Love is blooming all around

Love is blooming all around <3 Doesn't that make you smile? I am so thankful so have found love at a young age (I met my husband when I was 16).  It makes my heart so warm to see people fall in love and to see marriages work.

Today I used a few challenges -
Colour Q
The Sweet Stop
Heart 2 Heart

The Colour Q had an interesting color combo - brown, peach, grey, sand-y color and white. This combo was a challenge for me, this was not a combo I would have chosen if making a card without a challenge. That's why I enjoy these challenges - it's all about thinking outside the box. I looked through tons and tons of paper that I own but I couldn't find any peach paper!! So I went through a pastel-y orange that I think worked.

The Heart 2 Heart challenge was using your favorite technique. I have many favories and I used 2 of them today on this card.

1. Watercolor pencils: I own Close To My Heart watercolor pencils along with the blending pen. I stamped the florishes using Staz On (you have to make sure you use this ink when using a blending pen otherwise the stamped image will blur). Out linning just a few of the flowers you 'color' the image using the blending brush and grabbing the color from the outline. For this card I used two colors, an orange and a yellow to kind of add dimension but staying in the same color family.
2. Pop dots: In my opinion, pop dots make everything better! I could have easily cut out the center of the flower (on the bottom right) and just glued it on but I don't think it would have stood out as much. Adding a few dots under the image to adhear it to the paper just makes it pop! Pop dots may not exactly be a technique but they really add something to your craft.

Products used ...

All products are Close To My Heart

Chocolate, Grey Wool and Colonial White cardstock

Blooming Florishes stamp set

Watercolor Pencils

Blending Pen

Chocolate ribbon

Rhinestones - Michaels

Patterned Paper - Making Memories