POTW - watercoloring with markers

Hello. It's my turn to host this weeks pick of the week, and I want to focus on watercoloring with markers.

I used watercolor paper,  Memento markers, a water brush and water to color the flowers and create the blue background. 

Once dry, I cut it down, added centers to the flowers using Fabirka Decoru enamel and the added it to a embossed panel. Sentiment is stamped on watercolor paper to match.

Stamps used:
10313-H, Daisy Outline Large
10302-E, Daisy Outline Small
4005-G, Miracles happen . . .

I recommend trying any water based marker with your water brushed to create with. You never know what you'll end up with and it's fun to see what comes out of it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Poppies

Hi everyone! Has anyone seen my Mojo - I've lost it somewhere. It took me forever to get this weeks Freshly Made Sketch completed.

OK, my blues don't match and I used the same watercolor palette, which leaves me to believe that I used different water color paper when I initially colored the Poppies.  Grr.... Stamp from A*Muse Studio. I stamped the larger flower in the back panel and heat embossed using white embossing powder.

Sentiment is from My Favorite Things.

Colored a white bit of satin ribbon with the Y15 Copic's marker to match the colors of the poppies and popped that on the back of the main panel.

Dies are from My Favorite Things.

That it for today. Thanks for stopping by.

Watercolor flowers

Hi everyone! I don't know what to make of it, but I have lost 4 "followers" in a day. I know that google is doing some weird things with blogger, but it sure is disappointing to see my numbers going down instead of up. If you've been following me for a while, I thank and appreciate you!

OK, on to the watercolor creation for today. This is for this weeks Freshly Made Sketch and the Red challenge over at Addicted to CAS.

I stamped this trio of outline flowers from the Vintage Linen set from Papetrey, Ink onto Ranger watercolor paper. Then it is heat embossed using fine white embossing powder.

Ranger distress ink in Festive Berries used to watercolor in the flowers and the back ground is done in Blueprint sketch distress ink.

Hello word die is cut out of black cardstock an then popped up using little tiny bits of foam tape. 

This is the first time I played around with this technique and I got to say that I kind of like the look of it. Watercoloring is not a technique I feel I do well. It must be the perfectionist in me, feeling it's just not "finished" or something.

Thanks so much for stopping in. Let me know what you think of my watercolor creation - I need some encouragement or corrective feedback!

Ack! Where is my mojo?

Hello! Struggling to find my mojo today to create a sympathy card for a subordinate. Nothing was working. You would think that starting off with a really nice sketch from The Paper Players would make things go easy, but no.....This is the third attempt at it that I'm now showing you. I'm done! ;-) Ever have one of those days?

Flower Stamp is from Rubbernecker. It's done using some markers directly on the stamp and then misted with water to get the look.  Tim Holtz water color paper from Ranger used here. Lil' Inker rectangle stitched die used to cut it out.

Sympathy stamp is from PTI. I like the bold simplistic font on it. Colored some small satin ribbon using a Copic marker that was close in color to the flowers and added it on top of a wider piece of black satin. Tiny black pearls from Michael's used per the sketch.

I think I'll go get some Cinderella chores done instead since my creative mojo is absent. Thanks for stopping by!

One layer water scene

Hi all! Here is my take on this weeks Less is More challenge. It's one layer week and they want to see water!

Stamps are from Gina K Designs called By the sea 2. I've used this set many many times so it well worth the money.

Stamped the pier and pelican in Jet Black archival ink. the water is made using my cheap water color set and Copic opaque white paint. I just used a stylus to get it out of the jar and squiggle it on like it was froth from the sea.

I did the sun using a circle stencil and yellow and canary ink and a finger dauber. I chose not to fill in the sky and keep it CAS with lots of white space.

To get the shadows and on the pier and under the pelican's perch, I just got out my black primsa colored pencil and drew it on.

Adding this to the Addicted to CAS challenge of Birds, too.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thinking of you

Hi there! I found some time today to play around with week 2 of Viva La Verve sketch challenge over on SCS. I was also practicing my water coloring and actually think I like how this turned out.

Poppy stamp is from A*Muse Studio and stamped in Archival jet black ink from Ranger. I used my Marvy Le Plume markers in yellow, butterscotch and pumpkin to water color.

Doily is cut out of water color paper using the die from Papertrey, Ink. The sentiment and the vintage oval die are from Verve and also cut out of water color paper. The green swiss dot paper is from Bazzill and the fern green designer paper is from Hot Off The Press.

The pennant is made by using water color paper and brushing on the same colors as the poppy. Then I used the ribbon banner die from Verve (psst..it's on sale right now) to cut the point.

What do you think? Thanks for dropping in and have a fabulous weekend!

Card Sketch Tuesday #135

Hello - happy Tuesday! Here is sketch #135 - measuring the normal A2 size.


This one is easy peasy, since I know a lot of you have your hands full trying to get ready for the 4th of July weekend.

Card base is white card stock, layered with dark and light blue. I found the designer paper in my stash and layered it with the same dark blue. Added the navy grosgrain ribbon behind the dp panel and then put my stamped image up on foam tape.

This stamp is a long retired image from The Angel Company and I colored it using the marker watercolor method. The light blue in the back ground of the stamped image is done with chalk.

I added some light blue self adhesive pearls from Kaiser Craft onto the corners and on the grosgrain ribbon as finishing touches.

Supplies:
White, dark and light blue card stock
Designer paper is unknown
Memento Tuxedo black ink
Le Plume markers
Blue chalk ink from EK Success
Light blue pearls
Stamp - The Angel Company

Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by!

Water coloring

Hi everyone! I've been playing around and practicing on my water coloring technique. I just love this way of coloring, but just can't seem to get the hang of it. I think I'm going to look into taking a class at my LSS. Some of the cards that I see in blogland are so fabulous and I so want to be able to master this! Anyway, below is my latest attempt.

The stamp is from Yvonne Albritton designs and I used a water brush and normal cake water color paints. The back ground is done with wax paper and a Quickutz embossing folder, that I ran through the CB, ironed onto a piece of cardstock and then colored with pine needle green distress ink. It didn't come out at all like I wanted it to, because some of the wax paper design from the previous one transferred over as well. But thought it looked good enough for framing this flower. The corners are done using the Fiskars border punch in just the two corners. The word label is cut (cuttlebug die) from water color paper and then stamped with a sentiment from tag tid bits from TAC.

So, overall - not a bad start - but more practice is definately in order for improving my watercoloring technique! Have a great weekend!

Card sketch #51 - Watercoloring

Here's card sketch #51 with a watercolor technique! This technique was a lot of fun to play around with!




I started with coloring my stamp with markers, I used Marvy LePlume II. Then I took a piece of watercolor paper and spritzed it lightly with water and then stamped the image. I used my heat gun to dry and then stamped over it with the outline stamp. I used the SU ticket punch for the corners and added white brads for contrast.

For the panel below, I used the same color marker and randomly marked the watercolor paper up. Then I spritzed again with water and let it run, dried it with the heat gun and stamped the flower outline.

The cuttlebug embossed panel was colored by lightly running colorbox alabaster chalk ink over the top of it.

Supplies:
Stamps - SU heartfelt thanks
Marvy LePlume II markers
Palette Noir and french lilac inks
Bazzill card stock
Watercolor paper
Brads

P.S.
Is anyone else out there having issues with the spell checker not working on blogger? Anyone know how to fix it? Sorry if there are any typo's or spelling errors, now you know why!