A huge Art Impressions Sale!

Happy Memorial Day weekend to all of my American friends... and simply Happy Weekend to all of the rest of us!  *Art Impressions is having an amazing 33% off sale - click HERE to head over to shop on their website.  Great time to pick up your favourite stamps, stock up on watercolour supplies... you name it.  Enjoy!

2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

Today is the start of the 2020 Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Blog Hop, so I dug into all my coffee themed goodies to put together a little something:

The plaid is from my favourite paper pad of the moment - Goldenrod by One Canoe Two.  All stamps and dies are from Verve - still my go-to products for coffee cards!

 The pink and silver papers behind the sentiment are both lovely and pearlescent, providing lots of shimmer along with the matte sequins.  I die cut the coffee word die and layered it 4 times to give it a little extra height.

Check out the hop - there will be hundreds of entries, and lots of fun prizes for participants :o)

Quilt Set card

I have a card to share using one of the Art Impressions Girlfriends' sets today.  This is Quilt Set:

 These are the lovely Goldenrod papers by One Canoe Two.  I love the colours.  The gals are coloured in Copic markers, then fussy cut and adhered with foam dots.  That pink paper has a lovely pearlescent shimmer to it, behind the image.

Snowmen cards

I am doing a lot of TV colouring during our lockdown!  So I've made a point of using my Copics to colour images that I'd stamped previously.  I had these two from Art Impressions ready to go, and paired them with some Simple Stories papers:

Christmas Cookies

I love the "How You Bean?" stamp set from Lawn Fawn... and when I saw the Christmas Cookie Add-on stamp set, I thought it would make some very fun Christmas cards.  I did a little TV colouring this week, and was able to put together NINE of these!

 Images are coloured with Copic markers, and then I used the matching dies to quickly cut everything out.  I used up bits of older Christmas papers that I had sitting in my stash to put a few different looks together.

 On the plaid paper, I embossed the sentiment in white so that it would stand out.

 This feels so good to get a jump on my Christmas cards - I've been wanting to do a little of this while we're staying home this spring.

Inspired By

A challenge!  I haven't played along with a challenge in so long... but I had this cherry image stamped and ready to go, so when I saw the inspiration photo for the Inspired By challenge, I decided to colour it up:

This is from the Exclusive Cherry Set by Art Impressions, that is available only at Scrapbook.com (link below!).  I did a fairly quick colour of the image using my Copic markers, then cut it out with the Inside Out Stitched Rounded Rectangle die, and mounted it on some Echo Park Dots & Stripes paper.  Here was our inspiration:

Exclusive Rose Set for Watercolor Weekend

 For the upcoming Watercolour Weekend on the Art Impressions blog, I have coloured up the pretty rose bouquet image from the Exclusive Rose Set available at Scrapbook.com:

I used one of the Double Stitched A2 Rectangle dies to cut my Canson XL Watercolor paper, and put it into my Misti along with the image that I chose.  This allowed me to colour it in stages, using multiple colours and restamping when needed.  I used my Tombow Dual Brush Marker #725 Rhodamine Red to colour the buds and the outer petals of the roses, then switched to #993 Chrome Orange for the rose centers.  I softened the lines with a damp #1 paintbrush, then scribbled them both onto my palette and painted in the pink and orange tones, concentrating them in the crevices between petals.  I did a similar process for the leaves, stamping them first in #177 Dark Jade, pulling out the colour with my damp brush - and then restamping after colouring the veins and stems with #249 Hunter Green.  I picked up #126 Light Olive from my palette, added touches of this brighter green to the leaves, and added some #992 Sand to the woody stems.  

To finish the painting, I picked up #565 Deep Blue, and painted it as my background, concentrating it more, closer to the image.  The sentiment is from the Exclusive Daisy Set, stamped in Onyx Black Versafine ink.  After matting the image with a 1/16" black mat, I attached it to my base with 3D adhesive, then added a sprinkling of tiny white pearls.