A Little more Watercolor

 I have a couple of birthdays coming up so I decided to

get started on the cards.

Here's the first one and I love the

way it came out.  I embossed the flowers

and leaves with a glittery looking

powered, but it doesn't show up

too well in the pictures.

I seem to always go for a pink/purple flower

and this time I wanted something different.

Kuretake and an addiction to flowers

 Since I love my Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush

markers, I decided to order the Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor

36 set. I found a sale going on at Hallmarkscrapbook.com and

placed my order along with MFT Scribbles stamps and die cuts.

I played around with the watercolors for a bit

and love them....so next, I

needed to do a card, of course.

I seem to be addicted to flowers......

First I stamped the images, painted them

and the dies for the flower buds....it's the black

outline around the buds.

The sentiment came off of another stamp set.

Before putting the die cuts on the flowers

a mixed up a bit of the Kuretake gold watercolor

paint in the set and 'flicked' it on the card.

Getting back to my Zig Pens

 For Christmas, my husband gave me some

stamps and dies that I requested and

I got around to playing with them.

These are Simon Says Stamps, 

the one on the left is 'Sketch Ranunculus'

and the one on the right is

'Spring Flowers'.

I am just loving how these came out!

I have got to play with my Zigs some more.

Christmas Cards

 Christmas Card sending seems to

becoming a lost tradition. Fewer and fewer

people are sending cards.  I think it's a shame. 

My mother use to send them and her list

had 40-50 people. Mine was no were near that many.

We got the fewest last year that we'd ever

received, so I cut my list back. And I took a short cut

 on making our cards this year.

I went with the 'print and cut'

option instead of piecing.

I think they came out cute though.

Well next year, I can't say I will be making or

sending any, as this year we got only 4.

WHAT????

Like I said, a dying tradition!!

Another version of 'watercoloring'

 After mulling it over for quite a while, I decided to 

bite the bullet and purchase the Zig Clean Color Real Brush

pens by Kuretake.  And being a crafter and not 

doing things half way, I had to have the 80 pen set.

I do not regret this purchase at all!!

I sat down and decided to try my hand.

I am not a painter, but a crafter!

But I am happy with the results!

Something simple

I'm trying my hand at using watercolor pencils instead

of distressed ink to do some coloring with.

Here's a card I just fooled around with, while not

perfect, it came out fair I think.  I will continue

 to practice.

A Birthday card

I had a friend ask me the other day if

I would make a card for her for her grandson's 1st

birthday.

The theme is Mickey Mouse, so this is 

what we finally came up with.

I thought it came out pretty cute.