Tag: watercolor
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Watercolor Butterflies
I painted the butterflies with Chrome Orange (Schmincke) and Cinereous Blue (Sennelier) using flicking motions from the center of the butterflies to create movement and dimension.
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Adventure with Pooh Bear
I was trying to capture the feeling of being a kid looking forward to weeks of summer school holiday. All the possibilities!
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Holiday Envelope
I like it because I can place a letter-sized piece of cardstock on my extended plates, plonk the three main envelope dies and then I have all the bits for my envelope in a few seconds.
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Counting Sheep
When I first saw the Spellbinders Counting Sheep Stamp & Die Set, I knew I wanted to make the sheep out of felt.
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Winnie & Piglet
The second scene in Spellbinders Friendly Moments Press Plate Set depicts Winnie the Pooh and Piglet trudging through snow.
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Winnie the Pooh
I love Winnie the Pooh and the original illustrations! So I jumped at the chance of creating cards with the Classic Pooh Simple Stories and Spellbinders collab.
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Yeti Anniversary
I created a felt yeti with Rocky, the Dancin’ Yeti for his launch. But I also wanted to color him with Distress Watercolor Pencils.
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Blue Halloween
Today’s card is a watercolored Halloween card with a witchy little quokka. I’m starting by mixing the paint I need.
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Birthday Quokka
This is a pretty straightforward watercolored critter card. For my palette I was inspired by Palette 176 in the Color Cube volume 1.
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Hello Pumpkin!
The scene I was visualizing needed a frame of some sort. After browsing through my Spellbinders bin, I selected a die set called Essential Arches.
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Fintastic Sharks
The shark and friends are from a Lawn Fawn Stamp and Die Set called Shark Duh-Nuh Flip Flop. I colored them with my Distress Watercolor Pencils.
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Watercolor Envelope
To go with my wobbling reindeer card, I’m making an envelope. The envelope dies I use are by Trinity Stamps. It’s a big die set, but you only need three of the dies to create a regular A2 envelope.
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Tea-riffic Birthday
This is the card I’m creating in today’s video. It has this fun, wobbling effect, created with an action wobbler.
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Distress Watercolor Pencils
When I got the new Distress Watercolor Pencils, I took them all out of their boxes and rearranged them according to the order on the Ranger web site.
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Foiling Textured Paper
The best cardstock for hot foiling is the smoothest. But you can make your own smooth cardstock in a few simple steps.
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Cardmaking Watercolor Palette
I wanted to swatch and organize a new watercolor palette for cardmaking.
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Single-Layer Gnome Card
The adorable little gnome with her poinsettia is from Trinity Stamps’ From Our Gnome To Yours stamp and die set.
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Happy Lunar New Year
Here in Silicon Valley the Chinese New Year is celebrated almost as much as Valentine’s Day.
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You Make My Heart Smile
For this card I used the Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil Kit of the Month for December 2023.