Here For You... Caseing Genius Challenge

Hello!  Today I am sharing a card I've created based on the {Case}ing Genius Challenge that Kelly Latevola put together as a way of celebrating her series turning 1 years old! yay!!!  I am so honored to be able to share that I was her first installment of this series for the 2nd year, and I can not wait to see who else she shares with us as time goes on.  Not to mention her blog is freaking amazing, as is her work... like for reals.  Anywho, I was inspired by a new to me blogger Michele from I Card Everyone.  Here is the card she had shared during her time on Caseing Genius...

I love love love this color combo and hardly ever use it. I also loved the softness of the grey watercolored background contrasting to the bright yellow watercolored flowers.  So here is what I created...

To create this card I did things a little backwards, due to the way the stamps were made that I wanted to use.  I love these wispy flowers from the new Wispy Wishes by The Alley Way Stamps, and so I started by coloring the fuller flower image in with my Fosilized Amber Distress Marker and spritzing it with water before stamping.  I hit this with my heat gun and went over the images with the thinner image in white embossing powder.  To blend the flowers out a little more I hit them once more with my waterbrush.  I finally added some soft grey watercoloring by using a distress marker again but this time on a clear block and picked it up with my waterbrush.  The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed in the same white and trimmed at an angle.  Finally I just had to add some bling to my card so I busted out my favorite mix of clear sequins, and ta - da!  My take on an already fabulous card!

I am also linking this up to the Virginia's View Challenge: Texture

Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy Crafting!
Lisa