Garden Greens Watercolor Card

 

Does your family like leftovers? My husband and I do. Leftovers can often be even better in cardmaking than in the fridge. I had made a colorful watercolored tag with Tim Holtz Distress Ink Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral and Spiced Marmalade. As Tim has taught over and over, when you have leftover ink on your glass mat, mist it with water and pick it up on a piece of watercolor paper. I did just that. 

Later I used this same piece to test out a glimmery spray I had. This made this little 4x6 piece of cardstock ideal to try out my new Sizzix Garden Greens dies. I was making this card for several different card challenges that called for dies. I also used the dies to cut Neenah 110lb Solar White cardstock, Stampin' Up!'s Pink Pirouette and Calypso Coral cardstock, and Memory Box metallic gold cardstock from their 6x6 Rainbow Reflections Mirror Pad. I die cut one of the Paper Roses Stitched Rectangle dies from white cardstock and a Stampin' Up! circle from their Stitched Shapes dies. 

I also used Calypso Coral to cut out Wishes from Spellbinders Simply Perfect Mix & Match Sentiments. And I used the word Best from Tim Holtz Metallic Quotation Stickers. Before I adhered everything down, I splattered the rectangle with a watercolor brush dipped in Stampin' Up!'s Flirty Flamingo ink mixed with water. Sometimes my splatters turn out disastrously, but this didn't. 

I'm entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge to use a die cut (hah, I used 12!) and the Little Red Wagon Challenge #643 and the Fab 'n Funky Challenge #546.