Birthday Wishes...

 

                                                                Morning folks,

                       It's time for a new challenge on the Stamping Sensations Challenge blog.

           The theme this month is the mood board below...isn't it lovely, a fab selection of pics!  

                      We also have the fab prize below to giveaway to one lucky winner.

           2 prizes, Santoto Gorjuss girls stamps/die/stickers and Woodware stamp Craft Stash 

 

For my card I stamped the daisies with archival ink, I masked off one of them, I then coloured with watercolours.  Once dry I added some watercolour shading to the background along with some splashes.  I did cut the birthday sentiment and layered it on top and then finished with some sequins and enamel dots.

challenges:

Crafty Calendar - anything goes

Creative Inspirations - anything goes

Krafty chicks - use stamps

Crafty Addicts - anything goes

Happy Little Stampers - watercolour  challenge

Fi

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Something different...

Howdy folks, well I saw a tutorial over on Youtube on how to use Tim Holtz Lift Ink with alcohol inks and it looked just so amazing so I knew I had to give it a go....and you can make two cards at the same time...so simple just make your inked background using alcohol inks and then I stamped the image onto the background using the lift it ink and voila...

Here's the other...

I do like the inked background, it's so vibrant.  Will defo be making more of these!

Hope you likey!

challenges:

Simon Says Stamp - stamp on it

Crafty Catz - anything goes

Cute Card Thursday - anything goes

Fi

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A few cards...

Just having a look through my blog and it looks like I never got around to posting my cards for Simply Cards & Papercrafts, well this was the batch from a couple of months back....all have been watercoloured.

Card 1

A5 card blank

watercolour card

double sided tape

Zig Clean Color Brush Pens

Concord & 9th Hello Lovely Stamp set

Altenew Watercolor Stripes Cover Die

Altenew Label Love Stamp set

Black archival ink pad

sequins

sticky fixers

1. Cut a piece of watercolour card to size

2. Ink up the stamp with black archival ink, stamp onto watercolour card

3. Using the zig pens, add colour to the image and work the colour with a waterbrush

4.Once the image has been coloured, cut out ( I used my scan n cut for this), set aside

5. Die cut the cover die and layer onto the card blank

6. Layer the image onto the card using the sticky fixers

7. Stamp up the sentiment and layer onto the card using sticky fixers

8. Add some sequins to finish

Top Tips

1. Use a water based ink when using watercolours, the ink doesn't bleed

2. Let the colour dry before colouring adjoining sections of the image, the colours won't bleed then

 Card 2

A5 card blank

watercolour card

black cardstock

double sided tape

Zig Clean Color Brush Pens

Tim Holtz Garden flowers stamps

Altenew Label Love Stamp set

versamark ink pad

white embossing powder

sequins

sticky fixers

1. Cut a piece of watercolour card to size

2. Ink up the stamps with versamark ink, stamp onto watercolour card and white emboss

3. Using the zig pens, add colour to the image and work the colour with a waterbrush

4. Keep adding and layering up the colour until you get the required colour

5. Layer the image onto the black card using double sided tape and then layer onto the card blank

7. Stamp up the sentiment and layer onto the card using sticky fixers

8. Add some shadow around the flowers using grey

8. Add some sequins and little splodges to finish

card 3

6 x 6 card blank

watercolour card

black cardstock

double sided tape

Zig Clean Color Brush Pens

Altenew Beautiful Stamp Set

Versamark ink pad

white embossing powder

sequins

sticky fixers

1. Cut a piece of watercolour card to size

2. Ink up the stamp with versamark ink, stamp onto watercolour card

3. Mask the flower and stamp again to layer over the top

4. Using the zig pens, add colour to the edges and centres of the flowers and work the colour with a waterbrush

5. Gently add more colour until you get the required colour

6. Layer the coloured panel onto the card using double sided tape

7. Stamp up the sentiment and layer onto the card using sticky fixers

8. Add some sequins and splodges to finish

 Card 4

6 x 6 card blank

watercolour card

white cardstock

double sided tape

Zig Clean Color Brush Pens

Wplus9 Beautiful Bouquet Dahlia Stamp Set

Black archival ink pad

sequins

1. Cut a piece of watercolour card to size

2. Ink up the stamp with black archival ink, stamp onto watercolour card

3. Using the zig pens, add colour to the image and work the colour with a waterbrush

4.Keep layer up the colour until you get the required colour

5. Layer the image onto the card using the sticky fixers

7. Stamp up the sentiment and stamp onto the card

8. Add some sequins to finish

 Card 5

6 x 6 card blank

watercolour card

black cardstock

double sided tape

Zig Clean Color Brush Pens

Altenew Painted Poppies Stsmp Set

Black archival ink pad

sequins

1. Cut a piece of watercolour card to size

2. Ink up the stamp with black archival ink, stamp onto watercolour card

3. Using the zig pens, add colour to the image and work the colour with a waterbrush

4.Keep layer up the colour until you get the required colour

5.Paint some colour onto a piece of acetate and load up a brush with lots of water, lift up some colour and splash onto the card

6. Layer the image onto the card using double sided tape

7. Stamp up the sentiment and stamp onto the card

8. Add some sequins to finish

 Card 6

A5 card blank

watercolour card

black cardstock

double sided tape

Zig Clean Color Brush Pens

Altenew Painted Poppies Stamp Set

MFT Happy Birthday Background stamp

Versamark ink pad

white embossing powder

sequins

1. First cut a piece of card to size, white emboss the happy birthday wording and tape down

2. Scribble some zig colour on to acetate and lift the colour with a wet brush and randomly add some colour to the card

3. Repeat the previous step but with a different colour, blending as you go

4. Once the panel is dry, add some splashes of the same colours but don't add as much water as you want to see the splashes, leave to dry and then layer onto black card and then the card blank

5. White emboss the poppy, I actually embossed the centre in black and the rest in white and gradually add colour to the edges of the leaves, work the colour with a water brush

6. Now colour the flower head starting at the edges and work the colour around the petals

7. Keep adding colour until you get the colour you require, leave to dry

8. Once dry cut out the flower and layer onto the panel

9. Stamp up the sentiment and layer onto the card using sticky fixers

10. Add some sequins to finish

Hope you likey!!

Fi

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Spectrum Noir tutorial

Hi everybody, here's my tutorial for this month using Specrum Noir Aqua Markers

First I cut a piece of card to size.

Nxt using a versamarker pad, I inked and stamped one of the stamps from Sheena Douglas - Ageing Beautifully set onto the watercoulour card and then embossed with gold embossing powder.

Next using the Navy Spectrum Noir Marker, I scribbled some colour onto acetate and using my paint brush loaded with water, I lifted the colour and brushed over the embossed image very randomly.

Next I added some splodges of colour using Moss and Navy, again I lifted the colour and sprayed it using the brush.

I then wanted to add more splodges for some more texture so I added some splodges of water which lifted the colour from the card and some black ink splodges...and that's it easy peasy!

Next I stamped, coloured and embossed the flowers and leaf using Moss and Navy, once dry I cut them out.

Hey presto...here's the finished card, I added some sequins and gems to finish!

Fi

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More flowers...

Hi folks...sorry I haven't been blogging all the time recently but you know how it is.....work!!

So back on track with my DT card for Spectrum Noir.

Noow you might think you've seen this one before but you haven't I am just loving the Tim Holtz stamps, they make the colouring so easy!

I white embossed the flowers on to watercolour card, I then coloured the flowers using my Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers, I started with the lightest colours and gradually added the darker colours blending them altogether.  Once I finished the colouring I went over the flowers with a clear Spectrum Noir glitter pen...I then added some splodges and sequins to finish.

products used:
Spectrum Noir Aqua Markers -peach, fawn, yellow, red violet, scarlet, sunflower, crimson, sunset, orchid, lime, moss, slate
Tim Holtz - Flower Garden

You can also pop over to the Spectrum Noir blog to find out loads of tips and techniques on using all your Spectrum Noir products.

Remember you also enter the challenge over on the Spectrum Noir Facebook page...here!

challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

Some pretty flowers...

Hi everybody, hope you are all well!

*sigh!

So today I decided to do a bit of watercolouring...I think I love these stamps and I think I love watercolouring!! This is so easy to do and you don't have to be great at colouring...Ijust love the effect, it's fab!

First, here's a wee close up...

So first I cut a piece of watercolour card and then white embossed the flowers, I actually had to mask them so I could overlap...that actually took me longer to cut and mask than it did to colour!

Edited: forgot to say the stgamps are from Tim holtz Flower Garden set.

Then I started colouring with my watercolour pens, starting with the lightest to darkest and just gradually adding colour until I got the shade I wanted.

I added a sentiment and some sequins to finish.

challenges:
Stamping Sensations - anything goes
Allsorts - fabulous florals
Colour Crazy Challenge - anything goes
Crafty Catz - anything goes
Fab 'n' Funky -anything goes
Dream Valley - In the Pink
Penny Black and more - anything goes

Fi

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