Stampin Up, Pals Paper Arts challenge # 268 All is Calm

I had this idea rolling around in my head for  most of a day, so when I got up the next morning I made my coffee and sat right down to put in on paper.    Actually, there is a second card as well and I'll post it down below.

I LOVE doing watercolor. I'm not very good at it, but I keep trying, and would love to find a class. This one was pretty simple though.  The Aqua Painter is great for something like this, my one tip that I have figured out over time, is to make sure your watercolor paper is nice and wet before you start adding color to it, at least if you are using an ink pad to pick up your color from.

The snowflakes are made using the Versamark pad and embossed in white, then I watercolored, made up my ornament and then stamped the sentiment.  All pretty simple.

The envelop was made using the Envelop Punch board. My card is 5 1/2" square.  When making a square card, it's pretty handy to be able to make the matching envelop.

Card #2.

As always I hope I've given you a bit of inspiration, thanks so much for stopping by.

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Stampin Up Gift Card and Envelop

I love this little gift card with it's own envelop.

I used some retired DSP that had been 12x12, after they retired I cut them all to 6x6 and they have come in really handy.
This card is 3 1/2" square so I used the envelop punch board to create an envelop to match it.

The card is done in Crumb Cake with white snowflakes from the Best of Snow Stamp
set.  I layered a little piece of glimmer paper cut using the Modern Label punch then the Let it Snow cut out using the new Label bracket punch from the Holiday catalog. It comes by itself or in a bundle with the Tags 4 You stamp set that has four saying to be cut using the punch plue a To: and From:.
The blue is my favorite, Marina Mist.

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Stampin Up PPA 172

My PPA card is pretty simple this time. I think the poinsettia speaks for itself.
I used the Joyful Christmas set from the Holiday Catalog.
I used Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler, and I embossed the poinsettia. Then I colored in the berries using a Cherry Cobbler Marker, it's hard to see but I used a Rhinestone in the center also. And I added 3 Rhinestones at the bottom.

I embossed a piece of Cherry Cobbler with the Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder (116824) then cut 3 strips.

I used our new Envelope Punch board to make the matching envelope.  Card size is 5 1/2" square and I used that size on the board to make the envelope as well.

That is just about it. The punch board order # is 133774

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The Paper Players challenge 161

We have a fall challenge this week.

I don't have a lot of fall stamps, I was wishing I had some great leaves for this card, but I used what I had.
The Beautifully Baroque embossing folder was used on the white piece after using a So Saffron card base and Soft Suede layer.
I added color to the embossing by using a brayer in 3 colors.

After applying my strip on the side I stamped and die cut the Harvest of Thanks stamp with the Apothecary Framelits die.

For added contrast I also cut die cut a piece of Pumpkin Pie, cut it in half and glued to each end. Added some Stampin Dimentionals and was done.

I have some great news! The Envelop punch tool is available for purchase now. I've had mine for a couple weeks on a preorder and it's so much fun to be able to make a special envelop to go with that special card.

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