This one is from Jo Ann
This is loot that came from my son and so, I had to die cut the lantern straight away and ended up
With this card. I had cut the lantern body from some plain grey from DCWV and I thought about rubbing on some creams to give it a patina but, I hid mine from my self a while back so, I grabbed a mermaid DOX pad and did rub some of that on which made the grey blue, so I wiped off the bulk of it with a baby wipe.
they looked like this on Sunday evening. so, the photos are reversed in order of how they happened. this table is shorter than counter height but, it did work OK for doing this up here. I have a plug in extension cord up behind those stacks to plug the laminator into and that worked.
The watercolor Wednesday challenge at Splitcoaststampers is using this tutorial found on youtube to paint a fall tree that is about to lose its leaves. so this is the practice wc pad the top tree was done with wadded paper like the video. (which didn't really work as well as I had hoped) and so looking around I found this old foam top brush that was starting to get you know they crumble after some time goes by right? so, I helped some of the tip of it off to make it a jagged tool and used that for the bottom tree. which worked better than the crumpled paper for me.
This week we are taking a look around the Stationery Studio. ( store front here ) Pinterest boards are found here. Where I came across these Beach themed pumpkins and thought that was way cool. I love the colors and textures.
So, to start with I went poking around through my pumpkin stamps that had blank space on them to decorate and found these from Penny Black were my largest ones. So, I stamped off a couple of them onto Arches 100% cotton cold press wc paper with some Simon Says Stamp barely beige ink.
I used Daniel Smith watercolors to color these and then I added some stickles glitter glue randomly on the "waves" part of the blue pumpkin. then when all the paint was dry I had decided to diecut this with a square die and it smooshed all my glitter glue dots flat so, I did them again. I did consider using micro beads but the ones I have were not right scale wise. after the paint had dried I totally figured I should have made the waves a little taller on the right hand side of the blue pumpkin but, life is full of shoulda coulda woulda things yes? :) The painted panel is up on foam tape over the handmade rice paper. I did wrap the burlap string around that to tie on the sentiment strip (Unity Stamps Thankful Oak ) and used some Sundance Felt natural white for the base of this one which finished out at 5 1/2" square.
This week Linda has chosen these wreath painting tutorials for the Watercolor Wednesday prompt found here at Splitcoaststampers.
So, I grabbed my Strathmore practice pad and tried the holly wreath and I felt like the leaves were just giving me fits so, I did that for a while before I just did one on the Arches paper. One thing I tried that I liked and did on the finished wreath is instead of using paint for the center vein line on the leaves I used a damp brush to pick up some of that paint and make the vein a softer color than the rest of the leaves. I like how that looks.
And then I watched the video some more and just did one of the second wreath without practicing anything. and this is a mug shot of the brushes I used for these. I do have a couple of the princeton neptune round faux squirrel brushes. this is the #2 and this is the esconda perla which I am finding I use every time I paint now for detail spots. I ran out of time before I tried the third one with the white flowers. the third brush is a silver black velvet in a #4 round. I did start out on the practice sheet with a larger brush and I realized if I wanted these wreaths to fit on a card base I needed to small the brushes down. and that worked for me.
This week Kia has shared with us the Anne of Green Gables site and I happened across this light house tea towel that I loved the amount of texture it had for such a clean design. So, I started poking about in my lighthouse stamps looking for something that would mimic the one on the towel design wise and settled on this Stamps Happen the light keeper one. I love beach scene's.
I have an its just about overwhelming amount of new stamps and dies in my room right now and this is a pro-craftination at its best behavior.
So a while back there was this seller on eBay who had that fishing prank set of stamps ( the guys in the boat and the fish tying the lines in knots set) and I decided to poke around in their other auctions. ( all of these came from the same person) and on the same day they arrive this also came in.
These are sweet grass stamps. (there are a lot of people who fish in my family) and my husband found these and bought them himself as a surprise. Wow right?
And then on Monday night these arrived in two boxes from PA from Janice. Her kindness is just such an amazing blessing to me. We do not have stores like this where I live and the fact that she thinks of me when she is out bargain shopping in hers is so cool. Thanks Janice!
I had set a package of papers off to the side and it missed being photographed but, WOW. I had told myself there are stamps on the floor in here again as its so many I have them waiting to go into the evernote file and such and I told my self. you do not need to do anymore shopping... and then I sat down at the computer and hubs had sent me a link that one of these ebay sellers has sent him a 25% off one time use coupon. (and they have 4K items for sale, so I started poking around in their store last night and have set aside a few links but, seriously) I guess there are worse vices to have. :) Thats about it from me, Stay safe out there and thanks for stopping by.
Oh, computers are in and done and no more complaints from anyone YAY, and where I live in the US freezing happens at 32 degrees Fahrenheit so, its not below zero yet here its just below freezing some mornings. 25, 28 things like that. we will lose the garden probably tomorrow morning because, its not going to go back up to 40 in the AM again like it has been doing after a cold night. its going to stay below freezing for the next week or so.
This week Kia has shared with us this tutorial from Emma Jane Lefebvre about painting a Harvest Moon as seen on YouTube here.
When I came back to it I remembered I was supposed to add white highlights so I used some Windsor & Newton Gouache here in white. ( it really does not have that big of an impact after it dried)
Happy World Cardmaking day! That tends to make me smile every year when it comes around.
This week the inspiration is taking a look at the Janet Hill Studios and I came across this silly scene with all the cat tails peeking out of everything in the scene. And I knew that the holiday would happen so, I kept the colors and the clutter and changed the theme to suit myself.
