More Watercolor Fun

I always seem to turn my watercolor pieces into 'girl cards' and I guess it's because of the colors that I choose - brights - pinks and oranges and yellows, or moody - soft blues and greens. So I was determined to make a more masculine card using my watercolors.I chose blue, brown, yellow and a touch of black. I did a salt water wash over the watercolor paper first, then added the colors. Since I had masked the smaller square that I watercolored, I was able to stamp my grassy images onto the watercolor paper around my colored block. I stamped in black versafine then clear embossed to make the images stand out. I stamped and embossed my sentiment as well. I added a few sequins to finish off my card.  Have a wonderful weekend!

I entered this card in the following challenges:

Watercooler Wednesday     birthday
Simon Monday Challenge      birthday
Little Miss Muffet                 anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends     anything goes
Stamping Sensations            stamping and anything goes

CAS Watercolor

Yay!! It's almost the weekend. It's funny...when you're retired like my hubby and I are, there's not a lot of difference between the weekdays and the weekend (except Sunday of course) yet I still look forward to the weekend. I guess because there are not meetings, volunteering, appointments, etc. on the weekend. So to my non-retired friends...Hang In There...the weekend is coming!

And that brings me to the card I made today. I was playing around with different watercolor techniques including sprinkling salt on my piece. I didn't quite get the results that others in the tutorials seemed to get, so I'll keep playing around with it. But I did like the way this piece turned out. I used kosher salt on this watercolor piece done in pink. I put the color on the paper then pulled it down so that the color faded out to a much lighter pink. While it was still wet, I sprinkled some Kosher salt on it and let it dry. 
I got this new Downton Abbey chandelier die that I wanted to use, so it seemed the perfect match for CAS Watercolor Challenge for August using Salt! I cut the die out of black and added some Diamond Stickles to the crystals and the candle tips. My sentiment came from a Stamps of Life set. I used a border punch then adhered the watercolor piece to my card. Done! Sweet and simple. I'm sure I'll find a 'friend in need' to send this card to.

I entered this card in CAS Watercolor August challenge.