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 Hello friends!  We all have this bunch of tiny pieces of papers that are saved to be used someday. And that day never arrives! I've stored such paper pieces, die cuts, sentiments etc. I made a birthday card today with a few of these scraps. The Leaves, sentiment and the white cardstock are all elements I stored but never used. The leaves were originally coloured light green with distress inks. I damped them with a wet tissue to take off most of the green and then coloured them again with zig brush markers. They took up the colors so beautifully.  Sentiment was just an extra.  The white cardstock actually has a stamped watercolored image on the other side that I didn't like. I dry embossed it using a stencil. Playing along with  seizethebirthday #201 So this was my stash of leftover elements. Can you spot the green leaves I used for this card in the top left bunch?  I also made a few tags with these which is a great way to use them up. Thanks for stopping by. Have a lovely week

Quote: In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. (Iyanla Vanzant) Hello friends I hope you all are well. I have a watercoloured card in today's post: I heat embossed the stamped image using Ranger gold embossing powder and watercolored it using zig clean brush markers. I so love the bright result these markers give on watercolour paper. I actually messed up the background with a brownish shade which looked terrible! So I covered it with black. I placed the heat embossed scalloped frame on the watercoloured panel. The rest of the card is watercoloured blue and on drying, I stamped it with distress ink. I die cut another frame at the border of the card using the blue background. Playing  along at t

Hey there!   Here's another colorful birthday card  for the 200th challenge at seize the birthday challenges. I was inspired by the color splashed background in their logo.  I scribbled white cardstock with zig brush pens and sprayed it with water to allow the colors to blend with each other. Love zig brush pens for their bright colors. I used this cardstock for the border, heat embossed butterflies and sentiment.  The background is dry embossed using a stencil. I placed the butterflies at different angles on the cardbase. The finished card reminded me of a festival here in India, Holi. Colors everywhere! This festival looks cooler in movies though! It's been a while since I celebrated Holi with colors coz we don't have a holiday for this particular festival at my workplace :( Materials: C lassic white c ardstock (Itsy bitsy), icraft stencil, Z ig clean brush pens, wow gold sparkle / white embossing powder, sentiment (dress my craft, sss), stamp (stampendous). Playing along

Hello there! In today's post, I am sharing another colorful birthday card ! This one is for the 200th challenge at seizethebirthday challenges. I've been playing at STB for a while now, so definitely wanted to enter their 200th prompt. I was inspired by the colors in their logo.  For this card, I have used the iron off embossed resist technique that I learnt from Jennifer McGuire's youtube video.  Here's how I made it: I lightly ink blended my watercolour paper. Then stamped the hero arts bold background stamp with versamark and heat embossed using clear embossing powder.  Next, I swiped across the distress inks.  I used DO for the purple color. I generously sprayed water and air dried the panel.  On drying, I wiped off the whitish residue of the DO with a baby wipe, a tip I got to know from  Cathy  It did help, but I still feel distress ink would have been better. Guess it's time I got one for myself in the violet-purple color range. Which one should I go for? Wilt