Journey of life

Morning. I sure will have a lot more time to create and color on my hands for the next 6 weeks. Trying to find all the positives in this unclear time and craziness. Did you see Marcy's new digi? Wash Your hands, it is super cute, And what a little bright spot for us today. I will get to that sometime this week. For today...
Tried a little bit of water coloring using Move the Soul for my card today. Didn't try really hard just sorta dabbled a little bit since I wasn't sure where I was going with this one. 

Used the accent stamps in the set to create a background using some different inks. Some faux stitching around the edges and across the top of the biker panel. A few enamel dot accents and voila. Not sure if it turned out like I thought, especially since I wasn't sure what I was going for. ha ha  Have a great day. 

Watercolor thank you

Morning. I figured I should try my hand at some water coloring again as it has been awhile. I pulled out Abundant Petals for my creation today. Stamped them in rose ink and water colored with the same ink. 

Added some leaves with a bright green ink and should of used a darker ink. Good to know for next time. Added some various ink colored splatters and then die cut with a stitched rectangle. Some designer paper to the panel and then added to the base. I also added sparkle to just the outside edge of the petals, but it is hard to see in the photo. My sentiment and voila! 

March Stripes

 Well the March Dirty Dozen Christmas challenge is posted and I hope you check it out and play along. My card for the month is using a stamp from ODBD called Candy Cane with a meaning behind the sweet treat at Christmas. 

The sentiment was stamped in black ink first, then stamped very lightly the candy cane image. For a softer look to the coloring I used my aqua brush and some ink from the ink pad itself. I like the softer look and feel this has. Die cut with a stitched square and then layered onto some polkadot designer paper. Added swiss dots to the white layer for the base. A few pearls and voila!
Have a wonderful day.

Penciled Rose with quote

Good morning and happy Friday. Marcy released a beautiful new digi from the Instant Garden called Vital Rose which can be purchased and printed now! :-) My watercolor colored pencils skills needed some more polishing so I thought this rose would be perfect. And I would say, I need some more polishing yet. ha ha  Water coloring with ink or pencils or whatever just seems to evade me, but I keep plugging along and keep at it. Eventually I will come around, right? Anyways... This rose is awesome any color  medium you choose I would say. 

The quote around the rose is colored with a light blue pencil and then water colored over just as the rose. Wonder if a darker blue would of made it stand out more, maybe next time. Just a little texture for the base layer with some swiss dots. Wrapped a little bit of sheer black ribbon and then added the flower base. The petals do have some sparkle and a few sequins as usual.  :-)  

Be sure to check out the Bloom Brigades creations today:
  Allison Cope
  Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
  Julie Koerber
  Tosha Leyendekker

Vital Rose

Vroomm.... Happy 50th Paul

Happy 50th Paul! Oh what fun this was to color using my new metallic watercolor pencils. I think I am doing okay with my other colors so why not dive into these metallic ones now. This cool ride is from Move the Soul. I stamped him on kraft colored cardstock and colored with the metallic pencils. 

My watercoloring spread a bit on the seat but I think it looks okay? The jacket is actually a dark purple, but after it dried it because a light purple. EEK! I hope he won't mind.  Some faux stitching along the blue panel and tied off a piece of ribbon on some old hardware sitting around. My designer paper is from ages ago too. See I am using it slowly.  :-)  Super fun and I know he will love it.
Have a great day! 

Joyful Poinsettia

The joy of learning watercolor techniques. ha ha  Good morning. I have yet again a creation trying to figure out this water coloring using pencils. Also wanted to create another card for the Dirty Dozen January challenge, so I was able to use my new little Joy die from TE for the corner.

This card is combining two ways of water coloring. After the Poinsettia was stamped onto the cardstock I colored all of the bloom with the colored pencils. I then used the water and brush to blend all the colors. After it was dry, I saw on a few videos to use the pencils directly onto the brush and then paint it onto the flower. You can see some of the darker places that I tried this effect.

The green leaves are suppose to look like an actual flowering poinsettia. Yea I know... not so much but I tried.Here is the deal, I like how this turned out. Maybe it is the darker color with the added brush to penciled parts but over all not to bad I would say. Maybe getting better? There is sparkle on a few parts to help cover some of the messy part.  :-)  Voila. Have a fabulous day!

You are so kind

Happy Friday! Today is another attempt I made with these new watercolor pencils I got as a gift. The picture is a little blurry for some reason no matter how many I took, please excuse that. This is Chickadee in Barberry printed on TE watercolor paper. I think the pencils look a little more blended on this card, how a watercolor card should look. :-)

I have two challenges for this card one is the Power and Spark challenge this month Winter Blooms. The other is the Dirty Dozen January challenge using my faux stitching. My designer paper is from ODBD Holly Jolly paper pack, with a snowfall textured green panel for the back. Added a few enamel dots and sparkle to the snow. Voila   I am enjoying these watercolored pencils I will admit. A few of you have given me some great tips and I appreciate the help. 

Be sure to check out the Bloom Brigades creations: 
  Allison Cope
  Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
  Julie Koerber

Watercolored pencil Hellebore

Good morning. As you know Monday was a snow day and so was Tuesday, so I was able to play around in the stamp room quite a bit. Yea! These new watercoloring pencils were calling my name. There is several videos out there to watch and learn on how these work. I think I watched about 20 videos and got a feel for the idea on how to use them. It is not as straight forward when it comes to actually using them, at least for me it wasn't. I did what they demonstrated and yet I still feel that I need a LOT more practice. 

Some of my thoughts on this watercoloring really needs to change because I like bold color. Well.... that is not the look you get with watercolor, it is more washed around look. Now I am still learning, so be gentle with helpful hints. But please do give any helpful tips you might have. 

My card today is using Hellebores printed on watercolor cardstock from TE. You can see where I had too much water around the stem of the flower in the jar.  :-(  My leaves were a brighter color than the pencil was which is another learning curve. It will show up brighter than planned. Still need to learn how to blend the color a little more. You can see under the glass where I still have pencil markers that didn't blend. Is it the paper or I didn't use enough water??? There is sparkle on the water in the jar to hide some of my mistakes also. I do like this but again, need to get used to the watercolor look and feel still. More to come with my trial and errors and these pencils. I did get these metallic ones also, but figure I better get used to these first. hee hee   Hope you have a wonderful day!