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Sweet Bear card

By on May 22, 2014 in Paper Crafting

I’ve been playing around with watercolors this week. I just received a new Paper Smooches stamp set in the mail…and I had to watercolor that bear! This one is a grizzly bear and he has stolen some poor camper’s marshmallows.

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I’ve found that I LOVE to watercolor with distress inks. The ink pads, that is, because I don’t own the distress markers *YET.* But, my birthday’s coming up and guess what’s on the wish list? 😉

This originally started as a single layer card, I stamped the bear and then covered him up with rubber cement. After that dried, I painted the watercolor background. Then, I peeled up the rubber cement. I wasn’t happy with the results (it was my first try, after all, and I got some ink all over that bear!)

So I decided he needed to be popped up on the card, along with those marshmallows. Now it looks like he has multiple sticks of sweet, toasted marshmallows! Perfect.

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I love the look of that watercolor!

Joining up with paper smooches sparks challenge this week: anything goes! (And there goes the marshmallows…ha!)
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This card went to my Dad, who loves bears and is celebrating some sweet victories this week. Congrats, Dad, you are just awesome!!

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Have a sweet day!

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Watercoloring with Paper Smooches

By on May 17, 2014 in Paper Crafting

Today I was inspired to make some watercolored stripes for a background to my card. I also used “no line” stamping to make all the images look softer and cleaner. Here’s the card:

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That little squirrel just cracks me up! The scallops on the bottom of the card are actually a purple color, but they turned out really dark in these pictures.

I’m joining up with paper smooches challenge this week. Here’s the inspiration photo:

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Seriously having too much fun watercoloring these cards this week. <3
I am sad to reach the LAST day of the Online Watercolor Class…I will keep on practicing these techniques, but I sure wish it would just go on for a few extra weeks! See you next time.

Supplies Used:
Distress Inks: Concord Grape, Mowed Lawn, Squeezed Lemonade, Orange Marmalade
Watercolor pencils: Derwent Inktense
Stamps: Paper Smooches
Other: Sequins
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Dude, it’s your birthday card

By on May 8, 2014 in Paper Crafting

My brother’s birthday required me to veer away from all girly-ness and focus on a making a more masculine card. This is good practice for me! I pulled out my Paper Smooches stamps and found just the right pup from a Christmas stamp set!

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I love this little dog and bird and I thought it would be fun to create a distress background on just a small portion of the card. So here’s the sequence: Stamp, mask, tape, distress, remove, color, emboss, adhere, VOILA!

I used inktense pencils on the little characters and a Kelly Purkey stamp set for the “Dude!”

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I am going to enter this into the Paper Smooches Anything Goes contest.

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So what do you think…more masculine card? I hope so. My brother liked it (right, Jon?!) Ha!

Well, I’m off to make a few more cards! See you next time.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Paper Smooches “Santa Paws”; Kelly Purkey “Dude”; Simon Says Stamp “Happy”
Distress Inks: Peacock Feathers, Forest Moss, Mowed Lawn
Colored Pencils: Derwent Inktense Pencils
Paper: Neenah Solar White
Embossing Powder: White, Snow
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Hello Friendly Flower card

By on May 2, 2014 in Paper Crafting

Today I have a very happy card to share with you! I created this card to participate in the Paper Smooches Designer Drafts challenge.

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I used the Paper Smooches Friendly Flower stamp set, which has that great plaid flower AND the hello outline sentiment. So great for Spring. I tried out some Zing pink embossing powder for the hello…it’s so vibrant! And to match that great color, I used some Inktense watercolor pencils for the flower and to create a border around the tag.

Here’s the challenge designer draft:

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Great design, gals!

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I heat embossed that little heart on the flower, so it has a great pop and dimension to it. Sometimes a card takes on a life of its own, and this time the pink really took over. 😉

5-14-friendly-flowers-3 Doesnt this card just make you happy?!

 

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