Joy of Sets Blog Hop Group - Something New!

Hello and welcome to another Joy of Sets Blog Hop!  My name is Susan aka Craftyduckydoodah! - I live in beautiful Godmanchester near Cambridge, UK.   If you are starting here or joining me from Karen, welcome -  I hope you find lots of inspiration as you hop around with us.

I have been using a gorgeous new stamp set and die bundle called Good Morning Magnolia all this week for my Coffee & Cards sessions - it is proving very popular.  I just can't seem to stop using it - the magnolia flowers are perfect for a spot of colouring using many different mediums and, in many different colours.  

Here are the colours I used for my project.

Balmy Blue

Mossy Meadow

Old Olive

Seaside Spray

So Saffron

Soft Suede

The magnolia has been stamped onto water colour paper using Versamark ink and embossed with gold embossing powder.

I used an Aqua Painter and the colours above to colour the image - Seaside Spray is my absolute new favourite colour!

I do have a rather hap hazard approach to water colouring - I just sort of smoosh the ink around and I don't mind if some areas are not coloured at all.

However, this occasionally results in my going outside of the lines.

Top Tip

If you go outside the lines - don't panic! 

Use a clean Aqua Painter to gently flood the area with water and then dab with a tissue until the colour has been removed.

I used the edge die to cut a scalloped border on pieces of whisper white and seaside spray card.  I stamped some splodges with a stamp from Beauty Abounds using Seaside Spray ink.

The two panels were then adhered to the card base with dimensionals.

I used the Well Written dies and whisper white card to cut 'happy'out three times.  These were then layered up using Tombow.

I used my favourite Stitched Rectangle dies and the word 'birthday' from a stamp set called Well Said. 

Here is the completed card and envelope.

Next up is Rebecca-Jo.  A list of all hop participants can be found below.  Hop Thanks for hopping around with us - don't forget to leave comments!

Happy crafting.

Susan xx

Hop Participants

Jane Allmark

Annette Ball

Linda Handford

Anne-Marie Maclean

Angie McKenzie

Vicki Milyard

Andrea Parr

Karen Pearmain

Susan Simpson   You are here!

Rebecca-Jo Unwin

Fiona Whitehead

Jennifer Arant

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