My Cards and Tags: City Cards using Jane Davenport's Aqua Pastels

This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme is "Birds of a Feather."  After a not-so-fun week at work, the first thing that came to mind was the desire to fly beyond the confines of the cubicle farm!  I tried to capture that feeling with this trio of cards.

I started by cutting out some card shapes with the Reverse Confetti Kindness Cards die set.  Then I smeared white paint through some Tim Holtz stencils: Dot Fade and Bubble.

I was anxious to try out the new Jane Davenport Aqua Pastel crayons.  Once my white paint dried, I colored over the card surfaces with the crayons.  Then I dipped my finger in some water and just sort of smeared all the colors together.  Some colored pencils and crayons that are supposed to be "blendable" with water don't work very well, but these crayons did not disappoint.  The colors were bright and mixed beautifully when I added water.  Here are the cards after the Aqua Pastel crayon treatment:

While those dried, I cut out some buildings with the Tim Holtz Cityscape Skyline die and colored them with Hero Arts Neon inks and Distress Inks.  The Hero Arts Neon inks were new to me and I already adore them.  I stamped some months on the buildings with a Paper Artsy stamp.

I covered my card backgrounds with some stamping and brushos, but most of this step got covered up by the end.

I glued the buildings to the background and then toned everything down with some white acrylic paint over the top.

You can see on the finished product that I also added black paint around the edges and outlined parts of the buildings with a black Sharpie.

For the sentiments, I cut off little pieces of notebook paper with a perforated edge and stamped onto them with Hero Arts alphabet stamps.  I also added some numbers to the buildings using Tim Holtz's Label Letters.

Here are the supplies I used, which you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Jane Davenport Aqua Pastels crayons	Tim Holtz Dot Fade Stencil	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil BUBBLE	Reverse Confetti Kindness Cards Die Set	Tim Holtz Sizzix CITYSCAPE SKYLINE Thinlits Die 661810
Big Shot	Paper Artsy Eclectica Everything Art 03 Stamp Set	Hero Arts Playful Alphabet Stamps	Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2016 HALFTONE AND RINGS CMS260	Hero Arts Neon Pink Ink Pad
Hero Arts Neon Blue Ink Pad	Hero Arts Neon Green Ink Pad	Hero Arts Neon Chartreuse Ink Pad	Peacock Feathers - Distress Ink	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad WILTED VIOLET
Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink Pad	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley Black Heavy Body Acrylic Paint	Strathmore Mixed Media Paper	Tim Holtz Idea-ology LABEL LETTERS
Ranger Non Stick Craft Sheet

I can't wait to see how you interpret our challenge this week.  Upload your projects to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win $50 to the Simon Says Stamp store.