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Today's card echoes the colours in the inspiration photograph at The Card Concept

I love the soft muted colours of sand, sky and sea. I chose to use them for colouring these fabulous flowers from Simply Graphic.

I scribbled with some watercolour pencils onto watercolour paper and spritzed very generously with water, The colours moved and spread beautifully and when dry I selected areas from the paper to die-cut. The backdrop is from a Reverse Confetti die and I also cut a small area of the splatters at the edge of the paper for the square.

 

Different seasons

Here is a simply coloured SU image for the challenge at CAS Watercolour.

I stamped the image, masking off the sentiment, so that I could add my own. I used Watercolour pencils and a waterbrush to add colour and made a sentiment on the computer with a font to reflect that of the newsprint in the image.

This next one is for the challenge at ABC Christmas

The image is from A Day for Daisies, and as the teddy is inside the stocking, I thought that it would qualify for the 'I for inside' part of the challenge.

It was simply coloured with alcohol markers (I say that rather than using any particular brand name , as I have had many different sets of markers, some of which have dried up over time and been tossed, so I mix and match the brands to try to get the colours I want.)

I added a little Fun Flock to the band on the stocking for a little more interest, so I am also entering this into the TEXTURE challenge at Addicted to CAS

Spring Flowers

It's always a little tricky when colouring a one layer card, as it looks horrid if the colour transfers to the inside of the card, which is why I have used watercolour here. Some times I use watercolour pencils and a brush and sometimes I use paints... here I used a combination of the two. I wasn't too pleased with the colours I had used from the pencils so I added a little warmth from the colours in my little paintbox.

The stamps are from Penny Black.

There's something a little odd about the bucket... There's a line around the back of the flowers which I think is supposed to be the rear  rim of the bucket, but the perspective is all wrong to my eye, so I ignored adding colour to the inside of the bucket as I thought that it would accentuate this anomaly!

The Paper Players - One Layer

Crazy for CAS - Watercolour

Addicted to stamps and More - Make your mark

Ike's World - Clean and Simple

Papercraft Challenges - Clean and Simple

Favourite flower

We have a simple 

One layer Challenge 

at 

Less is More 

this week.

Practically every month someone either forgets the one layer part or the actual theme for the card, which this time is a Favourite Flower. This time I remembered both!

I particularly love spring flowers, they always seem so fresh and new,.. a promise of things to come. Here is a favourite stamp of a favourite flower of mine... the tulip... from Stampin' Up.

It was simply coloured with water colour pencils, blended with a water brush and glazed with a layer of Glossy Accents... apart from the newspaper that is.

I don't think it needs any more!

Saints and Dragons

Today is St George's day!

Saint George is the patron saint of England and the colours of the flag are red and white!

For a little fun today at 'Less is More' we have chosen the theme Saints and dragons...or heroes, but the saints don't have to be St George. 

Of course St George needs a dragon and here he is!

This one was a freely downloadable, kid's colouring page image, which I coloured with watercolour pencils, blended with a water brush and then covered with Glossy Accents.

The sentiment was computer generated in  Sunshine Poppy font.

One Layer at "Less is More"

There's a DT call at Less is More this week, combined with our usual 

ONE LAYER CARD challenge.

So if CAS is your thing and you would be interested in joining us...head on over there and see the deets!

The theme this week is to include a stem. 

Here I have a digital coneflower image from the Wax Fruit Company, coloured with watercolour pencils and a water brush.

Simon Says Stamp - One Layer

Here's another digital image this time from  A Day for Daisies, once more coloured with watercolour pencils and blended with a water brush. This is such a good medium for colouring one layer cards as the colour doesn't usually bleed through to the inside of the card.

Computer generated sentiment.

My husband got a new car today... it's very shiny!

Happy Little Stampers' September Challenge

The Challenge at Happy Little Stampers this time is COLOURING!

Here I have a lovely Digi from A Day for Daisies, coloured with watercolour pencils and blended with a water brush. A little clear Wink of Stella was added to give a subtle touch of sheen.

The sentiment is a die cut from Simon Says Stamp. The front panel was cut with a SSS stitched rectangle, elongated a little to fit British dimensions.

There are so many different ways of colouring so do join in the fun.

The Happy Little Stampers shop has recently opened and HLS are also sponsoring this challenge

And one lucky winner of this challenge will win this stamp set

One Layer Time

I think this bird from the Rubber Stamp Gallery looks pretty cool, I'm not sure what it is but it looks like a sea bird to me. In fact the stamp is of a bird on a plinth, but I chose to have it standing in the water... which is the theme at Less is More this week.

I stamped him and then masked him, to ink the sky and the sea. I had fun with that  by stamping and inking and painting and embossing until I thought it looked OK! I was quite pleased in the end. I was unsure of what to add as a sentiment so I didn't add any at all.

This used a stamp from Stampendous, coloured with watercolour pencils and blended with a water brush. I added some Glamour Dust to the sea for added sparkle.

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted.

I find that using watercolour pencils even after blending with water, doesn't bleed though onto the inside of the card, an important factor in One Layer Cards.

One Layer Time at Less is More

Couldn't resist this little Penny Black Easter bunny!

He's coloured with watercolour pencils, blended with a water brush! The sentiment is also Penny Black.

I am having to take pictures with my phone at the moment as my camera has gone into a decline and is refusing to give up the SD card. When I attach the cable to the camera, the only images available are the ones saved to the camera's memory, not the SD card's. Something is very wrong!

Here is one of the little elephants from the Unforgettable set from Wplus9. He is also coloured with watercolour pencils.

This last one is a cow from Artemio and the bee and grass from Avery Elle. The sentiment is computer generated.

Water colour pencils once more!

This last card is for a few challenges.

The frames were cut with SSS stitched rectangles, lengthened slightly to fit a British card base, the stamps are from SU Kinda Eclectic and Gorgeous Grunge, stamped with DIs  in Mowed  Lawn, Shaded Lilac, Dusty Concord and Antique Linen. The sentiment is from Hero Arts, embossed in WOW Pale Gold EP and die-cut with a SSS Stitched oval.

Case this Sketch

Color Throwdown

...and Just us Girls - Splatters

We have our grandchildren here for the weekend for Mother's Day... we should have fun!