Watercolor Wednesday

This week there are so many challenges going on over at Splitcoast for the dare to get dirty 2008. There are 2-3 challenges posted per day in addition to the normal weekly challenges. It is very tough to find enough time to do them all so when you can combine several challenges into one card it is a VERY good thing. Check out this link to see the list of the dirty girl challenges if you would like to play along. They are going to be giving away prizes if you finish all the challenges before Aug.1. I watercolored a couple of images last night because I was in the mood to color and I was really hoping that at least one of them would fit into the challenges today. Well, you can imagine my delight this morning when I discovered that the weekly sketch would work perfectly. I was also able to combine 2 of the dirty challenges into it also for a total of 3 for 1. Yippee! Take a look:



I really like how this came out and I am really loving watercoloring! To start, I stamped my image on watercolor paper. However, I masked off part of this stamp with scotch tape because it really has 2 dogs in it. You can see the original image here. I then watercolored the image with my SU markers and an aquapainter and a blender pen. I added crystal effects to her nose and colored the bow with a clear spica glitter pen. I have to tell you how I chose my colors though- Jody's challenge was to use ribbon as your guide for your card and to choose that first. So that is what I did, I picked the dog image because of the brown ribbon and the pink and green were also picked from the ribbon. To further coordinate and match which you know I like to do, I chose the green dp with the squares and used the square hardware to go with the squares on the ribbon. I just LOVE when everything pulls together so well. You can see today's sketch here. If you would like to see some tutorials for watercoloring with markers, you can refer to Julie and Maria's blogs which show everything you could want to know. Keep in mind that the most important thing about this technique is to use good thick WATERCOLOR paper. You can find this at craft stores and Stampin Up carries it which is what I used. The watercolor paper is what allows the color to move and blend, I tried on regular paper and it did not work- my friend Sue is witness to this.

Here is a close up for you:


Recipe:
stamps- Whipper Snapper opposites attract, hero arts sentiment
CS/paper- SU watercolor paper, choc chip, prints pack dp, looks like spring dp
accessories/tools- square punch, copper hodgepodge, ribbon, SU markers, aquapainter, blender pen, crystal effects, clear spica glitter pen

Have a blessed day and be sure to visit again soon :)

Sketch challenge 181

You can find today's sketch here. First time using this whipper snapper stamp which I have had for quite some time.



I colored my image with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I double matted it and then adhered to my nestability scalloped rectangle. I stamped my sentiment and attached that. I used a paper piercer to pierce around the scallops. I tied my ribbon around the image and added brads to the upper corners. This was then attached to the dp and double matted and adhered to the card base. To finish off the card I used crystal effects on the dog's nose and stickles on the flower centers.

here is a close up for you- the crystal effects shows up pretty well



Have a great day- I'm off to the gym to workout- yuck!

Sketch Challenge 180 and some awesome news!

Hi everyone. I am so excited that I have been given permission to tell you all some wonderful news for me. I have been asked to join the Hanna Stamps Design Team!!!! If you have been following my blog at all you know that I absolutely love Hanna Stamps and they are some of my favorite stamps. I am so happy to be part of an awesome team of designers. My first projects as a DT member can be seen in the hanna stamps forum on SCS starting June 30th. The release party will be taking place on July 3rd so be sure to join us. However, you don't have to wait that long for some fun because you won't want to miss the PJ party taking place on June 20th where there are some amazing surprises planned. Trust me on this one! I just received my first package with new release stamps and I look forward to being able to play with them.

So, for today's project I followed the sketch challenge on SCS. You can find it here and if you play along be sure to comment on the post so I can check out your creation. I received this image from the pif forum. I colored my image with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. I matted it and used my ticket corner punch on it. I matted all my layers with black and placed them on my card according to the sketch for this week. I added black double stitched ribbon at the top and some primas on the diamond layer. I also stamped my sentiment in the lower corner and added black brads to the corners.

Supplies:
stamps- whipper snapper girl turtle with flower, hero arts sentiment
CS/paper- SU so saffron, black, looks like spring dp
accessories/tools- prismacolor pencils and gamsol, dbl stitch ribbon from Joann's, black brads, prima flowers, SU artichoke brads, SU ticker corner punch

Hope you have a nice evening and be sure to stop back tomorrow because I have quite a few projects to share with you that I could not post until I submitted them.