More green

Having made a green card the other day for Colour me challenge, another challenge popped up also with the cue word green so here is another card for that.

I used an old SU set, stamped in Antique linen and water-coloured with Distress inks. I think my technique is a little rusty!

It's accompanied by a sentiment from Hero Arts and mounted on one of two raised panels. Simples!

Addicted to CAS has this stimulus!
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Paper Players  CAS - Floral

Here is a panel made with a few shades of Aqua Tints behind a Memory Box die cut which I in turn made a frame for with a Lil Inker Stitched rectangle. The flower is from a Creative Time die and the tag from Lili of the Valley!

It loosely follows the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches

Have a great Mothering Sunday!

Yet more watercolour

I'm still beavering away at watercolour techniques...some more successful than others I must admit. This one I was quite pleased with. I decided to clear emboss a Versamark image of this Clearly Besotted stamp. I then proceeded to use 3 shade of red Distress Inks. I began by floating in a Victorian Velvet, then added some Worn Lipstick and finally Festive Berries.

For the leaves leaves  I used Bundled Sage and Iced Spruce. I cut the top part of the flower with the matching die, before putting the paper through the Cuttlebug with a Spellbinder's Circle. I quite like how the top part of the flower is defined by the partial cut.

The sentiment is Penny Black!

This one is a Stampin' up image minus its sentiment. Not my finest water-colouring but I learned a few lessons whilst doing it. This again uses Distress Inks. The deep pink shade this time is Picked Raspberry! The greens are Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint and Forest Moss!

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

More Watercolour

This is the sketch from Stamplorations (reversed)

I have been trying a few more things with watercolour. Here I used a poppy head stamp from Clearly Besotted's Remember set which arrived today. I water-coloured it with Distress Inks.

I found it really rather restful to sit and paint away, I'll have to try a few more of these.
Simon Say Stamp Wednesday challenge - Flowers
Keep it Simple - Watercolour

This one was done with a Hero Arts watercolour stamp again using Distress Inks, with a little touch of Wink of Stella on the petals The sentiment is from Tattered Lace.

This one shows rather too much shimmer. It was water-coloured using some Perfect Pearls in the water.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.

The last one was really difficult to photograph. I apologise for the dreadful picture, but I used some Perfect Pearls in the water for my watercolour paint and all I was getting was the sheen and no colour!The image was embossed with white fine detail embossing powder. The sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

Online Watercolour Class

Late as usual, I joined in the Online Watercolor (as it is spelled over the pond) class.

I really like learning new techniques and watercolour is something I really like. I took a class on a cruise not too long ago, although I didn't learn a whole heap on that.

Anyway, the first lesson was to make a watercolour background.

This one was done with a stencil. I made this stencil out of acetate, using my Portrait machine during the last online class I took.

I shouldn't give too many secrets away as the class is still live and it wouldn't be fair to the teachers who worked so hard to put the sessions together.

For this I used Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass and Dusty Concord, however in order to get the shades to match on the stamped flower I had to use completely different media... I used a Marvy Plume pen for the leaves and an SU marker for the petals. (The original Distress Inks would have turned out far too dark for my liking when stamped!)

The stamps are from Penny Black.

This is another variation on the same theme.

Again another stencil made on my Portrait.

Here I used Shaded Lilac and Dusty Concord Inks.

'Hello' is from Clearly Besotted and the butterfly from Memory Box.