Many Marvellous Markers...

A quick post today as I'm off to a fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrator's card and a cupper event. It's always  fun to go to a class or papercrafting event. You can learn sooo much and have a fun time with like minded people. The card I'm  sharing today is a quick 1 layer card. First I stamped the sentiment.  I then  stamped it on a post it note and carefully cut it out to create a mask. Placing the cut out post it note over the sentiment allows me to ink over it without marking the words below. Now I took a selection of marker pens and using a straight edge made the stripes . Hope you like  my quick card got to run now off to craft with friends.....

Many Marvellous Markers...

Do you like the watercolour wash look but want a more controlled way to achieve it? Well I think I might have a tip for you.....cling film, ( also called cling wrap or saran wrap) and Stampin' Write markers.  Place the piece of cling film over the piece of card you are going to use. Now using the markers laydown three lines of colour, be quite generous with it. Gently move the cling film to the side. Now take an aquapainter and apply droplets of water to you're card. (Please use shimmery white or watercolour paper) next take the cling film and flip it over so the marker is facing the paper and lower it onto the card. Now using your fingertips spread the colour out. When your happy gently lift the cling film off. If you have any runs gently dab with the corner of a paper towel to wick the excess up. And voila a lovely watercolour background 😊 For my sample I  used Lovely Lipstick,  Calypso Coral  and Flirty Flamingo markers. Whem it was dry I stamped all over with the flower from Beautiful Day stamp set in versamark and heat embossed in copper powder.

Many Marvellous Markers...

Well that was a lovely weekend. My Mum and stepfather are visiting so they can meet my new niece. So on saturday we had a lovely family day out to a local family park with my son, daughter, son-in-law,  grandson, ! It was great fun but left little time for crafting! This week I'll be sharing cards I've created using Stampin write markers. I'll be sharing various ways to use them from simple lines to colouring to creating backgrounds.  Today's  card shows how you can just use these water based markers to colour a stamped image in. Simple but oh so effective. 

#simplestamping

Repeat stamping is such an easy way to create a pattern. Made even simpler with the sweet daisy image from the Hoot Hoot Hooray stamp set! By stamping along the edge of the card you can vary the height of the flowers. Then for the sentiment layer I just stamped the flower head. All in all I'm very pleased with the way this clean bright card came together.

#simplestamping

Sometimes #simplestamping can include some pretty DSP, designer series paper ( or double sided paper ). Using pattern paper in its simplest form is a quick easy way to create a card. All I did for todays sample was cut a piece  of DSP slightly smaller than my card front and voila a completely different look! I  chose the pretty  pink polka dot paper from the Bird Ballard suite as I became a proud aunty to a gorgeous baby girl last weekend. Baby Rya Bow Lea was a much welcomed addition to our family. In keeping with the #simplestamping ideals I let the stamp and paper do all the work  and just used the watercolour pencils to add small pops of colour.

#simplestamping

Peek-a-boo... 2 little cheeky owls peeking out ! I think this is such a fun #simplestamping card all you need is a single punch to create the circles. I chose to use a second punch for the sentiment,  which is such a hoot 😉, but could have been stamped directly onto the card. The clean white base highlights the lovely blue and green of the fun owls.

#simplestamping

Who doesn't like cupcakes? Especially when they're calorie free !!! Well thats the great thing about a hand stamped card it can give you all the sweet goodness with none of the calories!! For today's #simplestamping card I've taken the liberty of including a little bling.. well you have to when its a birthday right????