FRIENDS

Hi everyone!!  I'm up on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog where, this week, we are honouring Kathy Racoosin from The Daily Marker!  She hosts the 30 Day Colouring Challenge which is just fantastic and I encourage you to check out her blog for all the details!!

For my post I'm highlighting watercolour with Stabilo 68 pens.  Love this medium for watercolour as it always gives such great results with little effort :)

Please head on over to Honey Bee for all the details and a full pic of the finished product!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Laurie

SMILE!!

Hello friends!!  I'm sharing this super bright and cheerful card on the Honey Bee Stamps Blog today!

I broke out my Stabilo 68 pens and did a bit of simple watercoloring.  I used the Lotus Blossom stamp repeatedly on the background and added that fabulous "smile" on top.  Please check out the HBS blog for all the details and products used!!

I hope this card put a smile on your face!!  Thank you for stopping by!!

Laurie

Flamingo Love

Welcome back!!  Today's card for Studio Katia features one of my favourite sets...Pink Winter!!!  I also used a stamp set from the latest release which is so adorable, Sweet Heart Candy.

I started by stamping the flamingo in Intense Black ink from Simon Says Stamp (it's my new favourite black ink!).  I then stamped a mirror image of the flamingo by using the backside of a large clear stamp.  I used my Mini Misti for this.  I placed the large stamp, face down onto the door of the Misti, then stamped the image (I found I had to use Versafine Onyx Black for this) directly on top.  I then closed the door and gave firm pressure.  As you can see, it took me a couple of tries to get a decent image.

Before colouring the flamingos in with my Stabilo markers, I traced around both of them with a waterproof pen to darken and thicken the lines.  For my second layer of color, I decided to use a Clear Wink of Stella pen to blend out the color on the wings only. Then it was time to fussy cut!!

And yes, I had to cut in between their legs...slight OCD :)

I used the Stitched Creative Window Die Set and cut that twice, once in white cardstock, the other in grey.  I wasn't sure which color I wanted to use.  I used the white cardstock inner pieces and used a few shades of teals to do some ink blending on each.

I decided to stack the two frames together for slight dimension, placing the white on top.  My cardbase started off the standard size with rounded corners and a strip of patterned paper at the bottom.

I didn't like it, the pinks were WAY off! So I simply trimmed off a quarter of an inch on each end.  The end size is 3 3/4 X 5 1/2 inches.  I adhered the frame to the base with liquid glue as well as the inner die cuts.  I adhered the flamingos with a combination of foam adhesive and liquid glue.

For the sentiment, I die cut the stitched heart from the Stitched Notebook Set and stamped "love you" from the Sweetheart Candy stamps.  I brushed some light pink ink around the edges.  I adhered that to the centre panel with foam adhesive.  And lastly, it was time for some sequins!!  I, of course, used the Pink Winter Sequins Fusion!!  And here's the final product!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!! Have a great day!!

Laurie

Origami Christmas

Hello everyone!! I'm here back to share a Christmas card for Studio Katia with one of my favourite stamp sets!!  Its called Origami Winter and it's just fabulous!!

I started by heat embossing the tree, the present and the star in white embossing powder on some watercolour cardstock.  If you look closely, I stamped a couple of stockings as well but messed up and overlapped them.  It's ok, i ended up cutting that side off :).

My watercoloring medium of choice lately has been the Stabilo 68 markers.  I have the set of 30 but really want them all!!  I find these pens/markers so easy to work with and the colors are super vibrant!!!

I coloured my images in with traditional Christmas colours: red, green and a touch of gold and did a light wash of blue behind.  I trimmed the panel down to approximately 3.5 X 5.5.

You can see here that I have everything adhered. I used some gold glitter tape directly on the card base and used some sequins from the Classic Christmas Sequins Fusion mix.  What you don't see here is the sentiment.  I ALWAYS do this to myself!!!  But I wasn't going to give up!!  I placed my card into my Mini Misti and chose a sentiment, which is also from the Origami Winter set.  

Now because the background was watercolored AND heat embossed, I knew that the sentiment was likely not going to stamp perfectly, and I was right.  I used Versafine Black Onyx ink and there is one tiny place that the sentiment overlapped some of the white embossing and didn't stamp.  I could have stamped it on a tiny strip and just adhered it over but I really didn't want any distractions from the background.  In the end, I LOVE IT!!!!  And I hope you do too!! :)

Thank you so much for stopping by today!!

Laurie