Imagine

It's been a week since I've been able to get time to make anything! I used a watercolor panel that I created last week when I was playing with Brushos:

I sprinkled Leaf Green and Turquoise powders onto water color paper and spritzed with water until I liked the coverage I got.  Before it was completely dried I used a Heidi Swapp stencil with butterflies and dabbed a wet baby wipe to remove some of the color.

I used the panel for the SCS Inspiration Challenge. I was inspired by the panel on the right of the three of the Blossom Painting.  I used the outline image from a Rubbernecker 2 step stamp set and then painted the flower in with purple Brusho mixed with water and a paint brush.  The white highlights were done with a white Sharpie paint pen.  The sentiment is from a different Rubbernecker set - I colored the sentiment with a black Memento marker and then stamped it onto the card base.

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The first two pages here were created by stenciling an entire A2 size card stock panel with distress inks.  I cut off a portion to create two journal entries.  I used the Penny Black hot air balloons and a sentiment from Winnie & Walter with Versafine Onyx Black ink.  The line art flowers are from Rubbernecker and the sentiment is from TJ Designs.  The third page is a mixed media piece.  I stamped the Hero Art feathers with Versafine Onyx Black ink and water colored the large one with Koi water colors.  I then used distress ink to stencil the background.

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Visual Art Journal Days 4 and 5 - Shabbat

Our fourth day was Friday, July 3 and the camp gets ready for Shabbat (Sabbath) which starts at sundown.  We don't have work or classes on Saturday because the Sabbath is a day of rest.  But after services on Saturday morning we had free time so I opened up the art room to those campers that wanted to relax and play.  Their journal prompt for Friday's journaling was to display through watercoloring and journaling how Shabbat makes them feel. Another prompt was what colors represent how they feel about Shabbat or how Shabbat makes them feel.  Below are my journal entries:

The first page was watercoloring with markers directly onto a Penny Black stamp, misted with water and then stamped.  The next page was watercoloring with a stencil - I applied distress inks right onto a stencil, misted it with water and then "stamped" with it onto the page.  The two pages with the Clearly Besotted tulip image was demonstrating watercoloring in the lines and then no line watercoloring.  Lastly I created a background using Color Bursts and Brushos and then stamped the Rubbernecker flowers with Versafine Onyx Black ink and used washi tapes to adhere the panel to the journal page.

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Some Watercolored Cards

This was created for the SCS color challenge this week.  I used the Art Impressions set with Distress markers and paint brushes.

This was for the CAS SCS challenge - also a color challenge.  I used the Baleek technique on the card front - brayered Certainly Celery on the inside of the embossing folder, then ran the card front in the folder through the Big Shot.  This card has an oval window already cut out.  The inside is the water colored flowers.

This card was also created for the SCS CAS color challenge.  I used this 4 step stamp set from Rubbernecker and colored the stamps with Hero Arts Shadow inks and Distress Inks, misted them with water, then stamped.  I used my scor-pal to create embossed sunrays and ran an ink pad over them.

This last card is a case of the SCS Featured Stamper's card.  I used my watercolor paints with the wet on wet technique.  The flowers are from Hero Arts and the sentiment is from Avery Elle.  I added clear rhinestones as embellishments.

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Watercolored Butterflies

I created this for the SCS Featured Stamper challenge.  I cased Beesmom's Faith card.  I colored the butterfly image with distress markers and misted with water then stamped the image twice.  I then used an aquabrush and more distress ink to spread the colors (wet on wet technique) for a more watercolored look.
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Two Step Stamping

The SCS CAS challenge this week is to create a card using the 2 step stamping technique.  There are several different ways to do this.  For the card above I used the Rubbernecker stamp set that has a solid stamp and an outline stamp.  I colored the solid stamp with Distress inks and markers, misted it and then stamped onto watercolor paper.  When it was dry I stamped the outline image with Versafine Onyx Black over the solid image.  I then used a paint brush and painted clear water around the image and used watered down watercolors to paint the background.

This next card used a 2 step stamp set from PaperTrey.  The two images are both solid, but one is the outer part of the butterfly and the other image fills in the open areas left by the first image.  I used the colors from the Color Throw Down 295:

I used PaperTrey's Scarlett Jewell, Raspberry Fizz and SU Pretty in Pink inks.  The inside "spots" are colored over with a clear Wink of Stella glitter pen and I adhered pearls for the bodies.

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Hello Friend

This is for the OCC - Watercoloring Class, Day 3.  Jennifer showed us two cool techniques to create this card.  Mine didn't come out as I had planned but I like it.  I definitely will try this technique again after I get my other homework done.  The flower image is from Rubbernecker and the sentiment is from Winnie & Walter.

I am submitting this to the One Layer Simplicity Challenge: Fabulous Flowers, to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Spring Flowers and to the Moxie Fab Hip on Handwriting Challenge.
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Flowers in the Breeze

I entitled this post Flowers in the Breeze because that is the name of this Rubbernecker stamp set I used. It is a 4 step stamp set and I used the colors from the SCS color challenge: Primrose Petals, Wisteria Wonder and Pear Pizzazz.  I had these colors in markers only so I colored the stamps directly with the markers and stamped onto the card stock.  I then matted the edge with wisteria card stock and drew a line with a gold gel pen since using gold was an option of the challenge.
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Flowers in the Breeze

This is another card that I made from stamping off images in Des Moines while playing with my stamping friends and their toys.  I loved this stamp set so much that I bought it.  It is a 4 step stamp set from Rubbernecker called Flowers in the Breeze.  I am submitting this to CAS(E) this Sketch #35:

and to the CAS Colours and Sketches Challenge blog color challenge:

I didn't put on a sentiment as indicated in the sketch because I don't know what I will use this for yet.  I hope it still qualifies!

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Imagine

The SCS CAS challenge this week is to make a card using the chalkboard technique.  This card took less than 10 minutes to make.  This is one large image from Rubbernecker that I inked up with Colorbox White Pigment ink which I stamped onto black cardstock.  I trimmed the image with my paper cutter and matted it onto white card stock.  I then adhered that panel onto a 3.5"x6" black card. 
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ATCAS#9 SPRING

Welcome to ATCAS #9 which I am the hostess for.  I picked the code word SPRING for this challenge since Spring officially started yesterday!  Here in California our state flower, the Golden Poppy is an early sign that Spring is on its way.  Before I show you my card I would like to introduce our sponsor for this challenge:

This week we are proud to have



as our sponsor. Stephanie from Clearly Bestotted Stamps is generously giving our CAS Perfectionist two stamp sets from her delightful range!  Please check out the ATCAS Challenge blog for the details!

I chose to use this Poppy image from Rubbernecker Stamps for my card since these flowers really do announce that Spring is on its way here in Northern California (see photo below).  This is a two step stamp.  I stamped the line art with Versafine Onyx Black.  For the flower part I colored the poppies with three Memento markers directly onto the image and huffed on the stamp before I stamped it, using a Stamp-a-majig.  The sentiment is from a GinaK set called A Year Of Flowers.

Here is a picture of the poppies by the lake near my house taken on March 16:

Aren't they just gorgeous??
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CAS Inspiration Challenge

Besides butterflies I LOVE poppies.  I was so excited to see that the inspiration photo for the SCS CAS212 challenge was of this gorgeous cake:

 

I bought two new poppy stamp sets from Rubbernecker at the Scrapbook Expo this weekend so of course I had to ink them up for this challenge.
This is the first card I created:

This is a two step stamp image.  I stamped the line art in Versafine Onyx Black and then the flower part with Pure Poppy ink and used a stamp-a-majig to line up the flower heads. I stamped one of the sentiments from this set and added a few rhinestones.

Here is the second card:

Again, this is a two step stamp image.  This time after stamping the line art part I colored the flower image with two colors of red markers right onto the rubber and then stamped using a stamp-a majig.  I used Real Red ink for the sentiment. 

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