Friday, 5 May 2017
backgrounds (watercolor)
All six of these cards were an experiment with watercolor and other background effects. You can lift color off your watercolored background by spritzing "anything", in this case I used the retired honeycomb die from Stampin' Up and pressed it onto my already-dried background, held it there a few seconds and lifted it up. Lo and behold, there was a honeycomb design left behind! Very subtle and beautiful. To create the collage effect I also lightly stamped other images, smudged ink and used markers to highlight various lines. The very bottom card is overlaid with vellum that I embossed those images on in Pool Party embossing powder.
birthday brayer
I embossed the peony image from "You've Got This". With Basic Black I stamped Happy Birthday and the seaweed image from "By The Tide". Both of these flowers were colored with Stampin' Write markers and I brayered the shadows on the bottom right corner in coordinating colors.
sisters...
These three cards were hand drawn and colored. They are flat, direct-to-paper and will require no extra postage because there are no extra layers or embellishments.
Monday, 6 March 2017
sick and tired dragonfly
SU's Dragonfly Dreams as well as Sending Thoughts. Although the color doesn't show up all that well, I do love the Pool Party and copper combination.
hugs, prayers and love
I used a combination of stamps and dies again on these cards, trading around the Pool Party and Black colors.
Sending Thoughts from the SU Occasions/Spring Catalogue as well as dies and stamps from the Sunshine Sayings sets.
bloomin' hearts; bloomin' love
All the cards on this post showcase SU's Bloomin' Love/Bloomin' Hearts stamp and die sets. I used several images from other sets as well, but wanted to use the bloomin' ones as I seldom reach for that exact set. I was happy how they turned out and that it worked out to make cards for three different occasions.
rose garden sympathy
It's hard to see the Wink of Stella that these roses were painted with. I used SU's Rose Garden, Timeless Textures and reinkers for these cards.
my friend (hand-lettered, sketched)
Excuse my funny blurs (below) but I didn't want to show my already filled in comments to the whole wide world! I used some of SU's stamps on here. From Butterfly Basics. I still keep coming back to that fern image.
Congratulations with Botanical Blooms
It's okay (hand-lettered)
Artist's pens, SU's watercolor pencils, eversharp and eraser! That's all, folks. You can easily do it, too!
watercolor (hand-lettered)
The only stamp used on here is from SU's Gorgeous Grunge. Otherwise I simply used SU reinkers and watercolor paper and Aqua Painters. Oh, and then fine-tip artist's pens and an eversharp! The sequins cover up smudges from my inky fingers. I really thought it looked better without them, but What Could I DOOOOO?!
praying for you (hand-lettered)
Another example of a hand-lettered and sketched greeting card. I used the stars from SU's Moon Baby stamp set.
Sisters (hand-drawn)
My friend Kayla creates the most beautiful hand drawn and lettered cards and other artistry. I decided to try my own hand at it. You see, sometimes I'm not well enough to work very long in my craft room. With watercolor paper or even just sketch paper, I can settle in my recliner and idly doodle, needing very little "stuff". Here is one card I came up with this last weekend. It's so difficult to photograph glitter, but maybe you get the idea on those flowers (top).
Monday, 30 January 2017
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