Thinking Of You Card

  Hello Crafty Friends - Annie here with a floral card for the Die Cut Divas Challenge. This month's challenge is: Spring is Coming -Make something that will tell us that Spring is Coming. and make sure it was either Dry Embossed or cut with your Die-cut machine.

Here's my card

Supplies Used:

Gina K: Peaceful Roses

Gina K: Master Layouts 4 Dies

Faber Castell Watercolor Pencils

Shimmer Cardstock - Yellow 

Strathmore Coldpress Watercolor Cardstock

White A2 Cardbase

Imagine Crafts Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray-Gold

VersaFine Clair Ink: Nocturne

Tiny Gold Gems

Bearly Art Glue

Foam Tabs

 This month's sponsor,

Gina K Designs is a craft supply company located in Milwaukee, WI, specializing in high-quality stamps, dies and other paper-crafting and card making supplies. Gina also has a very active YouTube channel she uses to share exciting and inspirational crafting videos.  

Gina K Designs is offering a $25 gift card to their store as the March 2026 challenge prize.

And our challenge theme this month   

Faux Watercolouring with Altenew inks

 Hi there.  Dawn here again.  

Our theme for the month of August is "watercolor real or faux".

The Prize will be a $20 gift certificate to Altenew.

Today I'm sharing a Faux watercoloured card.   A great easy way to do watercolouring.

To make my watercoloured flowers I used the layers of Nature Blossoms flower. I inked up with the first colour and spritzed with water before stamping onto some watercolour paper . I dried with my heat gun and did the next layer in the same manner. And finally the last layer. I used the Red Sunset inks from Altenew - one using the first three inks and two using the 2nd - 4th inks. The centres are stamped using inks from the Warm and Cozy set. I die cut with the matching dies and then blended a little of the ink on the edges. For the leaves I used inks from the Green Meadow inks and did some smooshing onto wet watercolour paper. After it dried, I overstamped some leaves. I die cut the leaves and with some of the extra watercolour paper, I die cut some branches from the Branches and Berries Die set. My other faux watercolour technique used the Classy Stripe stencil - I inked it with the Crimson ink, spritzed with water and used it to "stamp" onto my card base. Loved how it looks. the sentiment is from the Engraved Flowers set.

Do come and join us for this month's challenge.

Dawn & The Divas

Balloon Birthday bear

  It's time for me to share a card with you over at Die Cut Divas... 

Our sponsor is Bugaboo this month and our theme is BIRTHDAYS.  Winner will receive a $12 voucher to the Bugaboo store.  

Here is my project.  

I did some paper piecing for my card using two co-ordinating papers.  I used my Gina K designs Master Layours to cut my layers.  I printed the image onto white card and also onto the patterned papers and fussy cut them to piece on the card.  I die cut some Simon Says Stamp hearts and added to the sentiment circle. 

Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas with your birthday cards.