I will be honest, I dragged my feet on making this one.  I was thinking it would be a painful process.  But actually I enjoyed making it. When that first ink filled yarn scrap hit the paper I was inspired.  I was not sure about the color choices I wanted but just keep picking up different inks.   I used grass green, deep blue and a honey yellow paint on my card.  I then splattered it with gold metallic paint.

I used the Papertrey Ink New Leaf and Enchanted Evening Card stock.

I also used the Papertrey Ink Big Basics Birthday Die.

I dotted the “I’s” with green rhinestones.

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Again this was a difficult choice to make for my card inspiration.

Since I had just bought a pineapple stamp, I was swayed to use this image as my inspiration.

Melissa Phillips made this awesome card from the print above.

Here is my version.

I used Papertrey Ink Rustic Cream cardstock and the Keep It Simple: Home Mini Stamp Set.

The pineapple is from Hero Arts.

I used a random dot back ground stamp to give it some texture and splatters some black ink on the card to give it a more primitive art look.

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As you probably may have noticed, this card was not the first one I made.   I skipped over Master Color Recipes and jumped right into the Starry Night.

There were so many beautiful paintings and color combinations, I could not make up my mind.

I decided on the Soul of the Rose by John William Waterhouse.  Such a beautiful painting.  I kept going back to it and decided it was definitely the one I wanted to use.

I used the Papertrey Ink Sunflower Bouquet Stamp set and water colored the images with the papertrey inks listed above.

I decided to add a ribbon to my card by dyeing it Canyon Clay on one end and Pale Peony on the other end.   It ended up looking more like Canyon Clay, but it still works for me.

I enjoyed making this one and liked how it turned out.

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This poor card took forever.  I did not really have a stamp set that had the appropriate accents to emboss.  It either covered the whole thing or it made it a little wacky looking.

I ended up doing multiple flowers from a few different stamp sets and clustered it at he bottom of the card.

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I have never played with Liquid Gold.  Now that I have, I am afraid I will be gilding everything!  LOL

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I have been itching to make a starry night card for a while.    I love the dark, yet vibrant colors.

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Also posted in Word Art Wednesday #240-#241 Anything Goes

Oh my goodness.  I finished.   Nothing like a deadline to pump those creative juices.

For this background I added a bunch of little stamps from the tropical themed sets.

I water colored the images and then realized.  Dang I did not use water color paper.

So I decided instead of starting over, I switched to color pencils.

Nothing like a deadline to help you make quick decisions!  LOL

I tried to get the background to look like a tropical sunset/sunrise.

It actually looks better in person.   Clearly not my favorite of my cards, but cute enough.

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Oh my goodness, I am sooo running out of time.   I am designing and making cards as fast as I can.

Usually when I go fast I find that my cards lack a little something.

However this card came out cute.

I used the fishnet background die and colored the background with different blue and green distress ink.

I then used a shimmer mist over the top.

I used the awesome Fish Life stamp set for the coral and two fishes.

I added some clear droplets as fish bubbles to the page.

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Inlaid made easy….my butt.

I fought this thing to the very end.

Oh well, at least I like how it came out.

I used gold foil for the stars and matte silver for the word star.

I then splattered water on the card and added embossing powder.  This was a cool technique I just learned for the recent Online Card Class.   I love the splattered look.

I also splattered white paint to give it more of a celestial feel.

Considering this card fought me to the very end, I really like the result.

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I really wanted to use the My Favorite Things Bundle of Blossoms background stamp for this project.

This is a great project to color while watching (really listening) to tv.

I colored with prismacolor pencils and enhanced with some gel pens.

For the Thanks I used a soft matte silver cardstock.  It looks white here but take my word for it.

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