Watercolor Christmas

I made these cards for our newest challenge at Shopping Our Stash - challenge is called Splish, Splash and we want everyone to use a water based media or image with water in it.
 

For my cards I used stamps that came with a recent Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine.

Images and sentiment were stamp with Versamark on watercolor paper and embossed with white embossing powder.

Then I just swiped ink pads across the paper and blended the color with water brush. I used mostly distress ink, except for the darkest purple which is Blackberry Bliss from Stampin Up. The blue one looks a bit flat in the picture, there is more difference between the colors IRL.

Added some water splatter for more Splish, Splash effext and just a few sparkly gems for decoration

My Time To Craft - Got To Be Christmas

Stamping Sensation - Christmas

Allsorts - Christmas Time

Watercolored Holiday Floral Cards

 I love the Holiday Floral stamp from Simon Says Stamp - it's perfect for watercoloring - so when I started playing with it I had to make several cards.I used a mix of watercolor paint and diluted ink. All cards were finished of with ink splatter.

First one was embossed  with platinum embossing powder

The blue one was just stamped with Marina Mist ink and not embossed

last one was embossed with sparkly white embossing powder 

and here are all 3 together - which one is your favorite? For me it's probably the first one :)

Challenges:

Crimbo Crackers - Anything Christmas Goes

Crafty Catz - Say It With Flowers

CAS Graduation Cards

I got this graduation themed die and since I'll need some graduation cards I decided to play with some watercolor and paint backgrounds.

 first background is done with pearly acrylic paints and has this lovely shimmer that does not show in the picture.

The other 2 backgrounds are watercolored.

Challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz - Graduation

CCEE Stampers - use at least 1 die

Always Fun Challenges - Graduation

Addicted to CAS - Graduation