Avery Elle … Unicycle and Big Congrats

Hello there, here today sharing two cards featuring some fabulous products from the latest Summer release.
The first card features two new sets – Big Congrats and Poppies. I thought it was high time I dusted off my Avery Elle Liquid Watercolours and the Poppy images in this set are perfect to show off the delicate colours and effects you can create.
First I stamped the the poppy garland image in Versamark and heat embossed it in white. I “coloured in” the image with plain water to begin with so I could drop tiny amounts of the liquid watercolour onto the design. I love the way the two colours merge and mingle together creating an almost translucent appearance – just like a real poppy! I used Cherry and Fizz liquid watercolours on the flowers and a combination of Lemongrass and Jungle for the foliage.

I set the image aside to dry and then die cut the Congrats die from the Big Congrats set in white. I was going to leave. it like that for a tone on tone effect but I decided it needed a bit “more” so added versamark to the bottom half and then heat embossed it in gold for a dipped effect. I stamped and heat embossed the “So Happy For You” block also.

Finally I assembled my card. I wanted the card to be a bit bigger than the standard A2 size so I created a custom size of 4′ x 7′. This gave my design a much better look and allowed me no avoid the card looking crowded. Sometimes we forget we can create a card ANY size we like, lol! I added the die cut floral image using foam tape and the congrats sentiment die cuts using liquid adhesive. For a final flourish I added some enamel dots to tie in the gold on the sentiment.

My second card today is a bit more childlike and features the fabulous Unicycle stamp set. It would be great for a little boy and I happen to have a nephew with a birthday coming up soon so this should come in handy!

I cut a panel of the blue star paper from the Spring Collection paper pad and adhered it to the A2 white card base. I then stamped the cute rhino and unicycle along with the wee birthday cake and coloured them using Copics.

I die cut the images, adhered them to the card and stamped the sentiment.Whenever I see the chance to use a pom pom on a card I don’t waste it so his hat just had to have one!