Love You Lots

Have you been scrolling through the Friday Inspiration File for the project you'd like to use for the 300 Weeks Of Inspiration Challenge on Friday?  Have you started working on your project yet? If you're not sure what I'm talking about, check out {this post} from Monday.  I hope you are going to participate.  The prize is pretty good! 

To get you in the mood to participate I have a card inspired by the one and only Debby From Lime Doodle Design!  I have added her to The File more times than I can count, but she's just.that.good!  If you don't know Debby, you're missing out.  The card I CASED was from Week #297.

I had a lot of fun creating this card.  My colors did not turn out as vibrant as Debby's.  I also had difficulty getting my white gel pen to create a bold white line like Debby was able to achieve.  All in all though I'm happy with my first attempt at creating watercolor plaid and I think my hubby will like it, warts and all ;)!

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Mama Elephant Clear Stamp ORGANIC BLOOMS	Wplus9 BORDERS AND BACKGROUNDS 3 Clear Stamps CL-WP9B&B3	Wplus9 4 BAR STITCHED RECTANGLES Designer Dies WP9D164	Wplus9 LOVE MOM LAYERS Designer Dies WP9D-116
Wplus9 HEARTS AND CLOUDS Designer Dies WP9D-010	Wplus9 FLOWER DOODLES Designer Dies WP9D120	Wplus9 LOVE NOTES Designer Dies WP9D-012	*Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER Inkssentials Surfaces ISW39532
White Cardstock	Ranger Embossing Powder WHITE EPJ36685	Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts PW200 Wagner	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad BLACK SOOT Ranger TIM19541	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad FIRED BRICK Ranger TIM20202	Hero Arts Water MIST SPRAY BOTTLE Mister WM101

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Twinkiling Watercolor Doodles + Sweet Sunday

I started this morning with a few watercolor doodles.  I pulled out my Twinkling H2Os and was just playing around and experimenting.  I love how these pieces turned out and will use them on some projects soon.

As some of you may know, I love to bake!  For the last few months I have been baking about once a week.  I usually try a new recipe that looks good to me.  Today, however, I am making cookies that I made last week because they were that good. 

 

 

They are Cinnamon Chip Pumpkin Cookies

from Sally's Baking Addiction.  They are so easy to make too!  Each time, I double the recipe because I love to give away what I bake.  Everything I have made using Sally's recipes have turned out delicious so I really trust her and turn to her when I want to try something new.  With my leftover pumpkin I made her Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread.

 

 

I have made her Doughnuts too! 

 

 

 Do you bake?
Do you have any fall favorite recipes?

 

Cardstock: Watercolor Paper
Stamps: WP9 Holiday Boughs
Dies: WP9 Holiday Boughs, Love Mom Layers Die
Other: TwinklingH2Os, 0.1 Black Pen

WP9 October 2015 Release {Day 4}

WPlus9 October 2015 Release

Available 10/5/15

 

 Happy Day-After-World-Card-Making-Day Day! ;)

Did you participate? I wanted to, but didn't get around to it.  I baked early in the morning and then got into cleaning the house.  I invited my parents over for dinner and to help me eat all the Cinnamon Chip Pumpkin Cookies I baked! Before I knew it, WCMD had come and gone.  That's alright, I don't need a special day as a reason to make cards.  I pretty much do it every day anyway!

 

 

Today I am showcasing another beautiful new set being released this month, called Holiday Boughs.  Starting with a piece of watercolor paper, I did all of my white embossing first.  Then I went back in with more leaves and the secondary sentiment and embossed them in gold.  Both sentiments are from the new Christmas Greetings stamp set. I added color using a few shades of green distress ink and let that dry.  Once the panel was dry, I die cut it with the Love Mom Layers die.

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! All of these great new products will be available tomorrow!

For more inspiration:

Dawn

Joni

Kelly

Maureen

 

Holiday Boughs

Available 10/5/15

 

Christmas Greetings

Available 10/5/15

 

 

Cardstock: WP9 White, Watercolor Paper
Stamps: WP9 Holiday Boughs, Christmas Greetings
Ink: Versamark Ink, Distress Ink
Dies: WP9 Love Mom Layers Die
Other: White and Gold Embossing Powder

Watercolor Over Die Cuts

 

Today I'm joining Papertrey Ink for their weekly

Make It Monday Challenge: Watercolor with Die Cut Stencils.

 

I used a die, called Text Black Party,  to create my stencil.  I die cut it from a sheet of masking paper.  I placed the stencil, or mask, onto white cardstock and burnished it with my bone folder.  I used dye ink as my watercolor.  I swiped several ink pads onto my craft mat and spritzed them with water.  I then dipped the cardstock into the colors, letting them drip and pool.  I allowed it to dry before adding more colors.  At the end, I added splatters of color using a paintbrush loaded with ink tapped against my bone folder.

 

 

My second card started out the same way, but rather than smoosh the cardstock into the dye ink watercolor, I brushed each color on in horizontal stripes.

 

 

I added the same splatters as before and then allowed them both to dry completely before removing the mask.   Once the masks were removed I was able to do some stamping and embellishing.

 

 

I used Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal and Ocean Tides ink to create my watercolors.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

 

Cardstock: PTI White, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores
Stamps: SS Birthday
Ink: PTI AM, HS, TT, OT, Versafine Onyx
Dies: PTI DE Banner Die, Text Block Party, SSS Stitched Rectangles
Other: Masking Paper, Rhinestones

WPlus9 Throwback Thursday Challenge

 

On the third Thursday of each month Maureen shares projects showcasing an older WPlus9 stamp set on the WPlus9 Design Blog, Throwback Thursday.  This month she has challenged everyone to join her and have a chance to win a $20 GC to the WPlus9 store!  I'm joining in just for fun and to encourage you to play along!  All of the details can be found {here}

 

 

Part of the challenge is to use  Maureen's projects as inspiration.  I chose to recreate her watercolor panel using gelatos.  Gelatos are a great medium, fun and versatile.  There are so many ways to use them.  I decided to lay down color from the gelato onto my craft mat and then pick it up with a wet paint brush.  I painted my color on in a gradient and set it aside to dry.  I die cut my watercolor piece with a die from Sunshine Layers and then stamped some fun clouds from an old favorite, Heartfelt Mix.  I couldn't resist adding in some of the newest stamps and dies from Unforgettable. 

 

 

In order to stamp my clouds on the card base in the correct spot, I used a stamp positioner.  I stamped the cloud onto the stamp positioner's clear sheet.  Placed the watercolor panel on the card base where I wanted it to be mounted later.  I placed the clear stamp positioner sheet on top of the already stamped clouds and carefully slid the watercolor piece out of the way.  This left the stamp positioner in the exact spot it needed to be for the clouds to match up when the watercolor panel was mounted.  Sounds complicated, but was really quite simple and easy to do.

 

I hope you'll play along!

 

 

Cardstock: TH Watercolor Paper, White
Stamps: WP9 Unforgettable, Heartfelt Mix
Ink: Versafine Onyx
Dies: WP9 Sunshine Layers, Unforgettable, PTI Double Ended Banner
Other: Gelatos, Rhinestones

Lovely

 

Good Morning

I had some time yesterday and I wanted to use my Distress Markers.  I stamped this floral cluster from Paper Smooches, Blossoming Buds, repeatedly in Versafine Onyx ink to create an all-over pattern for my background.  I heat embossed the images with clear powder and then painted in the images with water and color scribbled onto my craft mat.

 

 

As usual, I had to coat the whole thing in glitter!  I pinked the edges using a die from PTI. I die cut the vellum piece using WPlus9's Holiday Apertures dies before embossing my sentiment in white.

 

 

Have a Lovely Day! 

 

Yesterday's Instagram Preview

 

Anything Goes

Cardstock: WP9 Ballet Slippers, Recollections White, PTI Vellum
Stamps: PS Blossoming Buds
Ink: Versafine Onyx, Versamark Ink
Dies: WP9 Holiday Apertures, PTI Pinking Shears Border Die
Other: MS Glitter, TH Distress Markers, White Embossing Powder

Watercolor Flora & Fauna

 

Good Morning!

I had some time yesterday to get into my craft room.

I wanted to try watercoloring these WPlus9 Flora & Fauna 2 images.  Until now, I have just used the images 'as is' stamping the outlines. They look beautiful that way too, but I wanted to wait to try this technique until I had a little quiet and extra patience to take my time and see what I could do.  It's not perfect, by far, but I think it turned out pretty!

 

 

 

I heat embossed my images in white and then

I used distress inks as my medium.  I find that success lies in the patience. Drying in between adding layers of color.

 

  

I'm excited to try again!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

I hope you're having a great weekend!

 

Trying a new format with larger photos and text.

What do you think? Which do you prefer?

 

Cardstock: Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper, Recollections 110lb.
Stamps: WP9 Flora & Fauna 2, Lucky Stars
Ink: Versamark, Distress Ink Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Fire Brick, Peacock Feathers, Mowed Lawn, Iced Spruce, Seedless Preserves
Other: White Embossing Powder, Shimmer Mist