Hello Friends, Just a super quick post today. First sorry about the video trouble yesterday…it’s all ready to go and you can watch it here.
This stamp called, “Botanical Bunch” is easy to color and one of the best botanicals I have seen in a long time. Of course I didn’t let my stamped vellum dry long enough and had a nice big smudge!! So I had to place my flowers over that instead of putting them at the end of the sentiment š IF you need an stamp set with encouragement sentiments this is it.
I cheated and used Copics to outline my image first…bad me ha ha.
I started out drawing the color from the tips with a wet brush. The colors weren’t vibrant enough so I added some Tombow on top…. a much better result. Whew!
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Ok off to bed… see you tomorrow. Loving all of your sharing much more than you know. Hugs, Kathy
CARD SUPPLIES AND LINKS:Ā
Day 7. Happy B.D. Lawn Fawn
Day 3. Coloring Mushrooms
from our home to yours this season
Your card is beautiful! I love how you outlined the image with Copic markers. That really makes the images pop! The color combination is great, too. The vellum strip across the bottom is a nice touch, because it gives the florals a soft muted look. Very stunning!
Absolutely lovely coloring! Adding flowers is a great way to correct a smudge… oh how our little errors can sometimes add to our creativity š
Wonderful flowers!!! Beautiful card!!! Kathy, thak you!!!
This is so beautiful! I simply love the vibrant colors you achieved using pencils.
Oh my! I love how you outlined your flowers! Hmmmm LOL
Beautiful! I love the way you outline the image, it really makes it pop.
besautiful!!
Oh Kathy. This card is stunningly BEAUTIFUL! I should be colouring now instead of checking this out but I had to! LOL (Not sure if I am going to find time to colour today. It is our son in laws b-day and we have a 2 hour drive to go see him and not sure when I’ll get home…) I am going to try but I’m hoping to bring our 3 yr. old grandson home with me for the night. hehe
I had fun yesterday with a sunflower stamp, some Crayola watercolor pencils and my now-not-new Dove blender pen. I was working on cardstock and managed to get it too wet in a few places, but overall it was a relaxing way to end my day and get ready for bed. Not sure what I will try today. Thanks for pushing me to play with my things. I may just try something with my regular water-based markers today. My gk’s and I did the scribble and paintbrush thing a few months ago, and they loved it.
So pretty, Kathy, and that stamp is wonderful as well. I’ve just spent my afternoon stamping all sorts of images on different cardstocks, so I can grab one of them if i want to colour. I did a quick test run last night using the Aquamarker blender pen with my Inktense pencils and found it works great. So thanks again for setting this challenge and for inspiring us all.
Marianne x
Lovely card. I do like those flowers. And the colors are great.
April
Beautiful! I think I need the Botanical Bunch set!! I just realized that I don’t have many flower stamps! This is a beautiful set!! Will be posting today’s coloring on IG later today as I haven’t gotten up and about yet today!
Kathy,
What a beautiful effect! LOVE the colors on the flowers.
A question: you mentioned going over the colored pencil with Tombo to make the colors more vibrant. Did you mean the Mono Multi glue or Glossy Accents?
Beautiful! I have added my day 2 and 3 to the blog, tried Instagram yesterday but I’ve not done that before so don’t know if it worked. Sorry. but my link didn’t seem to appear on the blog. I’m having fun with this, thanks for sponsoring!
Hi Kathy,
I love watercolor and Copics for coloring. You do a great job coloring your projects.
SSS Hand Lettered Stamps are some of my most favorite. It is easy to see why the
Encouragement set you used in this project has already sold out.
Wow…awesome project today!! Love your use of color!
Gorgeous card. Copics, watercolor pencils, Tombow markers–whatever it takes you make it work beautifully.
Beautiful card, I love how you coloured your pretty flowers š
This is beautiful!! I had no clue that you could use Copic’s on watercolor paper. I really like how you combined the markers and the painting design. So pretty!
Fabulous coloring. Really enjoy all the instruction I can get . Thanks so much
It’s just beautiful. I love the white accents you added too.
Beautiful card! Marvelous colors and coloring.
LOVE!!!!
This is so pretty!
You do such a great job. I love this image and the embossing on the vellum. Really a pretty card. TFS
DELIGHTFUL card Kathy!!!
LUCKY you thought to add the flowers over the sentiment … I get impatient and often smudge things too, though I’m not as creative as you in thinking of ways to still use them š
LOVE how you highlighted each flower cluster – hoping to add Copics to my stash one day!!!
I love everything you do…and your explanations are SOOO helpful. I have learned a lot from you. Thank you so much. I love when you do videos. I know they must take a lot of time but please know I (we all) really really appreciate them! THANKS!!!
So pretty and colourful your so talented x
Love it!!! š
Beautiful card, Kathy. Smudge ? what smudge? I love the added touch with the vellum. I need to try that. Ooooh, I found the Uniball white pen at my local store. I LOVE IT! Thanks for sharing and I will be posting soon. We have a virus in our house, so I am a little behind.
so pretty!
This is just gorgeous. I love that you shared how you covered up your smudge š
The highlighting on the flowers is such a great idea! I never would have thought of it. š
It really is beautiful, Kathy!
I have to say I love 1. painting off the pencils, 2. coloring your background first (it ain’t cheatin’! no way, no how!) and 3. the flowers at the start of the sentiment- happy mistake if you ask me.
Oh! And sorry for the confusion and putting my stuff on the site and instagram. I’ve nuked my InLinkz posts and kept the Instagram ones.
Beautiful card!! Love the blue halo you created around the blooms!
Hi Kathy, just want to drop in quickly and say I am so enjoying this. I am so new to posting to links and sharing, its fun. Wish I could post to Instagram to cut down on your time but I dont use, sorry. Keep up the brilliant work, we all love it.
LOVELY !!!!
a gorgeous card. I’m always impressed with your use of the gel pen. It adds so much to an image and I love how you outlined the image first. I am learning so much with this challenge. Thank you, Kathy.
Another gorgeous card, Kathy! Talk about ‘Inspiring’!!!
Another beautiful card Kathy. I love this one especially those gorgeous flowers.
Dana
Stunning!! Just so you know, I’ve got about 3 days to catch up with the challenge but I’m rearing to go. I am NOT a happy colourer and rather depend on stamping techniques but I’ve decided to get out my box with this challenge!
Don’t feel like you need to play catch up just dive right in on day 8. So delighted you will be jumping in. š
So very gorgeous!!!!
Thanks for sharing the tip on coloring with the tip of the paintbrush directly on the watercolor pencils. I would never have thought of that!
I like the flowers there where you hid the smudge. š
These flowers are gorgeous! You did a great job coloring them and they look like a lot of fun to color! Hugz