New Watercolor Sheets on the Market

Hi Everyone I've been asked to review some new watercolour sheets on the market. I was so excited when Viviva contacted me to try out their colour sheets. Here is the card I made using these cool water color sheets, I snuck in a little Wink of Stella on the gnome's beard and the Jar of Milk or is that Baileys Irish Cream, looking at him I'm not sure 😏

 

 

So here is the low down 😊

  Each booklet contains 16 different colours 2 per page all separated by a sheet of Velum. Ideally
leave the swatches dry before you close the book, but if not the velum will stop contamination of the colours.

The booklet has a small attachment for colour mixing which I really liked. I've wiped it a few times and the colour does come off. It's so nice to have your a little mixing palate attached to the booklet, that and its size (2 3/4 X 5 1/4 X 1/4 inches) makes it truly vacation worthy 😁

The booklet costs $26.62 CDN ($20 USD) so very affordable and can be purchased with or without a water brush.

 

peel back the strip and just align it on the back page.

 

 

 

Here are the 16  colours with a couple of them mixed to create new colours or shades of the original colour. I did think the dark pink was more of a red, so I used it on the gnomes hat. I don't know if they can add white but that would be one of my preferences. The swatches did make me think about colour mixing which is probably a good thing. we all want the spectrum of colours and shades rather than create the colours we need. If you look at  my card many of the colours have been mixed.

Here's a close up of the image.

  I'm entering this for the following challenge

Merry Little Christmas -Anything goes

NBUS Challenge #19 My new Stamping Bella got it's first inking 

Watercooler Wednesday Anything Goes

Card Recipe
Stamps: Stamping Bella
Paper: Watercolour, 110lb white
Ink: Versafine Clair Nocturn
Accessories: Viviva Colorsheets, Clear Embossing Powder. Stamplorations Wonky Rectangle Die
Techniques: Watercolouring

CAS Christmas Challenge - Christmas Birds

Hi Everyone I'm hosting the CAS Christmas Card Challenge this month and my prompt is Christmas Birds, you must have a Robin, Dove, Cardinal or a Christmas stamp with a bird on it.

Remember we are a CAS card challenge so don't forget to check out the submission rules before you post if you want a chance of being a winner or outstanding design.

Our Guest Designer this month is Anita (Stampin with Anita).

Please join Anita and the CAS Design team in creating some great Christmas cards with little birds on them.

 

For my card I stamped the Happy Holidays frame from Rubbernecker, a Freebee stamp from a magazine which had a branch as part of the set, and the Christmas tree ornament bird is from ArtSpecially. Just some simple stamping and a few sequins to add some sparkle 😀

Card Recipe
Stamps: Rubbernecker (frame), ArtSpecially (bird), Freebee (branch)
Paper: 110lb white, Black
Ink: Ranger Archival
Accessories:  MISTI, Sequins
Techniques: Stamping

A Perfect Pearl Revival

Hi Everyone we had another Zoom crafting session in September, this time Loll had us pull out our Perfect Pearls. I can't remember the last time I used them, I almost lost them in my craft cupboard they were buried deep in the back.

Loll had us water colouring, smooshing, and Versamarking with these wonderfully sparkly powders. I think the water colouring was the best. 

Why buy pearlized paints when you can make your own with your stamp pads, powdered inks or any other colouring media.

 

Bonnie

 

Brenda 

 

Christine (that's me)

 

Darnell

Loll

 

Susan

 

Sorry this will be a long post with lots of photos

 

Painting die cuts with perfect pearls mixed with water, I added a little bit of bark for Butterfly to land on.

 

 

 I couldn't resist adding a close of this one and the next.

 

 

Watercolouring with perfect pearls mixed with distress inks.

 

I stamped on the bark, it wasn't a perfect impression but I like the effect.

 

 

 Versamark and perfect pearls

 

Versamark with perfect pearls and then stamped off with Versamark a second time.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Magenta
Paper: 110lb White, Black, Mixed Medi
Ink: Versamark, Distress inks, Versafine Clair
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Perfect pearls, Die cuts
Techniques: Heat embossing, Watercolouring, Die Cutting

Treats on Tuesday at Magenta

Hi Everyone, I'm over at Magenta with a simple Gelli print and some stamping,I hope you head over and find out how I made this card

 

 

Same card coloured in.

Stamps and stencils used.

 

 

 MC96 Field of Flowers - Extra Large 
 [MC96]  

 

 

Thinking of you - Large 
 [07.983.I] 

 

Cherry Blossom Chickadee 
 [03.127.P]

 

 

 Urban Alphabet 
 [22.057.P]

Card Recipe
Stamps: Magenta
Paper: 110lb White, Black
Ink: Black Versafine Claire
Accessories: Gloss spray paints, Clear embossing powder
Techniques: Mixed Media

CAS Christmas Card Challenge Mid Month Reminder

Hi everyone, Colleen has asked us to make a card at CAS Christmas Card Challenge all about Trees.

So pull out all those wonderful Christmas trees from your stamp stash and start stamping. There's still lots of time to join in before the end of the challenge.

For my card I used a tree from Paper Artsy (JOFY) on black Mixed Media card stock with Versamark and white embossing powder. I coloured the quirky tree in metallic paints and used one of the Paper Artsy (JOFY) sentiment stamps.

This tree works perfectly with one slimline style cards. Yes I jumped on the band wagon and bought some slimline dies 😁 I'm not sure you need the dies, we can all cut card stock to the size needed but what else would we spend our hard earned money on😈

Card Recipe
Stamps: Paper Artsy JOFY
Paper: 110lb White, Black Mixed Media card, Silver paper
Ink: Versamark
Accessories: Metallic watercolours, White Embossing Powder, Slim line die
Techniques: Watercolouring

Treats on Tuesday at Magenta

Hi Everyone, I'm over at Magenta still playing with some Embossing Glaze and silhouette stamps 😏

Stamps used

Script 
 [07.916.O] 

Abstract Matrix 
 [0780.O] 

Sandpiper 
 [0777.N] 

Thistle Silhouette 
 [0749.O]

 

Reflective Blue Heron 
 [0763.M] 

Fluttering Butterflies 
 [03.118.L]

Card Recipe
Stamps: Magenta
Paper: 110lb white, Brown, Black
Ink: Distress Oxide inks
Accessories: Distress Glaze Embossing Powders, Distress Oxide inks
Techniques: Heat Embossing

Treats on Tuesday at Magenta

Hi Everyone I'm over at Magenta with a Rice Paper background, heat embossed glazed texture paste and some fussy cut flowers. I hope you drop by and check out how I made this Mixed Media card.

Stamps and Stencils used

Old Script 
 [24.012.J] 

Daffodil Trio in Vase 
 [09.257.P] 

TM298 Birds & Blooms 
 [TM298]

Card Recipe
Stamps: Magenta
Paper: Stamperia Rice paper, 110lb White, Mixed Media
Ink: Versafine Clair
Accessories: Magenta Stencil, Texture Paste, Tim Holtz Embossing Glazes, Metallic watercolours
Techniques: Water-colouring, Heat embossing, Stencilling

CAS Christmas Card Challenge - Christmas Tree

Hi Everyone it's time for CAS Christmas Card Challenge Colleen out host for this month is asking us to make cards with Christmas trees, and our Guest Designer this month is Steph (My Paper Corner)

 

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I've used some pine trees as my Christmas tree, they are out in the forest waiting to be cut down.

The background is blended distress oxide inks, and stamped it with a Visible image background stamp using tone on tone colours.

I stamped the Carabelle Studio tree line in Versamark and used some of the Tim Holtz Embossing  Glaze so the background image would still show through. I must admit I'm loving the new Glaze embossing powders.

I used postage stamp die to frame the image.

 

I hope you have time to play along with some Christmas tree cards 😊

Card Recipe
Stamps: Visible Image, Carabelle Studio
Paper: 110Lb white
Ink: Versamark, Distress Oxide inks
Accessories: Die, Blending brushes,
Techniques: Blending, die cutting, heat embossing

Zooming Along with Die cut Stamping

Hi Everyone, I had another zoom crafting session with some friends (Bonnie, Brenda, Darnell, Loll and Susan)

We did some Print Making with die cuts as described by Kathy from The Daily Marker and The 30 day Colour Challenge

The die cuts were water coloured and the colour transferred to the watercolour paper. 

You can also add more colour to the die cut before sticking it to the paper.

 

We have a little blog hop for you to drop in and see what everyone did.

Bonnie 

Brenda 

Christine (that's Me 😏)

Darnell

 Loll

Susan

I was much happier with the colour and layout on my first card. I think my second needs just the right sentiment to balance the images.

 

 

Card Recipe
Stamps:
Paper: 110lb White, Water colour, Black
Ink: Distress oxide
Accessories: Watercolours
Techniques: Die cutting, watercolours