Happy Little Stampers Watercolor October – Gold

Posted on September 30, 2017 by melissadawnlane

I’m very happy to be back with you for this month’s HLS Watercolor challenge.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

I have 2 cards to share with you today.

Here’s my first card using multiple HLS products, Brusho Watercolor Crystals and a gold glass pen.

To make this card:

I made a stencil with a butterfly die and stamped in butterflies in the negative spaces of the stencil.
Removed the stencil and masked off the stamped images.
Sprinkled on red Brusho crystals.
Spritzed with water.
Allowed to the water dry and fussy cut the panel.
Added some gold accents with the glass pen.
Stamped, cut and added the sentiment.
Assembled the card with foam tape and snail adhesive.Here’s card#2. Comparatively, it’s a very CAS (Clean and Simple) card. I used stamps from Doodled Flowers.

I hope that you enjoyed your visit.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Places I’m Sharing Card #2:

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Happy Little Stampers Watercolor Challenge – April 2017 – Rainbow

Posted on April 1, 2017 by melissadawnlane

Hello! I’m very excited to be here with you for our second HLS Watercolor Challenge.

Our Guest Designer is the lovely and talented, Julie Beech. Make sure you stop over and say ‘hi”!

As always at Happy Little Stampers’ challenges……..we have a prize for you!

Here’s my card:

I did some die-cutting with the HLS Butterfly Dies.

I used the butterflies to mask off the white panel and then watercolored a rainbow à la the Happy Little Stampers’ header image.

I hope that you are inspired and that you going to enjoy joining in too!

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Grace & Peace,

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Happy Little Stampers February 2016 Mixed Media Challenge – Tear/Rip

Posted on February 6, 2017 by melissadawnlane

Hi! I’m very happy to be here with you today with a card for Happy Little Stampers February 2017 Mixed Media Challenge.

Our challenge:

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Here’s my card.

Washi tape, stenciling, stamping, die cutting, sponging, and of course, tearing/ripping went into the making of this card.

I used Happy Little Stampers’ Butterfly Birthday and Butterfly Dies.

This level of grungy mixed media is out of my normal comfort zone. I considered reworking it or ditching it all together. I showed it to my husband and told him what I was thinking.

He gave me some advice,”Well, be honest. Share that this is not your favorite card or style. You don’t always have to love everything you do. Maybe it would be refreshing for someone to read that you are sharing something that you are not really super crazy about.”

So, here we are. Grunge Melissa-style. Hmmm. I’ve seen some people who do lovely work with this style, but it is not really my favorite. img_5321_edited-1

I stamped the butterflies in a dark brown. After waiting a while, apparently, not long enough, I added the white embossing paste stenciled hearts. The brown ink bled through and gave the hearts a dirty, grungy appearance. I’m not a big fan of that. This is what I would do differently next time.

Any advice? Will the ink bleed through no matter how long I wait?

Thanks for stopping by!

Grace & Peace,

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AAA Cards Game #83 – Shape Your Love

Posted on February 5, 2017 by melissadawnlane

I’m happy to be here today for AAA Cards Game #83-Shape Your Love .

Thank you to our sponsor:

$15 gift certificate

Our inspirations photo:

I’d like to extend a big welcome to our Guest Designer, Sharon! – frommycraftdesk.blogspot.co.uk/ Make sure you check out her beautiful octagonally shaped card!

I have to say that I have combined some of my card-making favorites in this card today. The color red, butterflies, hearts, white space and die cutting/partial die cutting!

Here is my card.

You can see that I “Shaped My Love” in several ways on this card.

I used a Happy Little Stampers Butterfly Die to create a mask and to do some partial die cutting.

I rounded the top left corner of my card.
I added heart shapes to fill in the body of the butterfly. To accomplish this, I die cut some removable sticky label and masked off a butterfly and then stamped hearts in the negative area of the mask.
Then, I double stamped (in red and then in black) over the hearts, and inside the mask, with one of the butterfly stamps from Butterfly Birthday.