Flower Patches

Spring is in the air — the flowers are beginning to bloom!!!
It's time to make a new framed art piece.
Last night's class was Spring Flowers Framed Art.
Check out this beauty.
Spring Flowers Frame
The ladies at classed LOVED their finished project — though there was a bit
of complaining as they were working.  This is a pretty labor intensive
project but so worth it when you are finished.
Thank you Jill Hilliard for the inspiration.
We used the Flower Patch stamp set and coordinating Flower Fair Framelits
to complete our project.
We started with four half sheets of Very Vanilla cardstock.  I gave everyone a picture of each sheet and what was stamped on it.
Leaves
All the leaves for the picture
Panel 1
Panel 1
Panel 2
Panel 2
Panel 3
Panel 3

It took quite a bit of time to stamp all the pieces and then go to the big shot
to cut them all out.  Then they assembled each panel.
I found frames at a fabulous price so their class fee included the frame.
Everyone went home with a completed picture ready to hand on the wall.
SO MUCH FUN!!

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Moon Lake Reflection

When it the last time you stamped a reflection card?
I decided it had been way too long, so at my Moon Lake Stamp of the Month Class
one of the cards used the reflection technique.
The water in this stamp set makes it the perfect set to use.
Loon ReflectionWe started by stamping the cat tails with Stazon ink. 
Next we stamped the duck/loon image between the cat tails.
Then we used a piece of Window Sheet and stamped the duck/loon on it using
Stazon ink, quickly turn the Window Sheet over and line up the bottom of the duck/loon.  Rub over the stamp image to transfer the ink on to the Whisper White cardstock.  The transferred image will me lighter than the original image but that's
ok, it's a reflection.  Then we used an Aqua Painter and ink from the lid of the stamp pads to color the images.  This time I left the duck/loon black & white so it looks like a loon to me, remember I told you before I'm not really a nature person but that's ok.

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Boating on Moon Lake

The boat and tree image from the Moon Lake stamp set and so calm and peaceful.
I'm not much of a nature person, but I love to go out on a lake and just sit.
The water is so calming.  I do like to fish a little but if it is sunny and calm I could just sit there all day and enjoy the quiet.
Boat
The base of this card is Black with a layer of Pool Party that was embossing with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder (yup, another retiring item).
I stamped the boat & tree image with Stazon ink on Watercolor Paper. 
I used an Aqua Painted and picked up ink from the stamp pad lids to color in the images — start light and add more color until you are happy with the look.
Each and every time your picture will come out different — that's the cool part of
water coloring, especially when you use Water Color Paper.

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