Happy birthday - With just a pop of orange

Hello guys
I dunt know why but i am just hooked on to handmade card.....everyday I wake up with something new buzzing in my head and I can't rest until its done. July for me marks the beginning of Birthday season for me and I have a lot of Birthdays lined up....so I decided to stock up on my cards so that I have enough to send to everyone I know.

I am putting this card up at the following challenges:

1. Paru's Card making Challenges - July - Happy Birthday
2. Scrapping4fun Challenge #94- Birthday
3. The Flower Challenge#10 - Embossing Dry/Heat
4. HLS July CAS card - Birthday
5. Addicted to CAS challenge #115 - Summer - My card has summer bright colors
6. Addicted to stamps and more challenge #251 - Anything Goes
7. Double D challenge - A pop of color with Black and White - I have my inspiration from the moodboard.

Its a fairly simple card and took me 1 hour to make it considering that I colored the flower with watercolor pencils. Though, I did use water to blend them initially and so I started with a watercolor cardstock. But then, I was very unhappy with the blending and went back again with the pencils and did some shading on the flower..

 So, I heat embossed the flower and colored it with my pencils. I then fussy cut it out and kept it aside ready to mount on the panel. For the front panel, I stamped the leaf from the same stamp set several times using dye ink. I added a little black thread and on top adhered my flower. I glued this panel to a black cardstock making sure it was peeking out from 2 sides only. I added this to my chrome yellow standard A2 size cardbase. I finished my card with the sentiment stamped on vellum and added it to the front of the flower and sprinkled some clear sequins. I hope you liked my simple card with a pop of orange.

Supplies used:

1. Watercolor cardstock
2. Geometic Nature - Mudra Craft stamps
3.  Sequins- Clear- Mudra stamps
4. Black cardstock- 270gsm - A1 Craft
5. Chrome Yellow cardstock - 270 gsm
6. Watercolor pencils - FaberCastle
7. Momento Tuxedo Black Dye ink- The Craft shop
8. Ranger Multi medium matte- The craft shop
9. Wow Heat gun- ItsyBitsy
10. Wow gold Embossing powder - ItsyBitsy
11. Versamark - ItsyBitsy
12. Vellum - ItsyBitsy
13. Black thread

Wishing you a Speedy Recovery

Hello everyone
I am back today with yet another watercolor card but I have also used watercolor pencils this time. I did do a watercolor card yesterday and I got a lot of positive comments and reactions from a lot of crafters. So it really motivated me to do some more and this is one of the 2 cards I did today.

I am putting this card up at the following blog challenges

1. Craft Addition Challenge - challenge #6 - Flowers flowers and yet more flowers
2. Dl.ART - June Linky Challenge - Anything Goes
3. Addicted to stamps and more- Challenge #246 - Anything Goes
4. Penny Black and more challenges- June- Anything Goes
5. The Ribbon Girl- June card challenge-Anything goes
6. ModSquadChallenge - Make it Square
7. Simon says stamp - Wednesday challenge- Emboss It
8. Word Art Wednesday#287 287

I started with heat embossing all the floral images I wanted to use on a watercolor cardstock (I do not have a fancy watercolor paper...just some local made) using Super fine Clear embossing powder from Ranger.

Then, I taped it to a writing pad I have using some washi tape and started watercoloring using distress inks. I used Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Abondoned coral for the flowers and bud and Crushed olive and Twisted Cirton for the leaves.
I did color some more flowers in shades of purples and I will do another post and tell you more about them there.

Then, did add some depth to my flowers and leaved using some watercolor pencils....again not very fancy...I have old FabelCastle pencils...and I used Red, Orange, Yellow, Light and Dark Greens...Just basic colors. Once everything was air dried, I fussy cut them out.

I started with a 5.5" square card base (White Cardstock 270gsm). I then diecut a frame from a silver glitter cardstock using Spellbinders Nestabilites Scalloped Labels One using the largest die from a 5 1/4" square glitter cardstock. I then adhered this frame to the cardbase using some foam tape to give some dimension.

Then I started adding my flowers, buds and leaves to the card creating some layers. Added few of then with foam dots to create layers.
Thata all, I finishes my card with few sequins from Harvest Mix from Mudra and added my sentiment using some Momento Tuxedo Black ink. The sentiment used is from Mudra stamps Wishing you stamp set.

Supplies used :-

1 Watercolor cardstock
2 Silver Glitter cardstock - ItsyBitsy
3 Distress inks- Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade, Abondoned coral for the flowers and bud                               and Crushed olive and Twisted Cirton for the leaves- ItsyBitsy
4 Simply Floral - Mudra stamps
5 Sequins- Harvest Mix - Mudra stamps
6 White cardstock- 270gsm - A1 Craft
7 Watercolor pencils - FaberCastle
8 Momento Tuxedo Black Dye ink- The Craft shop
9 Ranger Multi medium matte- The craft shop
10 Wow Heat gun- ItsyBitsy
11 Ranger Superfine Clear Embossing powder - The craft shop
12 Versamark - ItsyBitsy
13 Wishing - Mudra stamps
14 Spellbinders Nestabilites Scalloped Labels One - ItsyBitsy