Archive | May, 2014
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Faux watercoloring (daisy) card

Lucky for me, I learned a shortcut for watercoloring an image in the Online Card Class! You ink up a stamp with distress ink, then watercolor over it! Oh, I have to say that I love this technique because it looks like I painted it all by myself, but actually, I got a little help. 🙂

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I love how the gerbera daisy turned out. I did a simple wash with broken china distress ink for the background. The daisy was painted with worn lipstick and fired brick distress ink.

I can’t wait to play with this technique some more!

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Stamping with watercolor card

I was completely inspired by the online card class (watercolor) when I created this card. I have this sunshine stamp and I used some distress ink to stamp and then to watercolor on top of it.

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This is my only other Stamping Bella image (and I think I might be hooked!) I used watercolors to color the image, and to work up the sunshine a bit. You might be able to see the Wink of Stella glitter I added to the sunshine in this picture:

day-4-fabric-flag  And the banner is made of fabric tape! Yes, fabric tape…so fun! I added some stickles to her petticoat for a little more glitter shine.

day-4-sunshine-girl I used this card for my mom for Mother’s Day. Inside I stamped “You are blessed.” And she is (my mom, that is). But seriously, can you image anything better than eating a giant ice cream cone on a beautiful sunshiny day?!

 

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Watercolor & Keep Believing card

I’m still having a great time in the online watercoloring class! Today I played with a new Stamping Bella stamp, distress inks, and some silver stars. I used a technique to splatter on some ink to the background. I think it looks a little magical.

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I actually tried this a couple times. Here’s my second card:

day-2-second-believing-fairy This time I made her blonde and added a silver glittery “hi” with a few more splatters by her wand. I just love this magical fairy stamp.

Which one do you like better?

 

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Dude, it’s your birthday card

My brother’s birthday required me to veer away from all girly-ness and focus on a making a more masculine card. This is good practice for me! I pulled out my Paper Smooches stamps and found just the right pup from a Christmas stamp set!

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I love this little dog and bird and I thought it would be fun to create a distress background on just a small portion of the card. So here’s the sequence: Stamp, mask, tape, distress, remove, color, emboss, adhere, VOILA!

I used inktense pencils on the little characters and a Kelly Purkey stamp set for the “Dude!”

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I am going to enter this into the Paper Smooches Anything Goes contest.

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So what do you think…more masculine card? I hope so. My brother liked it (right, Jon?!) Ha!

Well, I’m off to make a few more cards! See you next time.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Paper Smooches “Santa Paws”; Kelly Purkey “Dude”; Simon Says Stamp “Happy”
Distress Inks: Peacock Feathers, Forest Moss, Mowed Lawn
Colored Pencils: Derwent Inktense Pencils
Paper: Neenah Solar White
Embossing Powder: White, Snow
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Watercolor with Distress Inks

You might find it funny that I created this “watercolor” card without using any watercolor or brushes! Instead, I was inspired by Laura Bassen and used Distress Inks and an acrylic block!

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Oh, these distress inks create a beautiful and vibrant watercolored background! I used these colors of Distress Inks: Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint, and Peacock Feathers. I love the results. And of course I had to add a glittery die cut “Hello.”

I’m loving this watercolor class right now, learning lots. I’m sure I’ll have more watercolor practice up soon!

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Oh, and that beautiful sentiment is from My Favorite Things…cut 5 times in black, and 1 time in glittery silver.

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It creates a beautiful pop of dimension. The heart is cut from the Reverse Confetti Love Note die.
I’m really excited for the next class!

Joining up with the Simon Says Stamp Challenge.

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