Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Two - Simple Round Brush Flowers Card

I still love how quick and easy these flowers are! I tuned this mini panel into a mini Thank You card.


I used a Spellbinders die to make the panel prettier, a Heo Arts sentiment and Donna Salazar Colorbox ink in Patina. I freehand cut the banner :)
Thanks for looking.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day 5 - Lesson 4 Mini Take 2

I have these mini Prima Bloom watercolour panels so I decided to retry this technique on a smaller scale with less leaves for a simpler look.

I used Semco and Plaid One Stroke Brushes with Windsor & Newton Cotman Watercolours.
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day 5 Card Example One

Hey again, I really love this technique, it's so quick and easy. I know I overwork mine but I still love how they turned out. This is all done using a simple brush stroke and a round brush!

I used Prima Bloom Watercolour paper, #12 Plaid One Stroke Round Brush,  and Royal Langnickel tubes.

For this one I used the Windsor & Newton Cotman watercolours.

I can't wait to turn these into cards. I did as Jennifer suggested and used smaller panels to make these paintings. Much less intimidating!
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Two - Variegated Wash

The funny thing with the washes is that I actually started doing them pre class when I was doing my colour charts. I used the leftover paint on some in a cheap Monte Marte watercolour book to use up my leftover colours. I thought I could cut them up for cards at a later date...

During class I used the colours I attempted to do my butterflies, you will see why later...

Then I switched to Arches Cold Pressed 300gsm paper.

So far I've only actually completed one card  which you will see soon, so fingers crossed I can get some more done...
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Day Two - Simple Round Brush Flowers

I have to say I love love love the simple round brush flowers as they are fairly easy. I had kids watching me do them and then copying :) I started with a full page Monte Marte 180gsm paper with My Cotmans... I learnt a valuable lesson. This paper was very thirsty and I ended up using quarter of a pan of paint :O

Then I used A small Prima Paper with a Semco number 3 brush... Not great for watercolour...

And another smaller go at Monte Marte with Royal Langnickel tubes paints before finally moving onto Arches Cold Pressed.

Three together,

Unfortunately my prima panel ended up with paint on a corner but I'm hoping I can still salvage it!
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Watercolor For Cardmakers Intermediate Preclass Color Charts

These are my colour charts for Watercolor for Cardmakers. I used Windsor & Newton  Cotman watercolours on a variety of papers.

I have used Ranger heavyweight, Aldi Baroque 150gsm, Monte Marte 300gsm, Monte Marge 150gsm, Prima Bloom Collection and Semco 230gsm watercolour papers.
Getting my paint on!
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Ps still have no net :( Working on it :)

Stretch You Stamps 2 Ombre Repeat Stamping

I am back to the See Dee's stamp set again for this card from Day 8 of Stetch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes. I have used a combination of Prima and Distress Inks for the Ombre as well as versamark and Hero Arts White embossing powder for the flowers. I used a mini version of a technique from Watercolor For Card Makers for the banner. Only a few more days to get posted yay lol.
Happy Scrappin'
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Stretch Your Stamps 2 Random Patterns Part 2

Hiya so I wasn't super happy with the last card so I tried again, this time with the spotty circle from the Fiskars Shapes N' Such set. I also used Prima Hybrid inks for the first time and loved them! I used Vanilla, Rose Petal, Sky and Lilac as well as Archival Black ink to stamp my sentiment from Cloud 9. If you're liking what I'm making check out the class at Online Card Classes.
Happy Scrappin'
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Special 200th Blog Post Mini Easel Card With Drawer Featuring Candy Lane

So for my 200th blog post I thought I would have a break from SYS2 and post my Daughters 11th birthday card. As you can see it has a bit of a twist. It's an Easel box card so that you can put whatever you want in the little drawer that comes out. Here is a link to the youtube vid I watched to show me how to do this. I used two colours however because that's what miss 11 wanted lol.

I used KaiserCrafts Candly Lane 6" paper pad for this card 'cause if you can't tell . . . my daughters favourite colour is hot pink lol. I also used dies from Spellbinders and Lifestyle crafts as well as archival ink for the sentiment and prima flowers nd some resin floers from Ebay.

For the foam insode I just used some that came in something new once upon time. I have a box full of this stuff just for that purpose. She also got a ring and bracelet in this so I cut slots using my Tim Holtz Scissors and my Prima Knife.
Happy Scrappin'
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Stretch Your Stamps 2 Word Art Stenciling

This is my second technique for day 3 of Stretch Your Stamps 2 at Online Card Classes and I have to say in trying to keep up with class I am a little bit too lazy to to attempt the other two right now, maybe at the end when I have more time lol. For this card I used a Heidi Swapp butterfly stencil with distress inks and Primas Notary stamp along with Versamark and Zing Aqua embossing Powder on a Fiskars Laughter Quote stamp for a pretty cool one layer card.
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Stretch Your Stamps 2 Multi Layer Emboss Resist Part 3 Bonus

I couldn't waste this lovely piece I had left over from Stretch You Stamps 2 over at Online Card Classes so I decided to turn it into a card too. I added some Prima flowers and a bling brad to give the card a lift. The cardstock I chose for the card base fits right in between the orange and yellow mixing :)
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More of My First Mini Part 5

Getting there :) The next images we got a little Australian followed by a lil camp :) lol

 Ok so we started with Prima and KaiserCraft papers, spellbinders butterfly circles, a tag cut with my ecraft and some brads and pearls.

 Flowers close up ;) I added white adirondack paint dabber around around the edges of the mini albums mini album lol

 The first page flips open for some journalling with some more flowers and brads. The darker pages you see here are from a magazine from years ago lol.

 The lace holds the book in place as it is fully removable.

I guess this is where we get camp haha. I used Lifestyle Crafts dies for the lettering and corner flourish. I love this KaiserCraft paper, all the white lines are flocked.

 A little Priscilla with both my girls.

And some Dame Edna for the Aussies and Brits who know who she is lol.

 And then we went a little Gaga. The panel that says Gaga is actually a little teeny pocket to hold the tag that's behind in place.

The tag has a Lifestyle Crafts Tab It Kit tab on it.

The back was done with Distress Stains and edged and stamped with distress inks. Hopefully all these journalling spots have been put to good use . . .
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My First Finished Mini Album Part 4

Soooo I have been computerless for a few weeks thanks to my cat knocking my laptop down . . . Why do they love to sleep on keyboards, even when you are not using it? Lol. So that's why it's been oh so quiet here. But I'm back and all fixed :)

Ok so I still have quite a bit more to post of the mini so here we go :)

 Lifestyle  Crafts Corners and alphabet dies are used for accents on this page.

 I have used Thickers, Bella stickers, more pearls, a pearl brad and an Idea'ology crown from Time Holtz for this little books cover. To close I used some Hemptique white hemp cord coloured with Distress Ink in Worn Lipstick.

 Just a Little Marylyn :)

 This is a smaller trifold flip out panel decorated with Prima flowers, brads lifestyle crafts dies and ribbon.

 My youngest loved the wobble board. I forgot to take a pic of the other side though. OOPS!

So we are three more pages through :) about halfway I should think.
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More of My First Finished Mini Part 3

So I started posted pics of this mini and never got to the end... What a slacker lol. I had to fit many photos into a small space so you will see many flip out, pull out or and opening pages. I tried to make them all different too :)

A day at the Aquarium in Sydney with some pretty prima papers.

A lifestyle crafts window die to reveal the dugong :)

I made a flip out book and decorated it with a spellbinders butterfly circle and prima flowers

Added lots of pearls to this page with Kaisercraft papers.

A spot for journalling. All edges are inked with either Adirondack white paint or Distress ink or a combo of both lol

Fully opened with my youngest getting touchy feely with the local wildlife. We never know from one trip to the next if she will touch anything or not lol. I will Schedule a post a month to finis showing my Mini :)
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Creative Chemistry 102 Day 2 Part One Girly Grunge Style

I love how much we learn in Creative Chemistry! So many awesome ideas. Some of the designers really kick it up a notch too! So without further ado lets  get the first technique happening! This is my second attempt as my first didn't go so well lol. I used 3 sizes of punchinella for the spots. Crafters workshop and Prima stencils for the rest.

Mixed Media

I hunted high and low for something I needed to do this technique in the end I winged it with my ebosser! lol Again my first attempt was a major fail!

Embossing Take 1

Embossing Take 2

I didn't flick oops...

Embossing Through

Ok so that's it for part one :) Part two coming up shortly

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More of My Kaisercraft/ Prima Mini

There are quite a few pages to this mini. So instead of inundating you with a super large post with way too many details I am going to break it up into more manageable sections like I did for the cover. I will also try to share in the order they are in the book as each part is for a different place we went to in a two day period.

That being said, I forgot to take pics of the third and fourth pages :( lol. They were taken in the butterfly enclosure at Wild Life Sydney Zoo and had papers from Prima Fairy Rhymes and a couple of die cuts with some K&Co 3D butterfly stickers.

Next I made an envelope page using the Lifestyle Crafts Basic Envelope set using the largest envelope. I then used the insert as the basis to make a flip out panel that has 3 photos on one side and two on the other with a journalling spot as well. The paper flowers are from Prima with an added  resin flower (same as on the cover but pink) and some brads.

I cut the koala using a quickutz die from the Australia set (can be found on ebay). I have been itching to use this set! lol The jouranlling spot was stamped with worn lipstick. ( I will gather all my supplies and have a full list of what I can find/remember with my last post. Promise!)

As you can see a little bit in these pics I edged them with Adirondack Snow Cap paint dabber. I also did this around the blue matting. I also added a lil snow cap to the Koala to tone down the grey and because Koala's do have a lot of white in their fur  :)

Next up is a page that flips open and has a tag tucked up behind it as well. The flip pages were pics taken in the Kangaroo enclosure and in front of the Rock Wallabies.

The tabs are from Lifestyle Crafts Tab It kit, the  boarders are from a KaiserCraft stack. You can really see in this pic how each page of this album has been edged with snow cap paint and then distressed with spun sugar and worn lipstick.

The jounalling spot is is taken from the middle of another Lifestyle crafts Whimsical die (a leftover from using this die on page 2 to frame a pic). It is not actually stuck down yet, ready for journalling. The Kangaroo is another from the Australia set used for the Koala. I edged the roo with rusty hinge to make it more in line with the giant Red Kangaroo statue.

For the tag both pics are very large. You can see in the background of this pic the Crocodile in the background. Let me tell you that is one huge croc! The zookeeper told us his story and why he was there. Suffice to say he is the male version of a black widow ;) lol.

Anyway that's it for today lol. in the next installment there is a window page and another flip out book :) Feel free to ask any questions! I will answer the best I can. All cutting has been done with my trusty Ebosser.
Happy Scrappin'
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