darkroom Door - Texture stamp- Script, Background Stamp - WoodGrain, Texture Stamp - Splatter on the different cards.

Have a wonderful Saturday!  Off to play with my inks!

Suzz