Simple Saturday Dandelion Wishes Smoosh...

Oh I am so glad Coastal Cabana is back!!

White heat embossed Dandelion Wishes trio on Watercolor Paper...

Aqua Painter and Coastal Cabana ink watercolor smooshed (aka washed) all over...

Then Bermuda Bay in same way behind the dandelion heads to add more pop!

Memento Black greeting from Friendly Expressions...

And finished off with Basic Black Solid Twine and the new Self Adhesive Sequins...

Lovely as a Spring Tree...

Finishing off my Watercolor Pencils and Lovely as a Tree series... Happy Spring everyone...

 So here is the full series round up picture... call it a Tree for all Seasons...

Back to the Spring trees... Spot the details...

Blossom Trees care of Melon Mambo Watercolor Pencil blended out with an Aquapainter... then I added lots of Signo White gel pen (retired - sniff!) dots to calm it down a bit!

Daffodils care of the short grass stamp in In The Meadow and my partial Damp & Stamp technique (Part 3)...as explained earlier in this post...

Birds from High Tide... I just inked up the smallest 3 using a Basic Black marker pen...

Grass is Old Olive pencil coloured direct stamped onto the panel and then blended out with Aquapainter... Sky is watercolour washed Pacific Point from a plastic sheet... as explained in the earlier post...

Oh and I used Shimmery White for the stamped panel this time... whereas all the others have been on Watercolor Paper... works a treat!

Happy Easter from the Circle of Spring stamp set

And I have to laugh at myself... how can something so simple use 4 different stamp sets!! Oh well it had to be...

Beautiful You & Mediterranean Moments

Another Watercolor Pencil masterpiece! Built up from the same Shimmer White sized stamping panel & mat  - and using the Paper Piecing technique for the girl... as explained yesterday...

This Beautiful You girl was stamped... then masked... and then the scene stamped over... all using black Staz On...

And then I had to laugh at myself... as my dislike/inability? of colouring quickly evaporated....

I started off with a wash of grey for the road and sepia for the rest (aka Basic Gray and Early Espresso pencil & water Aqua painted off a plastic sheet again as explained here) And I intended to stop there...

Then I just thought I would add the Old Olive greenery...

Then came the Real Red pencil dot geraniums...

And then I just carried on... bit of sky... pots & lamps... bridges & window frames... drainpipes and fascias... all became more & more defined as I lost myself in the scene... And the moment!!

And here are the two cards together...

Can't wait to show you my next Mediterranean Moment!!! Which I am in the middle of... And I really must finish my Lovely as a Tree series first!!!

Beautiful You - Dancer on Beach...

A card to celebrate mothers everywhere today.... as it is Mother's Day in the UK....

Simple card with a Shimmery White A7 panel (7.4 x 10.5cm)... so you get 8 from an A4 piece of card to maximise your card useage! Pool Party 7.9x11cm mat.

Beautiful You images & greeting stamped in black Staz On...

Skirt, top of hat and umbrella paper pieced using Pool Party papers in the Subtles paper stack ...

Watercolor pencil & Aqua Painter wash of the sea (in Bermuda Bay) and the sky (in Pacific Point). Click here for more explanation of how to do the wash...

Rest of colouring done with watercolor pencils - T-shirt coloured with Bermuda Bay and skin with a light touch of Calypso Coral

Can't believe this is my first use of Beautiful You!! Love it....

Watercolor Pencils #10 - Back to Lovely as A Tree...

Back to the "Trees mini series" within the Watercolor Pencil series! Can't believe I am already on number 10...

Here is another quick & simple little landscape care of Lovely as a Tree and the Watercolor Pencils...

Pacific Point & water wash of the sky... by which I mean... Scribble pencil on a plastic sheet (such as your Stamp A Ma Jig sheet - unfortunately the clear blocks don't work so well...)... add a few drops of water from your Aqua Painter- and mix for a watery wash to subtly colour in that sky area...

Old Olive pencil & Aqua Painter colouring of grass and leaves on the trees...

Real Red dots on the 2 smaller trees to represent apples (Note- no water applied afterwards so as to ensure a "hard" dot...)

3 ticks in the sky for the birds... using the Basic Black pencil

SU! Products Used

Stamps - Lovely as a Tree, Helping Me Grow

Watercolor Pencils & Aqua-painter on Watercolor Paper

Ink - Staz On Black

Watercolor Pencils #9 - Lovely as a Tree - Sky at Night...

Well you didn't expect just the one did you!!? Told you I was enjoying Lovely as a Tree now I have got it out again...

A circular mask for the sinking moon...

Then a more blending of the pencil colours with this one... Pacific Point and Basic Grey above the horizon... Basic Gray below

Finished off with Wink of Stella to the moon area and ground...

And local ladies...the last scheduled Watercolor Pencils class is this Wednesday... and 12am tomorrow (Monday) is your deadline to register as I do happen to have a couple of spare boxes of the pencils ready and waiting! But I do need to have time to prep!

SU! Products Used

Stamps - Lovely as a Tree, Rose Wonder

Watercolor Pencils & Aqua-painter on Watercolor Paper

Ink - Staz On Black

Wink of Stella Clear

Watercolour Pencils #8 - Lovely as a Tree

Quick share today... just using the Watercolor Pencils to colour on the Watercolor Paper and then using the Aquapainter to drag out to a wash... for a lovely little sunset scene...

Starting with Calypso Coral on the horizon... moving up to Daffodil Delight at the top. Ground with a light dusting of Basic Gray with a teeny tiny bit of Daffodil Delight...

And I have to say... thoroughly enjoyed using Lovely as a Tree again... still as good as it ever was...

SU! Products Used

Stamps - Lovely as a Tree, Wetlands

Watercolor Pencils & Aqua-painter on Watercolor Paper

Ink - Staz On Black

Wonderful Reindeer Time of Year...

So Cookie Cutter has been out again...  And after a few little reindeer head stamps and punches... Voila! So cute!  

Baby Wipe Swiped Pool Party ink onto Shimmery White card panel... 

Wonderful Year greeting and Mountain Adventure snowflakes stamped in black (when dry)

Reindeer heads stamped in black onto Whisper White and Crumb Cake card (2 of each). And 1 red onto white card...

Antlers & ears on the white ones marker-coloured in Soft Suede

Crumb Cake heads overstamped with Crumb Cake using the great texture/faux fur stamp from Touches with Texture... 

All punched out and the the Crumb Cake heads trimmed round the head....

Nose hand cut from the red on white head to add to Rudolph...

Snowboard Santa! And New Special Promotions

So a bit of surprise snowy mayhem...

But first... this week's Special Promotions... available today until Wed 14 September. Click on either picture to go to the details...

I have no idea what goes on in my head sometimes... but this card just had to be made...

Snowboard and snow from Mountain Adventure... Well I can see a modern Santa delivering presents on a snowboard instead of a sleigh....

Tin of Tags greetings again (loving this stamp set and no... I haven't even made up a tag yet!)

And introducing... Cookie Cutter stamped and punched Santa... have to say that this set is proving extremely popular...

Actually I know a lot of people that this would amuse... so it will be one of my family & friends bulk cards this year...

And ...just for the purposes of research... here is the before version...without the snow...

Candy Cane Christmas & Candy Cane Lane

So whilst I had the watercolor paper and aquapainter out... I had to produce another card...

Another cut out house from my favourite Candy Cane Lane papers...

Greeting same as on yesterday's birdhouse card too

Finished off with 3 trees stamped from the Candy Cane Christmas set... in Crumb Cake , Real Red & Early Espresso

Simples but very effective in the flesh...

Tweaking the Candy Cane Lane Birdhouse Card

Thank you for all your lovely comments about my birdhouse card yesterday... I am glad so many of you like it as much as I do...

So yesterday I admitted that I had already been tweaking my Candy Cane Lane Bird House card... so I think you may like this one too...

I just grabbed some watercolor paper, Pool Party ink and an Aquapainter...and gave it a good old random watercolor wash...

Everything else the same as yesterday's card... though I did forget to tell you a few details yesterday...

Greeting inked up with Pool Party ink pad, then inked up Christmas with a Real Red marker pen...and the rest with an Early Espresso marker pen...

The Seasonal Bells plant pot described in more detail  here... but I used Early Espresso card and ink...

And the Soft Suede wood post is wood-textured by stamping the Timeless Textures wood effect stamp in Soft Suede

And oh ... the inspiration for this card came when I was making this one...

Now which do you prefer? Wash or white!?

And oh... you may have noticed that the white version has had a little dressing up too... care of Fine Tip glue and clear Mica Flakes on the roof...

Aqua Winking...and Birthday Blooms

Remember this card... well seeing as it was SO popular both here in the flesh and on Pinterest... I decided to re-make all the cards in the set for my class using the Aqua-painter and the Gold Wink of Stella....

And as I demonstrated the technique at class...a  new expression came to mind...  aqua-winking... lot easier to say than the following....

1. Scribble your Gold Wink of Stella on a clear block (or piece of plastic or ceramic plate or something smooth and slippy...)

2. Pick up your Gold from the block using your Aqua Painter and aqua-wink (watercolour) as required ... note just add a drop of water if you want the colour to be even more subtle!!

3. Go over with your Clear Wink of Stella if you want even more shine...

4. Use Staz On cleaner to clean your clear block when you have finished (as the gold stains!!)

Don't forget to paper tole the flowers too... makes a huge difference to these cards... though unfortunately somewhat too subtle to see on the photos!! So you will have to trust me...

SU! Supplies
Stamps - Birthday Blooms
Inks - Gold Wink of Stella, Always Artichoke, Mint Macaron, Pool Party, Archival/Staz On Black, Versamark & White embossing powder, Gold embossing powder
Tools - Aquapainters, Curvy Corner Trio Punch, Heat Gun
Papers - Birthday Blooms
Embellishments - Gold Bow Clips, Striped Mossy Meadow Cotton Ribbon
Card - Always Artichoke, Pool Party, Hello Honey, Shimmery White, Watercolor Paper, Thin Whisper White

Go here for the lowdown on which white card was used on which card... I am definitely still loving the Shimmery White card best for watercolouring and aqua-winking...