May 8th Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

For the Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, today I used:

watercolors on a page from a Dover Coloring Book, Keep Calm and Drink Tea, mounted on Gina K paper with some twine and Nuvo drops.

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Thinking of You in Water Color

I am in the middle of taking a fantastic class from Online Classes called Clear and Sheer. I have learned so much already. Here is a card that I water colored on Tim Holtz, Ranger Distress Water Color Paper using Distress Inks. The stamp is from Dina Wakley, Scribbly Flowers, and was embossed on to the paper with white embossing powder.

I cut the vellum with Gina Marie Designs Pendant dies, embossed the sentiment from Stampabilities and attached with tape to the card. Then, I ran ribbon through my Xyron and went over where the tape showed. Finally, I added some Crystal sequins from Darice, attached with Glossy Accents.



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Watercolored Leaves

Another project completed using the watercolor techniques from Online Card Classes.

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Watercolor for Cardmaking

Here's something a bit different for you to look at. I am taking part of and online water color class for cardmakers. These cardmaking classes have all been very informative and fun. If you're looking for inspiration, they are well worth the cost.

This is the first one that I did. It was to learn blending. I also learned that I really should spring for some "real" watercolor paper LOL!

The second one was used to make a card. I used sticky backed foam sheets cut to size for the backing to keep the paper from buckling, and adhered it to the cardstock. I only used two colors, Cadmium Yellow Hue and Cadmium Red, both from Winsor Newton, Cotman water color tubes. The sentiment is a Simon Says die cut that I did in two colors. Finally, I added some stitching lines in dark blue and a few dark blue dots.

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Flower Bird

It's the last week of the month and so we have an anything goes over at Twisted Thursday on The Outlawz. I chose this sweet little bird from our sponsor, Bugaboo, called Flower Bird.

I used an embossing folder with a round diffuser which I then painted the raised butterflies with watercolors. I also used my Copic air brush to fill in the remaining background circle in blue. The image is raised with some foam tape. The quilled flowers that I made were sprayed with the Copic air brush as well, and I added some yellow dots to the centers. Everything is edged with Distressed Inks in a variety of blues.

Watercolored Poppies from Sami Stamps

Water Color Flowers and Background

This week, over at The Outlawz' Twisted Thursday, our optional twist is to add a charm. Out sponsor is Sami Stamps and I just love this poppy stamp. I played with many different types of coloring and finally settled on this watercolored one for the "final" card.

I used watercolor paper and stamped the image. Then I covered the image with a mask, wet the paper, added water colors randomly, and wet to spread. Then I removed the mask.

The charm is a tiny resin heart and I topped the "hello" with glossy accents.

Markers and Watercolor background

This was a close runner-up. I used marker with a watercolor background.

Spectrum Noirs Used

House Mouse Says Merry Christmas

This week, as a guest designer for House Mouse & Friends, I decided to do something a little different. "Add a Little Sparkle" is the twist for challenge #183. I made a Christmas tree using my watercolors and then added Stickles glitter glue, Wink of Stella, , and glittered stars for some sparkle. The mouse was edged with Festive Berries Distress Ink and the cutout in green was cut with my Little B Scallops die. The Mouse and Sentiment are raised.

Also entered:
Diva's That Cut
Gruffies & Guests 
Crafty Catz

Clean and Simple Fall Leaves

A very simple CAS (Clean and Simple) made with my alcohol inks sprayed with alcohol on glossy paper for the background and then some water colored leaves that I did a while ago. Stamped sentiment from Stampabilities.

Outlaws CAS
Crafting From the Heart