O.k. – I am SUPER-DUPER excited about this card!

I was tickled with the end result!

Have you ever seen a stamp set and the minute you see it….you know immediately who you are going to send it to?!?! Well…this sums it up with how I felt when I laid my eyes on this single stamp!

When I was in Houston at convention, I swapped a card with Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator Cheryl Lentz, and I felt like I won a golden ticket! I love Willy Wonka! What I adored about her card was the way she used the “brush tip” of her markers to fill in the vases and flowers!

If you follow my blog, and I sure hope you do – you know that I love to watercolor…. It’s a technique that I know intimidates many of you  and because I always strive to be an “artist in my next life” (well….really not) to me is very relaxing and I have found that the more you try it….the better your results are and the bigger your confidence becomes!

I never thought a minute to just use the brush end of your markers to color in…isn’t it a great and simple way to create a WOW factor! I changes up the color scheme and also  designer series paper….so I hope that you like this and to me….this is definitely one I would CASE!

Here you go:

• The card base is an regular A-2 card in the yummy so saffron card stock!

• The Watercolor Wonder Designer Series Paper is cut at 5 “ X 4 ¾” and then I matted it a “smidge” bigger in Island Indigo!

• The Whisper White is 3” X 2 ¾” and I stamped it using the Staz On Black Ink with the Vivid Vases Single Stamp..can you say WOWZERS!!!!!

• I matted this to a piece of Island Indigo at 3 ¼” X 3” and then I let the fun begin!

• Pulling out my markers in Smokey Slate, So Saffron, Tangerine Tango and Island Indigo….I used the brush end and did a quick “squiggles” and BAM done…I just LOVE the look!

• Cutting a 1” X 5” piece of Island Indigo and then also a ½” X 5” in So Saffron….I placed them over top of the DSP! Now….when you look at the colors that coordinate with this DSP – they use Crushed Curry….I prefer So Saffron with this beautiful paper!

• Adding some Stampin’ Vitamins to make the focal take front and centered stage….all  I needed to do was add a Brights Candy Dot in Tangerine Tango….and WOWZERS….done!

Can you see that this simple design can be adapted

to soooo many different card ideas!?!!?

All I can say is, I am sooooo thankful that I made cards to swap and

that I was lucky enough to learn this technique!

Here’s one for you….what other stamps do we have that you think that this “squiggle brush technique” would work with! Please leave me a comment and let me know your thoughts~ I would love to explore and design more cards with this technique!

Are you getting excited for Sale-A Bration? It really IS a great time of the year to be able to get some free, exclusive goodies from Stampin’ Up!

Please POP back tomorrow, as I am going to share with you several simple 3D valentine holders made with your Envelope Punch Board! I have had some comments on the dimensions of the project….so I am going to share with you some options for different sizes!

I am doing the WOOT-WOOT Friday dance and I am hoping that the temperature will go up this weekend!

I LOVED many of your comments with this cold winter…..being retired and crafting away….being in their jammies….Doing nothing but having fun with their paper…scissors and a glass of wine….to some sneaking in a quick comment during work! You all make me smile with your comments of how you are dealing with the cold!

Do you see the BEST thing of all??? We all have the same passion….love and appreciation for paper crafting and just expressing ourselves!!! Stampin’ Up! is the best and YOU are the best for POPPING by!

Let’s finish this week and let the weekend begin – I am looking forward to a longer coffee on Saturday morning….with YOU! I thank you Cheryl for swapping with me….I just love this technique and I hope you like the card!

Until tomorrow!