Sugar Pea Designs Mix It Up Challenge - Feb.

I am happy to say that I've finished up my family valentines ahead of time.  No scrambling at the last minute... yay!  I used Laurel's Sketchy Saturday sketch, along with the colours & theme from the February Mix It Up Challenge on the Sugar Pea Designs blog.  Here's what I'm giving my husband:

 Those are actually shiny silver stripes... you can see them a bit better in this photo:

I'm feeling a little rusty with my colouring, so it was great to pull out my Copics and get down to business.  Here was our inspiration:

Stamp set is Better Together by Sugar Pea Designs; Patterned paper is Head Over Heels Collection by Bo Bunny; Copic Markers; Silver Adhesive tape, Close To My Heart.

Diecut Watercolour Card

If you scroll down to yesterday's post, you'll see the LOVE card that I made using Art Impressions Watercolour stamps and their Block Letter Dies... which of course, left me with the diecut letters themselves.  So another card just had to be made!  Here's what I came up with:

Pretty busy compared to yesterday's CAS version, but I purposefully wanted to show how different two cards from the same source can look.  I even had all of these greenery die cuts sitting in my stash, and found some old flowers/brads that happened to match, so it came together pretty quickly.  This is about max for me as far as embellishments go!

Stamp sets are WC Foliage Set 2 and WC Flower Set 2 both are Art Impressions (you can find them here at the Crafter's Workshop!)

Ai Watercolour LOVE card

This is the third card that we are making at my Ai Watercolour Beginner class this week... and it's perfect for a valentine, wedding card, mother's day card or for anyone you love.

I used my Art Impressions Block Letters Die Set to spell out the word "LOVE" and placed them upside down on some Washi tape to secure them, and using a ruler to keep them even.

Our class is using WC Foliage Set 2 and WC Flower Set 2, so using a selection of stamps from each, I stamped them in clusters, starting with the flowers, and filling in around them with greenery, until I got the effect I was looking for.  I placed my alphabet dies on top of the floral background, securing them in place with the Washi tape, and ran it through my die cutting machine.

                            

Here are all three of the cards that we'll be making in the class, and if you visit my blog again tomorrow, I'll show you what I did with the leftover "LOVE" pieces.  You can find all of the Art Impressions products used in my projects at the Crafter's Workhop - they have a wonderful new online store that's up and running this week!

Ai Watercolour Class Cards

I am teaching my first of two beginner classes tomorrow, using the Art Impressions Watercolour stamps, so I thought I'd share two of the cards we're making.  The class is focusing on using WC Foliage Set 2 and WC Flower Set 2, so we are doing two different floral pots:

 Both cards are using pots from the WC Ornate Container Set.  I've used a selection of markers from both Tombow & Marvy

 There are still spots left in my Tuesday evening class - click here if you're in the GTA and are interested in having a crafty evening!  *And... did you know that the Crafter's Workshop has an online store open for business?  Check them out!

Happy stamping!

Ai Little Boy Watercolour cards

Two more cards using the sweet Art Impressions "WC Little Boys Set" watercolour stamps.  I posted one a week ago, which was my very first effort using the Little Boys... and I wanted to do a simplified version of the same scene:

 Even though painting the scene was fun, I love this version.  With painted cards, I usually keep the card itself pretty simple.

 Here's another attempt at the scene from last week.  No kite, a few more trees, and I tried for a bit more depth of colour everywhere.

 I'll be back with another post tomorrow, sharing some of the cards from my weekend class.

Stamp sets used: WC Little Boys Set; WC Sitting Places Set; WC Tree Set 1; WC Dogs Set; WC Flowers Set 2; Foliage Set - all from Art Impressions.  Tombo and Marvy markers.

Ai Decorative Jar

Here's my second card using the new WC Decorative Jar Set from Art Impressions, along with the new WC Foliage Set 4.  With watercolour cards, I keep the background pretty low key, and the design of the card very simple, as I want the focus to be on the painted image.  I tied an organdy ribbon around the matted image, and adhered it with pop dots to the base:

The card comes across looking a little harsh in the photo!  It's quite soft and lovely with that pale aqua background.  Cardstock and patterned paper are Close To My Heart.

New Art Impressions Watercolours

Art Impressions continues to add the most wonderful stamp sets to their watercolour collection.  Today I'm sharing a card made with their newest foliage set WC Foliage Set 4, and the new container set that features coffee & teapots, and some delicate designs to decorate them with: WC Decorative Jar set.

The new foliage set is lovely, with some interesting new sprigs that are perfect in the Decorative Jars... and you can see the little design that comes with the set, which allows you to decorate your teapot.  I used my Marvy & Tombow markers to colour the stamps, and then used a damp paintbrush to pull out the colours.  The sentiment is also from a new Ai stamp set: WC Sentiment Set 2.

Cardstock and patterned papers are Close To My Heart.