Swirly Bundle

This week I'm creating with the Swirly Bundle in the new catalog. The first photo show a card make using the small swirly stamp from the Swirly Bird stamp set. The flower stamp, you can barely see the white flower outline in the photo. There is a thinlit in the Swirly Scribble thinlits that matches the stamp (although it does take a little turning to get the correct orientation).

In this photo I used the scribbles from the Swirly Scribbles thinlits dies. Added some candy dots 

and a banner stamped with an expression from a past Paper Pumpkin kit and 

punched with the triple banner punch. 

For the last card today I did a color wash on watercolor paper using ink pads and aqua painters. The scribbles from the thinlits were cut with daffodil cardstock and then sponged with pumpkin pie ink.  Ohter colors used on the card are Melon Mambo and Wild Wasabi. The expression comes from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.

Watercolor Paper

For this card I made a frame mask cut to the same size as the watercolor Paper. (Next week I'll give you more details on that technique). Stampin' Up! offers packs of 5 - 6"x 9" watercolor paper. This is great to use when your using Aqua Painters to add color to a stamped image. You want to be sure to use permanent ink for your stamped image. I used StazOn black ink. Then I used Rose Red and Wild Wasabi ink and my aqua painter to fill in the color. I also used some Soft Sky and my aqua painter to color in the background.
After the color had dried I used my 01 tip Project Life Black Journeling Pen to add the black outline to the stamped area, This is the first card I made: I learned it is better to focus on the edge of the paper rather than the stamped image when freehand penning this frame. The second card I made had a more even frame but I liked the colored flowers on this one better so decided to share it since the focus was on watercolor paper. Each card is a unique work of art!