I love the way the Watercolor Brush Markers blend on Bristol Smooth card stock; so I grabbed an a2 panel and added some clean, clear water, and then dropped in some pigment from three markers. I chose a gorgeous warm toned colour palette; Rouge, Warm Sunshine and Autumn Blaze.

I left this to dry completely, before stamping the gorgeous floral image from Inky Bouquet. I added the ink splatters around the image, and I absolutely ADORE these!!!

The sentiment is from the same set too, I love how it just nestled into the image so naturally.

To make the flowers pop a little bit more I added some very subtle shading, using my cool grey markers; C00 & C1.

I love to do this and when you do it right you can’t really tell there’s any shading there, but when you put it against an unshaded image you can see so much more depth! (In fact, I really need to do one of those slider comparison things to show a before & after!)

I absolutely love these new Lapis Lazuli skinny washi tapes, these inks aren’t in my collection yet but my goodness; I gotta have them now!!! ?

I decided to make a feature of the different shades of blue in these tapes by creating a background with them. I started with the palest blue, adding it in a diagonal line from left to right, then switching to add another strip right to left.

I did this with each of the colours going from lightest to darkest and alternating each side, until I reached the bottom.

One of the cool things about washi tape is that it’s semi translucent, so when you layer them up like this, you get a whole bunch of different shades where they cross over each other.

I die cut a heart from vellum and I ran this through my Gemini Jr in the new Waffled Diamonds 3d embossing folder. I really love how that came out!!

For my sentiment I used the older Bold Greetings die set, and added some blue enamel dots to enhance the overall design.