Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

 Here I am with my card for the first of the October Happy Little Stampers Challenges.

 

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE. IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED! 

I embossed the flowers and sentiment from the Doodled Flowers set with gold embossing powder on watercolour paper. Then coloured them with my Gansai watercolours using some nice bright colors. I was quite pleased with the finished result, but they are reminding me of slices of citrus fruit!

There's lots more inspiration on the challenge blog.

Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour

Another month has flown by and it's time for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers. The first one of course is the Watercolour Challenge. An easy optional twist as well!

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

I decided to use NBUS stamp from Simon Says Stamp, which I had been wanting to use. I stamped 

and coloured it with SU markers and a water brush. So far so good but thought a few splatters would add some interest, so added some gold ones which I promptly smudged. Rather than completely start again I fussy cut the flowers - it would probably have been quicker to stamp and paint again! Then stuck it to a white card blank and added the sentiment. I still think it needs some splatters, but have decided not to tempt fate again!

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Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge.

Can you believe it's July already! Where is this year going? I do know it's going too fast though, but it's time for the new challenge over at Happy Little Stampers. As always it's Anything Goes but there's an optional twist of "Birthday". Easy - right?

I did some smooshing this month! I swiped some DO Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio on my craft mat, spritzed a little water on it and smooshed my card across it a few times until I was happy with the result. When it was dry I stamped the Uniko stamp with versamark and DO Faded Jeans then clear embossed it. I then used Mermaid Lagoon and a waterbrush to colour in parts of the stamp such as the large Birthday.

I added a strip of washi tape to the card base either side of the panel. My photo seems to have come out a bit too blue as the background behind the card is really grey!

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to sp!end at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

 IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

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Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

Gosh this year is really going fast!! Time for the June challenge at Happy Little Stampers. As always it is Anything Goes but the optional twist is Smile

 I decided to be a bit different this month and move away from my usual white card, and use black instead.I have used a NBUS stamp set  which I embossed using gold embossing powder and then  I dug out my H2Os which I havent used in ages. I'd forgotten how lovely they are to use, and how good they are on black card. IRL this is really shimmery.

I mounted the panel on some turquoise glitter card, then on to a black card base. Then I made another on acrylic paper, mounted on to a turquoise card base. I used exactly the same colour paints, just to see how different they look.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

 IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Challenge

 I'm trying to type this post up in between repairing some of hubby's military miniatures (toy soldiers to the uninitiated!) I need to find something better than Araldite! Anyway this one is now laying face down and hopefully his flag will stick. So on to more interesting things like the new challenge at Happy Little Stampers.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!
And here's my card:

I have used a stamp from Simon Says Stamp  monthly kit which has been sitting unused for some time, and coloured it with my Zig Clean Color pens and a waterbrush. The sentiment is from HLS Dandelion Wishes.

There's lots more inspiration on the challenge blog from my talented teammates.

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

It's time for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers Watercolour challenge, as always it is anything goes with an optional twist.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop!
 Check out all the details HERE
 IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

I decided to use a new stencil from UNIKO that arrived just as my craft room became unusable with the Brushos that i'd eventually found after putting them in a "safe place".

I sprinkled rainbow colours over the stencil and spritzed liberally with water. I did use all the rainbow colours apart from indigo, but unfortunately the vellum is hiding the green and yellow!

Do come and join in the fun and check out what the rest of the team have made.

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.
IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

For this card I used a Little Claire stamp that I got when they used to do monthly kits. I used watercolour pencils to colour it in, then mounted it on black then onto a cream DL card blank.

I hope you'll be able to join in this month.

Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Challenge

 Gosh here we are in February already! And it's time for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge.

 Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!


And I'm delighted to say that I have found my Brushos -yay! So I had a play with them and used some scarlet and purple on watercolour card. My original idea was to use it as a background but it evolved into a diecut heart instead! The die is a Tim Holtz set - Scribbles and Splat!

I mounted it on a panel cut with a Penny Black die and inked round the edges with Distress Oxides. The sentiment is from Uniko.

Once again there is lots of fabulous inspiration from my fellow DT members.

 

Happy Post!

A Happy New Year to you all!

I am thrilled to tell you that I am now part of the Happy Little Stampers Design Team, and today it's time for the first challenge of 2018.

I used a NBUS Uniko stamp called Floral Lily which I embossed in Pewter, and coloured with Distress Oxides.

I'm afraid the photo is really rubbish, due to trying to take it amongst all the builders' disruption. I will be so VERY glad when they have finished, I can get my house back and my new craft room - can't wait!

I do hope you will join in the challenge, theres lots of lovely inspiration for you.

Architecture at Cardz 4 Guyz

It's my turn to choose the challenge at Cardz for Guyz and I have chosen "Architecture". This gives plenty of scope and I had a hard time deciding what to use. Eventually I went with another unused Michael Powell stamp.

I stamped it on some smooth watercolourpaper using the Misti, which was a life saver as this stamp really did not want to give a clear image. Even after 3 stampings it was still not very clear, but I figured it would add to the watercolour effect! I used some watercoour paints and lots of water.  Then I found a tall narrow card, lurking at the bottom of my card blank box, a leftover from a QVC buy!

I'm looking forward to seeing your makes, and don't forget to have a look at my teamies' makes as well.

Italian Holiday

Hope everyone in the UK is enjoying this hot weather! Personally I'm finding it a bit too warm!  The challenge for the next two weeks at Make My Monday is Travel/Vacation., chosen by Joan.

I have been wanting to play with this Michael Powell stamp for a while, in fact ever since I made this card. I have used the same layout as it seemed to suit the stamp shape. The scene reminds me of a Tuscan scene, and I can imagine spending a holiday/vacation here.

Watercolour for Cardz 4 Guyz! C4 Guyz

This week the challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz is "No Patterned Papers" . I was going to go down the CAS route, but changed my mind when I was looking through my box of NBUS stamps for Darnell's recent challenge as I found this unused stamp by Michael Powell.  I bought it and another one at The Make It Show a few years ago, then wasn't sure what to do with them. Recently though I have been watching video tutorials on watercolouring and decided to have a go.

I used Distress markers and followed the colouring on the back of the stamp fairly closely. I have to say I was really pleased with my first attempt.