Splashes of Watercolor

Vintage Easter Egg - Color Throwdown #435

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Who’s ready for the latest Color Throwdown challenge?  This week, Jodi is our hostess and she’s picked an awesome palette!

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What a wonderful combo!

I didn’t get to color up the beautiful new Vintage Easter Egg from Power Poppy when it was released last month, and I REALLY wanted to play with it this week.  These colors were perfect!!

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Don’t you agree?  I colored this beauty with my Copic Markers, then fussy-cut it, and popped it up over some pretty yellow patterned paper.  Of course I had to use some turquoise ribbon to complement the ribbon in the image.  And there just had to be a satin bow for Easter!  Don’t you just love when your image already comes with the perfect sentiment?  I know I do.

Now it’s your turn to play along with us!  Give us a direct link to your creation on today’s post at the CTD blog.  And PLEASE check out all the awesome beauty of the design team’s creative genius:

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Amy Rohl

Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Jodi Collins

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Lisa Lara, March 2017 Guest Designer

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Thank you so much for stopping by today!!

Power Poppy Vintage Easter Egg Shop here: SHOP	Copic Sketch markers Shop here: SSS	X-Press It Blending Card Shop here: EH | SSS	PTI white cardstock Shop here: SHOP
1/16" foam mounting tape Shop here: SHOP

Happy Easter!

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I hope you all have a Blessed and happy Easter!

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And I hope all the children in your life get lots of candy and find lots of eggs!!

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Tulips in Hobnail Pitcher - a new Power Poppy digital image

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Since it’s the 25th of the month, that means that Power Poppy is adding another beautiful digital image to its Instant Garden Collection.  And this one is truly like a breath of fresh spring air!  Introducing  Tulips in Hobnail Pitcher.

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Isn’t this a beauty?  Marcy (Marcella Hawley) says:

“We have three images in this set. The image is a bouquet of freshly gathered tulips that captures laid-back country living, complete with a hobnail-trimmed milk pitcher. Two birthday sentiments round out this set that is just begging to be colored up this spring.”

And this is how I colored up my image:

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I simply adore coloring Marcy’s images and this one is really fabulous!

For this one I used my Kuretake Zig Clean Color pens on watercolor paper.  If you look closely you can see that I let my colors bleed out of the lines for a little more ethereal look.

For the layout I used this week's retrosketches #207:

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Please be sure to check out the rest of the Instant Gardeners wonderful creations and then head over to the Power Poppy blog to see which of the Bloom Brigade members are joining in the release fun!

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• Barb Walker
• Broni Holcombe (That's me!)
• Cheryl Scrivens
• Debbie Olson

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Thank you so much for dropping by today!  Have a fantastic and beautiful Easter weekend!

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It's a Child's World - ADFD Showcase: Take Two

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Happy Friday!!

This week the A Day For Daisies  girls are showing off more of the It’s A Child’s World showcase of images.  I chose to color the image called Three Helpers.  Isn’t it wonderful?

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The latest challenge at the A Day For Daisies blog is to USE DIMENSIONAL FLOWERS.  I added a flower and some ribbon on top of my water colored panel before layering on my fussy cut, Copic colored image with foam mounting tape.

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I’m also entering this card in to the Card Concept #49 challenge.  My style is Clean & Layered.

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Be sure to visit with the fabulous designers at A Day For Daisies here:

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Alison Arielle Broni Cathy Cindy Jen Juliana Kathy Tanja

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Today is my final card and post as an ADFD Design Team member.  After 4 years, I felt like it was time to step down and let these girls take over.  Maybe now I’ll have a  little more personal time, which I’m sure my kids and grandkids will be glad to fill!

Have a wonderful weekend, y’all!

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Lots of Chicks in Pants for Easter!

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Happy Good Friday to you all!  I don’ have many words today, but I do have lots of photos for you. 

Since it’s the first Friday of a new month, it’s time for the latest Club Kit from A Day For Daisies!  The April club kit is all about Chickens in Aprons (and in Pants)!  We’re also showcasing Bunnies in Blossoms!  Both of these series are so precious and just perfect for the upcoming Easter holiday.

I chose to color the adorable Chick in Pants!  Isn’t this little fella cute??

On my first card, the image was colored with Copic markers.  The card base was embossed with the Dot Matrix folder and I used the Wishing die cut from Simon Says Stamp.

(You can click on any of the photos to see them larger.)

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For the next 8 cards (yes, I said 8!), I water-colored both the backgrounds and the images then simply put them together and tied on some twine.

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A flock of chicks:

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Two of the completed water-colored cards:

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Please be sure to check out all the wonderful creations from the super-talented A Day For Daisies design team:

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Arielle Broni Christine Danielle Juliana Mila

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Ok, that’s it from me today, folks.  I’m headed to the beach to spend the long holiday weekend with family and friends.  Can’t wait! 

I hope your Easter holiday is blessed and very happy!

p.s.  Look, Nise!  No sequins!!!

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A little Easter Art

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Hey, everyone!  It's a beautiful Spring day and it's Friday!  How great is that?!

It's also time for another peak at the ADFD April 2014 Club Kit.   For today, I colored up this adorable little Easter Bunny artist - it's called Easter Art.

My granddaughter Molly LOVES purple, so that probably had a little to do with my color choices here!

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Can you see the Tiny Circles of translucent embossing paste?  It adds a little texture and interest to a one layer card, don't you think?  I also added some beautiful seam binding that was a gift from a dear friend! (Thanks, Bar!)

You can see the texture a little better from this angle:

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I can't wait to color this little guy/girl up again using different sets of colors for the rest of the grandkids.  They're all sure to love him as much as I do!

I'm entering this in Virginia's View Challenge #2 - Stencils.

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Be sure to check out all of the images from the Club Kit at the ADFD site or on the ADFD blog.  And be sure to check out what the other designers have created for your inspiration here:

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Arielle Broni Danielle Juliana Mila

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I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!  I'll be going to my grandson's first baseball game of the season, so I'm pretty excited!

Thanks for stopping by!

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A Bunny in a Flower….and Ruby Slippers

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TGIF!!  And it's almost Easter!  Does that mean it will warm up at some point?  I'm so tired of cold!!

Speaking of Friday….that means it's time for a new release from A Day For Daisies!  This week is all about bunnies and flowers, or Bunnies in Blossoms.  I chose to color up this precious Bunny in a Wildflower.

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Isn't he the most adorable bunny?  I love his big bright eye and shy demeanor.  The Be Happy Sentiment is also from the new release.  I used the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #180 and the perfect colors from this week's ColourQ Challenge #132:

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Sami also has a new release called the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.   So cool!  I love this little scene with Toto in the basket!!  It's called Ruby Slippers, paired with Oz Sentiment 1.

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I chose to play with the I Heart Sketches #11 this week:

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What great releases these are!  You can see them all at the A Day For Daisies shop or check them out on the ADFD blog.  And you can check out all the great creations from the design team here:

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Arielle
Broni
Danielle
Kadie
Sherry

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Thank you so much for stopping in today!  I hope you'll have a fabulous weekend and a blessed Easter.

 

Easter cards for the grandkids…

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Hey there!

I just wanted to pop in for a second and show you this year's Easter cards for the grandkids.  All 8 of them.  Yeah, our kids have got to stop having kids!!

I tried to go simple but when you're making 8 cards, nothing seems simple enough!

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Blue for the boys and pink for the girls, of course!  I definitely won't be able to make the same cards for everyone much longer.  The kids ages range from 14 years to 5 months.  I guess eventually I'm going to have to graduate to making adult cards for the older ones!

This is what I put inside, another Silhouette cut:

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I do believe these cards qualify for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge this week:  CFC95 - No Stamps.

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Thanks for dropping in to take a look!

 

FTTC212 - So Does Hope

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Hello, and happy Tuesday!  It's time for our latest Timeless Tuesday challenge and our very own team coordinator Allison is our hostess today!  She's asked us to create something with Spring in mind.

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The first thing that came to my mind was Easter Wishes, but I also really wanted to use the new Tulips for Friends stamp set, so I just combined them!

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I cut a "window" in a piece of Emerald Coast paper using my Perfectly Pierced Classic Hourglass die and used the negative piece.  I added some pierced holes along the ends for some extra interest and texture.  This was layered over my lamb image which had been stamped on Classic white cardstock with Memento tuxedo black ink and colored with these Copic collections:

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I also colored and cut out an extra lamb image and he's popped up on foam tape.  After tying some Bangkok red seam binding around the card front I added my tulip (colored using the same Copic collections) by tucking it under the ribbon.  The beautiful sentiment also from the Tulips for Friends stamp set was stamped onto a die cut oval after I added some sponged Tumbled Glass Distress ink.

We'd love it if you joined us in this Springtime challenge!  Please stop by to see what the other Timeless Tuesday girls have created for your viewing pleasure and inspiration:

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• Allison Cope Israels
• Broni Holcombe - you are here!
• Cindy Haffner
• Deborah Anton
• Denise Marzec
• Makiko Jones
• Deb Felts - our March 2013 Guest Designer

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Happy Spring, everyone!

 

FTTC210 Easter Wishes

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Hello and happy Tuesday to you all!

Are you ready for the latest Timeless Tuesday challenge?  Cindy is our hostess this week and she's challenged us to use dry embossing.

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Now that's always fun!  Instead of embossing some cardstock though, I chose to use some scrap corrugated cardboard to create an Easter basket for my beautiful egg from the new Easter Wishes stamp set.  The "basket" was cut from the cardboard using the smaller die from my Perfectly Pierced Classic Hourglass die set, and some VersaMagic Cloud White ink was rubbed across it.

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The image was stamped on Flourishes Classic White Cardstock and colored with these Copic collections:

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The egg and flowers are all one image so in order to insert the  basket I had to cut along the upper lines of the flowers, starting at the right and leaving only the last little flower in front of the egg on the left attached.  Here's a better view:

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Other supplies used are:  Memento Teal Zeal ink, Pistachio paper collection, Emerald Coast paper collection, Sunflower paper collection, kraft cardstock, My Mind's Eye Collectable "Unforgettable" 6x6 paper pad, and these individual Copics: BG000, BG10, BG53, BG57, BV000, E00, E39.  All the supplies are shown and linked at the end of this post.

My layout is from this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge SSSC#179:

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We hope you'll play along in this challenge with us!  You can get all the details at the Flourishes blog!  Please drop by and see what all of the super-talented FTTC team members have created for your inspiration:

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• Allison Cope Israels
• Broni Holcombe - you are here!
• Cindy Haffner
• Deborah Anton
• Denise Marzec
• Makiko Jones
• Deb Felts - our March 2013 Guest Designer

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Thank you so much for visiting!  Hope to see you very soon!