Watercolour Wednesday - Seasons of Fun

 Today's watercolour card and all of this week's projects are being made using a pair of stamp sets that are Host items. When you hold a party, class or workshop and orders are placed to the value of £150 in the UK, the hostess will get to spend 10% of the order value on anything within the Stampin' Up! catalogues. FOR FREE!! WOO HOO!! More info later. So using the Seasons of Fun stamps today I made this lovely little pumpkin girl card. I had so much fun colouring her in. Once I used each colour, I used a water brush to wash the colour all over the area. It was great! I could just imagine this for a fancy dress party of even Halloween. This image will make a brilliant card for lots of occasions. I stamped this using a Black Stazon Ink pad and then several of the watercolour pencils. It could be done using collection 1 or 2. It's really a personal choice. I then die cut the white mat and an orange mat (Pumpkin Pie) using the Hippo and Friends dies. I used the gorgeous green of Shaded Spruce as the mat behind the orange but embossed it with the Bark embossing folder first. I love the texture that it gives. 

That was it. A very simple watercolouring card for today that hasn't taken lots of time to make either. Brilliant. I love it when that happens, not too technical. 

For more information on the stamp set or any of the products that I have used today or this week, please click HERE It will open up in a new window for you.

 The 10% minimum is earned at £150 and 10% of that  is £15.

This stamp set, Seasons of Fun is only £11 when you use the hostess pounds that are earned on a party of workshop. So that would leave still a further £4 plus to spend for FREE! The In Your Words stamp set is FREE to the hostess when they hold a party, class or workshop with sales of £275. Not bad at all eh?

Make It Monday - Seasons of Fun

Hello and thank you for stopping by today. I love the little Penguins that Cary made last week. weren't they cute? This week I will be working on 2 of the Host sets from the Stampin' Up! catalogue. The image stamp set is called Seasons of Fun and the sentiments are called In Your Words. These are both sets that are often forgotten as they are at the very back of the catalogues and many people tend not to look that far. Well now you know that you should! There really are loads of amazing host sets that often get overlooked. 

My first card is a #simplestamping one exactly as it's called. It was 1 large and 1 teeny tiny stamp used on this one plus a sentiment from the In Your Words stamp set. I stamped the little boy in the leaves and then added a few more leaves around him. Then using my granddaughter's colouring pencils, I coloured it in. As you can see, I used a mix of greens and oranges for the leaves and then a few blues for the little boy. I could have used the Stampin' Up! Watercolour Pencils but I wanted to show that you can replicate anything using just ordinary crayons. 

I had a piece of Shaded Spruce on the desk so decided to use that as a mat to make the picture pop.

 

Watercolor Wednesday - Pampered Pets

 This week's watercolour card is nothing like I had intended to make. My idea was a complete card front as a watercoloured image! Needless to say, that didn't happen!! Using the Pampered Pets stamp set I stamped the curled up cat and watercoloured him in using a soft grey and the basic grey ink pads. I stamped a block onto the pad and added a few drops of water onto it. I mixed it in then played. I didn't like my original 2 ideas and ended up with a simple mouse and hearts background. Using the Layering Ovals dies that have sadly retired, I die cut out the white and green mats. 

I wanted some ribbon to match the card base so I took some of the gorgeous Crinkled white ribbon and coloured it using a Blend in the same colour. Granny Apple Green, my favourite green next to Pear Pizazz which is a slightly softer shade. I coloured in the mice and hearts in the same way as before, using ink and water from a block. I wanted this to be a birthday card so I chose to use another stamp set called From All of Us.

For more information on the products that I used, please click HERE It will open up in a new window for you.

Technique Tuesday - Pampered Pets

 Today's technique is what I call a peekaboo card. By making an hole or shape in the card front, this gives that effect. Using the Pampered Pets stamp set I have achieved what I set out to make. I've made cards that have a flap or tag going across the front as a closure but this is slightly different. By taking out a circle from the card front and using the circle as a mat that is fixed to the arm of the tag or flap by closing the card down and fixing it in position. Simple? Yes, very simple in fact it was much easier than you would think.

The difficult part was that I couldn't make up my mind as to what paper to use for the front and I haven't as yet bought the papers from the NEW Seasonal catalogue so I resorted to the papers that were coordinated to go with the set which have now retired. It happens! To allow more products to come into the new catalogues, we must say goodbye to some of those beloved items. Reluctantly!

I used Stazon Ink Pad in Tuxedo Black for the stamped images with ink and a water brush for the colouring.

For more information on the products that I used, please click on the link HERE