Color splash

Hello.

Kate here today, and I have a card inspired buy our Color splash challenge sponsored by Ellen Hutson. 

You can see all of the design team samples and enter here.

I love the color splash challenges and I love seeing all the different way people are inspired by them.

I wanted to make a monochrome scene and just have one element of that scene to have color. 

What better sets to use than gleeful gardens and critters ever after.

I started by stamping some images directly onto my water colour card and then masked them and stamped some images. 

All images are stamped in black archival ink.

To colour the black I used just one black Inktense pencil and a water brush.

the black had to be coloured in a couple of layers and I let each one dry fully before adding more.

For the castle I used a pink clean color brush from zig along with the water colour brush. these pens really give a  nice vibrant color .

The sentiment was simple stamped straight onto the panel.

Once all the images were dry I added some wink of stella to the castle and the white parts of the mushrooms and also the stars.

Some sequins and gel pen dots and the card is finished.

Thanks for looking.

Happy birthday to you

Hello.

I'm so looking forward to spring and seeing lots of colourful flowers.

That's my inspiration for today's card.

I absolutely love the Gleeful gardens stamp set and I don't think I've shown it enough ink yet lol.

To start I stamped lots of images in black archival ink into water colour card and then coloured with Inktense pencils and a water brush.

I tend to add small amounts of pencil as the pencils hold a lot of colour then once it dries you can add more if needed.

Once everything was coloured and dry I die cut all the images. 

My card base was coloured with a few different distress inks and a blender tool then i splashed some turquoise perfect pearls and water over it.

This makes a beautiful sparkle in real life.

I adhered all of the images to my card base and then added the scalloped stitched border and a white stripe of card with the birthday border.

To finish I added some sequins.

Thanks for looking.

Watercolored thank you card ...

Hi Friends!!

It's the first Saturday of the month ... and it's Lenny from the FIT here with you today!
Hope you're having a great Saturday!! 
I'm still enjoying my summer break ... relaxing!! 

For my post today, I did some watercoloring again! I must say; I totally looooove my new
Winsor and Newton watercolors! Those colors are so vibrant!!! 

I was inspired by these photos (from Pinterest) 

  

Here's my card . . .

First, I stamped out my images with VersaFine ink and

then I colored them with my new watercolors.

After everything was dry, I added lots of water and a tiny bit of blue

for the background. 

For a complete list of supplies: click HERE!!

Thanks so much for dropping by today!!
And .... be sure to check out the blog on Monday ... for another fun and fab new
challenge!! 

Happy Saturday! 

hugs . . .

lenny

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.

Birthday card and matching decorated gift jar

Hi Lawnscapers

It's Lenny here with you again! 
First of all ... Happy Easter for those who celebrate! Hope the Easter bunny brought you lots of chocolate ... and maybe some crafty goodies! :) 

For my post today, I made a birthday card and I decorated a gift jar so that it matches the card!! 
I used some of my new Lawn Fawn stamp sets; "Gleeful gardens" and "Gingham backdrops".

 

Here are some photos . . .

For a full list of supplies: click HERE!

Stay tuned for another fun challenge on Monday!! 

Happy weekend!

hugs . . .

lenny

Gleeful Gardens Card Set

Hi everyone! It's Yuki here with a super cute card set featuring the new "Gleeful Gardens" set. For this card set, I decided to use the same layout and design and just switch up the images and sentiments.

I started off by using two of the smaller stitched rectangle dies to cut a frame from dark brown cardstock. I used the smaller of the two rectangle dies to die cut the sky from light blue cardstock. I then used the stitched hillside border dies to cut three hills from olive cardstock.


I glued the sky and grassy hills directly onto the background panel and used foam tape to mount the frames for a little added dimension. I then colored all of the images using Copic Markers and cut them out using the coordinating dies.

 
For the background panel, I used the A2-sized stitched rectangle die to cut three pieces of ivory cardstock. I then used a stitched border die to shorten the width of the panels. I then stamped the sentiments directly onto the panels. I die cut thin strips of pattern paper from the "Let's Polka: Mon Amie" using the medium stitched scalloped border and adhered the strips behind the background panels. To finish the cards, I mounted all of the layers onto khaki cardbases using foam tape.



Thanks again for stopping by and be sure to visit the Lawnscaping Challenges Facebook page for even more awesome inspiration and visit my blog for a full list of supplies used to create today’s projects. And don't forget to check out the latest Lawnscaping Challenge: Distress Addicts, you have until Wednesday to play along! ♥