Splashes of Watercolor

Light My Fire!   It’s a song, folks!  Ok, so it’s an old one, but still a song!  I skipped supper tonight to make a quick card for today’s Ways to Use It Challenge WT155.  These Cat’s Pajamas stamps are so cute!  The set is called “Having a Pow Wow!” and not only are the stamps kid-appropriate, they are really cool for making cards like this:

I stamped the image on a strip of shimmer vanilla cardstock, colored it with Copic markers, and highlighted it with gelly roll glaze pens.  I cut the long edges with zig zag scissors and sponged the edges with Ranger Distress tea dye ink and my ink blending tool.  I stitched the strip to 2 pieces of Basic Grey Mellow paper from a 6×6 pad.

Then I stamped the fire, after stamping off once, on another piece of shimmery vanilla.  I colored it lightly with Copics, then stamped the sentiment partially over the fire with Palette Hybrid Burnt Umber ink.  I punched it with my SU scallop circle punch and then punched it again to get the pointed scallops.  I think I saw this on Mary Jo Albright’s blog.  Yes, I just looked and there it is!  The edges on this were sponged too.

I cut a slightly larger circle with my Coluzzle and attached it at the bottom of the card front.  Then I tied that beautiful Mays Art ribbon from Jacksonbelle Embellishments around the card front, knotting it right above the sentiment circle.  Then I mounted it on a shimmery vanilla card base.

Hope you like it!  Thanks for stopping by!

By the way, I didn’t really SKIP dinner.  I had popcorn while I watched the American Idol results show!

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Stamps: Having a Pow Wow – The Cat’s Pajamas

Paper: shimmery vanilla, Basic Grey Mellow 6×6 pad

Ink: Palette Hybrid Burnt Umber, Ranger Distress – tea dye

Accessories: Copic markers, gelly roll glaze pens, zig zag scissors, ink blending tool, scallop circle punch, Coluzzle, May Arts ribbon