Day 6....The Last Day of Catherine Scanlon Designs Week and Giveaway

Hello my crafty and creative friends!

Welcome back for Day 6....the final day

 of Catherine Scanlon Designs Week and Giveaway, here at my blog!

I'm happy...and I'm sad today.

Happy that I've dedicated 6 days to creating & sharing wonderful..beautiful stamps with you here

and sad that today is the last of the 6 days.

(I might just have to d another Catherine Scanlon  Designs Week 

in the future!)

**GIVEAWAY REMINDER:

Don't forget to post a comment below 

so that you'll be "in" on next week's Catherine Scanlon Stamp Giveaway!

Okay..so now..on to today's cards!

I've got 4 cards to share with you today.

Two cards were created with Catherine Scanlon's FLOWER FRAME stamp

and 2 cards were created with the ELEGANT FLORAL FRAME stamp

(All of Catherine Scanlon's stamps are available at the ART GONE WILD web site.

Each of the cards were stamped with Versamark ink..

and heat embossed...

Some with Sparkle n Sprinkle Fine Detail White Embossing Powder 

and some with Sparkle n Sprinkle Fine Detail Black Embossing Powder.

I water colored each of today's images with Altenew Ink and a traditional paint brush.

I chose sentiments for each card form a variety of stamp sets...

by Penny Black...Papermakeup...Stampin Up

I used an assortment of LCI metallic card stock colors for matting.

First up...

2 cards created with the ELEGANT FLORAL FRAME stamp.

This is a beautiful large stamp that fills an entire card front.

I only wanted to use the upper portion of this stamped image..

so that's the portion of the image that I stamped out...embossed and water colored.

I usually heat emboss with gold when water coloring..

but this time..I went with white

for no  reason other than the fact that this image just didn't seem suited for gold.

I am happy with my decision go with the white EP.

The colors that I chose to water color this second image with

are very much like the colors used for the first card...

but the flower colors are just a little bit darker in this version

I like this image a lot..

and am happy with my decision use only the upper half of the entire image.

I like that by cropping the image... this makes those 2 big flowers the true focal point of this card.

The second stamp that I used for creating today's cards is

FLOWER FRAME 1

This is a big beautiful WOW! kind of stamp.

It's got SO much opportunity for color..with so many wonderful and different flowers

that fill a card front...side to side and top to bottom.

Flower Frame 1 is a detailed image with lots of beautiful flowers and leaves...

both big and small.

For the first Flower Frame card I heat embossed with white...

and chose purple toned colors for all of the flowers.

I love the white heat embossing with the colors that I chose for this card...

The colors are soft...serene..and soothing yet can hold their own.

I didn't want to hide any of this gorgeous image..

so I placed the small double matted sentiment kinda-sorta in the middle of the card.

I went with a dark purple and  light pastel lavender metallic card stock for the large matting layers.

After soft..serene and soothing...

I wanted to kick it up three thousand notches...

and went with an entirely different color palette.

Look at this image!!

WOWZERAMA!!

I had so much fun choosing the ink for water coloring this image.

I wanted bold..bright...and striking.

and..

I think that's what I wound up with.

I'm also happy with my choice to do the "bold & bright" thing...

with black heat embossing

because that seemed to really make all of the flower colors pop.

I like that this bright and beautiful card is the last card 

that I am sharing as the 6 Days of Catherine Scanlon Designs Week comes to a close here at my blog.

It goes had hand with the saying...

"Going out with a bang"!

These bright gorgeous colors sure bring some bang to my blog!

I hope that you've enjoyed these 6 days of cards created with Catherine Scanlon stamps.

It's been my pleasure to introduce many of you to these stamp designs for the first time.

I've received lots of private messages on FB 

letting me know that he stamp designs are now on your radar...

and have "wowed' you...as they always "wow" me!

Thank you for taking time to message me...or comment here at my blog.

It makes me smile to know that these beautiful stems have bene seen

by man...for the first time....and that that you love them as much as I do.

and now..

One more reminder:

USA Card Makers....Don't forget to comment below..so that you'll be "in" on the Giveaway.

(Winners will be announced on July 14th!)
***I'll share a re-cap of all of this weeks cards on the 13th...
and you'll have one final chance to comment...for one final entry in the GIVEAWAY.

Thanks for joining me these last 6 days.

I hope that You've been inspired...

and have discovered some new stamps that will allow you to create with joy.

Have a wonderful day my friends!

Michelle.