Beautiful Lady....Beautiful Quotes

It' always fun to go through a stack of new stamps....

looking at each one..

and having that moment when one set calls out to you...

and sparks some creativity...

some ideas...

and brings a vision of a card that you'd like to create.

It's also  always fun to ink up some new stamps for the very first time.

This time...

My fun came via Altenew's Beautiful Lady and Beautiful Quotes stamp sets...

I haven't water colored in a few weeks...

and Beautiful Lady shouted "WATER COLOR" to me.

So that's what I did!

 I inked up Beautiful lady....

Got out some ink pads....my paint brushes...

and all of the other things needed to water color a stamped image.
I heat embossed the image with Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder...
and then...picked up my paint brushes!

It felt SO good to water color an image!

A few weeks of no water coloring is a few weeks too long for me!

When the image was dry...

I matted it with LCI Metallic card stock...

Then...

I looked through some prints....in search of a good match.

(I found one!)

I should note...I don't use prints often...

I own TONS of gorgeous print paper...

yet rarely use prints...

So this time...I decided to use a print

After the card was assembled...

I created the sentiment banner...

using a great quote from the Beautiful Quotes stamp set

(LOVE that stamp set!...every quote in the set is fantastic!)

(By the way....re the banner....no die needed...banners like this one are a cinch to make)

Now let's sum this all up by saying....

Beautiful Lady + Beautiful Quotes = Beautiful Card

The math checks out!

BL+BQ=BC

I also have a pink version of this image water colored....

and drying as we speak....

I'm looking forward to creating a card with it tomorrow...

and will share it here as well.

Thanks for vistiing...

Wishing you a wonderful day....

Michelle.

Card loving friends...this card is now available at the The Bellissima Card Shop

Card making friends....Key supply items have been noted in the blog post above.