Splashes of Watercolor

Birthday Love - Color Throwdown #643

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Happy Wednesday, y'all!  I'm hosting the Color Throwdown this week and I've chosen some soft summer shades for us to play with.  I've always said my favorite color is "water", so a few watery hues were in order: Aqua, Ice Blue, and Pale Green.

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I had created a few Gelli prints recently and wanted to use one of them for my background today.  I used Distress inks and a brayer to coat the gelli plate, picked up the color with cardstock, then reapplied inks through the Floating Leaves stencil before picking up the ink again with the cardstock.  Simple, but I love the result.

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The real star here though is the Mod Floral die cut in stark white against the multi-hued blue background. Then I used a couple of the sentiments from Reverse Birthday sentiment strips, and scattered some sequins.

Please come on over to the CTD blog and play along with us!  Be sure to check here for tons of inspiration:

Amy Rohl

Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Susie Moore

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Purple Poppies for Spring

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Hello and happy Friday!  Yay for the weekend!

We're still trying to bring on the Springtime with our beautiful ADFD Spring Flowers images.  This week I'm using the Spring Poppy Bunch.

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Why purple poppies?  Because I wanted to use a scrap piece of cardstock that I had used to clean my brayer on when I was Gelli printing. 

I started by printing my image on a scrap piece of copy paper.  Then I decided where on the Gelli print I wanted the image, and taped the Gelli printed cardstock on top of the printed copy paper image.  I ran it through the printer again and this is what I got:

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While it was still taped to the copy paper, I tried out different Copic colors until I found the ones I wanted to use. 

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Then I removed the cardstock with the image from the copy paper, cut it to size, and colored it up.  (I'm not specifically recommending that you use your Copic markers to color over acrylic paint, which is what I had used on my Gelli print.  I do keep extra marker tips in case I ruin a tip doing something different like this.  In this case, my markers seemed to be ok afterward.)

Well, what do you think?  Do you like how it turned out?

You can find all the new images at the ADFD website, and please be sure to check out what the rest of the ADFD design team has created for your Springtime inspiration:

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Arielle Broni Danielle Juliana Mila

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Have a great weekend!

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The NEW ePlay Challenge - Push Your Boundaries!

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Welcome to eclectic Paperie's ePlay Challenge – Push Your Boundaries!  We’re altering our challenges in 2014, creating one, month-long challenge, increasing the prize drawing, holding a design team blog hop, and including a product discount with each new challenge!  Check out the details below:

· We’ve combined our two challenges into one, announced on the first Thursday of each month.  This gives the design team more flexibility with challenge topics and projects and allows you more time to enter! 

· We’ll also feature a product each month, and during the first day of the challenge, you’ll receive a discount on the featured product….be sure to check for the special code! 

· Our prize drawing is increasing from $15.00 to a $25.00 gift certificate and the winner of each challenge will be announced on the last Thursday of each month and will be featured on the eP blog. 

· Each month we’ll hold a blog hop featuring the beautiful artwork from our design team…just scroll down to the bottom of the post for all of the links!  Talk about inspiration!!

Our challenges are about encouraging you to explore your creative journey and inspiring you to step outside of your comfort zone.  When you submit your artwork, share a unique card, scrapbook or journal page, a canvas, home décor project, or anything that you’re excited to share!  We’re looking forward to crafting with you!

Today’s special is on Liquidtex Gesso and Clear Gesso and for one day only, you can save 10% on a bottle of gesso…perfect for all of your altered projects!  Simply use code GESSO03 when checking out.

This month’s challenge is ALTER A BOOK.

And here's what I came up with:

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Here's my process:

1- Using an old (copyright 1990) torn-up children's book with a missing cover and hard pages, I covered the front page with Gesso.

2- I wanted to use my Gelli plate to add color to the page.  I coated the plate with yellow acrylic paint and laid my Daisy Bits mask on it. 

3- Next I laid down my Mini Chevrons stencil, then lifted it and turned the Gelli plate over onto the book page. 

    

I'm pretty sure I took too long to complete these steps, because my paint dried pretty fast and I didn't get a good imprint.

4- I used green paint and my Two Leaves Bits mask next.

5- Then I used hot pink paint and the Daisy Bits mask again, but I also added some curvy lines with my Silicone Wedge tool.

6- Next I used some aqua paint and the Silicone Wedge tool again to make some straight lines.

7- When I had the front of the page covered with the Gelli prints, I started added fillers with stencils and Distress paints. 

    

8- I added another watered-down coat of Gesso to create a more uniform background.

9- I added my words using the Letter Jumble stencil and the Funky Word stencil with some Black Soot ink and an ink blending tool.

10- I also added some Black Gesso with the edge of an old credit card, then added some more texture with some Metallic Gold embossing paste and more stencils and some white embossing paste and the Vintage Floral stencil.

11- Of course I couldn't leave well enough alone!  I had to pull out some Dylusions ink sprays and squirt them a few times, then allow them to drip down the front of the page. Then I finished it off with a few spritzes of gold Color Shine spray.

And this is how is all turned out:

     

You can click on any of the images  to see them full size.

That's it for me!   Please be sure to follow along the blog hop to see all the beautiful inspiration from the design team:

Thank you so much for stopping in today!

Letter Jumble stencil - Dylusions	Studio 490 - Funky Word Stencil	Mini Chevron 6x6 template	Studio 490 - Vintage Floral Stencil	TCW - 6x6 Well Rounded Stencil
TCW - Balzer Bits Mask - Daisy Bits	TCW Two Leaves Bits mask	Catalyst Silicone Wedge Tool - Yellow	Liquitex Acrylic Gesso	Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso -black
Claudine Hellmuth Studio products	Spun Sugar Distress Paint	Broken China Distress Paint	Black Soot Distress ink pad	Inkssentials Foam Blending Tool
Speedball 4" Pop-In Rubber Brayer	Gelli Plate 6x6" - Gelli Arts	Studio 490 White Embossing Paste	Dylusions Fresh Lime Ink Spray	Dylusions Bubblegum Pink Ink Spray
Dylusions Vibrant Turquoise Ink Spray

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eP Get Altered Challenge - Altered Playing Cards

 

Hello there, everyone!  I'm hosting this month's eP Get Altered Challenge.  This month I'm asking that we play with~

 Altered Playing Cards

I'm sad to say I haven't tried this before, but after this fun little adventure I'm sure I'll be going back to pull from my deck again and again!

Since it's February, the month of Valentines, I decided to make Valentine altered playing cards for all my grandchildren.   There are 8 altogether between George and myself.  Whew!  So it literally took days for this all to come together. 

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I'm going to try to take you through a few of the steps….the ones I can remember and that I photographed!  The first thing I did was sand all my cards using a sanding grip block.

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I used my Gelli plate to apply some aqua and lime acrylic paints to the cards, then I added some purple dots.  Instead of using a brayer, I just used a paint brush.  It gave more texture to the surface of the cards.  It also took longer to dry between layers.  I did this with 4 of the cards.

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I painted over them with white acrylic paint and then wiped it off with a baby wipe.  This helped the texture of the paint to show up better.  I cut a heart from a scrap of paper and used it to draw hearts onto the cards.  Then I painted them with red acrylic paint.

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For the other 4 cards, I decided to try painting directly on the cards as opposed to using the Gelli plate.  I used the same colors and also painted on the purple dots.  I spread some Studio 490 white embossing paste on 2 of the cards and let it dry to add some texture.

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Then I put on some more embossing paste using my Mini Hexagons stencil and my palette knife.  After it dried, I sprayed on several different bright Dylusions ink sprays.  When they dried I sprayed just a little of the White Linen ink spray.

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I sprayed the first 4 altered playing cards with White Linen ink spray as well.

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Here are all the cards.  (You can see I experimented a little with the bottom right one.)

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I used both pieces of my cut-out heart (the positive and the negative) as masks to stamp either onto the hearts or around the hearts.

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I did some more stamping on the cards using the Catherine Scanlon Random Shapes images and Archival jet black ink.  This second photo is taken from a different angle so that you can see the texture even under the Glossy Accents that I added to all the hearts.

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And here are some closeups:

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I simply painted the back of the cards with some white paint.  That's where I'll write my little love messages to the kids.

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Ok then!  That's my take on Altered Playing Cards.  I hope you'll decide to play along with us!  Be sure to link up on the eclectic Paperie blog  so we can all check out what you come up with!

Thanks for visiting!

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Sketchpad Snowmen - Take Two!

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Hello there and happy Friday to you all!

We're doing our second round of Christmas and Sketchpad Snowmen over at A Day For Daisies this week!  And this week on the ADFD blog we're starting a new challenge - Use Gingham!

I'm playing with Sketchpad Snowman Hat and decided to create a Gelli plate background for him.  You can read all about how I did it on the eclectic Paperie blog tomorrow!

Here's my card:

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I colored my little guy with my Copic markers.  After I'd created the card, I realized that I didn't have any gingham ribbon that would match, so I decided to create my own using some seam binding and a V15 Copic marker. 

I'm using this week's retrosketches #93:

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Please be sure to check out all the beautiful creations of my ADFD fellow designers and please try to take some time to play along in the challenge with us too!

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Arielle Broni Danielle Juliana Mila Sherry Tammy

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Thank you so much for dropping in today.  Remember, check out the eclectic Paperie blog tomorrow to see how I created my Gelli plate background!

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Hang Loose Gelli Print Transfer

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Hey there!

Come check out what I'm doing at the eclectic Paperie blog today!

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FTTC 226 - Make a Splash!

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Hello there!  It's my week to host the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge!  Here's my challenge to you all:

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Make a Splash!

~ Create a card or project using watercolor, water scenes, colors of water …

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Sounds like fun, right?  I thought it would be great for a summer time challenge!

I chose to pull out my Sweet Days of Summer stamp set and create a little summer scene.  LOVE this set! 

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I used my Gelli plate and some acrylic paint along with a wave border die to create my background layer on some Flourishes Classic White cardstock.  I didn't use much paint, as I wanted it spotty and random.  I think it turned out pretty cool!

The image of children splashing in the water was stamped onto the painted layer using Versafine ink.  The sentiment was also stamped using Versafine onto classic white cardstock and then it was cut out using a Lacey Oval die. 

I tied some white wrinkled ribbon around the image layer and threaded my button with some black jute.  The finishing touch was to randomly add some sequins.

I hope you'll decide to play along with us!  We always love to see your awesome creations!

Please be sure to check out what the other FTTC designers have created for your inspiration:

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Allison Cope Israels

Broni Holcombe - you are here!

Cheryl Lea

Deborah Anton

Denise Marzec

Jenny Gropp

Judy Rozema 

Katie Sims 

Berni Cuttino, our June Guest Designer

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Thanks so much for stopping in!  Have a great week!

My First Gelli Arts Print

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I'm over at the eclectic Paperie blog today showing off my very first Gelli Arts gel print!   Please come see!