Make my Monday #108 - Poppy/Poppies

I'm here today as it's time for the Make My Monday #108 challenge, This challenge has been chosen by the lovely Caz, and you need to use a Poppy or Poppies.

Here's my card for this challenge,

I've chosen a very simple card for this challenge as I'm still not well... I must admit it's taking its fair time to go and every day I feel more miserable as I'm losing my crafting mojo, so if you find my mojo, can you please send it back ASAP please :)

So back to the card, this is an Altenew stencil, and I filled in the stencil with distress inks and then went over it with my Arteza watercolor pens, and I just used a water pen to blend/watercolour out the edges, once dried I just went back in with the Arteza pens to put in some fine details. (see told you it was simple! although I made it over a two week period as I can't look down for too long urhhh)  I added a die cut thanks and some sequins and that along with some paper completes this card..  

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the cards made by our amazing design team, on the Make My Monday Blog, and I do hope you are inspired to take part!

Hugs

XoX

Sorry I've been MIA

Hi all,

I'm so sorry I was MIA last week, I came down with a head cold, that has left me quite tired and run down, and I was in the middle of a craft room makeover... My lovely husband had decided that my craft room need a face lift.  I am fortunate that I have a whole room to myself, but it was filled with a mix of furniture that I had collected over the last 11 years LOL..

I now have a gorgeous white Ikea room...details/photos/video to follow....

Anyway I had this card below ready but I didn't get around to posting it... I have made it for the Stamping Sensations challenge - The Earth Laughs in Flowers

I've created a sunset sky with my distress oxides, and I did have what I used written down... but I can't find my notes (insert sad face) so I'm going to go with the following ...

Black soot, Wild honey, Dried marigold, Spiced marmalade, Worn lipstick and lastly Picked raspberry... The sentiment is from Altenew - Beautiful Quotes which has been heat embossed on to black card stock, the images have been stamped in black ink.

I'm now trying to catch up with everthing, so please bare with me while normal (haha...really I've never been normal... Weird with a twist  :) ) service is resumed LOL

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

XoX

New Watercolour paper...

Hi all,

Well, I thought I would try some more expensive watercolour paper, this one came in a pack of 10 cards with envelopes.. but I cut it down to make 20 Panels LOL..

I should really have tested this paper first before I dived in with my Zigs and my Prima watercolor confections - Decedant Pies, paints, as It didn't behave the way my Canson paper does...and I gave up a couple of times and then went back to it..

You see I wanted to join in with "The Flower Challenge" the theme this month is pastels.. I stamped my card in Ink on 3 Fade out and just one flower (the main one) in archival ink.

All the flowers and even the sentiment stamp are by Altenew, and after masking this little lot off and diving in with my paints, when I finished it, I didn't like it... I came back to it today and it looks a little better than what it did, but I think it's the lines in the paper that I don't like and the fact that I have left it loose, and washed out and not put more details into it, like I normally do ??... anyhow I added the gems & sequins and I'll enter it into the challenge...LOL

I shall be entering this into The Flower Challenge #34 Pretty Pastels

And maybe #SSSigchallenge if it's still watercoloring ?  I'm not sure if there's a new challenge or not LOL

And the Happy Little Stampers July Watercolour Challenge 

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

XoX

Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - In the Mood for Colour

Hi all,

I'm back today with another two cards I've created for my AECP - this class was taught by the lovely Stephanie Klauck - 7 lessons all about colour and the mood that each colour makes you feel..

Now, I've never really thought about what colours depict what mood, but after taking these lessons, I can now appreciate that sometimes a sentiment isn't going to match the mood colour of the card...

We know that when we see colours, they can make us feel, very different emotions.. little bit of Psychology going on here with my cards today! Some colours are warm or cool, but each one of those colours has a different mood attached to it.  I'm going with different shades of Blue/Green..cool colours and a hint of Gold for warmth.

So Blue is calm and Green is soothing, and the sentiment I chose for this card also reflects the mood of the card colour too..The hint of Gold (yellow) is for optimism and cheer.

So now we'll look at the process of making this card.. 

I stamped the Study of Watercolor stamp set on to water colour card stock, with three of the Sea shore collection of inks, to create an ombre effect.

Now I have a tendency to over think my cards and find it quite difficult to produce a card with white space...also I'm quite a perfectionist when it comes to water colouring inside the lines LOL and the thought of letting the paint drip scared me LOL..but I do like the end result...

I added the antique gold ink spray by first spraying it on a piece of vellum and then picking it up with a paint brush for the splatters.

I think the sentiment "I'm just a thought away" matches the mood of this card perfectly!

So for my second card, I've decided to go rainbow...yes full on rainbow for a happy bright birthday card.  I'ts actually for my son who turns 24 this week! so no unicorns or glitter with this rainbow LOL

I've used the "Birthday Bash"stamp set for this one, I stamped the streamers onto white cardstock in bright birthday colours and then filled them in with the same inks. I embossed the sentiment in white on to a piece of vellum and on the back of the vellum I used the same ink colours as before to create a soft ink blend. I stamped the confetti in gold and filled it in with the antique gold ink spray.

The party blower was coloured using my Copic and Altenew alcohol markers.

I love the bright but yet soft feel to this card.

Hope you like these cards, and I know for sure that I will be matching card mood colours with sentiments from now on!

Thanks for stopping by,

Hugs

Alli

XoX

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Happy Monday

Happy Monday everyone, we have some winter sunshine here in Melbourne and boy did I need to see the sun! I'm missing the warmth and it's so nice to craft with some sunshine through the window of my craft room!

I shared a photo on Instagram over the weekend and I promised I would tell you what colours I used!
Well I made two cards with the same Digi image from Alex Syberia Design (I just used part of the image) and  Altenew stamp set "Beautiful Quotes"

My first card I coloured using Copics

I've used the following Copic's

Y 4, 6, 8 & 11

R 30, 32, 35 & 37

RV 000, 00, 02 & 21

G 82, 85, 94 & 99

YG 63

And the second one, the one I shared on IG was coloured using Prisma Color pencils

I've used the following colours

938, 914, 915, 916, 1011, 1003

924, 926, 928, 929, 993, 994 

289, 988, 1005 & 1097

The first card is a CAS card, which I'm entering in to the following challenge

1. AAA Cards CAS Game #143 - One Corner + Optional Twist Flowers

Hope you like these cards!

Hugs

XoX

Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - Magical Marker Techniques

Hi all, I'm back today with another two cards from the class Magical Marker Techniques for my AECP level 2.

This class is with the lovely Sara Naumann, six lessons, with lot of tips, tricks and out of the box techniques.

For my cards I've decided to combine two of the techniques and mix them up a little...

If you would like to try this at home, this it what you'll need

Also Isopropyl alcohol and a couple of pieces of glossy photo paper (I have some old Epsom photo paper from when we used to print photos out LOL)

Now not every marker responds the same, but Altenew markers are fabulous for this technique! Were going to ink smoosh with the markers add some of the Isopropyl and lay the photo paper glossy side down in the inky mess, remember it dries quickly, but its so much fun!

And please try to use colours that play nice together, we don't want a muddy mess ...

I've made two, but I'm only using one as a background and the other I'm going to use to stamp on..

I've stamped the outline image from the Build a Flower - Anemone and I've die cut it out. Added the fancy die cut hello and a few sequins to make this first card.

Now for my second card, I've used the panel I created as a background, I've added a thank you die cut from the Flower Arrangement stamp and die set, but this time I've stamped two flowers on to vellum and coloured the one below with the R403 marker, stamped a few leaves on to the left over panel  from the previous card.  A strip of the gold washi tape and this card is complete!

Two very different cards, using the same technique and the same stamp set!

Here's a few more photo's

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Alli
XoX

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