Spring colours!

I needed spring flowers! February is my least favourite month, but at least it's the shortest month of the year! 

I started with Strathmore Watercolour Paper and cut it to 5.5 x 8.5 scored it at 4.25. I then placed the entire card base on my Misti.  I used the Penny Black Fresh Slapstick Cling and started with my Distress Stains but found it was too difficult to spread on a flower stamp that had them so close together. I really wanted definition so I took my Distress Markers out and had a much easier time. I used Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, Worn Lipstick and Mowed Lawn. Once I stamped the outlines, I then used my matching Distress Ink pads and water coloured the flowers to add more definition.  I used Tumbled Glass for the added blue around the flowers. I then used Distress Paints to flick on some black and brass type "splotches".  

I used a sentiment from Mama Elephant and added a variety of sequins!

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim 

Needed a summer-like project!

I don't know about you, but I am not a fan if winter.  I don't know why I still live in Montreal in the winter months.  It hasn't been too cold or successive snow storms but we have had a mixed bag of precipitation which is frustrating.  So, I needed to be on a beach! What better than a fun beach scene featuring Lawn Fawn!

I used Octopi my Heart, Mermaid for You (rock and sentiment) stamp sets and the tree is from Critters from the Past.  I Copic coloured the images then used the coordinating dies.  For my background I die cut a Neena Solar White panel with the largest of the smaller Dotted Squares. I then used the Stitched Hillside Borders and the Spring Showers cloud dies to cut masks.  I used a mix of Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Inks for the water and only Tumbled Glass for the sky/clouds. I then die cut another square and used one of the Simple Stitched Hillside Borders for my "beach" then used a mix of Antique Linen and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks. I added some dot detail with the Gathered Twigs and Ground Espresso Distress Markers along with my White Gellyroller. 

I stamped my sentiment with mix of Lawn Fawn Pink Flamingo Ink and Versafine Onyx Black. I then put the card together and added some sequins.

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim

Penny Black Promise Me

I pulled out this Penny Black woodblock stamp called Promise Me to practice my watercolour. I don't know what it is about Penny Black Stamps... Every year I use one of the PB flowers for something and it inevitably becomes my own Mom's Mother's Day card! It has been four years and I have a feeling the tradition may continue! I love the watercolour effect but I seem to struggle, so I have been forcing myself outside my zone to practice. I really loved the way this one turned out.

I used my Tim Holtz Ditress Markers for this one. I coloured directly on the flower and stems using Abandoned Coral and Candied Apple for the flowers then Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn for the stems. I didn't cover the stamp completely, I used the paler colours for the outlines (again sparingly) and the darker colours for the highlights. I sprayed the stamp with my sprayer about three times then stamped it on my Canson Watercolour paper.  I smoothed out the pigment and then went in to add highlights with the Fired Brick for the Flowers and Peeled Paint for the stems. I used a little White Gellroller pen for added white highlights.

Thanks for taking the time!

Kim