3D BOTANICAL POTS

 I've always enjoyed making botanical fodder for ATCs and cards, and wanted to incorporate them in a way I hadn't done before. I used my watercolour markers to create the botanicals, the backgrounds, and the pots/vases on these samples. I think the girls will appreciate the control they have using watercolour markers when working on small botanicals and pots as opposed to watercolour paints, where it can easily get away from you with being too wet, as these images and backgrounds are so small.
No stamps were used for any of these botanicals, pots or grass, all hand-drawn (sorry girls 😉).

"Feeling cute"

"Pollen"


"Lily"

"No rain"

"Thriving"

"I paint flowers"

STAMPED ACCENT SHAPES

 For those who don't want to do much fussy colouring on a main focal image, this is an easy way to add colour by using accent shapes in various colours. Some of the shapes I have made myself using craft foam with dies (the ghosts, circles & squares) and other times I have just used stamps that suit the main focal stamped image. You also have the option to colour in part or all of the main image. I tried out this technique on an Easter card for my granddaughter just recently, and was happy with how it turned out, so I thought we could easily do the same thing on ATCs. I also used one of my spinny bearings for the first time on the skull ATC. They are so cute and easy to use! Her card is right at the bottom of this post. I used an egg-shaped die to cut craft foam for the coloured shapes on her card. 

"Bone appetit"

Spinning skull on Bone appetit

"Butterflies with no make-up"

"Fragile like a bomb"

"Ghosts don't give a sheeet"

"Rainbow of chaos"

"Just winging it"

Easter card