Essentials by Ellen June Mix it Up Challenge

Today, I have two cards to share for the 

Essentials by Ellen June Mix it Up Challenge.

I've been wanting to play along with this challenge ever since

I got my Mondo Hydrangea stamp set,

but I haven't had any stamp sets from the companies they've featured.

Until now....

For their June Mix it Up Challenge, they're featuring Technique Tuesday

and I own a Technique Tuesday stamp set.

So, I created two cards combining these two sets....

Now, I'd recently watched a colouring with Zig Markers video by Kristina Werner

and wanted to try this using my Mondo Hydrangea stamps.

However, I wasn't thinking, and stamped my image onto white cardstock

instead of watercolour paper.

So, I decided to make two cards with the same placement of the stamps,

but I coloured them using different techniques.

For the card on the white cardstock, I coloured in my images by pressing

acrylic ink (PTI harvest gold, lovely lady, hibiscus burst & Altenew

soft lilac, lavender fields and evening grey) and used

a paintbrush and water to colour them ink.

Once dry, I stamped my sentiments from my Technique Tuesday stamp set.

Now, for my watercolour panel, I used my Zig markers with a paintbrush

and water, but I found that for some of the colours, they didn't blend as 

well, so I had to colour onto my acrylic block a little to add the colour

to my card.

I stamped the sentiment in versamark onto a piece of black

cardstock and heat embossed it in white.

I apologize for the poor photos, by the way.

It was dark and gloomy all day yesterday when I tried to take photos of them.

They look a lot better in real life. ;)

Thanks for looking!

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