Scripty watercolour

Hello. 

I am  thrilled to be here with my first post. 

I wanted to combine two of my favourite things.....

Watercolour and scripty fonts.

I have 3 very different looks featuring both to show you.

First up I have gone all out rainbow ...another favourite thing :)

To start i simply heat embossed the scripty "thank you" from scripty sayings stamp set repeatedly in white. 

I staggered them so that they were not all on top of one another.

Then to add the colour i used some watercolour markers.

I drew on the colour then loosened it with  a very wet water brush.

Once that was all dry i die cut the scripty thanks and left the background white, although id like to try with black as i think there would be a better contrast.

Again have have stamped the scripty sentiment more than once however this time i used archival ink in black.

I changed the colours to and love how different it looks compared to the first rainbow of colours.

And finally very clean and simple with minimal watercolour.

The sentiment is again stamped in black archival ink as I'm using watercolours.

I used the long tail from the sentiment as somewhere to place the little flower from Gleeful gardens.

The flower was coloured with the same watercolour markers and once dried i added some wink of stella and glossy accents to it. 

All three cards are finished simply with some clear sequins.

Thanks do much for looking.

Copic No-Colouring Galore

Hi everyone! Marina here! I'm sure this technique isn't new to everyone but I would still like to share this card and share some tips I've learn and hopefully, it would benefits you.

You can use any light copic friendly ink. I use Distress Ink. Mainly because it's the only ink line that I have many colours of. I used the images from the Sweet Smiles set.

Tip 1 : I stamped the machine off to the side to create some kind of dimension even though everything is more or less one layer except for the sentiment. I really like doing this especially for one layer card.

Tip 2 : The great thing about no-line colouring is, you don't have to trouble yourself and create a mask. If you can see it in the image above, some of the balls overlaps. But because you will not see the line in the end result, this doesn't matter :) 

I hope you like this card as much as I did :) 

Summer fun!

Kim here this morning and I am so very excited to share my first post with you as a newbie member of the Lawnscaping FIT team!  I don't know about you but summer has finally arrived, vacation is around the corner and the weather couldn't be any better! So I chose a BBQ theme for my project today also featuring, of course, critters! I thought this was appropriate as we discovered a little squirrel family during the winter in our backyard always fun... Ha! Haven't seen a bear yet but I do live in Québec nothing is impossible!

For my card I used the largest of the small stitched rectangles with Neena Solar White 80 lb cardstock and lightly applied Tumbled Glass Distress ink. I die cut another stitched rectangle in the green cardstock and used the Grassy Border die twice.  I Copic coloured all of my images and I used multiple Lawn Fawn sets:

Critters in the Burbs;

Party Animal;

Let's BBQ;

and Gleeful Gardens

I then topped off with of course, a few sequins.

Summer is birthday season in my family this one will go to my youngest nephew! 

Thanks so much for taking the time and don't forget you still have time to participate in the current Lawnscaping challenge Sparkle and Shine with a chance to win a generous prize from the wonderful Ellen Hutson!

Ink Smooshing to Create an Ocean Background featuring So Jelly

Hello crafty friends! It's Jess and today I have a card featuring the fun ink smooshing technique. I think it creates a cool background for the animals to 'swim' in but I also used it to color the animals before die cutting them. For more on how I achieved this look check out my video.

As discussed in the video I added some distress ink to a clear block spritzed it with water and smooshed it down to get this watercolor look. I even added some sequins at the end to tie in the Sparkle and Shine from Challenge 109. There are so many great ocean animal sets from Lawn Fawn that would be perfect for this technique. 

I hope you enjoyed my card and video! Don't forget to participate in the latest challenge Sparkle and Shine!