Watercolored Flowers

So far behind on the Watercolor for Card Makers, Intermediate Techniques, class. And, it closes tomorrow for the "live" class. Fortunately, there is a lifetime access so I can finish and revisit when I can. I did want to post this card because I loved this easy technique, and am pleased with the results.

I used Gansai Tambi water colors and cut out the yellow sentiment using A Cut Above, Dee's Destinctively die.

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Friendship

This week the optional twist is "Add a Sentiment" over at Twisted Thursday, The Outlawz. Our sponsor is Make it Crafty. I was very lucky to learn from Zoe when she came to the USA last month to help Jenn Dove with Copic Boot Camp. She is a doll! Anyway, I selected the digital stamp Girls Secret Swing to make this card for a friend. I used a Darice embossing folder for the background and colored with Tombow and Color Bursts on watercolor paper. I fussy cut the girls and swing so they could swing from the tree and added a popped up sentiment from Stampendous.

Inside with Little B Bouquet

Copic Colors Used

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Bearly a Headache Bookmark

This cute image called "Bearly a Headache", comes from Sandra Caldwell on Etsy. She made this image specially for her good friend, Holley, who has been seizure free for 6 years after brain surgery.

Holley is having a bookmarker challenge on her blog using this image. I thought this would be a great opportunity to try something new to me. I used a Dove Blender Pen with Tim Holtz Distress Inks to color the bear. I squished some ink down on my craft sheet to work with. Then, I thought, why waste the leftovers, so I sprayed them with water and dunked the bookmarker into it. After it dried, I added a real bandaid for the bear to sit on, some white Neon Amplify and some shading with a Pitt pen. Finally, I added an epoxy sticker from Colorbok that said smile. Sometimes we have to smile when we least feel like it.

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Snowman and Cocoa - From the Heart

The Progressive Challenge this month from From the Heart, offers us this adorable snowman called "Snowman and Cocoa". Free if you participate monthly, or purchase (right now its only $1.00!), enter, and then receive the next month's free.

Copic Colors Used

 I used some Recollections paper for the card and added some embossed white paper. I added a bit of ribbon and three little heart brads.

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From the Heart Special Delivery Snowman

From the Heart, i {heart} card sketches w/ a tWiSt #137offered a sketch and an optional twist to add hearts. I chose to do both.  I selected this adorable snowman image, Special Delivery Snowman.

My image was a bit larger and covered a lot of the green paper, but I think it still shows enough follow the sketch guidelines. I added some faux stitching on the card and a bit of Distressed Inks on the edges of the sentiment and image. The envelope heart is colored with red gel pen to make it show up better and I added another heart on the popped up image.

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Copic Colors Used

Hummingbird with Copics

I have always loved hummingbirds. We have two feeders outside of our kitchen window and I love watching these pretty little birds. So, when I saw the Throwback Thursday challenge over at Wplus9, I just had to pull out my Flora and Fauna set.


The butterfly is popped up with foam tape. The background is Distress Inks, and I added a couple of sequins. 



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Copic Colors Used

Valentine's Girl

The Progressive Freebie Challenge this month over at The Outlawz offers us a free image from Teresa Arsenault, Tickell Expressions, called Valentine Girl.
I colored her with Polychromos and added just a touch of red pen and some Wink of Stella on the heart. I fussy cut her and popped her up for dimension. The background paper was made with an embossing folder and some Pan Pastels. The large hearts were watercolored and then cut with a die cut. The smaller hearts are stickers from EKsuccess.

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