A Quartet for Mother's Day

With Mother's Day fast approaching, I wanted to put Tim Holtz's Floral Outlines stamp set by Stampers Anonymous to the test. I was eager to combine this with some Lindy's Magicals I had just recently received.

I first used four 4.5 x 6" panels of Canson XL watercolor paper and sprinkled it with 1-2 colors of Lindy's Magical Powders (if you haven't tried these yet, you are *truly* missing something). I used combinations including Cape Cod Coral, Salt Water Taffy, and Clam Bake Beige all from the Nantucket Shimmer Magicals set of 5. I also used Rizzo's Rowdy Red from the Go Greased Lightnin' set of Flat Magicals (no shimmer, but plenty of magic) by itself on one card. After the powder was on the card, I spritzed it with water and let the colors do their thing mixing around on the paper. In a couple of cases, I added a bit more powder. 

I sprinkled 1-2 magicals onto my watercolor paper with a dry paintbrush, then spritzed with water to make them come alive. When I had the colors the way I liked them on each of my 4 panels, I dried them with my Ranger Heat Tool. I absolutely love the line art that is the Tim Holtz Floral Outlines stamp set. After my panels were dry, I brushed on anti-static powder (happy this did not dull my watercolor) and stamped this trio of stamps onto my paper with Versamark. For the three pink backgrounds, I used Inkon3's Gold Rush Ultra Fine Embossing Powder to heat emboss with. For the red background, I used Taylored Expression's White Fine Detail Embossing Powder.

Next, I die cut the panels into stitched rectangles with my Paper Rose Nested Stitched Rectangles dies. I chose some solid colored cardstock to match each panel to make my cardbases. Then, I used my Spellbinder's Layered Script Sentiments by Yana Smakula to cut a 'happy' from both black glossy cardstock by Poppystamps, and gold vellum from my stash. The shadow outlines are cut from the same watercolor paper. I adhered these onto my watercolor panels with foam tape, and then computer printed 'Mother's Day' in pink to glue on top.

Finally, on two of my pink cards, I used dots of Nuvo's Crystal Drops in Morning Dew (crystal clear) as embellishments. On the third pink card I used these same Nuvo Drops to glue down iridescent and light pink sequins. On my red card, I used iridescent sequins in light and vivid pink. 

I am entering these cards at the As You See It Challenge #298 using my new Lindy's Gang. I'm also entering at Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #568, and Just Us Girls #678.