Watercolouring with an Elegant Writer

Hi Everyone, we all have stuff in our stash that we forget about. I recently pulled out my Black Elegant writer and used it by colouring directly on the stamp (1.3 Calligraphy nib) then adding water to the image using a brush.

I just touched the ink with the water and allowed it to seep a little, you have to keep washing the brush with clean water as the elegant writer has a lot of colour and black becomes blue green purple and gray depending on how much water and the black ink.

The first card is a Serendipity Winter farm stamp (now sold by Impression Obsession)

My Second card is a Penny Black Bird on a branch. Again I added water carefully and allowed the colour to move. Once it was dry I pulled a little more colour over the white areas. I also cut out the branches so they lay outside the frame.

I'm entering this for 

CAS Mix Up - loose Watercolouring

the Sisterhood of crafters - the colour blue

Penny Black Saturday Challenge 

Colorful options - Winter Blue

Card Recipe
Stamps: Serendipity Farmhouse, Penny Black Bird, Sentiments Simon Says Stamp
Paper: Mixed Media, 110lb Black, Textured Off White
Ink: Versafine Clair (Nocturn)
Accessories: Elegant Writer, Die, MISTI
Techniques: Die cutting, Watercolouring

Night Sky in Watercolour

I'm playing along with CAS Watercolour challenge which is create a night sky.
I used Lindys Magicals and gold Gansai Tambi water colour paints on hot press watercolour paper. Once it was dry I stamped a tree line stamp from Rubbernecker in Nocturn Versafine Clair and heat embossed it in clear embossing powder.

The close up shows the shimmer of the watercolour powders and paints. It has a bit of Northern Lights effect with the glow behind the trees.

I'm also entering this for the following challenges

Addicted to stamps and More challenge 388 Holidays

Merry Little Christmas - anything goes

Card Recipe
Stamps: Rubbernecker, Penny Black sentiment
Paper: 110lb cream, Hot press watercolour
Ink: Versafine Clair
Accessories: Lindy's Magicals, Gold Gansai Tambi, Clear Embossing powder, Stamp press.
Techniques: Waterrcolour

Two Quick CAS cards

Joining in some of the CAS challenges
this one is for CAS Waterolour Challenge cool colours.
My background is photographic paper with distress oxide ink spritzed on a craft mat and picked up. The die is a Memory box deer frame die and the sentiment is from Magenta.

My second card is for CAS Christmas, for this I used Versamark on a stencil and sookwang tape. The Versamark stops the stencil sticking to the sookwan, my first attempt was a bit of a disaster the stencil stuck and on removing it I tore the paper luckily not my stencil. I switched to using a Versamark dauber for this one.
When my stencil was in place I added red glitter and burnished it in place. I removed the stencil and added clear glitter. Because the red was put down first in the open areas of the stencil the clear picked up some of the red in the background. I then die cut the tag and added I added a strip of red foil paper to cover a scoring oopsy 😏 . The stencil and sentiment are from Magenta. 

I'm entering this for
CAS Christmas Add a tag
CAS Watercolour Cold colours
CAS Stencil use an new stencil

Card Recipe
Stamps: Magenta
Paper: 110lb white, red foil, photographic paper
Ink: Ranger archival
Accessories: glitter, die cut
Techniques: Glitter, die cut

Happy Birthday Bonnie

Hi everyone, we're celebrating another birthday over at CAS Watercolour.
Today is Bonnie's Birthday

Happy Birthday Bonnie 👍
 

I watercoloured my little daisies, and of course had to hide a little oopsie with a sequin 😒

Card Recipe
Stamps: Clearly Besotted (flowers), Local King (vase) Chocolate Baroque (sentiment)
Paper: 110 lb White, Black, Mixed Media
Ink: Ranger archival, Versamark
Accessories: Zig watercolour pens, Rectangular die, Sequins, Emerald Creek Embossing Patina powder
Techniques: Watercolouring

Stamping on Velum

CAS Watercolour is challenging everyone to watercolour on velum, I've used a poinsettia border stamp from Magenta. I stamped the image using Black Versafine Clair heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then coloured the image using Distress Oxide inks. The white berries were coloured using a white fine point pen by Pen-Touch by Sakura. I stamped the sentiment with

 I always struggle with white pens, I have a Signo white gel pen for most things and it works well, but I'm always on the look out for others which give a really white colour when used. I really like the opacity of the Pen Touch  on the velum, if I find any more I'll Let you know.

 Here is a close up of the colouring

I decided to create another card this time on white card stock coloured with Touch alcohol markers. Again I used Versafine Clair and clear embossing powder for the outline and then used my alcohol makers to colour in the image. I must admit I love the velum version the best, I'm sure this will be on my to do list for other cards.

Here is the close up of the colouring

I'm entering this for in the CAS Watercolour challenge.

 

I used the following stamps by Magenta.

02.317.O Poinsettia Border 

07.993.F Merry Christmas

Card Recipe
Stamps: Magenta
Paper: 110lb white, Velum
Ink: Versafine Clair
Accessories: Distress oxides, Touch pens, Sequins, Clear embossing powder, Pen touch white pen

Techniques: Card 1 watercolouring on Velum, Card 2 Alcohol pens

New Penny black birds

This is one of my recent purchases which I thought fun to ink up.  I love playing with the Penny black watercolour stamps, althoughI'm certainly no pro at these but I still have fun.

I used a mixture of markers and zigs to paint up the stamps, spritzed with a little water and then blend with a watercolour brush.  Once everything was dry I added some coloured archival ink on the branch and carefully over the flowers and bird using the mini archival ink pads.

I've started to really like touching up my watercolouring with coloured archival inks as they allow you to move some of your watercolours after they are applied.

The background has a blue wet on wet watercolour wash to simulate sky.  Wet on wet watercolour causes pooling of colour which is great for the sky.

I'm entering this for the CAS Watercolour challenge - birds

I'd love to hear what you think 😊

Card Recipe
Stamps: Penny Black
Paper: 110lb cream Linen, 140 Lb watercolour, Black
Ink: Ranger archival
Accessories: zigs, Distress inks, water spritzer watercolour brush.
Techniques: Direct to stamp, watercolouring

Die cut birds

I had a tiny snippet of cling wrap background with Bister left in my UFO box (it must be time to make more 😏) so I thought I would use as a background for a bird die I have.

I'm entering this for the following Challenges-
CAS Watercolour April challenge is Bird
Snippets Playground #323 for my snippet of background
AAA cards your favorite technique cling wrap background for me
Just us Girls CAS

Card Recipe
Stamps: Carbelle Studio
Paper: Coated card, black, 110lb white
Ink: Ranger Archival
Accessories: Bister (Blue and Black), cling wrap, spray starch, die cut
Techniques: Cling wrap background, die cut

Red Poppies in the garden

I've been playing with watercolouring die cut images as it's a great way to stretch your dies. I tried with a penny black holly branch a few weeks ago and loved the image.  These small poppies from Memory box were a little more difficult and and I need more practice.

The background is meant to look like a wooden fence and the grass is watercoloured and then die cut using an old My Favorite Things grass die.

I'm not sure what I'll use the card for, so I'm not going to put a sentiment on it quite yet.

I'm entering this card in for the following challenges

CAS Watercolour March challenge "Garden"

and

The Flower Challenge #18 Anything Goes

I'd love to hear from you 😏

Card Recipe
Stamps: None
Paper: Watercolour, 110lb white
Ink: None
Accessories: watercolours, Memory box Poppy die, My favorite things grass die, Embossing folder (SU)
Techniques: watercolouring, die cutting.

Watercoloured Heart Two Cards

I don't own many heart dies but out of the few I have this is one  of my favorites. I used the die against a Distress watercolour background and then used the same die cut on a piece of saran background I made a few weeks ago.  I cut out that pretty flower and butterfly portion and lay it against a layered stamped background.

 I then thought what would the die cut look like without the heart. Well I think it looks awesome.
It took the same die and trimmed off the heart to leave this pretty flower butterfly die cut.

Here's my Twofer

I'm entering this in 

CAS Watercolour

Twofer

Happy Little Stampers

Watercooler Wednesday Challenge 157

Card Recipe 1
Stamps: Ranger sentiment
Paper: 110lb white, watercolour
Ink: Ranger Archival
Accessories: Distress Oxides inks, Ali Express die
Techniques: Die cutting, Distress Oxide

Card Recipe 2
Stamps: Bo Bunny, Rubbernecker, Ranger, LimeCitron
Paper: Coated Card, 110lb white
Ink: Distress oxide, Ranger archival
Accessories: Die cut Ali express, Distress oxide stamping
Techniques: Saran wrap background, die cut.

CAS Watecolour Mid month reminder

Hi everyone, it's the middle of February and reminder time at CAS Watercolour so if you haven't headed over yet to check out all the wonderful cards you'll have so much fun.  Bonnie is our host for this month and Sue of Sue's Card Craft is our Guest Designer and of course there's the design team all with awesome inspiration.

Also I have some exciting news.  There's going to be a new Christmas Card challenge for everyone to play along with hosted by Loll and Bonnie.  I'm sure everyone will be looking forward to this one.

Now onto my card for this months CAS watercolour challenge card 😊

I found a little swatch of watercolour card with Distress oxide splatter on it in my UFO box.  It looked to pretty to throw away so I added a little more colour and stamped this scribble heart from one of the Stampers anonymous sets.  The heart is coloured using distress oxide inks then spritzed  with a mixture of water and perfect pearl.  I finally I added a few blue gems I found at the dollar store.

Then a bit of an oops, I made the typical mistake of removing the stamp from my MISTI before I was done. Distress oxides give a chalky effect on the surface which I wanted to brighten after I watercoloured, so I used a blue pen to re-outline the heart. It's a scribble heart so I thought it would be OK.  Note to self should leave my stamps in until I'm completely done 😊

You can't really see the shimmer but it's there IRL.

I hope you like it, and I'd love to hear from you.

Card Recipe
Stamps: Stampers Anonymous. Bebunny (Crafters Companion) sentiment.
Paper: 110lb white, Navy, 140lb watercolour
Ink: Ranger archival, Distress oxide
Accessories: MISTI, Gems Navy Fine line pen
Techniques: Distress oxide smoshing., watercolouring

Steampunk Canvas on Card

A year or so ago I picked up a Mont Marte canvas pad, it was on sale, at the time it seemed like a good buy.  The first time I tried to use it was with stamps was a complete failure and ended up in the garbage,  stamping was almost impossible. The surface is so uneven that even with a MISTI I couldn't get a good impression.  So back on my paper shelf and now again resurrected.
The reason I pulled out is a) I've been working on more mixed media and created a couple of art boards (I'll share some in the future) and b) CAS Mix up challenge this month is Felt Cork or Canvas.

I cut a piece of the canvas about 5" by 7" and started adding layers of colour.  I first covered it in Distress ink (Tea die) as a wash, this took away the bright white surface.  I then used some Lindy's Stamp Gang spray with some blue/green tones (Tibetan Poppy Teal).  I stamped a series of quotes from one of the Alison Bomber sets randomly across the canvas. For texture I used a couple of my crackle pastes, a piece of left over cling wrap background die cut into a gear shape, and this great button I got in a pack from Micheal's.  I thought a little Steampunk theme would be fun.

 The heart button was covered in clear gesso and painted with some Artisan Powder (La Chapelier) then sprayed with the lindys stamp gang spray while wet.  I buffed the surface of the gears to remove some of the colour and give it a worn look.  As I used Matte medium to adhere the die cit gears it took off some of the watercolour used on the card.  The die cut is a little lighter than I had intended but still works.

I'm entering this for
CAS Mix up (Canvas)
CAS Watercolour (Heart)
Craft Stampers TIMI Challenge (anything goes)
Simon says Stamp Wednesday Challenge (anything goes)

Card Recipe
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