Roses of Love

Roses of Love, from Make it Crafty, is a perfect digital stamp for playing with watercolor techniques. I used an idea from Vicky Papaioannou to color with Distress Markers and "watercolor" with a Wink of Stella pen. The background is Distress inks, the sentiment is embossed with Zing in the color of Leaf.  A few sequins finished off the card.

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Cabbage Roses from Sandi Samples

The Outlawz January monthly Progressive Freebie Challenge offered this beautiful digital image from Sandi Samples called 58 Cabbage Roses. I love coloring flowers and wanted to make them look like the flowers we had in our backyard when I was growing up. I used the pallet blending technique on the flowers and then let my ScannCut fussy cut them out. I used a embossing folder that I had applied Distress Inks to for the background. Then I took the same folder and did another with plain white and used a die to cut out the oval shape. I used the same ink on the edges. The white one is popped up with foam. The bow was colored with my Copic air brush as were the small flowers on the bottom left. A couple of pearls and a touch of Wink of Stella on the roses and it is complete.

Copic Colors Used

Do you have any New Year's resolutions? I am part of an art journaling group and our first prompt of the year is to pick a word for the year. As a fellow artist/crafter, you might enjoy taking a peek at my art journaling blog to see my word of the year LOL!

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Summer Roses

Summer Time is the optional twist on Twisted Thursday over at The Outlawz this week. Our sponsor is Sami Stamps, and what a fun collection of digi stamps to choose from. I have been playing with different coloring mediums lately and so I chose the image called beauty roses and used pan pastels. The background is cardstock run through an embossing folder with some Distress Inks. I also added a paper bow from a tutorial that I found on YouTube. Great way to use up those scraps!