Tuesday Talk

How are you doing? One of the plus things about staying home for me is the increased time I have to craft and get back into entering challenges again.

My card today is for the challenge at CAS Watercolour.

Here's my card;

I started my card by preparing a watercolour background block and then I printed the Clearly Besotted free Spring flower digi on top. I did this by printing it onto paper first and then using temporary glue to fix the card over the top of the print out and printing again. And lucky for me it didn't peel off inside the printer!

I then added colour using Arteza water colour brush pens. I added some white gel pen touches, stamped a greeting and matted it onto black card to finish off.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, digi freebie & greeting from a retired set, Pretty Petals
Inks: Ranger distress, stormy sky, cracked pistachio; Versafine Clair, nocturne
Colours: Arteza, bruch pens; Sakura gelly roll, white

Thanks so much for dropping by today, it's always so much more fun when you do.

Keep safe, stay home and craft instead!

Thursday Thoughts

I've had fun with watercolours and a stencil on the card I'm sharing today. And it all started with the CAS Watercolour September theme.

Well you'll not be surprised about which colour I started with! Let's just say its complementary colour is yellow.

I started by placing the Funky Fossil Crooked Webs stencil onto some watercolour card and sponged on wilted violet and squeezed lemonade oxide inks. Then I spritzed it with water and held the stencil in place for a few seconds before lifting it and allowing the colours to merge.

Once everything was dry I stamped the spider and greeting, drew in a thread for the spider to hang on and matted it all onto a purple card base.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Fright Night
Stencil: Funky Fossil, Crooked Webs
Inks: Ranger distress oxide, wilted violet, squeezed lemonade

Thanks for looking today, it's been so much fun to have you visit my blog.

And keep crafting!

Sunday Slot

Colourful Butterflies is this month's theme at CAS Watercolour - sounds like a perfect pairing to me!

Out came my Uniko butterflies:

I used a gelly plate and watercolour crayons for this card. I simply spritzed some water onto the gelly plate and then scribbled with two colours at a time and used this as my ink pad. I love the random look of the colour mixes and the splodgy bits that happen too.

I wanted to add a birthday greeting, but wasn't sure where to place it. So I stamped it onto a piece of card, trimmed it down and then played around with the position before sticking it down.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, English country Garden Butterflies, Simply Said Blocks
Inks: Dina Wakley, Media Scribble Sticks

I'm so pleased you found your way to my blog today, it's been a pleasure to have you visit.

And keep crafting!

Sunday Slot

A card to share today that's going into the CAS Watercolour Challenge with the theme of Bouquet of Flowers.

The theme has been specially chosen to celebrate the amazing Darnell's birthday. Happy Birthday Darnell!!!!

I used some Polkadoodles Stamp Soups elements to create my bunch of flowers and then coloured them with Arteza water brush pens. I'm thinking now that I look at the photo of my card that it looks a bit like a tree .... didn't mean that to happen!

Supplies:
Stamps: Polkadoodles Stamp Soup, In A frenzy; Uniko, Simply Said
Ink: Versafine Clair, nocturne
Colours : Arteza Brush Pens


Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

And keep crafting!

Sunday Slot

Today I'm sharing a water coloured card that I created to enter the challenge at CAS Watercolour.

As you can see they wanted Something Blue and I went with a bit of a watery/skyline scene using the lovely new stamp set from Clearly Besotted.

I started by creating the background colours and rubbed two colours of distress ink onto an acrylic block, spritzed it with water and then smooshed it onto my card. I tipped the card up while it was still wet to allow the ink to run down a little.  I did this a few times until I was happy with the result.

Then for the difficult bit - waiting for it to dry! Cup of tea time. Once this was achieved I stamped the New York skyline scene and then added some water coloured bits using a brush and a darker blue distress ink. the sentiment was added and I was done.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Scene It City
Inks: Range distress, blueprint sketch, mermaid lagoon, chipped sapphire

I'm so pleased to have had your company today, thanks so much for dropping by.

And keep crafting!