Splashes of Watercolor

One Layer Hello - Color Throwdown #324

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HAPPY NEW YEAR, y’all!!

I hope you all had a very happy and restful Christmas and New Year celebration!  I’m back from a short holiday break and ready to roll!  How about you? 

So let’s start off the new year with a brand new Color Throwdown challenge!  The oh-so-lovely Monika is our hostess today and she’s chosen a very dramatic color scheme for us to play with!  What a great inspiration photo!

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I chose to stay simple and a little dramatic as well with my one-layer Hello card:

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The background is simply stenciled using Wendy Vecchi translucent embossing paste and a mini vineyard TCW stencil.  I colored a die-cut piece of linen with my Dylusions Cherry Pie ink spray and dried it with my heat tool.  The hello was cut using my WPlus9 Hand-Lettered Hello die.

I’m entering my card into these challenges as well:

CAS(E) This Sketch #104

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Virginia’s View Challenge #11 – Clean Slate

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CRAZY 4 CHALLENGES #C4C267 – Clean and Simple

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and ShowCASe Your Style Challenge #5 – Use at least one die cut

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We would LOVE it if you’d play along with us this week for the first Color Throwdown of the year!  We have a brand new Guest Designer for the month of January 2015: the fabulous Bonnie Sharp!  How exciting!  Check out what all the designers have created for your inspiration here:

And thank you so much for stopping in to see me  today!  Your visits are always MOST welcome!

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Tiny Teacup Fairies

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Hello, friends, and happy Friday!!!!

It's time to show you some more sensational new A Day For Daisies images!  This week we're showcasing Tiny Teacup Fairies and Fruit!  And we're also starting a new challenge over at the ADFD blog:  ADFD challenge #105 - Anything Goes!

My choice of the images to color up today is the Extra Cream Fairy.  She's so darling!

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I used another of my "ghetto" (made by me) stencils to apply some Studio 490 embossing paste to the 5.5 square card base.  I also used it to create the fluffy cream.

I colored her with my Copic markers.  Her wings are coated with Star Dust Stickles and the background was colored and "dotted" with my Copic markers.

I fussy cut her and popped her up on some foam mounting tape.

My layout is from this week's Deconstructed Sketch #168:

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And I used the colors (and polka dots) from this week's Monday Mood Board #2:

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We hope you'll play along with us in the ADFD challenge - Anything Goes!  Please check out what the other ADFD designers have created for you today here:

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Arielle Broni Danielle Juliana Mila Tammy

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And please notice that we've brought Tammy back into the fold!  Yay for us!!

Thank you so much for dropping by on your way to the weekend!  Have a great one!

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Flower Maiden 2 - September Club Kit take 2

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Hi, all!  I am SO glad it's Friday again!  I sure do love my weekends!

Today, the A Day For Daisies design team is sharing more of the September Club Kit images.  I chose to use Flower Maiden 2, and I decided to create a mixed media piece.  It's unfinished (because I'm not sure if I'll adhere it to a canvas or put it in a  frame), but it's ready to be shown to you!

I was heavily influenced by Danielle Donaldson and her beautiful unique art. In fact, I started taking an online class of hers, but can't seem to find enough quality time to devote to finishing it yet.  Hopefully, when the weather's not so nice, I can finish it!  And hopefully take more!  Her work is so beautiful and it just fascinates me!!

With that said, here's my Flower Maiden 2:

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She started out being printed (she's a digital image, you know) on a piece of 6 x 8 watercolor paper that I had in my stash.  I had already added splashes of color to it using Distress inks at an earlier time.  You can also see that I started adding some diluted white paint around her to make her "pop".

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The heart is outlined with "shine"!

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And here's a little close-up.

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I'll probably share the step-out details at a later date.

But right now you definitely need to check out what the other girls at ADFD have created for your viewing pleasure and inspiration!

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Arielle Broni Danielle Juliana Mila

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I think I'll be entering this piece into this month's The Mixed Media Monthly color challenge.  My colors are the same, just very muted.

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Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a fabulous weekend!  I know I'm going to try my darnedest to do just that!

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Put Your Brave Girl Boots On!

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Come on over to the eclectic Paperie blog today and see how I created my Brave Girl Boots tag!

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See you there!

ePlay Challenge for June - Happy Wall Hanging

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Hello, everyone!

It's time for this month's ePlay challenge over at the eclectic Paperie blog.  Andiepants is our hostess and she's says "Let's Play with Fabric!"

I love that challenge!

I decided to make a "Happy" wall hanging, using Mixed Media Paper and lots and lots of Distress inks and stencils.  I also used a few random stamps, a lot of sequins and some of my favorite translucent embossing paste!  I chose to use some ribbon to hang it with.

My fabric came in the form of die cut felt:  The word Happy, the tiny heart in the flower center, and the beautiful bow (these were PTI and Lil' Inkers dies).

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Here's a closeup of my flower and my sequin tree:

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I really had fun with this one!  I just love the bright happy colors!

Be sure to check out what all the designers have prepared for this month's challenge.  And please play along with us!  You can go simple or very extravagant.  It's totally up to you!

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

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Sweet Cow mixed media card tutorial

Hello there, everyone!

If you'll head on over to the eclectic Paperie blog, you'll find my tutorial on how I created my Sweet Cow mixed media card.

See you there!

Sweet Cow mixed media card

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Hi there, y'all!  Happy Friday to you!

Today we at A Day For Daisies are sharing more of the cute Kangaroos and Farm Friends!  And I decided to play with this Sweet Cow.

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This is a one-layer, mixed media card.  I took pictures during the process and I'll show them in a later post.  The background is painted using Gelatos Tropical colors and some Distress ink.  And I colored the cow with my Copic markers.  The sentiment is from Lil' Inker Designs.

My colors are from the ColourQ #242 palette:

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The sketch is the current Wanna Sketch #DDWS16:

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Please be sure to check out all the other cute little animals at the designers' blogs here:

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Arielle Broni Danielle Juliana Mila

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

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Best Friends - Color Throwdown #291

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Hi there, friends!

Well, it's Wednesday again and you know that means it's time for another Color Throwdown challenge.  But it's also a new month, and with a new month comes designer changes.  We'll have a new Guest Designer this month, of course, but we also are losing dear, sweet Melody.  She's decided to scale back some on her design work.  That's definitely our loss!

However, we are adding an awesome new member to our team……drumroll, please….Cindy Lawrence!!  Aren't we the extremely lucky ones!!  We're so happy and honored she's agreed to join us!  Please be sure to visit with her and welcome her to our CTD family!

On to the challenge… this week Wanda is our hostess and she's picked some fabulous colors for us to play with.  I think you'll all be thrilled:

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Aren't they great?

Since the inspiration photo is bold and graphic, I chose to make my card that way too.  I used my Gelli plate to create the multi-dimensional background using all 3 of the colors.  Then it was just a matter of adding a few cardstock layers and a die cut "friends".

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Can you see the faint shimmer of the 3 hearts along the left side?  They were made using my Never Enough Hearts stencil and some translucent embossing paste.

All of the supplies are from eclectic Paperie and they're so much fun to play with!  Our latest challenge for the month is to use stencils and it would be great if you would join us!

Be sure to check out this week's  awesome designs from my Color Throwdown sisters:

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And we all hope you'll play along in this week's color challenge!  Check out the rules on the CTD blog. 

Thank you so much for stopping in to see me!!  I love it when you do!!

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Love You More Than Bacon - Color Throwdown #289

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Happy Hump Day to you all!

I can't believe it's been a whole week since I posted here on the old blog!  I went away for the weekend and now I'm ready to get back into the swing of things.  I think.

Our latest Color Throwdown challenge is hosted by the ever-talented Monika and here is the beautiful color palette that she chose:

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I decided to try an artsy focus on my card today.  It's heat embossed, stamped, stenciled, water-colored, and blinged!  And it was a lot of fun!  You can find most of the products that I used at eclectic Paperie (links are below this post).

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The layout is from this week's retrosketch #111:

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Now don't forget you don't have to have the exact colors to participate in the Color Throwdown challenge.  Just something very close.  When you've created your project, insert a direct link to it in the CTD blog post using the linky tool.  We can't wait to see what you create!

Be sure to check out all the beautiful creations from the design team this week:

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Thank you so much for visiting with me today.  I'll be back on Friday with a sweet A Day For Daisies image to honor Mother's Day!  Please come back!

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You Are Amazing - Color Throwdown #286

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Hello there!

It's Wednesday and time for the latest Color Throwdown challenge!  Can you handle it?

This week Joan is our hostess and she's chosen a "bugger" of an inspiration photo for us!

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He's a cutie but I don't think I want to run across him in my yard!  I bet the strength of his poison matches his beauty!

I decided to go with a  mixed media card today.  I had a small (3.5 x 5.5) piece of white cardstock and wanted to try coloring just the raised portion of an embossed image.  This is what I came up with:

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I used Studio 490 white embossing paste and the Rays stencil and then heat blasted it with my heat tool to help it dry faster.

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Then I replaced the stencil over the dried paste and spritzed on some Dylusions Pure Sunshine ink spray.

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I ended up with some great texture.  This is all the elements laid out before anything is actually attached. You can click on the photo to see it larger.

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And here's the finished card again.  It ended up being 3.75 x 5.5.

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We hope you'll play along with us this week.  Grab your colors and get inky!  And be sure to check out what the rest of the DT has come up with for your viewing pleasure and inspiration:

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The amazing Jeanne Jachna is joining us for the month of April!  Yay!!!  I can't wait to see what she creates!

Thanks so much for dropping in today!  See you soon!

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