Splashes of Watercolor

Birthday Rainbow - Color Throwdown #693

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Hi there, y'all!  I'm hosting this week's Color Throwdown challenge and I'm excited to share my card with you today.  Here are the colors I've chosen - Aqua, Lime Green, and Navy.

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I'm excited to show you my card because for the first time in a long time I made a mixed media card, using both acrylic paints and dye ink.

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It was really fairly simple, and so much fun! 

First I stenciled the rainbow using a screenprint stencil from Hobby Lobby with the acrylic paints and Distress ink (links in supply list at the bottom of this post).

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Next I die cut the Bold Text #1 sentiment from 3 different colors of cardstock and layered them.

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After separating the text die cuts and attaching them to the front and inside of the card, I added star dust stickles to them.

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Now I hope you will play along with us!  Use these colors to create a papercrafting project and post it to today's CTD blog post.

Here's some super creative inspiration for you:

Amy Rohl

Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Susie Moore

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Elizabeth Stewart, Guest Star Stamper

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Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Affiliate links are used at no cost to you.

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Possibilities - Color Throwdown #680

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Happy Wednesday!  This week's Color Throwdown challenge is a great one!  I love this color palette: Light Blue, Dark Blue, Forest Green, and Brown. 

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For once I actually used the inspiration photo to determine my design, complete with mountains and a tree!

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All of my background layers, including the water colored sky were cut from scraps.  The tree was made using a Tim Holtz stencil, which was then fussy cut and layered over the background and the Essential Arches frame.  A Tim Holtz sentiment sticker finished it off!  I am really loving those stickers.  So many choices and so easy to stick anywhere you want them!

It's time for y'all to play along with us!  Check out all the details at the CTD blog and all the great inspiration at the designers' blogs:

Amy Rohl

Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Susie Moore

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Judy V, Guest Star Stamper

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Many thanks to y'all for stopping by today!

Affiliate links are used at no cost to you.

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Distress ink pad Ground Espresso Shop at: EH | SSS	Distress Ink Rustic Wilderness Shop at: SSS	PTI cardstock Shop at: SHOP	PTI white cardstock Shop at: SHOP
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Big Sexy Blooms - Cut

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Happy Friday!

Today I have a mixed media (sort of) card for you using Big Sexy Blooms and Good Thinking: Renewal, both from Power Poppy.

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I stamped and heat embossed the Big Sexy Blooms background stamp and water colored just these 2 flowers.  Then I cut them out.

When I water color using distress inks I normally just smoosh the ink pads into my craft mat and pick up the color from there.  So I sprayed the ink on the mat with water and smooshed another piece of water color paper into all the ink, let it dry, then smooshed it again.  I continued until I had the colors and depth of color that I was happy with.

I wanted a little extra interest and texture so I painted through a Dylusions stencil with acrylic gesso.  I let that dry, then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from the Good Thinking: Renewal set.  The panel was die cut, outlined using a black marker, then mounted onto the white card base.  Finally I popped on the flowers with foam mounting tape, bringing them all the way out to the card base edge.

That's it!  Please pop on by the Power Poppy blog to see which other designers are posting their creations today!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful weekend!

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A Collection of A Day For Daisies Favorites

 

Hi ADFD Friends,

The ADFD Blog is closing, so a few of the present and past design team members have come together for a blog hop.

Today is the first day of our ADFD Blog Hop - a celebration of all of the beautiful images Tammy has created over the years. As a special surprise for Tammy, we have a combination of current and former DT members participating in the hop. Her inspiring art and generous heart have touched us all. We want to take a moment to show our gratitude and thank Tammy for the blessings and joys we have received as members of the ADFD DT.

I’ve chosen to show you a creation I made with one of my favorite images of Tammy’s, although it was really hard to choose just one – At the Sea with Sister.  I’m a huge beach lover and often go with my little sister, so this was a natural.

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Our theme is “A Collection of ADFD Favorites” - so each DT member’s blog you visit will share something she has created with one of her favorite ADFD images. The hop has hidden prizes - a commenter from each hidden prize stop will win a choice of one image from the ADFD Shop! You won’t know where the prizes are hidden, so be sure to leave a comment at each stop of the Hop! Our Blog Hop will run from 7:00 a.m. eastern standard time on Saturday, February 25, 2017 until 9:00 p.m. eastern standard time on Tuesday, February 27, 2017.

In addition to the Blog Hop, we invite you to share your Favorite ADFD image in the final ADFD Blog Challenge. The linky will stay open until Friday, March 3rd. All prize-winners will be announced on the ADFD Blog on Saturday, March 4, 2017. We hope you will join our celebration of the thousands of images Tammy has created.  Rules for the challenge are posted on the right sidebar of the ADFD Blog - the last spot of the stop! Are you ready to HOP?!?

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Alison - Broni (you are here!) - Cathy - Cindy - Danielle -

Daria  - Jen - Juliana - Kathy - Mila - Tanja - Vera

ADFD Blog

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When you leave me a comment, I’d like to know what your favorite Seaside retreat is!  Enjoy the hop and I hope you win a prize!!

Thank you so much to Tammy for all the years that I enjoyed working (playing) with you!!  Your images have always inspired me!!  And thanks so much to you all for stopping by!

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Lucky Me! - Color Throwdown #363

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Hello there, everyone!  Well, it’s FINALLY NOT raining here in South Carolina.  Please keep all of the  people affected by the nasty, endless rain we’ve had in your prayers.  It’s truly a huge mess!

On a brighter note, today is Wednesday and time for the latest Color Throwdown challenge!  Yay!  Wanda is our hostess and she’s chosen a subdued and soft color palette.

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I chose to make a mixed media card today.  Don’t know why.  Maybe it was the soft colors of light green, light yellow and ivory.

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I used an old Unity Stamp Company image that I love and stamped it in Antique Linen Distress ink onto my mixed media paper.  I also stamped another Unity image (the wavy lines) randomly around the card front after masking my pear.

I colored my pear with my Kuretake Real Brush Clean Color pens and then masked it again to add the Studio 490 white embossing paste.  When that was dry I sponged on some Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink.  I also used the gold ink to sponge around the entire edge of the card front. 

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I stamped my sentiment from the Essentials by Ellen Fancy Thanks set in Archival Coffee ink, then added the sequins, and I was done!

I’m entering this into this month’s Virginia’s View #19 challenge – All Things Colored.

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I hope you’ll play along with us this week at the Color Throwdown!  Let’s see what you can do with this color combo!

Now please take a few moments to visit with and leave some love for the rest of the design team and our new October Guest Designer, the fabulous Michele Boyer!!!!

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe --> You are here!

Joan Ervin

Jodi Collins

Lori Tecler

Tammy Hershberger

Vickie Zimmer

Wanda Cullen

Michele Boyer, October 2015 Guest Designer

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is:  Christine Dring

Thank you so much for dropping by today!

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ADFD Showcase - Mucha Style Flowers

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Happy Friday, everyone!

I took the summer off from my A Day For Daisies DT duties due to an overload of things to do at home and at work but now I’m back!  And just in time to be able to play with one of the Mucha Style Flowers in the ADFD showcase!  They are so beautiful!

Starting this week there’s a new challenge and here’s the inspiration board for it:

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I decided to use the purples and golds in my creation today with the Mucha Style Yellow Poppy.

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My image was printed on Mixed Media paper and then watercolored using Kuretake Zig Clean Color pens. (I used 045, 046, 050, 051, 052, 061, 065, 036, 081, and 083.)  I fussy cut it and layered it over my card base which was inspired by this week’s Sunday Stamps SSC110 sketch:

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We hope you’ll try to play along with us!  Check out all the creations and details for the challenge at the ADFD blog.  You can find all of the beautiful flower images at the A Day For Daisies shop.

Check out what the rest of the design team has created for your inspiration:

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Alison Arielle Broni Cathy Cindy Jen Juliana Kathy Kelly Tanja

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

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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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Lucky Me!

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Happy weekend, y’all!

I’m beyond thrilled to let you know that my sweet friend Barbara Anders has invited me to be the guest designer over at the Crazy 4 Challenges blog for the month of May!!    How fun!  Of course I said yes!!

Barbara is the hostess this month and since May is Healthy Vision Month in the US, she’s asking us to celebrate!  Our projects should have something related to vision or eyes on it.

So…. I pulled out this small wooden glasses frame that I got at Michael’s a while back and smooshed it onto my Archival Jet Black ink pad.  Then I coated it with Versamark and clear embossed it twice to get a nice thick, even shine.  And of course I had to add rhinestones to the temples!

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I spritzed my card base with some Dylusions Bubblegum Pink ink spray, stamped my fabulous sentiment from the Essentials by Ellen set called Fancy Thanks, then added some washi tape and some enamel stickers.  Done!

So let’s see what you can do using vision or eyes as your theme!  Head on over to the Crazy 4 Challenges blog to get the lowdown on the rules and be sure to check out all the wonderful creations from the C4C design team:

• Anja de Regt
• Barbara Anders
• Danielle Lounds
• Frances Byrne
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Karen Aicken
• Kelli Hull
• Lynn Put
• Peggy McCurry
• Raquel Mason
• Broni Holcombe (me!) – May Guest Designer

Thanks for dropping by!  Enjoy your weekend!!

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Mother Moon

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Hey there and happy Friday to you all!  Whoop!  Whoop!  So excited for the weekend!

Today I have another beautiful image from the latest A Day For Daisies release.  She’s called Mother Moon and she is so sweet with her precious little one  resting on the crescent moon over the night sky.

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We’re starting a new challenge this week too – Make it Art-Journal~y style!

I made my night sky background using the new Color Bursts from Ken Oliver!  Oh my!  I can’t wait to try more techniques with this awesome product!  And I have to  blame this new obsession on my friend Bad Sherry! (Thanks, Sherry!)

After the background dried, I added some dots in translucent embossing paste and then some stars in gold embossing paste.

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I printed the beautiful Mother Moon on watercolor paper in a light blue color so that the lines don’t stand out so much when she’s painted.  I cut her out and popped her up on foam tape.

This was all mounted on some gold glitter cardstock and then onto a piece of chipboard.

So now we can’t wait to see what you come up with!  Make it Art-Journal~y style!

Check out what the rest of the design team has created for your inspiration:

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Arielle Broni Christine Danielle Juliana Mila

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Thanks so much for stopping by!  Enjoy your weekend!

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ADFD February Club Kit–Take Two

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Hi there, everyone!  It’s Friday!  Yay!!!

I’m here to show you another of the cute elephants from the A Day For Daisies Club Kit for this month.  Today I’m using Elephant Present.

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I colored this adorable little fellow and his gift with my Copic markers, then added some Star Dust Stickles to the gift.  The new ADFD challenge starting today is to ADD GLITTER.

I die cut a heart outline from the purple layer and added some aqua cardstock behind it, then spritzed with some Tinsel Color Shine.  (I also spritzed the t-shirt I was wearing with said Color Shine.  Hoping it washes out!!)

The border at the top and the little banner flag at the bottom were made using some cool new washi tape that I picked up at Michael’s last weekend.  I love the springtime look of it!

I tied up the top layer with some twine and metallic string, added my sentiment (love!) banner and was done.

I hope you’ll take some time and visit with the rest of the lovely ADFD ladies to see their creations!! 

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Arielle Broni Christine Danielle Juliana Mila

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And please try to join us for the GLITTER challenge!

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

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