Category: Watercoloring

Taylored Expressions SJC #28

I’m playing along with the Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #28.

Taylored Expressions SJC #28

I used the sketch to create a CAS card suitable for a number of celebratory situations, such as an engagement.

Taylored Expressions SJC #28

I stamped and heat-embossed the blooms from Happily Ever After and cut them with their corresponding Happily Ever After Dies. I watercolored the two larger blooms with several mediums, including Distress Inks and Zig markers. The greenery was cut from vellum and tucked behind the blooms. I added a center to the gold bloom which I cut from watercolored cardstock with one of the Mini Bloomers dies. The sentiment was cut from gold paper and adhered to white cardstock. I finished the card off with a dry-embossed background for additional texture.

Taylored Expressions SJC #28

Be sure to head over to the Share Joy Challenge Blog to see more inspiration and to link up your entry!

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CAS(E) this Sketch #162

I’m sharing a card created with Penny Black supplies for the CAS(E) this Sketch #162 challenge.

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CAS(E) this Sketch #162

I cut the top butterfly with the 51-010 Delicate Wings die from silver paper and the lower butterfly with the corresponding die in the same set from white cardstock. Using the 51-007 Tagged die, I cut paper which had been watercolored with Distress Inks, to which I attached a heat-embossed sentiment from the 30-297 Sprinkles and Smiles set that was cut with a die in the 51-027 Triple Banner set. The card background was dry-embossed for added texture.

How You Doin’?

Today, I’m sharing a CAS spring-themed card created with Avery Elle stamps and dies.

Avery Elle How You Doin'?

I paired a sentiment from the Simply Said You set with images from the Storybook set. I stamped and heat-embossed the duck and bird on watercolor paper and colored with Distress Inks before cutting with their corresponding dies. The background was created with Distress Inks, which I applied by creating a mask from vellum, which I cut with a die in the Dotted Borders set. The sentiment was heat-embossed on a panel cut with one of the Double Pierced Rectangle dies, from which I cut out a circle.

Hope your Monday is off to a great start! Spring is just around the corner!

Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #23

I’m playing along with Share Joy Challenge #23 at Taylored Expressions.

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I used the sketch to create an Easter card:

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I interpreted the circle and banner loosely, using two eggs from the Easter Wishes set heat-embossed on watercolor paper for the circle in the sketch. The eggs were watercolored with Distress Inks and cut with the corresponding Egg Stacklets dies. I used just one banner with the heat-embossed sentiment, also in the Easter Wishes set, rather than two banners, as in the sketch. I used the Stitched Scallop Edger die to cut the white scallop tucked under patterned paper from the Build a Scene Paper Pack.

Taylored Expressions Share Joy Challenge #23

The card base was dry-embossed with the Butterfly Swirls folder.

Be sure to head over to the Share Joy Challenge Blog to see more inspiration and to link up your entry!

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AEI♥U Challenge #33 – Friendship

It’s time for a new AEI♥U Challenge!! This month’s theme is friendship – a perfect theme given that Valentine’s Day is less than two weeks away!

Avery Elle Challenge 33

Here’s my take on the challenge theme:

Jean Manis Avery Elle Challenge #33

I couldn’t resist pairing the whales in the Whale Hello set. At some point, when my sons were much younger, we had several whale books, and I could identify one from another. But I’ve forgotten a lot of that stuff (along with all of the different dinosaurs)! I do know that in the PNW, there are a lot of Orca whales, which we occasionally see traveling in their pods.

I created the card background using the smooshing technique with a variety of Distress Inks. I watercolored the whales using watercolor pencils, Distress Inks, and once dry, I added more shading with colored pencils.

There’s no limit to how you can interpret this challenge! Check out the inspiration from the rest of the Design Team over on the AEI♥U Challenge Blog!  You’ll also find the InLinkz tool to link up YOUR take on the challenge – we’d love to see your beautiful work in our gallery! There are two $25 Avery Elle Gift Certificates up for grabs for the two best entries!  You have until  February 24, 2016 to link up your take on the challenge!

Supplies: Avery Elle Pinked Elle-ments