Cover Plate Die 2 Card Fronts

I've always avoided cover plate dies until now.  My previous life as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator didn't give me much exposure to them.  So I decided to finally venture out of the box I placed myself in and see what they are all about.  This was a fun card and with the right patterned paper this makes a simply beautiful card front in both the positive and negative of the cover plate.  

Cute Watercolor Rose Bud

I finally figured out how to watercolor using this really easy clear embossing of the stamped image and the Arteza real brush pens.  Come check out this tutorial on how I created this simple yet elegant card.

Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Metallic Inks - Not What I Expected

So the swatching of the new Lisa Horton Cloud 9 metallic pigment inks did not go the way I expected it to.  In some ways I was disappointed and others I was thrilled.  Still need to play around with these inks to get the best method of using them.