Watercoloring a Calla Lily

 This week Kia has chosen a tutorial seen on YouTube painting a drawn calla lily that you can find here. And I looked at that sketch and thought OK I do not have 5 hours to draw one grab a stamp and the only stamp I found was an older itty bitty one from Stampin Up's Long Stemmed set, so I used it. 

A closer look at that, the Flowers were stamped with Versafine Morning Mist on a scrap of Canson 120# watercolor paper and I used Daniel Smith paints on them.

The Sentiment here is also from Stampin Up from the Thoughts and prayers set stamped with some black nocturn on a scrap of pale grayish green and cut with a Spellbinders back to basics tag die, there is some black hemp string through the hole. The Basic Grey printed paper mat was cut with a Heffy Doodle whimsical wonky stitched rectangle die they are saying its a Metric size but, it fits on an A6 or an A7 card for me. This one finished out at 5X7 in real life. You can find this challenge here at Splitcoaststampers to play along with us. Thanks for stopping by.

Inspired by { Old Farmers Almanac}

 This week Julie has chosen the old farmers Almanac as the Inspiration and I happened across this laundry line pin and smiled. (do I say that all the time? oh, I have a stamp that will work for that) ha, It's true I have a ton of stamps. and I am working my way through coloring them all.

So, I stamped this Penny Black sun dried on some Arches hot press watercolor paper with Versafine and painted it with Daniel Smith paints. the white dots on the underwear were done with Dr. PH Martins bleed proof white ink and the sentiment is from the Hero Arts many everyday messages set. This one  is A6 in real life. You can find this challenge here at Splitcoaststampers to play along with us if you like. Thanks for stopping by.

Dirty Dozen July Christmas

 This month for the Dirty Dozen Christmas card challenge prompt ( which you can find here in the special forums set aside for Fan Club members at Splitcoaststampers.) I changed my mind about a dozen times over this one and finally settled on this stamp that I picked up from Unity Stamps wintertime window a while back and never got around to inking. Same with the sentiment its an older one from a Hero Arts offbeat holidays set I have played with other stamps on that set. 

The other day I had a scrap of this Canson 120# watercolor paper on the table and so I stamped the home image with some Morning Mist versafine on it and used Daniel Smith water colors to add some paint. my bricks dried a little on the pink-ish side and so, I used some Dr. PH Martins bleed proof white ink as highlights / splatter in the snow parts. The sentiment was stamped with some nocturn in the Misti and I used a piece of this Pebbles ( text) printed paper as a mat. The base is some core-dinations pale red that was more like the color I was hoping my bricks would be but, I did not end up going over and over them as I didn't want to end up with bricks that were "too dark". The painted panel was die cut with a waffle flower A7 rectangle die and this one finished out at 5X7 in real life. That's about it from me, you can find this challenge here at SCS to play along with us. Thanks for stopping by.
 

Clean And Simple Watercoloring

 This week Angie has shared with us this quick tutorial from Lydia about using the delicate frog tape to do quick little watercolors. And I have some, I bought it years ago from something she shared but, I have no memories of seeing this particular video ( seen here on YouTube )

So, as I was looking at the video I had the idea to do something ( not floral) and I knew if I kept the angle for the strip I had this encouragement sentiment stashed and thought it would be pretty easy to make a side of a hill/mountain with tree tops on it. So, I picked up a quarter sized sheet of some Canson 120# textured watercolor paper I have ( as its not flat so as a test to see if there would be "leaks" under the grooves) and the good news is that tape sealed to the grooved paper pretty well as you can see in the next shot. but, I did tear a corner of it. 

As I was removing the tape, So I grabbed the Hero Arts rectangle dies to cut it down smaller. 

It finished out as an A2 card on some "Pool" pre-made cardbase. That sentiment is from the Club Scrap Dahlia Jumbo set that I am sure is not made anymore as its a rubber stamp. That's about if from me, Thanks for stopping by. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS.

Inspired by { Wildlife Wonders}

 This week Amy has shared with us the Wild life wonders site where this pretty Hummingbird mug caught my eye as I have been you know sorting and organizing my stamps the last long while and I have been stretching my self to try and paint some of them. 

So I stamped off this Stampa Rosa Hummingbird Express stamp on some Arches 100% cotton hot press paper with some Versafine morning mist ink, and started giving it layers of paint. 

I read somewhere that hummingbirds tend to fly just above the tree tops so, I did sketch in some pine tree tops along the horizion but, I am thinking now the scale is way off ha ha. It's OK and I figure it has to be a little more "real" than just sky everywhere maybe. 

I just trimmed the painted panel with the paper trimmer leaving a larger white space at the bottom like a faux Polaroid look. I did leave off a sentiment as I do not know what I want to do with this yet. The crepe paper is from the paper studio ( Hobby Lobby) and the base is some pale blue textured Bazzill. You can find this challenge here at Splitcoaststampers to play along with us, thanks for stopping by.

watercoloring hanging flowers

 This week Brenda has shared with us this tutorial video of watercoloring a sketched hanging basket of flowers seen here on YouTube. And when I seen it I thought, oh this is going to be such a help with coloring that old old HUGE art impressions porch scene stamp. (combined with the wet blending of last weeks tutorial) and so I sketched one basket off to "practice" it and that was as far as I got. 

This was done on some windsor & newton 100% cotton cold press with Daniel Smith watercolor paints real quick ( one layer of paint) I probably should have gone back in to add more shadows but, I just ran out of time and even with the air on up here the paint is drying faster than I can move it lately. If you'd like to play along with us, this challenge can be found here at Splitcoaststampers. Thanks for stopping by.