2 for 1 Card

Hello to all my crafty friends.  Today I made a couple of cards that I have been itching to get to for a while now.  These cards are CASE'd from the amazingly talented Jennifer McGuire. Unfortunately she is not a Stampin Up Demonstrator, so I had to try and find a stamp set that would do the job.  I settled on the Penned and Painted set as I needed outline flowers to complete the project.

These are the cards I made.  

These cards require heat embossing, lots of stamping, and some watercolouring.  
2 card fronts are created using the exact same stamped image twice.  One is stamped in black ink and watercoloured, and the other is stamped with Versamark and clear heat embossed.

I used Watermelon Wonder and Whisper White Cardstock and watercoloured the images with a paintbrush and Inks.  I used Flirty Flamingo, Peakaboo Peach, Pear Pizzaz and Crumbcake.  That was the quick part!

The clear embossed Watermelon Wonder card front was a little more time intensive, but a lot of fun to create.  Each flower and leaf had to be individually stamped and heat embossed separately.  I used my MISTI  to recreate the same pattern as the watercoloured page.

Then I chopped them up!

I cut about 2.5cm off the bottom of each piece. I took a further centimeter off the bottom of the larger piece to allow the sentiment strip to go between the two pieces and not distort the picture.

I then heat embossed a sentiment from the Falling in Love stamp set using White embossing powder on Black cardstock.

Then stick it all together.......

Ta Da!  2 cards from one watercoloured image. I'm thinking some watercolour pencils might need to make it onto my next order.