Ink It Up with Heidi Shafer -- Wild Beauty

I'm super excited about today's post because

I've joined together with fellow stamper, Heidi Shafer of Mapleberry Musings,

with a new challenge that we came up with for each other.

We had been discussing the fact that we both seem

to have stamp sets in our collections that we haven't inked up yet,

so we thought we'd challenge each other to use these sets.

So, on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month,

we'll both be sharing cards that we've made with new sets

that we haven't used yet.

Today, I'm sharing my card that I made using my Simon Says Stamp

Wild Beauty stamp set.

Here's my card:

I originally had a completely different plan for this card.... 

but I'm very happy with how it turned out!

I started of by stamping my flowers from SSS Wild Beauty

and PTI's Sketched Florals in versamark and heat embossing them in white

on a piece of watercolour paper.

Then, I used five different shades of Zig Markers to colour over top,

using water to blend the colours together.

I was going for a messy look on my panel, but then, once I was done,

I wasn't happy with it..... so I fussy cut out my group of flowers

and adhered it to a panel of white cardstock.

I added a strip of black cardstock along the side
and stamped my sentiment (from PTI Spring Woods).
A few PTI rainstones finishes it off.

I'm also made this card for Day 2 of Heat Wave,
a class I'm taking this week at Online Card Classes:

As well as for Virginia's View Challenge #22: All About Colours.

And don't forget to hop over to Heidi's blog to see what she created.

Thanks for looking!

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