I've been wanting to create this card for awhile...I painted up these poinsettias a little over a month ago and finally had some time to cut them out and arrange them on a card! The red was difficult to capture on picture even in natural light! It really pops on this dark chocolate cardstock in real life! I am linking up with the STAMPtember Studio Katia linkup over at Simon Says Stamp.

It's often challenging for me to design a more masculine card but I finally set to work with this older Close To My Heart seaside set. I played around with the colour a bit...I knew I didn't want to stamp it in black ink so I was trying to colour in each part of the lighthouse with different Tombow markers, but the translation just wasn't happening to my liking. I finally decided to keep it simple by colouring the entire image with this beautiful Marvy navy hue and I love how it turned out.

I have been so inspired by all of the floral watercolours around lately, especially Freshly Made Sketches winner from last week, Carla! I really want to work at this splatter thing though...I tried using the black archival ink but it just wasn't giving me the effect I was wanting. It still turned out nice though and colouring the flowers makes me excited for more spring weather!

I was in the mood to watercolour this weekend and pulled out this cactus set from Art Impressions. I followed along with the instructions on the back of this set while substituting a few different colours that I had. I decided to keep it pretty minimalistic and just mounted the watercolour paper onto this beautiful heavyweight Lawn Fawn paper with some foam tape. I am linking up with the current "outdoor scenes" challenge over at the Art Impressions blog.