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Easy Watercoloring

By KariV on August 12, 2023 in Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I have a card with Easy Watercoloring. I love to watercolor, and I love it even more when it’s EASY. This technique is so fun to do and you can do this even if you aren’t a professional watercolorist!

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I have some tips for easy watercoloring, today I am using Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, so these tips will be for having great success using those watercolor markers.

Choose Bristol Smooth cardstock. This cardstock allows the Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to blend smoothly with a waterbrush!
Heat emboss your image. Here I stamped using black ink (Versafine Onyx Black) and then used some clear embossing powder over the top. This will keep the watercolor inside these embossed areas!
Choose 2 or three colors to blend and use a waterbrush in the lightest color first to blend into the darker color(s). It makes a beautiful blend

I used a gorgeous stencil (Latte Lace) for the background, using only TWO ink colors. I blended the Tumbled Glass and Squeezed Lemonade Distress inks together and they created a beautiful green.

The frames are from the Oh Happy Day die set. There are so many great options in this set! That’s where the sentiment came from also.

Watch the video above to see how this all came together!

I’m often asked what supplies I use to make my cards and projects, so I’ve put together a list using affiliate links when possible. If you make a purchase with these links I may receive a small commission. These help me to keep up with blog costs and continue bringing you fun projects. Thank you so much for your support!

I really love a calm watercoloring session, especially when it’s THIS EASY! I hope you enjoyed this project today. I’ll be back with more cards to share soon!

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Magical Castle Card

By KariV on July 22, 2023 in Paper Crafting

Hello! I have a Magical Castle card to share today, with a video! These are fun products from Miss Ink Stamps that I really love creating with.

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I have to admit, this was a really fun card for me to create. I love the Majestic Arch stencil, which includes two sizes of archways AND the masks are also included! That allows you to do fun techniques like ink the arch, add the mask and another stencil (in this case the Cobblestone stencil) to add around the edges! Check out the video to see just what I am talking about here.

While the mask arch was on, and the Cobblestone stencil was on, I added a Mica Spray for those splatters! It added some fun texture and shine to the castle walls.

I heat embossed that sentiment with white embossing powder…what a fun sentiment! I know many people I could send this to…LOL.

Both frames are from one die set from Miss Ink Stamps. I just love that there is an alphabet die AND multiple frames in one set to choose from. I didn’t use the alphabet die set this time, but you could certainly add your own custom sentiment using the alpha dies.

I hope you enjoyed this project today! See you soon with more cards!

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Smile Bear & Bunny

By KariV on July 15, 2023 in Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I have a new video sharing a sweet Smile Bear & Bunny card. This is another collectible 4×4 Bear & Bunny stamp set from Miss Ink Stamps and I just love them.

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I love these Bear & Bunny sets…and this one is so cute with the bear giving the bunny a ride on his back. I created a frame using the Modern Typeset Frame Die. For the sentiment I used the Modern Typeset Frame Die Placement Guide as a stencil! I added back the dot inside the “e” with a white gel pen.

I share how I colored up these images with Copic Markers on the video. I hope you enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by today! Don’t forget to smile!

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Repeating Patterns and Yoga Frogs

By KariV on July 9, 2023 in Paper Crafting

Hello! Today I have a card using Repeating Patterns and Yoga Frogs. I love these happy frogs from the Be Hoppy stamp set from Heffy Doodle. A Couple of the frogs look like they could be meditating or practicing yoga.

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How happy are those little frogs?! And they must have some great balance, since they are practicing yoga on some lily pads! LOL.

The Polka dots are the repeating pattern here: stenciled on the background panel and colored onto the frogs body and bellies! I just love a polka dot frog.

The Build A Pond die set is so great…with a couple sizes of ponds you can use, as well as lily pads and flowers like I used here. There are also grasses and cattails and vines to build any pond scene or lagoon.

Thanks for stopping by today! Yoga anyone?

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Magnolia Card

By KariV on July 8, 2023 in Paper Crafting

Hello! I am so excited to bring you a sneak peek of a new Magnolia Layering die coming soon! This die set comes with a beautiful frame die also and I share it all with you in my video below: