Fizzy DesignsUK

Happy Birthday to you... Watercolour flower spray 7x5in card Hi Craft addicts! I was thinking of trying a variety of stamping techniques using just one stamp and I have come up with a few ideas and here is one of them using watercolour paints (as it is Watercolour Wednesday) -  more will be posted over the next few weeks.... How I made this card:- I first of all stamped the flower spray image (Woodware's Bold Blossoms - Caroline set) out using Versamagic ink and True White Embossing powder on to some white Ink Me card and heat embossed it using my heat gun. I then added some water over it and then coloured the flowers etc in using Gansai Tambi's Pearl Colours watercolour paints - they are really lovely as they have a pearlescent effect when dry! - I used the pink, yellow, blue and green colours... Once it was dry, I trimmed it so that it fitted the front of an 7" x 5" white card (leaving a narrow border around it).I coloured the background in using Simo...

Celebrate! Watercolour sea scene hand painted  7x5in card Hi Craft addicts! I am really trying to learn how to watercolour (with a varying degree of success) but thought I would use this scene I painted to make this Celebrate card...... How I made this card:- I had this shaped oval left over from a previous project, and thought that I would use it to create the scene and used pinks, oranges, yellows, reds and blues watercolour paints (any will do, but I used the ones in the Watercolour Wheel that Toni Darroch's Stamps by Me sold some time ago. When I was fairly happy with it, I let it dry naturally and then edged it with a bright blue alcohol marker. I wanted to add some items to it, so used the bird and yacht stamps from the Lighthouse Harbour set For the Love of Stamps range adding 3 birds and 2 ships to the scene using Black Gina K Amalgam ink. I realised that a part of the scene wasn't quite dry when I stamped it and so would make sure it was the next time ...