Creative Sketches Week 3 - Watercolor

I adore watercolors!  When I was in college as an illustration major, my media of choice was always watercolors.  I am always happy to spend some time with my trusty aqua painters. The colors of my pictures below are a tad off, so think Tempting Turquoise, Pear Pizzaz, and Poppy Parade.

This is the Happy Together stamp set, which has the most adorable little birds. I painted their bodies with Tempting Turquoise using multiple coats.  I liked that the stazon covered by the ink, just looks like a rich dark blue, and I can still see the details for the feathers.  It is important to let things dry between coats.  I also let everything dry and then did a light wash of pear pizzaz at then end for my ground.  I used my marker tip to color in the beaks and go over the feet so they were peach parfait instead of black.

Creative Sketches Week 4 Holidays

This week at Creative-Sketches.com we are creating a card for  a Holiday. Since Spring is coming our way, and I made about 5 valentines day cards this week, I was in the mood for something else and went with a Mother's Day Card.

I really love the stamp set Just Believe, but so far I have not tried using it on moist watercolor paper. I colored in the flowers and inked up the grass then pressed firmly on my damp but not wet paper.  I also tore the edges for the deckle edge.  I also just got some wonderful new ribbon, Blushing Bridge Stitched Poly Ribbon.  It is heavy weight stuff, but makes a great bow!  My final step was to turn this into a Mother's day card.  The modern label punch would have worked, but instead I used a smaller approach with the Word Window punch, then embellished it with another stamped flower. This time I did not use moist watercolor paper, but colored it and cut it out. I added a Pearl in the center to give it a little more polish.  Now to store it somewhere safe until it is time to send it to my Mom!  Pop over to Creative-Sketches.com and post your holiday card.

So when I started the card, I just chose the colors myself, or so I thought.  After I was popping around on a few other sites, I remembered seeing the Inkspirations Challenge Color Challenge this week.  So my first version was all but perfect except I forgot the Early Espresso on the card.  So I stamped it again, and here we are!...I just found another fun challenge site, and had to submit this there are well.  They wanted a card with a bow :)  Thank you Pals Paper Arts!  I love bows!  I also submitted it to CraftyCardmakers Challenge site with their Floral Challenge.