watercoloring Archives - Inkspired Treasures

Hi everyone! I had a wonderful time at our stamping retreat over the weekend! I had two girlfriends come in from out of state, and we had lots of fun catching up with all the news! Plus, I did get LOTS of cards made, so I am VERY happy! They left last evening…but I do hope to see them again soon!

This is one of the stamp sets that I used a lot this weekend. After I started playing with it, I had SO much fun! I needed a card for the new SUO Challenge this week…SUO78 Use your Favorite Technique. I love watercoloring, so I did a twist on it with markers. For this, I used Natural White cardstock, outlined the image with markers, then used my AquaPainter to move the color. I did need to add a little more marker color in the center area by scribbling the marker on the plastic stamp case and picking up the color with my AquaPainter. My most favorite way to color!

Here are the details:

The 4 1/4 x 11 Crumb Cake is folded in half to make the base card.
I added a 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 piece of Cherry Cobbler cardstock on top.
On the 4 x 5 1/4 piece of Whisper White, I added strips of polka dot and striped designer paper from Seasons of Style DSP package. Then added the Silver 1/8 Ribbon and a strip of Old Olive cardstock on the diagonal, too.
The greeting was stamped with Old Olive ink in the upper left corner.
I stamped the poinsettia and leaves with Black Stazon, then used my AquaPainter and Cherry Cobber, So Saffron and Old Olive markers as I mentioned above. They were cut out and layered together with Stampin' Dimensionals and adhered on front.

I love it and it is so easy to color with markers! Hope you try it! Make sure to check out the rest of the SUO Challenge Design Team to see their favorite techniques! I can't wait to see them!

Easy Events stamp set was one of the FREE ones that I received for attending Convention last year. I had not mounted it yet…I know! After I started playing with it, I do find that I REALLY like it. It is a great set for beginners, too. I always like stamp sets that have words and images in the same set together. On this one, I customized the way I mounted them on wood. Some images that I thought I would only use together, I kept together. Other ones, I cut off the greeting to use separately. Isn't it nice that Stampin' Up! gives us the option of mounting them the way WE want?

I liked the Create with Connie and Mary sketch last week so much that I made another card using the sketch. I had cut out this little ducky image using a technique called "Outside the Box" that I showed last night at my Technique Class. This was the option of using punches to do the technique. They did a card using the Label Framelit. Both ways are basically the same except for the cutting mechanism. See how the little umbrella is outside the circle? I think it was Nance Leedy that showed how to do this technique with punches!

The base of the card is Whisper White. I added Lucky Limeade Patterns Paper, layered on Basic Black cardstock. I wrapped the 1 1/4" Striped RIbbon (available in my RIBBON SHARES HERE!) and secured it to the back. I gathered one end and tied a bow with Lucky Limeade Baker's Twine.

I stamped the Ducky with Black Stazon, then I used Stampin' Write Markers in So Saffron, Daffodil Delight and More Mustard to color the duck, and Lucky Limeade and Always Artichoke for the umbrella, Pumpkin Pie for the beak. I added highlights with a White Gel Pen. The Ducky is punched with the 1 3/4" Circle Punch and layered on 2" Basic Black circle. I added both of them to the Pennant Medallion of Always Artichoke. It is popped up on the front with Stampin' Dimensionals! I added the trio of large Rhinestone jewels along the top of the circle as the sketch showed.

I wish I knew someone having a baby that I could send this to right now! lol!

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