Forever Blossoms ~ A Stampin' Up! Card

I'm back with another card today trying to do a technique that just did NOT want to work for me! What was the technique? Can you tell by the little snippet? 

Butterfly Basics Birthday

I had fun creating this card a few days ago for my sister-in-law's birthday  Since I love to watercolor and the watercolor on this card was very simple to do I had to give it a try along with all the other techniques involved in this card.  I was inspired by Sandi's card HERE and she was kind enough to make a video of it!  I didn't want to copy what she created so I pulled out a whole different stamp set and got busy.

Some of the techniques used on this card are watercolor, sponging, heat embossing, bleaching and using mixed media (kind of I think). There might be more, but that's all I can think of right now. ;)

I "kind of" used all of these colors on my card.  The watercolor paper I use is more cream than white so I put Very Vanilla.  I heat embossed a few things in white, and you can tell I used Soft Suede and Basic Black card stock and ink.

Whisper White

Very Vanilla

Soft Suede

Basic Black

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

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Supplies used on this card:

A small amount of bleach

Creative Crew - CCREW0913CF

My second project for the Creative Crew over at Splitcoast was a Catalog Focus: use any of the stampsets on pages 111-119 in the annual catalog.  Make a project in a new way to you by using a technique you've never tried or a special fold never used by you before. Continue to use at least two of the colors from the color focus, crushed curry, coastal cabana, smoky slate or whisper white.

I decided to use Coastal Cabana and Whisper white for my colors.  And believe it or not I had never used the bleaching technique.  So I pulled out a set and got busy, however I kind of made a mistake and didn't use a set from the listed pages. :( So this is the first card I came up with and I loved it.  I was so bummed that I had to make another card, but...

I loved the second one I came up with too and it was using one of the sets I was supposed to use! :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Stamp Sets:  My Friend & Pleasant Poppies

Card Stock:  Coastal Cabana & Whisper White

Ink: Versa Mark

Accessories: Stampin' Emboss Powder: White; Festive Papaer-piercing Pack; Punch: 1" Square; Framelits: Windows Collection; Ribbon: 5/8" Organza in Whisper Whte; Jewels: Basic Pearls; Bleach; Sponges

Techniques: Bleaching