Guest designing for Colour Throwdown and Ink It Up With Heidi Shafer -- Winter Flowers

As I shared last week, I have been invited
to guest design for Colour Throwdown for December and January!

Here's this week's CTD:

And today, I'm also joining up once again with
Heidi Shafer of Mapleberry Musings for Ink It Up.

Ink it Up is a challenge where, on the second and fourth Wednesday 

of each month, Heidi and I share cards that we've made with new stamp sets

that we haven't used yet.

I made my cards using my 

Winter Flowers stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.

I used my coordinating dies and stamped directly on to my watercolour panel,

which I heat embossed in clear, using versafine ink.

I coloured them in using my Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers and a water brush.

I stamped my sentiment using Papertrey ink's Winter Village

and diecut my panel using Neat and Tangled's new Scallop dies.

I had so much fun playing with my new stamps, that I decided to make a second card.

This time, I stamped the images and my sentiment (from Mama Elephant's Season Greetings)

in versamark and heat embossed them in white. 

I coloured them in using PTI ink that I pressed onto my acrylic block and water

and a paintbrush.

Don't forget to hop over to Heidi's blog to see what
she created for this Ink It Up.

And make sure that you also visit Colour Throwdown
to see what the other DT members created with the colour challenge!

Thanks for looking!