Hedgehugs and Kisses

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today's card is the one I made for Alan for his recent birthday. 

I love the look of loose watercolour cards, but I can't quite get it yet, but I enjoy playing and the end result isn't too bad.

I used a watercolour paper and stamped the hedgehogs and sentiment from the Clearly Besotted Let's Roll set, using black Archival ink.

Then I used Zig Clean Colour pens to watercolour the hedgehogs and give the background a colour wash, in a very loose heart shape.

The silver sentiment is a Cut and Make die, which I foiled using silver Decofoil and the Minc machine. Then I layered the panel with red card and added it to a plain ivory card blank.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Fly away

Hello again.  I'm back today with another variation of my 'clouds with floating animal' card. 😁

This is the Mama Elephant Up and Away set coloured with Copic markers.  I've made several cards similar to this but I always try to add something slightly different to each one.

For this one it is the background.  This was a piece of water colour card which I dabbed into wet Distress Ink.  This gives a lovely spotty effect and I just kept adding ink to my craft sheet, spritzing with a water bottle, and mopping the liquid up with the card.

Once the ink was dry I applied shimmer spritz in pewter for a bit more depth. 

The sentiment is stamped in Nautical Blue Memento ink using a stamp from the Handwritten Notes set by Avery Elle.

I love the finished effect.  Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Watercolour bunny

Hello friends.  Hope you are having a good week.

My card today is made using the Simon Says Stamp March card kit.

This is full of lovely Easter themed images.  

I made a card to watercolour using my Zig pens.

I stamped the bunny and a couple of eggs, then embossed them in white. I then coloured the images with the pens and used a water brush to move the ink around.

The background was made by scribbling colour on the bottom of the page and spreading it out with the water brush.  I wasn't sure this was going to work out at first but I just kept adding my colours until I got a finish I could live with.

Once it was all dry I added a sentiment using Memento ink in Tuxedo Black and darkened the bunny's eyes with a black pen.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Ranunculus #2

Hello again.

I told you on Tuesday that I had used the same stamp for three different cards.  Today I have card number 2 to share.

I again used the Wplus9 Ranunculus stamp, white heat embossed on water colour card.  This time though I used a single image.

Like last time I used Zig Clean Colour markers but instead of a water-brush I used the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen.  This not only allows you to 'paint' but add shimmer at the same time.

I'm afraid it doesn't show too well here but I assure you it looks lovely close up.

For the sentiment I used a Studio Calico set but I'm afraid I don't know the name!

I used a blue top folding note card for this one.  I wanted some blue embellishments but as we didn't have any I created my own.  These are enamel dots coloured with a blue Sharpie!

Hope you like today's card.  See you next week.

TTFN Jude xx

Ranunculus #1

Happy Tuesday!  Hope you are having a good week.

Today's card uses the Wplus9 stamp Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus.  I've actually used the same stamp to make three different designs which I will share over the coming week.

I started by stamping in Versamark on watercolour card and heat embossing in white.  This does make it difficult to see the design  but with time and care you can get some lovely effects.

For this card I used Zig Clean Colour pens and a water-brush.  I applied a small amount of the pen to the image and used the water-brush to create the shading.

Once I had finished I coloured a light wash over the background and sprayed it with Sheer Shimmer Mist in Sparkle.

Once dry, I attached the piece to a 4.25 x 5.5 top folding pink note card and added a sentiment cut from two matching shades of card.  I offset the top layer to create a shadow effect then went over with my Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Water colour back drops

Happy Tuesday.  Hope you're week has started well.

I have another card using the Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After set to share with you today.

This one has the dragon lighting the birthday candle for his friend, who I think is a griffin.

I coloured these mythical friends using Copic markers and added them to a water coloured background.

I made this using Zig markers, a water bottle, a piece of acetate and some water colour paper. I used Aqua fine smooth from Daler Rowney.   If you've never tried this I urge you to give it a go.

Take a water colour pen or distress ink and scribble on the acetate.  Spritz with water until it's good and wet, then dab onto some water colour paper.  Allow to dry.  

You can do multiple colours at once but I find it works best one colour at a time.  Usually I make a couple of backgrounds from each colour.

I hope you like my card and that you'll give this technique a try.

TTFN Jude xx