Golden Summer

My second project today inspired by the Words & Paintery August Color Challenge.  I am entering it into the Mixed Media Card Challenge - Butterflies. 

I started with a kraft envelop which I streaked with a mix of paints in the green, gold and browns. I then wiped away most of the paint to leave a soft palette.

Then I stamped the flowers using the brown ranger archival ink. I colored with watercolor pencils and added highlights with the gel pen. I added a touch of glitter on the flowers which I tried to capture in my first photo and mica flakes along the bottom. They photographed very dark but actually are a lovely bronze color to go with the browns in the images.

The stamps are Paper Artsy.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Adore & Discover

I can't believe I have actually posted three days in a row. It feels so good to be creating every day and sharing them. :)  I am inspired today by Tim's April Tag.  Flowers are one of my favorites and his tags are just beautiful with a few cool tips and techniques as always.

 Tim created two tags with different flowers from the Stampers Anonymous 2015 - Flowers so I followed along and created two myself.

 I wanted to color on the kraft so I flipped my layers and put the flowers on the kraft and the white as the background of my tag.  I used my STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell watercolor pencils instead of the markers.

I also don't have the lovely die cut words to cut out on the bottom which by the way is very cool!  I am going to think about how to do that with the dies I do have on the pocket of a card/tag in the future.

Happy Saturday!  I  have a card for Easter planned for tomorrow. (Which makes me very happy to have something to share.)

Suzz

Make your Own Sunshine

The Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is an Ode to Sunshine. 

My card was inspired by the man with the umbrella holding off the rain and actually making his own sunshine.

I started with a piece of vintage paper.

I painted a middle section of the paper and let it dry.  I stamped the umbrella man in black ink onto the paper. I then inked up the sunburst image with yellow dye ink and then followed it up with orange dye ink. I stamped that over the top of the umbrella.

I stamped the sentiment along the right side. I then drew in the line for the ground along the bottom. I then used a waterbrush to soften the bottom. I used watercolor pencils and waterbrush to add a halo effect around my man.

I cut out the main panel and layered it over another panel of the vintage newspaper. I splattered white paint around the edges. I cut out a few different banners of the painted background and layered them on the right hand side. I added crystals, stars and a game spinner with brad to the right.

Products: Visual Artistry - Grunge Cirque, Visual Artistry - Purely Random, Vintage Paper,
Ranger Archival Ink - Black, Memento - Dandelion Dye Ink, Memento Tangelo Dye Ink    Waterbrush, White Paint, Game Spinner, Brad, Brass Stars, Crystal   

Now I encourage you to go off and spread a little sunshine and join in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge for a chance to win a $50 Give voucher for Simon Says Stamp.

Krafty Flowers

Are you feeling krafty?  This week we are playing with Kraft paper over at the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge.  I had a piece of my brown paper bag laying on my desk leftover from my previous gift bag.  I decided to use that paper as the base for a garden.

 I painted the paper bag with white acrylic paint leaving the edges smeared with paint. 

I repeated the process several times to create my layers and to create a base for the butterflies and sentiments.  I stamped the flowers using black ink over the white background.  I added color with my watercolor pencils and a waterbrush. 

I then layered the sheets of painted paper.   I stamped the butterflies on one of the extra pieces of paper bag.  I colored them in coordinating colors using the watercolor pencils.  I then created the sentiment by stamping it on the painted kraft paper and tearing the edges and putting them over the layers.

I attached the papers using the Mini Stapler and glue dots for the butterflies.


Products:  Snow Cap Paint Dabber , Butterflies , Flower Path, Hero Arts Delicate Blossoms, Ranger Archival Ink, STAEDTLER watercolor pencils, Waterbrush, Tiny Attacher
  Come play along for a chance to win a gift certificate from the ever generous  Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!
Suzz