Altered Playing Cards, Week 18: sayings and quotes

Once again I'm joining Claudine's Art Corner for Week 18 of altering playing cards.  This week it's about sayings and quotes.  Or at least, that's basically how I read it.

It's still too cold to take step out photos in my craft room, so I take them to my office, warm my shaking, numb hands, and scan the cards.

Although I didn't have any of that awesome media fluid acrylics Claudine used, I took my lead from her art and created both cards using the same three colors.

Once my hands were warm again, I made and cut out three flowers and stems.  Although it doesn't show too well, I also colored them with lavender pigment ink.  I found the quote sitting on my desk, so cut it out and ran the pigment ink around it, too.  I'm calling this one Milton's Flowers.

I also found a fortune sitting on my desk, so decided to create an Asian inspired piece.  I tried to fussy cut the oriental teapot I stamped on white cardstock, but my hands were so cold, I had trouble staying in outside the lines.  Now I wish I had added a Chinese coin to the mix, but it was a bit too cold to go hunting for one.

Here are both my entries for this week.  Like Claudine, I added my sentiments after I applied the images, but I did it in order to find the best place to put the sentiments.  Turns out, I had lots of room. 

Thanks for taking the time to visit and see my interpretation of this week's APCs.  There are lots more over at Claudine's Art Corner, too.