Have Your Cake and Paint It Too?

Hi All! Welcome to the Rose Blossom May Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring Close To My Heart's May SOTM: Celebrate with Cake! If you've just hopped over from wonderfully talented Shelly Nemitz' blog, Just One Pretty Piece, you're in the right place. If you're just starting with me, I'll have a list of all the participants at the end of this post. Now, let's take a look at the stamp set and project for today.

I love the "doodle" look of the "Celebrate with Cake!" stamp set, and the mix of fonts used for the sentiments. When I saw it, I knew I needed to do at least one card with it using the no-line watercoloring technique, and that's exactly what I did for today's project. Let's take a look:

This cute little birthday card is cut to 3 1/2 x 5 inches from White Daisy cardstock. I layered it with patterned paper from this month's special paper pack: Happy Times. The gold striped piece is from the zip strip on the gold stripe paper in the pack. (I love this paper! I'll be showing it a lot this month I'm sure!) I stamped the cake and roses on a piece of White Daisy cardstock (cut to 2 3/4 x 4 3/4) in Champagne ink. I then painted it using the CTMH watercolors. I added a white shimmer paint to the cake plate and white cake using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colors. I also added a clear shimmer watercolor medium to the pink cake. After all the paint dried, I added some Diamond Stickles to the cake layers, candle, and roses. I then layered all my papers together and popped the whole thing up on my card front using fun foam. Finally I added blue, yellow, clear, and iridescent star sequins to had a little pizazz.

Here are a couple of close ups:

Finally, I added the Happy Birthday sentiment to the inside of the card using Thistle ink:

And there you have it! Thanks so much for stopping by. It was such a fun and simple card to make. I hope you enjoyed it! Now hop on over and see what the amazingly talented Mary Newman has in store for your inspiration at the Pixie Dust Playground. If you get lost along the way, here is a list of hop participants:

Brenda

Lynn

Shelly

Kim {that's ME}

Mary

Kristine

Kim

Have a wonderfully creative day!

CTMH May 2016 SOTM	CTMH Happy Times Paper Pack	CTMH White Daisy Cardstock	CTMH Champagne Ink
CTMH Thistle Ink	Watercolors	Watercolor Brush Set	Martha Stewart Glitter
Sunshine Sequin Mix	Blue Sequins	ATG Gun	Sookwang Double-sided Tape
Craft Foam

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Blessed are the Weird People

Hi All! Welcome to the mid-March Rose Blossom Blog Hop celebrating Close To My Heart's March Stampganza! If you've just hopped over from the über-creative Marg Van Patten's Tater Patch, you're in the right place. (As always, I'll have a list of hop participants at the end of the post.)

For the month of March, CTMH is running a special of buy 2 stamp sets and get a third free. So the Rose Blossoms decided to get together and inspire you with some of our favorite sets. Now I've got to be honest, picking my favorite stamp set is almost as impossible as picking my favorite color. I pretty much like them all and what I'm using is completely dependent on the project I have in mind. But since I HAVE to choose, I decided to showcase a page I did in my art journal about a month ago using the Friend in Me stamp set:

Let's take a look:

I love the whimsical flowers in this set, and the sentiments are perfect for cards. (I actually use it quite a bit.) So for this 8x8 page, I decided to do some no-line watercoloring. I stamped out the flowers in Champagne Ink, masking off as necessary to create a cluster border. I then painted the flowers with my CTMH watercolors, which are fairly opaque and perfect for this technique. I then used a white paint pen by Derwent to add some doodles to each of the flowers.

Finally, I drew in a heart using my black .03 micron and added some scallop doodles. I then colored it in and outlined it with some Gelatos by Faber-Castell. The sentiment is typed out with my vintage Olivetti on some old notebook paper and glued in place. I highlighted the edges of it with more Gelato.

Here's a look at some details: 

And here's a close up of the sentiment (love it!):

And there you have it! I hope you enjoyed this peek into my journal. Now, hop on over and see what the incredibly talented Morgan Vogt has for your inspiration at Tweetscraps! And if you get lost along the way or just want to review the hop again, here's a list of participants:

Brenda

Lynn 

Marg

Kim {that's ME}

Morgan

Cathy

Kim S

Margot

Have a wonderfully creative day!

CTMH Friend In Me	CTMH Champagne Ink	Watercolors	Watercolor Brush Set
Dylusions Art Journal 8x8	Micron Black Ink Pen	Faber-Castell Gelato Bubblegum	Faber-Castell Gelatos Lemon
Faber-Castell Gelatos Metallic Mint	Faber-Castell Gelatos Gold Champagne	Derwent Graphik Line Painter WHITE

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