Watercolour Wednesday - Dainty Delight

 Hello. Today's card using the Dainty Delight stamp set, I used the large image stamp and stamped it with Memento Ink pad. Now I know you aren't supposed to use a water based ink when watercolouring but today I did! The reason being is that I wanted to used the water colour pencils but not the water!

I coloured the flowers and background in using the pencils and then chopped the image into 8. I added the small pieces onto a piece of one of the DSP papers called Dainty Flowers which are Free during Saleabration. For every £45 spent, you get to choose a free item from the special brochure. 

I LOVE the stamps and the papers together and apart. Really beautiful! Once they were all chopped up, I added them all to another white mat then onto the Starry Sky card base. I did keep the mat narrow on purpose so cut off the excess card to the right hand side. I didn't use the water brushes as I said but did rub my fingers across the mats to smooth the colours over gently. 

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.