3.15.2024

Inspired by { Polly P }

 This week Denise has shared Polly {Peeps321} Pinterest board collection as the Inspiration destination. I happened across this Sewn Easter Bunnies on her Sew Me board and just started to grin from ear to ear because, I had cut a little pile of these Sizzix Tim Holtz Cottontail Dies from Watercolor paper. And so, I focused on the Pink bunny in the center. 


Using Daniel Smith watercolors. 

When the pinks dried I added some Dr. PH Martins bleed proof white to the tail and the eye areas, it was very subtle. 

When that dried I decided to go over the eye with some black watercolor paint and that faded to grey of course.


Now, you may have remembered a few weeks ago the watercolor challenge was to do hmmm snow drop flowers? something like that. and I pretty much killed the paper from the first two attempts so I decided to see what would happent to one of the sheets since it was cotton I started just dumping more colors over the top of the flower background. There was a mixed media challenge a few weeks ago to make a watercolor background and this was as far as I got with that.


It dried like so, if you look close at the top you can see the stems of the snowdrops ha ha. So, I cut off a bit from the bottom of this panel and then used some Martha Stewart fringe scissors to make it blades of grass, then flipped the paper over and added more green paints to both sides of that strip, as it was drying I kind of scrunched it with my fingers like how you do your hair (when its long ) and you want waves. 


The background piece was wider than the size 8 shipping tag I was using as a base here. So I glued it down and cut the sides to fit the tag and then tucked those scraps into behind the bottom row of grass to give it more depth. ( the tag was run through the big shot inside a Penny Black Dot's and Dashes folder that was inked with some Distress Oxide Vintage photo ink. ( the stitched and French knot type textures on it was a nod to the idea that this started out jump started by a stitched piece) I dug out these tiny old mulberry flowers.

Decided to add a bit of white gel pen into the center of the eye and a little more black to the lid. I did add some Honey Bee Stamps vintage pearls to the mulberry flowers and a snip of Vintage lace across the bottom. The Gold shimmer and pink gingham ribbons are unknown off the top of my head. The cottontail die is up on foam pop dots on the tag and I did add a smidge more blue paint to the bow tie to give it some illusion of folds. 

The little justrite / spellbinders tag was tied on with some natural hemp string and inked with the DOX vintage photo ink also. All in all I am pretty tickled with how this turned out as my natural inclination is NOT do make pink bunnies. And I was impressed that I didn't make brown the dominate color either. ha ha right. If you'd like to play along with us, you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.





3.12.2024

Watercoloring with Masking Fluid.

 This week Linda is sharing a video on using Masking fluid. So, the challenge is you may paint what ever you like and just using masking fluid along the way. 

So, I knew that I wanted to do something that would have petals with highlights and I first thought of doing an Hydrangea and then when I pulled out this old Stampin' Up Stipple Hydrangea flower stamp I realized it was probably too small scale wise but, this is what I did.

I started out stamping it on some Arches cold press with Simon Says Stamp beige ink but, that was too light, I could not see it so I over stamped it with Morning Mist versafine ink instead.


I had used the brush cleaner on the bristles of the wet brush before I used a bit of the Windsor & Newton masking fluid on the leaves and petals here. (You can click on photos on my blog and it will open them up larger and you can hit your browsers back button to continue reading) I also started messing around with paint colors on a piece of milk glass while this was drying.

First round of Daniel Smith paints. 

And  a little more. the one thing about doing such a small image is it did dry quickly, so adding layers of paint to this was not a long drawn out process. 

Third layer of paints

At this point I rubbed off the masking fluid, you can probably see that better on the larger leaves than on the few random petals.

I did add just a bit more paint to this after the masking fluid came off and this is where it stands now. I don't have a plan for this and it will probably end up in the little wooden bin of colored images on my table for a quick card down the road. If you'd like to play along with us, you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.








3.09.2024

Inspired by { The Inspired Room }

 This week Kia has shared the Inspired room site and pinterest boards where I came across this pin of a reading nook and loved the shape and instantly thought of this new Penny Black die All in One Hexagon I have that had arrived in the mail and not been played with as of yet. For the shaping of the frame in the seat, I cut one from some Arches watercolor paper thinking this would become a window seat and The die cuts all those texture details you see so, I taped it back together on the backside of the paper before I started painting.

The sun was shining the last two days when I came home from work so, this is a first layer of paints thinking I wanted to see flowers out the window I did a simple meadow.

I did add a few more "details" to the window here and then mounted it to some Neenah earthstone that finished out at 5 1/2" square in real life. It's not quite so yellowish in person either but, I am having a heck of a time with shooting colors the last little while. I think its all the over cast days. and or the waiting until the last minute before the sun sets to do them. :) At any rate I know I am going to have a lot of fun with this die it's so different them most of my others. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.



3.05.2024

Watercolring Tulips

 This week Kia has shared this video seen here on YouTube by Joanne Boone Thomas called How to paint three watercolour tulips. 


I did sketch this to start with a water soluble pencil and painting over it mostly it absorbs the lines the paint does I mean. I do have the same orange and blue she shared in the video but, I switched the yellow to cadmium yellow medium.


 Second layers of paint added.


and a little more, I did erase the pencil lines that were sticking out and not absorbed. 


I did add a smidge more shadow to a few places on the stems before I cut this with a Memory Box curved cap pinpoint layers die. The base is a pre made Spellbinders A2 top fold card base ( its thin, think 80# weight maybe thin) but, I have a package to use up so, I thought a flat one layer on it would work. This photo was very hard to edit as red is just not a color that photographs well in my cave of a space so, there is that. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.


3.02.2024

Inspired by { Mackenzie Childs}

 This week Julie has chosen the Mackenzie Childs site for the Inspiration challenge at SCS. ( you can find that here) One of the first things I came across was this banner of mixed print Shamrocks. And the second thing I noticed was all the black and white check things. 

So I dug out this old Sizzix originals green shamrock die and cut these buffalo plaid printed papers with it twice. The one in the front is up on foam pop dots and they both have these tiny fingernail stickers that I found many years ago on them. That ribbon is from May Arts, the Green spotted print is a really old one from SU that was called Old Olive hmmm forget what the pack was called now, but it was just you know prints in the main shade of color. That base is Also from SU and probably celery? something like that. The sentiment here is from the AdornIt Dianna Marcum Leprechaun bait stamp, ( its the bottom line of the receipe) and it was done with some Versafine ink. Just something quick and silly. This one finished out at A2 in real life. Hope you are enjoying your weekend. & thanks for stopping by.


3.01.2024

Dirty Dozen March Christmas

 It's that time again, the first of the month and the new challenge prompt goes live for the fan club at Splitcoaststampers. For this month's theme I did this card mostly from scraps.

And pushing things around on the table, this Bear is from Impression Obession and it's name is Cocoa bear, the bow tie is from the Karen Burnston Riley & Co. tiny accessories set, I did use some black ( similar to liquid pearls) from ranger Enamel drops of his eyes. and After this was shot I did add two more layers of face to around his nose to pop that up a little bit. The tree he is holding here is from the Papertrey Ink enchanted forest set and I did use a red pen to draw the red lines under the trees on the scrap in the background where they are stamped to mimic the ones on the Tim Holtz printed paper. That lace is vintage, the button's either James dress it up or buttons galore. there is a bit of natural hemp string run through the holes. The sentiment is from the Papertrey Ink farm fresh set and I did cut it several times with a Paperrose curved rectangle die to get it down to a smaller size to let some of the paper scraps peek out around it. This cards is 5" X 7 " in real life on some textured Bazzill. That's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here in the special forums set aside for fan club members. Thanks for stopping by.