Hand-Penned Hello - Stampin' Up! Hand-Penned Petals

   I'm playing along with the Perfectly CAS challenge today with this floral water colored card.  The theme is 'flowers' and the cluster of flowers in the Hand-Penned Petals set is a fun one to use for tons of different kinds of cards.  I had a set of colors in mind that I saw in a catalog and while my end result was not quite the subtle and muted tones of my inspiration I like how it turned out.

  I started by stamping the image in Crumb Cake onto the corner of a piece of watercolor paper.   I then used reinkers and an aquapainter to color in the flowers, mixing and matching to get some variation in the colors.

  I then stamped the 'hello' from Biggest Wish in Crumb Cake and added a little pearl and retired sequin.  Remember the challenge is a clean and simple one so I couldn't go all crazy adding lots of embellishments even if I wanted to just a bit. 

  To give some more interest to the card front while still keeping CAS, I didn't center the layers but mounted them so they are all even up in the top corner with just a bit of color peeking out beneath to the side and bottom.

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Hand-Penned Petals, Biggest Wish

Ink: Crumb Cake, Petal Pink, Bumblebee, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Seafoam, Blushing Bride, Pale Papaya, Calypso Coral

Paper: Pear Pizzazz, Petal Pink, watercolor paper

Accessories: adhesive pearl, sequin (retired)