Loving my Distress inks

This card was painted with Distress reinkers.  The stamp is an oldie from Stampin’ Up.   I found this scrap of “handmade” paper in my stash that just seemed so right for this card.

Things that Fly

I recently bought this Magenta stamp from someone ready to send it on to a new home.   I painted it up with watercolour, added some layers, mounted it to a base card that I embossed with a long rectangular Nestabilitie that my sweet sistah gave me for my birthday.

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Framing an Image

I’ve framed around my watercoloured image with a square Nestabilitie and I absolutely love this look!    If you’ve not tried this, the sandwich recipe is on the Spellbinders packaging and can be adapted to the die cutting machine you have.  When my Cuttlebug “passed on” I replaced it with a Big Shot and I absolutely love it.

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Twinkling H2Os

I was definitely on a roll when I did these cards.  I followed the same process for each of them; painting  the rubber stamp with H2Os, slightly misting with a mini mister and then stamping on to white cardstock.  My Cuttlebug definitely got a workout  too.  LOL

I think I like the last one the best.  How about you?  Do you have a favourite?

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Flowers & Butterflies

 

No matter the season I love to make cards featuring flowers and butterflies.  This image, from The Stamp Barn, has been stamped twice,  heat embossed with gold embossing powder and coloured in with Tombow markers.  The butterflies have been cut out and glued with silicone to produce a 3D effect.  I distressed the edges using Tim Holtz’s distressing tool and added a little Chocolate Tombow marker.

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A Tree Under the Moon

I’m not sure who makes this stamp as I don’t own it.  My friend gave me a few stamped and embossed images to practice my watercolouring and I’m having SO much  fun playing with the various types of watercolours that are available.   This image was painted using tube paints and I added some Stardust Stickles just because I love lots of sparkle.

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Friendship

Harmonie came to visit our stamp club on Sunday and we were able to make 2 cards.  I actually took my fixins home with me and put the cards together at my leisure. 

The image was coloured with Tombow markers and I just happened to have a Friendship Peel-Off (Magenta).  I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out, considering I haven’t had a lot of practice using Tombows.

I’m also trying out a new photo editing program (Google’s Picasa) and this is my first attempt.  Not too bad, eh?  What do you think?

I’ll show you the second card tomorrow.

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Some Shimmer

I made this card for a mingle I recently participated in on one of my Yahoo groups.  It had to be a card that shimmers.  Of course, my scanner doesn’t show up the shimmery Bazzill cardstock, or the blue shimmery cardstock.  The stamp, is from Stamp Barn and I stamped and heat embossed using gold embossing powder.  I painted the image with Twinkling H2Os.  In real life, this card shimmers like crazy, man.

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Canadian Wildlife Stamps

 

One of my favorite techniques to do is watercoloring and these stamps are just perfect.  Bonnidee offers two sets of these clear stamps and of course I just had to buy them both.   Did I feel guilty?  Nope, as a percentage of the purchase price actually goes to the Canadian Wildlife Society.  Good enough excuse for me to buy. 

I stamped the images with a permanent ink and then used my Tombow markers to add the color.  More guy cards for my stash!

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Another guy card

Here’s another card I made using stamps from the Canadian Wildlife stamps I recently bought at Bonnidee.

Again, this was stamped with permanent ink and colored with Tombow markers.

The Happy Birthday stamp is from Hero Arts.

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For Rylan

 

I had a lot of fun making these pictures for my new grandson.  The backgrounds are done with watercolor sprays and I’ve stamped with black Memento ink and embossed with clear e/p.  Stamps are by Magenta.

I sure hope he likes them!

Using up the Scraps!

I love this little doggie from Inkadinkadoo!  I stamped him/her on a scrap of watercolor sprayed background paper and punched out some flowers from the same piece.  Pretty easy, peasy card!

Just A Note

It’s been ages since I played with my See D’s stamps and they really are a lot of  fun.  You just never know how things are going to turn out.

I used watercolor markers directly on the rubber and then “huffed” on the stamp to moisten the ink before stamping on to white matte cardstock.  The colors were then blended a little using a damp paintbrush.

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More Birds!

Here are a couple of more cards where I have stamped on watercolour spray backgrounds. Actually, these pieces were cut from the scrap paper I had used to protect my workspace. I stamped the images in India ink. These were really quick cards to make. It’s funny how sometimes the really easy cards turn out to be the most eye-catching. What do you think?

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Inchie cards

All stamps are by Magenta. Using India ink I stamped the images on to watercolour spray background papers and punched out using a 1" square punch.

Yellow Roses

Stamps: Inkadinkadoo
Materials used: watercolor crayons, Stickles

Spring Flowers

Stamp: Magenta
Materials Used: India ink, Twinkling H2Os, Prismacolor pencils

More Watercolored Backgrounds

Stamps: Karen Stolper Design, Inkadinkadoo

Materials Used: Twinkling H2Os, Prismacolor pencils, Bleach, Stickles, India Ink

Thinking of You

The background for this card was done with watercolor sprays on watercolor paper. The bird stamps are a new plate from I Brake for Stamps. I love this set!!!

You Make My Heart Flutter

Stamps: Penny Black and Inkadinkadoo

Watercolored with pencils and Twinkling H2Os