Butterfly Birthday Wishes

I find watercolouring a real challenge, so I have been practicing some different techniques to get the hang of it all. The technique I find the easiest and the one that gives me the best results, is the acetate technique.

For this technique, you add ink to an acetate sheet, then spritz the ink with some water, flip the sheet and lay it over your watercolour sheet, then slowing move the acetate sheet around until you get the desired look you are after.

I love this technique because you can add multiple colours at once, or individually, and it looks amazing once you have finished. I used this technique for the card below with 'daffodil delight' and 'pumpkin pie' ink.

Love You to Pieces Card

Since it is valentine's day tomorrow, I wanted to share another card for this occasion. Whilst this card is probably more suitable as an anniversary card for your loved one, it could be easily adapted to a valentine's day card by changing the sentiment.

Most of the products I used are now retired, but you could use current products to make something similar.

Snailed It Card

Here is another cute card using the 'Snailed It' stamp set and dies. This card can be used for any occasion.

I created the border and tiny little hearts on the computer, then printed it out on white card stock. I then stamped my two images from the stamp set using memento black ink, and coloured both images and the tiny little hearts in the border with my blender pens. I added a sentiment and some bling to finish off the card.

Sailing Home Card

I am so glad the 'Sailing Home' stamp set and coordinating dies are still current Stampin Up items, as I have so many cards to share using this set.

I was inspired by Lauren Alarid's card as I loved the colour scheme she used. I did change the orientation of the card, the sentiment and a couple of other little embellishments, but overall my card is very similar.