Happy Birthday Card with Ferro

I liked working with the Ferro so much for my dotted card that I had to try another pattern.  This time I used the mini peacock feathers stencil from the Crafter's Workshop to make my Ferro background.  Then I decided to try out some other techniques I've been admiring around the web.  I cut out some vellum with my Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Die, then heat embossed in white some stamps from the Blissful Botanicals set on the back side of the vellum.  I colored it in with my colored pencils and then stamped the sentiment from my Fiskars' How Many Candles set in Versafine Black Onyx ink then heat embossed that.  I used my Xyron sticker maker on the vellum to attach it to my Ferro piece and then mounted all of it on a standard card base. 

Smile - Inspired by Watercolor for Card Makers

Here's another card with that fun stencil with watercolors technique I learned in the onlinecardclasses.com Watercolor for Card Makers class.  I love playing with my Distress Inks this way and it was a good use of my Peacock Feathers stencil from the Crafter's Workshop.  I wasn't quite sure what to do with this background, but I had watercolored a bunch of the cute animals from Lawn Fawn's stamp sets Into the Woods and Critters in the Forest that were calling my name.  So I put them to use on this back with the cute smile sentiment.  I added some Wink of Stella to my sentiment and I really love how it turned out.

Love Card Inspired by Watercolor for Card Makers

I'm still working through the backgrounds I made in the Onlinecardclasses.com class Watercolor for Card Makers.  For today's card, the background was done with this stencil technique they taught sing a variety of Distress Inks and the Mini Woodgrain stencil from the Crafter's Workshop.  It's such a cool technique.  I then water colored the raccoon from the Critters in the Forest set from Lawn Fawn before cutting it out with the matching dies.  I then stamped the cute little love bubble from the Into the Wood set using Black Soot Distress Ink then cut it out with the matching die.  I finished it off with some Liquid Pearls.