Sunday 21 March 2010

2nd post today - PDCC 21

For my second post today, I have entered this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge .  The colours this week are:
How pretty is that?  However, I've been "umming and aahing" all week, not sure what I could use to take part.  Sure, I've got a few (just the odd one or two, right!) flower stamps....

So today (after we lost the football - see previous post - BOO HOO) I got started.


I grabbed a medium sized tag, and one of my favourite Stampington stamps which I inked with a very pale (i.e dried up, doesn't really show) pale pink Sea Shells ink pad and Wild Plum (Adirondack)and sprayed the stamp with water, before stamping on the tag.  I love this technique.

I added some scattered straw distress ink round the edges of the tag - I don't seem to have any genuinely pale yellow inks - well, I must have somewhere, right - anyone care to tell me where?!

I finished it with a Wendy script and some pale pink and white Prima flowers.

I scanned this one, rather than set up the camera to transfer again!!

Please scroll down to see what else I did today.
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12 comments:

  1. Hels Sheridan21 March 2010 at 19:47

    Gorgeous card Helen...loving the splashing inkyness of it x

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  2. Unknown21 March 2010 at 22:11

    Gorgeous card - great colour!

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  3. Suzanne C21 March 2010 at 23:10

    Beautiful effect the misting of the ink! Gorgeous tag! Thanks for playing with us at PDDC!

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  4. Lori22 March 2010 at 00:16

    Yummy colors, love the watercolor technique!

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  5. Ruby22 March 2010 at 12:55

    Very pretty tag, I love the effect you've got with it. Thanks for playing along with the Play Date Cafe this week, hope you play along next week too! :o)

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  6. Mona Pendleton22 March 2010 at 15:03

    Beautiful tag! Great use of this week's colors at the Play Date Cafe - Thanks so much for playing along :)

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  7. Lisa Somerville22 March 2010 at 17:40

    Beautiful, love the misting of the ink. Thanks for playing at the PDCC.

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  8. Unknown22 March 2010 at 23:30

    Lovely tag, Helen! The technique created a gorgeous image! Thanks for playing with the PDCC!

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  9. Savannah O'Gwynn23 March 2010 at 22:21

    oh wow--great tag, Helen! That misting is beautiful! Thanks for playing along with us at the PDCC!

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  10. Sue Lelli 23 March 2010 at 22:59

    I've never spray a stamp with water before stamping but now I have to try it! Just Fab!

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  11. Sarah Anderson24 March 2010 at 10:03

    this is a lovely tag, the watercolour effect looks fab; thanks for playing along so regularly at the play date cafe :)

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  12. Julie Ranae24 March 2010 at 23:10

    So very pretty and a great entry for The Play Date Cafe Challenge...so glad you played along with us again : )

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