Thanks Sew Much

Hi Everyone, I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  I spent Saturday catching up with some housework, even managing to break the vacuum and then on Sunday we had lunch out with Rod's Mum and his sister and one of our nieces who were visiting.  Saturday would have been Rod's Mum and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary, and just over a month since his dad had passed so we were all trying to keep his mum's spirits up.   My niece than came back and spent a few hours with Rod and I,  helping Rod empty the spa out for winter, playing with the cats and then we did some crafting.  We made some collage fridge magnets, two had birds on which Tani was going to keep for herself and the other had a vintage girl and we put the word Cherish on it.  She was giving this one to grandma.  We so enjoy spending time with our nieces and nephews its just a shame they live so far away.  They grow up so quickly.

Apart from this I didn't venture into my craft room much at all over the weekend but was back into the swing of things this morning finishing off a few DT projects and making a Thank You Card for my Dad to give to a lady who did some adjustments to a pair of trousers he recently purchased.  It is this Thank You Card I am sharing with you today.

As the lady didn't want to be paid for doing this sewing task for my Dad, he brought her a box of chocolates and I said I would make him a card to give with them.

The Cardstock, Papers and Ribbon are from Stampin' Up!.  The image of Dress Form is from one of my Unity KOTM's and the sentiment I created using my Times New Roman Alphabet from Just Rite Stamps.  Flower and pearl are from my stash.

I'll be back tomorrow with my Magical Monday Post for Paper Cupcakes and my Party Time Tuesdays Project for our Monthly Anything Goes Challenge, and if you are looking for some other challenges to play along with today there is still time to join this months sketch challenge at Sketches with a Twist, the Color Inspiration Challenge at Platypus Creek Digitals and the very first challenge which is Anything Goes at My Heart Pieces Challenges.

FWF - Watercolor Wash Take 2

If you saw yesterdays post I shared with you a quick 'How To' on how to make your own watercolor wash backgrounds using a plastic protector sleeve, your felt tip markers and water.  In that post I created my background using colours of similar tonings eg.  all Yelllow/Oranges and then stamped over the top of these designs with a darker colour in the same tones to achieve a unique background for the thank you cards I made.

Today I am using this same technique however I have used different contrasting colours. (Pink and Green which is my favorite colour combo).

The overall result I achieved today is a much softer look compared to yesterday cards, this has a lot to do with my choice of colours and embellishment.  I embossed my background with my Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder from Stampin' Up! and teamed this with a fabulous sentiment from the Unity December KOTM and some sewing themed die cuts from K & Co (Amy Butler Lotus Tea Box Die Cut Cardstock Emphemera).

The blue is not part of the card but the background I laid the card on to take this picture.  Given pink is often hard to photograph in good light, let alone the miserable weather we are experiencing here at the moment, this gave a much better result than the white background of my white photo box.

Aswell as showing you another take on the Water Colour Wash Technique, I have created today's card to join in the fun over on the Unity Blog for their Friday Friends with Flair Link Up.  Be sure to pop over and check out all the other wonderful Unity Goodness there and don't forget if you leave a comment on my blog or any of the other blogs participating in this link up you have a chance to win some Unity Goodness for yourself.

Thanks for stopping by.