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Sending My Love

March 8, 2019

Hey there, it’s Juhi with my post for the month. Today, I’m sharing a floral watercolor card, it features one of my favorite floral stamps – the gorgeous flowering magnolia stamp from Hero Arts.

I started off by stamping the magnolia flower on a watercolor cardstock panel with black ink, masking it and stamping a few more flowers in the background with grey ink. I then watercolored the focal image with zig clean color real brush markers. Everything was going great until now but I managed to spoil it (as I usually tend to do when things are going great!) by splattering some purple distress oxide ink. I tried to salvage the piece by spraying water and dabbing with a paper towel which made it worse. I then added lots of green watercolor paint to camouflage the purple splatters.

I finally finished off the card by cutting the watercolor panel in two around the flower and mounting the two pieces with a little gap in between on a pink cardstock base.

I hope you like how my card finally turned out. Do you also mess up perfectly beautiful projects while trying to add something extra or is it just me?

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Embossing Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Intense Black Shop at: Hero Arts	CM261 Hero Florals Magnolia Shop at: Hero Arts
DI198 NESTING RECTANGLE INFINITY DIES Shop at: Hero Arts

Magnolia Congratulations

February 8, 2019

Hello everyone, it’s Juhi here sharing a floral card for our ‘Crafter’s Choice’ Challenge.

I don’t know about you but I am already dreaming about spring. Even though we were lucky enough not to have a very cold winter here in California, the last few days have been really cold. I live on a street lined with Magnolia trees and I can’t wait for them to bloom!

I’ve tried some no line coloring with Prisma Color pencils on kraft card stock. On hindsight, I feel I should’ve used shades of yellow and cream color to shade the flowers.

I hope you like my card. There’s still a couple of days left to play along the Crafter’s Choice Challenge. We love to see what you create.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Supplies Used:

White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: Hero Arts	MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Embossing Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Versamark Watermark Ink Pad Shop at: Hero Arts
Intense Black Shop at: Hero Arts	CM261 Hero Florals Magnolia Shop at: Hero Arts	DI198 NESTING RECTANGLE INFINITY DIES Shop at: Hero Arts

Warm Wishes

January 8, 2019

Hello everyone, it’s Juhi here with my first post for 2019. I hope you enjoyed the holidays with friends and family. I certainly did and now I’m charged up for the new year! I made today’s card for the ‘Winter’ Challenge, there’s still a couple of days left for you to play along.

I’ve used the Color Layering Cardinal which is one of my favorite winter stampsets.

I began by stamping the bird onto watercolor paper. I wanted to add a watercolor wash background around it so I covered the stamped bird with masking fluid and let it dry. I also splaterred some masking fluid with a brush on the rest of the watercolor panel. Once the masking fluid was dry I painted the watercolor background and peeled off the masking fluid once the paint was dry. I finally stamped the branch and added snow with a white gel pen.

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you get a chance to play along with us in our Winter Challenge, we’d love to see what you create!

Supplies Used

White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: Hero Arts	MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Embossing Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Versamark Watermark Ink Pad Shop at: Hero Arts
Rose Petals Dye Cubes Shop at: Hero Arts	Intense Black Shop at: Hero Arts	DI198 NESTING RECTANGLE INFINITY DIES Shop at: Hero Arts	CL984 COLOR LAYERING CARDINAL Shop at: Hero Arts

Fall Color Inspiration

November 8, 2018

Hello everyone, it’s Juhi here with a card for this month’s Color Inspiration Challenge. I hope you are enjoying beautiful fall weather. Even though we don’t get to see too much of the gorgeous fall colors where I stay but the weather is still lovely.

I’ve used My Monthly Hero September 2018 kit for my card.

I colored the stamped images with the Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors that came with the kit. The colors on the sampler go perfectly with this month’s color inspiration challenge.

I finished off the card by adding highlights with a white gel pen to the colored images.

You still have some time to play along in the Color Palette Challenge! We love to see what you create!

I hope you enjoyed my card today. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool
Shop at:
Hero Arts

Intense Black
Shop at:
Hero Arts

My Monthly Hero September 2018
Shop at:
Hero Arts

DI198 NESTING RECTANGLE INFINITY DIES
Shop at:
Hero Arts

Watercolor Rose

September 9, 2018

Hello everyone! It’s Juhi here, I have some happy news to share. I became a mom once again, baby girl Anika arrived close to midnight on August 16th. As you can imagine it’s been a super busy and exhausting last few weeks. I managed to sneak in a few hours to make this card.

hero arts rose floral stem

It seems that I’ve lost my crafty mojo. After several failed attempts I finally settled on making a floral watercolor card, one can never go wrong with that!

There’s still a few days left to participate in the Sparkle & Shine Challenge! We love to see what you make and there are great prizes to be won.

I hope you enjoyed my project today. Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

MINI MISTI Laser Etched Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Embossing Tool Shop at: Hero Arts	Versamark Watermark Ink Pad Shop at: Hero Arts	Intense Black Shop at: Hero Arts
DC151 Hello Stamp & Cut Shop at: Hero Arts	CM260 Hero Florals Rose Stem Shop at: Hero Arts