Splashes of Watercolor

ADFD Showcase: Little Mermaid

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Hello, friends!  It’s finally Friday and I know you’re all just as glad as I am.

Before we get the weekend started, let me show you what I’ve been working on this week.  This little sweetie from A Day For Daisies is called “Dreams”.

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The background is one that I had watercolored earlier in the week with Distress inks.  I wanted to use it for the waves and the sky.  I printed my image on some plain copy paper, laid it over the watercolor panel and traced the waves only by using a dull pencil and pressing hard.  When I removed the copy paper, I could see the lines and then I used an EK journaling pen in black to draw over it.  I colored the rock using some Distress Black Soot ink and added some darker blues as shadows behind the waves and rock.  I also added some highlights with a white gelly roll pen.

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The mermaid was colored using my Copic markers.  I cut her out and popped her up on some foam mounting tape.  I also highlighted her hair and tail with some Wink of Stella glitter brushes.

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I’m entering my mermaid in these challenges:

Sunday Stamps SSC104:

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The Challenge 40 – Nautical Theme:

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Addicted to CAS: Splash

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AND the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - ANYTHING GOES!

Please be sure to check out all the awesome Mermaid images at the A Day For Daisies shop and at the ADFD blog.  And you can get some wonderful inspiration from seeing the DT girls’ creations here:

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Arielle Broni Christine Juliana

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Thank you so much for stopping in today.  Have a fabulous weekend!

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Ahoy Birthday Wishes - Color Throwdown #348

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Ahoy, Mateys!  It’s time for the latest and greatest edition of the Color Throwdown challenge!  The lovely Joan is our hostess this week and she’s given us a “summer by the sea” color palette to play with - blue, yellow and red!

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Isn’t that a great quilt? 

I just got some new goodies from Papertrey Ink and one set just happened to be the super cute Ahoy stamp set.  It’s such a fun set and has matching dies.  I also got the new Cover Plate: Waves die.  So I decided to play around and see what I could come up with.  And here’s the final result:

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The background is done on watercolor paper using the also new and also from PTI Good Times stamp set.  I misted the top half of my paper until it was really wet and then I dabbed up any puddles with a paper towel.  I inked my confetti stamp with 3 yellow Distress inks and stamped it at the top of the panel.  I did the same with 3 blue inks at the bottom, but did it a couple of times to bring the pattern farther up the panel.  I also stamped a couple of waves using the waves stamp from the Ahoy set.

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I stamped the sentiment with black ink.  Don’t you love that font?? 

I added the Waves die cut, the sailboat and a couple of the birds.  Lastly I added some sequins.

I’m entering this card into these challenges:

The Challenge #40 – Theme: Nautical

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Addicted to CAS: Splash

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Curtain Call: Flip Flops

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Now it’s your turn to join in on the fun with us at the Color Throwdown .   Check out all the details at the CTD blog, then stop by to see the awesome designs from our team:

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins

Lori Tecler

Monika Davis

Tammy Hershberger

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Nancy Thomas, June 2015 Guestie

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is:  Karren J

Thank you so much for dropping by!

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A Day For Daisies Showcase: It's a New Day

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Hello and happy Friday!

The A Day For Daisies design team is showcasing several fun images in a collection called It’s a New Day.  You can see them at the A Day For Daisies shop or on the ADFD blog.

Today I’ve colored up New Suit and created a fun watery background for her.

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This little darling was colored with my Copic markers and I paper pieced her “new suit”.  That, by the way, is the new challenge at the ADFD blog – Paper Piecing, or Piercing, if you like!

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To create the background I inked up one side of my Waves stencil with Versamark. laid my watercolor cardstock on top of it face down, and brayered the back of the cardstock to get a fair amount of the ink onto the grainy paper.  I quickly sprinkled on my white detail embossing powder and heat set it.  I didn’t need a really crisp image, because I only wanted to suggest the movement of the water in the background.

I “smooshed” Distress inks, Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, and Cracked Pistachio, onto an acetate sheet, misted with water, then pressed the acetate onto my watercolor cardstock until I was happy with how it looked.

I added some Bokeh Dots with some white pigment ink, but the ink pad was a little dry so I pulled out my Wink of Stella clear pen and highlighted them.

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Next I die cut using my SSS Stitched Circles dies one at a time, starting with the smallest one and running it through the Big Shot with each die individually.  The largest circle is adhered onto the card front with a tape runner adhesive, the second circle is adhered with 1/16” foam mounting tape, and the smallest circle with 1/8” foam mounting tape.

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I added my precious little girl and some pieces from one of my all time favorite paper collections (which I may have been hoarding), Beach Babe from Fancy Pants, and called it done.

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I’m playing along with the MOJO Monday Sketch Challenge #402 this week:

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And also with the Curtain Call: Flip Flops inspiration challenge:

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Please play along with us, but first please check out the awesome creation of my fellow ADFD design team members:

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Arielle Broni Christine Juliana

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Thank you so much for dropping by today!  Enjoy your weekend!

ADFD New Suit	SSS *Copic BLENDING CARD X-Press It Paper Pack of 10	SSS* Copic markers	Distress Watercolor Cardstock	SSS Simon Says Stamp Stencil WAVES ssst121357 This is the Life
SSS*Versamark ink pad	SSS*EMBOSSING POWDER WHITE Fine Detail WhiteEP2 Stamptember	SSS*Ranger Heat Tool	SSS* Peacock Feathers Distress ink	SSS*Distress Ink Pad MERMAID LAGOON Ranger TIM43256
SSS*Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad CRACKED PISTACHIO TIM43218	SSS*STITCHED CIRCLES Wafer Dies sssd111456 In Stitches	Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps, Bokeh Dots by Julie Ebersole	Fancy Pants - Beach Babe 6x6	Zig Wink of Stella brush glitter - clear
Scotch double-sided foam tape	foam mounting tape - 1/8"

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Simply the Best–Color Throwdown #347

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Hey there, people!

I’m hosting this week’s Color Throwdown challenge and here are the colors:
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I was inspired by the photo above of the vibrant and happy beachy bedroom ensemble.  So I chose these colors for our inspiration this week:  Turquoise, Hot Pink, Gray and White.  You can also use any other neutral colors of your choosing, as long as these 4 are your main colors.

Here’s what I came up with:

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I tried something new for my background.  I misted some Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise spray ink onto some watercolor cardstock, then misted again with water.  When it was dried to just damp, I misted a background stamp (an ikat design) with some water and pressed it onto the watercolored panel.  If you look closely you can see the faint design it left at the top of the background panel.  When that was dry, I misted it with some Tinsel spray ink as well.

The same misting with Vibrant Turquoise and Tinsel was done to the pink journaling card.  I added some Pink Bubblegum spray ink as well.

My stamped sentiment is from the Technique Tuesday Simply You set and the Seriously die cut is from Lil’ Inker Designs.

The layout I used is from this week’s Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #273.

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We hope you’ll play along with us this week!  I can’t wait to see what you do with these colors!

Please be sure to check out what the CTD girls have created for your inspiration!

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins

Lori Tecler

Monika Davis

Tammy Hershberger

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Nancy Thomas, June 2015 Guestie

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is:  Janet Ribet

Thank you so much for dropping in today!

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Garden Fireworks - June's Power Poppy Digital Stamp set

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Hello, and happy June 15th to you all!

It’s time to reveal this month’s Power Poppy digital stamp set called Garden Fireworks!

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Let's hear it for the red, white and blue …or pink, or purple or....? 

Our newest addition to Power Poppy's Instant Garden is an explosion of color that is just in time for the Fourth of July! Color this up with a patriotic spin or let the rainbow of colors these flowers come in serve as your inspiration! Allium take center stage with their showy blossoms. When paired with Poppies and Catnip, you have a glimpse of summer in full bloom. This beauty is paired with an elegantly scripted Bible verse that's perfect for cards of encouragement. The good news? Both are ready to download, print, color and create with as we speak! 

I took the fireworks "explosion" of color to heart and used my Copic markers in shades of magenta, red, and blue for my flower colors.

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My background is one I had on hand that I had created with watercolor paper and Color Bursts in crimson and blue.

I just love this newest addition to the Instant Garden, don’t you?

Here are the links for you to get to the rest of the Instant Gardeners to see their fabulous creations!

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• Jennifer Dove
• Broni Holcombe (That's me!)
• Cheryl Scrivens
• Debbie Olson
• Rhea Weigands

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Thank you so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week!

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A Day For Daisies June 2015 Club Kit - Take Two

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It’s Friday again and time for another great image from A Day For Daisies!  This week I decided to color up the Rooster with Flower.  He’s so very handsome and I think this will make a great masculine birthday card.

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This fellow is colored with Copic markers and I added a little machine stitching for some texture.

I used the colors from The Challenge #38:

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The sketch is from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #272:

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and I’m also playing along with the Paper Players challenge #248 – Make it Masculine:

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You can check out all the wonderful images at the A Day For Daisies shop or over at the ADFD blog.  Please also visit with each of the ADFD girls to see their fabulous creations!

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Arielle Broni Christine Juliana

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Thank you so much for stopping by!  Have a great weekend, y'all!

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Raspberry Floral Watercolor - Color Throwdown #346

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Hello and happy middle-of-the-week-hump-day!!

We have a brand new Color Throwdown challenge for you today!   Barbara is our hostess and here’s her awesome palette:

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I wanted to play around with stencils and Distress inks this week.  This is what I came up with:

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To create the background I inked up the back of a couple of stencils with Distress inks, misted them with water, then pressed the stencils onto the watercolor paper.  I used Frayed Burlap with the Mini Art Is stencil and Shabby Shutters with the Mini Onion Skin stencil.  Then I stamped over the dried panel with more Shabby Shutters and a grid background stamp.

The flower was stamped in Versamark, heat embossed with white detail embossing powder and painted using a water brush and Picked Raspberry and Crushed Olive inks.

We certainly hope you’ll play along with us this week!  Head on over to the CTD blog for all the challenge details.  And please be sure to stop by and see all the fabulous CTD ladies as well!

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins

Lori Tecler

Monika Davis

Tammy Hershberger

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Nancy Thomas, June 2015 Guestie

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is:  Maura!

Thanks a bunch for dropping by!

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Ombre Watercolor Floral

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Hello, everyone!

I thought I’d pop in today show you a card that I made to enter into the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop and also for the Virginia’s View Challenge #15 – Ombre or Monochromatic.

Here it is~

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I made the background by white embossing an old CHF Hexagon Tiles background stamp, then watercoloring with Squeezed Lemonade and a little Mustard Seed Distress ink to get the ombre effect. 

The flower and stem from the Tim Holtz Flower Garden stamp set were also stamped in Versamark and embossed with white detail embossing powder.  I used Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey, and Crushed Olive inks for them.

The shiny gold sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh!

I love how it turned out!

Here are the links to the blog hop and the challenge:

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That’s it for me today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

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Because Love is All You Need...

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And because every mermaid I’ve ever met has cotton candy pink hair and carries her heart in her hands!

Happy Friday, people!

This week the A Day For Daisies design team is featuring the new images from the June 2015 Club Kit!  I chose to color  the beautiful little Mermaid Love.

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The background was created using watercolor paper and Color Bursts.  I love them!!  I die cut the LOVE from PTI and was going to have it be raised on foam mounting tape but I just really love the look of the inlay in white.  And besides, now I have a beautiful watercolored LOVE to save to use on a future card!

…and sequins because they look so perfect as water bubbles!

We have a new challenge starting today on the ADFD blog too – CASE one of the DT cards!!  So head on over there to check them out or you can get there from here:

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Arielle Broni Christine Juliana

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Thanks so much for stopping in today!  Have a fabulous weekend, y’all!

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Hello, Birthday Girl! - Color Throwdown #345

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Happy Wednesday, aka Hump Day!  We’re on the downhill slide to Friday!!

So let’s celebrate by playing along in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge, shall we?  Wanda is our talented hostess and she’s chosen a great, classic palette for us!

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Love the bold stripes and the classic colors of red, green, black and white!

And here’s my card:

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I used a Rose Red instead of the classic red.  I thought the flowers would look better that way!

I also fell in love with this week’s CAS(E) this sketch #CTS125 and I’m so glad I decided to use it!  It’s awesome!

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So now it’s time for you to play along with us!  Link up the direct post with your creation in it over on the Color Throwdown blog so we can all see it!  And please check out the gorgeous inspirational creations of our design team here:

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins

Lori Tecler

Monika Davis

Tammy Hershberger

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Nancy Thomas, June 2015 Guestie

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is:  Maura!

Did you see we have a new Guest Designer for the month of June – Nancy Thomas!  Please make her feel welcome!

Thank you all so much for dropping by!  Enjoy the rest of your week!

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