tiny big news...

Hey there!  If you didn't know the Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge is going on right now.  So over the last few days I have been coloring images from the super sweet MFT Hello, Little One stamp set and sharing what I colored on Instagram.  I have been trying my hand at no line coloring and have much to learn, but I'm enjoying the process.  Now I have made some of those images into a card that I will be sending to my niece who is expecting a little one at the beginning of November.  I'm so excited and can't wait to meet her little one!!  I used ZIG Clean Color Real Brush markers to color all the images and then die cut them with the matching dies.  I used this week's CTS layout so I will be posting my card to that challenge, as well as the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.  I backed the images with a circle die cut from woodgrain cardstock and a panel of SSS fog cardstock.  The sentiment was stamped using my favorite black ink... Nocturne VersaFine CLAIR.  Love how the card turned out and I hope that my niece loves it too!

Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! white, Simon Says Stamp fog, Tim Holtz woodgrain; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Dies:  My Favorite Things and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Ranger Old Paper Distress ink, VersaFine CLAIR; Watercolor medium:  ZIG Clean Color Real Brush markers

pick me...

Hello friends!!  I have one more bunny card to share.  This time my little bunny is hanging out with a squirrel friend and they are trying to decide if they each picked the right snack.  I think this little gray bunny turned out the best of the two that I colored the other day as I think I was able to get the coloration right.  I also really like how my little squirrel turned out.  Along with the bunnies we have a lot of squirrels running around and I tried to capture the colors that I often see in their fur as they streak by!  Kept this very simple and just added a little bit of a background to ground the bunny and the squirrel and then added the little sentiment.  I will add this to the 30 day coloring challenge and to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  The layout is based on the current Freshly Made Sketches layout.

Wishing you a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  gray, Ranger watercolor paper; Stamps:  Hero Art March My Monthly Hero; Dies:  Hero Arts March My Monthly Hero and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  VersaFine Smoky Gray, Onyx Black; Watercolor medium:  Zig Clean Color markers 

another bunny card..

Hello!! Stopping in on this windy, rainy weekend with another bunny card.  Just can't stop myself!! These bunnies are just too darn cute!!!  Like the first one there is no sentiment on it.  But that is because I got the card put together before I realized that I had not stamped a sentiment! The main panel was adhered with pop dots which makes it harder to set a good impression. I'm sure that hasn't happened to anyone else out there, right???!!!  I created my background by scribbling some dark brown and blue ZIGs onto a panel of watercolor cardstock and then blended it out with a little water.   I flicked on some green for the grass and then did a bit of blending.  The side strip was die cut using the fence specialty die from the kit.  The green textured paper that I used can in the kit as well.  After looking at the finished card I realized that the background could either be the sky or a lake!!  Either way I do love how it turned out.  I think I will add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to use a bit of green and to the current 30 day coloring challenge.

Wishing you a wonderful day and wishing that our rain would go away, lol!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Stampin Up! Crumb Cake, green texture, Ranger watercolor; Stamps:  Hero Art March My Monthly Hero kit; Dies:  Hero Arts My Monthly Hero and A Jillian Vance Design; Ink:  VersaFine Smoky Gray; Watercolor medium:  ZIG Clean Color markers

butterflies and a bunny...

Hello!!  Stopping in on this very soggy day with a couple of cards I made recently.  The first card uses items from the March My Monthly Hero kit.   I could not resist this kit because... BUNNIES!!! I love bunnies... seriously!!   We have a family of bunnies living in and around our yard and right now the babies have been scampering around.  They are just too cute!!   My kit arrived this past weekend and once I had some time I stamped all three of the bunny images from the set on watercolor paper and colored them up with my ZIGs.  One of the adult bunnies and several of the babies are black so I tried to color one black, but it didn't turn out so well.  I'm not giving up though!  The other two were colored light brown and turned out much better.  One you see on my card.  The kit also includes this fun die that cuts a piece of "ground" that also has slits in it that you can use to "plant" all the little veggies that come in the kit.  I cut a piece from watercolor paper and then colored it with a dark brown ZIG.  The cute little fence that you see in the back is also a die from the kit.  I stamped both sizes of carrots on watercolor paper, colored them with ZIGs and then die cut with the matching dies.  I then "planted" all my carrots and the little bunny.  Everything was adhered to a light blue cardstock base and some brown twine added to the top.  There is no sentiment at this time, but I will come up with something later.  I just love how this turned out!!  Going to add this to the 30 day coloring challenge.

The second card uses the super sweet Reverse Confetti Butterfly Dreams stamp set.  The layout is based on the current Reverse Confetti Sketch for You to Try.  The background is a Reverse Confetti Quick Card and was the basis for where I went color-wise.  The banners were die cut from woodgrain cardstock with a die from the RC Tag Me die set.   I hadn't used a bright pink in a long time so I thought that would be perfect pop of color for my card.  I stamped the butterflies and then die cut them with the matching dies.  Layered everything up against a light gray cardstock panel and then added little heart shaped enamel dots to the centers of the smaller butterflies.  Clean and simple, but I like it!!

Wishing you a wonderful day...
Supplies:  Cardstock:  White, SSS Fog, Sea Glass, RC Quick Card, Ranger woodgrain and watercolor; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti and Hero Arts; Dies:  Reverse Confetti and Hero Arts; Inks:  Stampin Up!; Watercolor medium:  ZIG Clean Color markers; My Mind's Eye black enamel hearts; Hemptique  hemp twine 

some spring like cards...

Hello!!  Made a couple of spring like cards to share.  Right now it is gray and dreary here in the Pacific Northwest so I thought a couple of bright cards were in order.  The first one uses the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers and a sentiment from the SSS set Friendship Blooms.  I partially colored a panel of watercolor cardstock using a medium blue ZIG and let it dry.  The flowers and stems were all stamped with watermark ink and heat set with white embossing powder before being colored with ZIGs.  Once everything was dry I die cut everything with the matching dies.  Once I got everything arranged and adhered I stamped the sentiment in black and then added a few yellow sequins.  I'm going to add this to the 30 day coloring challenge.

The second card was made using the Concord & 9th Butterfly Beautiful set.  I stamped the butterfly in watermark ink and then embossed with white embossing powder.  The current color combo at Color Throwdown is a combo of my two favorite colors (blue and green).  I'm taking a bit of a break from challenges, but since I love those two colors I decided to use them for my card.  I colored the butterfly with a blue ZIG and then added green around it with a green ZIG.   The sentiment was stamped on vellum with watermark ink and the heat embossed with black embossing powder.  Used some rolled up glue dots placed behind the sentiment to pop the sentiment up slightly and then added some sparkling clear Pretty Pink Posh sequins.  Simple, but I like how it turned out.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS Fog, Sea Glass, Ranger Watercolor, PTI vellum; Stamps and dies:  Simon Says Stamp; Ink:  VersaMark and VersaFine; Filigree white and black embossing powder; Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins; yellow sequins; Watercolor medium:  ZIG clean color markers

hello...

Hey friends!!  I have been a busy little crafter the last few days!  I have managed to make three cards and two of them involved watercoloring with my Zig Clean Color markers.   One of those card was is for the current MFT Wednesday sketch challenge and I will be posting here.  I will also be posting this to the Camp Create 2 Fabulous Foiling challenge, as well as Kathy's 30 day coloring challenge.   I started my card by stamping one of the poppy images from Delicate Pretty Poppies multiple times on some Ranger watercolor paper using VersaFine Vintage Sepia ink.  I then filled in some of the gaps with the little leaves from the same set also stamping in Vintage Sepia.  My mini MISTI helped me get good impressions on the watercolor paper.  I then colored all the images using the following colors:  light carmine red, carmine red, bright yellow, yellow and may green and a number 2 watercolor brush.  After some trial and error I have found a way to watercolor that works well for me and allows me to achieve the look I want.  Once all the images were colored I colored around them using light grey.  I also stamped another poppy and leaves on some scrap watercolor paper and colored them up.  Once they were done they were die cut with the matching dies.  I die cut my panel using the second largest MFT Inside Out Stitched Rectangle die.  The "hello" (also from MFT) was die cut from black cardstock and then using a foiling glue pen (pursuant to a technique that I saw Kimberly demonstrate on the MFT blog) I applied the glue to the lower half of the word, allowed it to dry for a minute and then applied the foil.  The foiling isn't perfect, but I do like how it turned out.  I die cut a few more of the hellos and then stacked them all for some additional dimension.  The sentiment is from the MFT set Amazing and was stamped using VersaFine Onyx Black and my mini MISTI.  I adhered the watercolored panel to a panel of light grey cardstock, added the die cut flower and leaves to finish things off.   I'm adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge:  floral and fauna.

 Thanks for stopping by today...


Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, light grey, black, watercolor cardstock; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Dies:  My Favorite Things, A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  VersaFine; Watercolors: Zig Clean Color markers; Deco gold foil; foil glue pen