Creating With Color and Water ~ NBUS #113

Well, hello! I'm so happy to see you!!

I had a wonderful time with my friends at the Scrapbook Expo on Friday. Even getting there early, it was crowded, but fun! An hour in, my resolve not to buy any more goodies to add to Mt. NBUS dissolved and I ended up spending {cough} dollars.

I have to say it was a bit deflating to spend over a hunnert dollars in one booth and have my purchases be handed to me in what we used to call a "penny" bag!! Although, OTOH, I will say clear stamps do make it easy to fool the Mister since I can fit dozens and dozens of them into my purse.

Seriously, you know, these clear stamp sets are an incredible bargain. Not that many years ago, each of those images in that pack of, say, six to twelve stamps, or more, would have been sold to you in wood, as individual stamps, with individual prices on them! You may, of course, borrow my brilliant rationalizing any time your mister raises an eyebrow over your stamp stash.

After we exhausted ourselves and our wallets we went out to lunch to celebrate Kim's upcoming birthday on the 20th. The darling waiter took our picture. (I'm sorry I hadn't had a chance to change out of my referee clothes before it was time to head to the Expo.)

Harriet, Darnell, Kim

I came home filled with motivation. I have been watching the days click by on the new challenge being hosted by the sweet and brilliant card artist, Virginia Lu, called Virginia's View Challenge. Virginia is so respected and admired that she has almost 300 entries in her very first posting! Impressive!! We love you, Virginia! And she is so kind that she is personally leaving thoughtful comments on every entry!

After making several attempts to watercolor using Gelatos and pencils and markers and spritzers and wodka gimlets, I finally came up with a card I'm pleased with. My first attempts were with bold colors in an effort to play in the current CASE Study, but I just wasn't feeling it. I will need to work on that a bit more. The results worked better for me when I lightened the coloring to springlike aqua/minty green, yellow, and coral.

I scribbled my SU markers onto an acrylic block, spritzed it with water, and "stamped" it onto watercolor paper. The image is a NBUS freebie from a magazine from my friend Shirley. (The magazine is Craft Stamper, per my friend KathyK.) To corral the coral, etc., I doodled a frame around them.

I'm also entering my card in this month's One-Layer Simplicity Challenge, which is being hosted this month by the fantastic card artist Karen of Snippets. Karen wants us to "Just Add Water" to our cards.

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Short and sweet today. I have another card for you, but I'll post it tomorrow so this doesn't get too long.

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