FWF -- Color my world!

Maybe it's the bitter cold snap we're having again, but I've been craving bright colors!  I keep thinking I should be making winter themed cards, but I'm reaching for tulips, butterflies, motorcycles and bright washi tapes instead.  Must be a sign of cabin fever!

The first two cards use the Unity Tulips and Daisies stamp set.  I'm broadening my wings a bit and trying some watercolor painting.  This card with blue tulips uses a student watercolor paint set I picked up at Michael's for under $5. I entered it in a challenge on the cropchocolate.com site.

I used Echo Park For the Record 2 Documented papers, Strathmore 90# cold press watercolor paper,  and some ribbon from my stash.





 

I used my same student set of watercolor paints, Carta Bella Paris Girl 6x6 papers, Spellbinders die, Really Reasonable January Club ribbon, and a sentiment stamp and bling from Close To My Heart.  I embossed the right panel with a Lifestyles Crafts linear embossing panel run through a Bigshot.

 

This next card came about when my DH came home from work and said, "a co-worker turns 24 tomorrow.  Can you make him a card?".  Happens to us all, doesn't it?  Well, I knew the 2 of them had motorcycled together after work a couple times last summer, so out came my trusty cycle stamp.  Here was the 5 minute card I came up with:

 

 

I used a CTMH motorcycle stamp and CTMH Kraft card stock.  The various washi tapes I own are thrown in a basket so I no longer know the manufacturers.  The "celebrate" sentiment is from a Unity grab bag.

 

I have two more cards to show you.  There's no Unity on them, but I've been discussing different watercolor paints with some friends on another forum who also visit FWF and I want to show a comparison for them.

 

It's the basically the same card, made twice.  The first butterfly is colored with Copic markers.  The second butterfly uses some new paints I just got this week.  Well, new to me anyway, called Creative Inspirations paints.

 

 

All supplies and stamps are CTMH, except Copic markers and Creative Inspirations Paints.  I used peach and tanzanite paint colors.  It's hard to see, but they are very sparkly and luminescent. I'm entering the second card in the Creative Inspirations "anything goes" challenge.

 

Have a great week everyone!  We're below zero again today.  I hope that groundhog doesn't see his shadow so Spring comes early!!!!