Turquoise Flowers with Navy

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Turquoise Flowers with Navy

For this week's Papertrey Ink Make It Monday a la carte challenge, there's a choice of any 2016 Make It Monday challenge that we might have missed. I chose Melissa's #256: spritzed stamps to create a watercolor effect with my stamped flowers.

I enjoyed the technique, which I haven't tried before. I like the effect of the soft shapes and crisp navy details, with some open circles to fill in the gaps in my arrangement.

Card details:

Card stock is Ranger watercolor paper and Papertrey Ink (PTI) Hawaiian shores (medium turquoise) and dark indigo (dark navy).
Die is PTI wonderful words: thank you.
The flowers and leaves are from PTI floral sketches, stamped with PTI Hawaiian shores, blueberry sky (medium blue), dark indigo, bright buttercup (bright yellow - flower centers), and prairie grass (green) ink cubes. The small open circles are from PTI confetti toss, stamped with PTI dark indigo ink cube.

Created for Operation: Quiet Comfort.

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4 comments:

Nancy Penir said...: Beautiful, Cindy. And so are the colors. Great technique.; January 11, 2017 at 5:14 PM
Marcia Hill said...: LOVE your color combination Cindy...SOOO pretty! I really like using that technique too...you're right about how it softens up the look of an image! Lovely, lovely card!! :0); January 12, 2017 at 5:46 AM
Unknown said...: This is a really beautiful card. I love the watercolor look you got with spritzing the stamps. This card is really lovely.; January 13, 2017 at 4:56 PM
Angela Walters said...: Your card is beautiful, Cindy! You did a wonderful job showing off the spritzed stamp technique. I love your color choices as well. The Hawaiian Shores looks wonderful with the new Dark Indigo color!; January 16, 2017 at 10:44 PM

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Operation: Quiet Comfort

Starting in early 2016, most of my cards are now made for Operation: Quiet Comfort.
As explained on their web site, "Operation Quiet Comfort exists solely for the purpose of honoring and comforting America’s military men and women who become sick and injured while serving in harm’s way. We also provide support to those who care for them. We collect, package and ship supplies for U.S. Military men and women receiving care at medical facilities abroad." These packages also include cards with messages of support and encouragement ... "thinking of you, patriotic, thank you, cheerful cards." I'm happy to have the opportunity to support our troops in this way.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2017