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February 12, 2007

Birthday cards

This first one is a watercolor collage. I followed an exercise from a watercolor for kids video that my girls and I watched, and it was fun. Drop colors down in blobs. let dry. Find the flowers within it and use a marker/black crayon to define them. I added another little group of flowers behind it (on the top), glued it to a nice cardstock and then painted the cardstock background.

From Watercolor 2007
Watercolor It's in the mail now to my mom.

From Watercolor 2007
I got these neat card sets from Oriental Trading Company that have a square window frame, you insert a picture, glue it in and then I embellished it with wc strips. Fun to do. bright and cheery.

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Lovely! I like the way you did the first one. Something I have to try too.

Posted by: Renate | February 13, 2007

Nice! I like the colors in the second one. :)

Posted by: laserone | February 14, 2007

These are both very nice. Thanks for sharing information about the technique.

Posted by: suzanne | February 17, 2007

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