Mother's Day Watercolor

 

 

To all my blog buddies in the USA...don't think Mother's Day is celebrated on the same day in other countries. So far ours has been pleasant and quiet. Mr. had my breakfast, coffee and a pretty card waiting when I got up. He proceeded to sit out in the porch swing, so I took my food and went out to enjoy the sunshine, blooming things and green trees that are in our neighborhood at present. I felt like I could 'smell the green'. Mr didn't smell a thing he said.

 

Been trying to finish up some cards  using bits and pieces of things I'm finding in the Crapalanche, or else in bins-boxes that are setting around. Many I'd forgotten having done. This is another Art Impression watercolor image I discovered. The mat color and background paper were in another box, and thought these looked pretty together. Not a great card, but an ok one. Good for another birthday, or whatever I might need it for, when a verse is added to the inside.

 

 

 

The stamps are all wooden Art Impression ones. Pot was stamped, colored with Tombow markers for the watercoloring, then other flower stems are added to the pot. Then the image was grounded with a little shadow under. (Art Impressions' Bonnie Krebbs has some good youtube videos showing her style of using these stamps).

 

- Stitched rectangle (either Lawn Fawn or MFT...don't remember) to cut the shape...burgundy red Bazzil trimmed to fit as a mat. Some Recollections DP - VOS...on a top fold card.

 

- PTI Hugs sentiment die cut from the same mat color using a single layer. Called it done. This one was pretty fast to come together...all the papers just seemed to float to the surface without a lot of 'hunting for the right thing'.

 

Thanks for all the sweet comments on the stencil embossing card...so appreciated.

 

Ya'll enjoy the remainder of the day, and if you're celebrating Mother's Day, sure hope your family is there to enjoy it with you, OR will be with you at a later time. Hugs, and come again when you can set a spell (that's what we say here in the South!).

 



 

 



Happy Mother's Day with some Tulips

Good evening. Happy Mother's Day to all those Mothers who might see this post tonight. Intentions were to post this earlier today, but alas, didn't happen. Other things got in the way, one of which was DSIL coming down to take me to lunch. (He lives locally; DD lives in So. Fla . A job, houses that can't be sold just now- things of that sort - make it not financially feasible for her to relocate just now. His job takes him south several times during the month. Not a situation that makes this Mama very happy; but whaddaya gonna do?). DD just called so that made my day brighter.

Here's the card and apologies it didn't get posted much earlier:

- PSX image found recently, had been colored with copics. Went back over the tulips to get more contrast, added some clear WoStella to the flowers, silver WoStella to the bucket. Die cut with S/B Label 12, DI spun sugar smudged around the die.

- MB Geneva vine, using the white cardstock of a birthday card sent by our insurance company. Colored the vine with WoLuna green, and copic R81 & R83 used for the tulip flowers. The colored die cut was separated into 3 different sections to fit where needed.

- Background DP from a 6x6 pad.

-  Offray white lace tinted by using few drops of  R81 refill ink in a bag, smooshing. This lace took quite a bit of ink. The cotton lace really soaked up the ink.

I hope that all the Mothers (and everyone else) had a wonderfully happy day. Our air conditioning finally had to go on. Set the thermostat lowered than we normally have it, left for the late lunch. It was quite cool when we came home again. DH headed for the recliner. Our DSIL took a love seat from our basement room - where all my stamp stuff is - so I have a worse mess now than before. I had thought to go do some rearranging - but - a nap seemed a better idea. It was Mother's Day, I'm a Mother, and so.......

Thanks for joining me. Hugs. Have a great coming week.

Dogwoods and Mother's Day

Good evening and where did this week go? Zip, that's where. Looking back over the days, not sure exactly what productive things we've accomplished, but gosh, there _must_ have been some!

The card shared tonight was supposed to have gone in the mail by Wednesday. Alas, it did not make it. This is another image, found during the snippet cleanup, and already colored. I stamped out a portion of the motif to add some extra petals for dimension. The original was stamped in Rich Cocoa, but I used Gray Flannel for the extra petals.

 



- Old Hero Arts wooden dogwood stamp. Colored with copics, die cut with the Lil Inker Square stax. Used DI Spun Sugar, Sage and then ?Pumice? just to darken the corners. Stamped part of the stamp with Gray Flannel onto a white snippet, and had to experiment to match the pink colors done earlier. R81 & 83 worked. Tried R85 in one place, and it was much too dark.

 

- CL Doily die on some script paper, using only half the die cut.

 

- snippet of DCWV green pattern paper, embossed with a new Mbossibility folder.(don't remember the name, but can provide info).

 

- new MBox tag die (Teramo Labels) stamped with SU Teeny Tiny sentiments on a white snippet. Narrow white grosgrain ribbon was dyed with Copic refill R81. (Drop a generous drop in a plastic bag, scrunch the ribbon around, and custom color any white or cream ribbon).

 

The first photo has a yellow tone, but the enlarged photo below reflects the color more accurately. Done with the same camera, no setting changes either!

 

 

Hopefully the cropped view will show the raised dimension a bit better. Added clear WoStella on some leaves & petals. Yellow rhinestones added for centers. (after I used a Viva Gold Pearl pen and didn't get very nice results. Blame  to the Operator, not the pen.). Loving those Lil Inker dies too.

 

Have colored this stamp before, using yellow greens instead of pinks. The greens over a gray stamping, looked very delicate & pretty. I like this color combo ok, but think I like the yellow greens much better. That one had darker leaves too, as the image needed some strong contrast.

 

Since this card has a few snippets, and since I have been an absentee playmate lately, I'm taking this over to Pixie's Snippet Playground, Week 123. The linky widget is still open for 33 hours, so you've time to hunt up a snippet or 2, and come play with a lovely, talented group of cardmakers.

 

Ya'll have a wonderful evening, Happy Friday, and as always, thanks so much for looking in. Many Hugs & Blessings too.



Mother's Day, Penny Black, Outlawz Copic Challenge

Welcome this afternoon, and thanks for joining me. Today I have a pretty Penny Black stamp as the focus of a card. I had seen this card, thought it was lovely, and remembered that I had a partially colored image stored away - somewhere! Hunted it up while I was on my blog hiatus, and thought "hm, what if I airbrushed the background with some E43, could I achieve something of this vintage look that Mrs. A did so beautifully?". And off I went. I was pleased with how it turned out, so thanks Valery for your inspiration!

 

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers everywhere. I would like to share 2 cards and the inserts today. One from my lovely daughter, who is in another state, and sorely missed. The card is beautiful, but didn't photograph very well. The inside sentiment made me cry just a bit. But it was beautifully expressed. Wish my cards could have such wonderful sentiments! The second card is from my sweet hubby, who always picks such pretty cards; the sentiment on his card was just as emotional for me as was the daughter's card. As I look at the pictures, it occurs me that I should have done some cropping. Oh well, I'm learning as I go. Have a wonderful day and thanks for sharing my cards with me.