Hello Friends, How are ya? I love hearing how coloring everyday or almost everyday is such a rewarding experience for you even if it’s for a short time. Seeing some of your children get involved is the icing on the cake.
Tonight I was in the mood to fussy cut an image and I knew these posies would be simple to color so I reached for them. I call this quick coloring “one layer”….barely any shading. The stitched rectangle and circle really offset my posies arrangement and gave the card more of a focal point.
The feather strokes became my design on the petals. Adding white dots make the flower busy but, I enjoy it so what the heck 🙂
Just testing to see if this works?
I am hoping to have a video for you Monday but, I WILL BE HAVING an exciting giveaway from Simon Says Stamp!
THE WINNER TO OnLine Card Classes Giveaway as seen here is Angela Bowie!! Super big congrats to you Angela. I WILL BE GIVING AWAY MORE SPOTS in some of OnLine Card Classes this month. Stay tuned 🙂
Thanks for your visit today and your sweet comments. See you tomorrow. Hugs, Kathy
P.S. I promie I will get to all the cards on my blog but, it might be a week or so but, I will PROMISE ( every now and then it’s hard to comment depending on how your card is uploaded so please be aware of that..sorry)
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Carol Mc says
Love the color of your flowers.
Niki G. says
Love your “one layer coloring.” I must adopt this technique because it looks fabulous! Love the white dots too for a super fun look.
Irene says
Beautiful! The addition of the white gel pen makes it pop…I need to practice more with mine! This has been so much fun to play along. I have visited stamp sets and coloring mediums that I have been away from for too long. Thanks for getting it all started!
Marianne says
Wow, that must have been the quickest ‘video’ ever. Reminds me of trying to play Pacman on a 486 PC back in the 80s LOL. At least your flipagram showed the various steps, so that’s a good thing. Love that image and what you did with it. I’m currently finding myself on the lookout for images that are easy to colour and you also got me to print out several digital images that were just ‘hiding’ in my computer.
Elly Booij says
Beautiful card. Love the coloring of your flowers
Birgit says
Wow! This is stunning work! I’m really enjoying the tips and tricks I’m learning from you. I’ve been adding white gel accents to many of my colored projects and I just love it! Thanks for all your inspiration. You ROCK!
Jackie says
Wow! That’s stunning. The white accents are perfect. I can never remember to do that, but it adds so much.
TK says
Adore the posies! Great technique. The Flip-a-gram was interesting but a little too fast for my brain lol.
Celeste Goff says
What a beautiful card Kathy! I just love the colors!
Barb Ghig says
Your posies are absolutely gorgeous, Kathy! I’m definitely going to try this technique…Thanks!
Jessica H. says
Such a beautiful card!! I love the detail you put into your projects!! That is some SERIOUS fussy-cutting!! Those are some thin blades of grass!! I need to learn the art of fussy cutting for sure!!
Victoria H. says
Your coloring always leave me inspired and awe struck! I love the small details you add to every image to make them unique and truly yours, like your white dots.
Marilyn says
Your card is beautiful, your posies are amazing!!!
Barb says
Ooooo, those posies are stunning, Kathy! LOVE!!! ♥
janet says
Wow – beautiful effect 🙂
Tracy says
the color in those flowers is just so beautiful – and of course I love the dots! :-)’thanks for all the inspiration
Dolly says
Oh fun…but I still love a video! funny because there is just something inspiring to me in watching someone else create and it doesn’t matter if they are making something I would never make it still inspires me! I don’t have copics but I can tell that I will have stuff to learn!! I still have to post yesterdays coloring I was too tired after DD dragged me off to the mall LOL so I will try to post two today on instagram for you! 😀
Thanks for sharing your beautiful card, I love how it POPS out at you! 😀
Dolly
Holly Saveur says
STUNNING..love the way you colored it..amazing..gorgeous card!
barb macaskill says
Congratulations Angela!! Enjoy the class!
LOVELOVELOVE your beautiful flowers!! I will be IG posting Day 11 late today! Granddaughter is here and we are busy playing!
Angela Bowie says
Thanks Barb! Very sweet of you to say so
Dianne says
Love, love, love these beautiful flowers. To think that a simple brush stroke creates the beautiful detail. Thanks for sharing.
Joey says
Kathy this is absolutely stunning. Jo x
Joan VanCourt says
Kathy, I love your card and your posies are so cute. Yep, I love those dots and I am learning, little by little to be comfortable putting them on my cards. Thanks for sharing.
Dara Lynn says
Lovely colors and design!
Angela Bowie says
Your card is so beautiful Kathy! Thanks so much for the giveaway!!! I saw my name and did a double take, then let out a little squeal
Kathy Racoosin says
I will email OCC your email address and they will be in contact with you. Woo Hoo 🙂 So happy you won 🙂
sharla~ says
Wow Kathy, those flowers are gorgeous and I love the colors, they really stand out against the aqua!
TamiB says
Well I LOVE the posies the way you’ve colored them – white dots and all!! That ‘flipagram’ was pretty cool too…almost as good as a video cuz we can see all the steps but miss your funny commentary. 🙂
Tami B says
This is so pretty!
Lisa (ThePurplePlace) says
B E A U T I F U L !!!! Sure wish my white gel pens worked as well as yours…..I have the same brand and have tried many? Wonder why mine do not work well!!
Thanks Kathy!!
Kathy Racoosin says
Hi Lisa, How are you feeling? Have you tried warming your gel pen on your finger and waiting for it to flow? Good luck and sending healing prayers your way. 🙂
Lisa (ThePurplePlace) says
Hi Kathy,
I am feeling better each and every day! Hoping you hubby is doing the same.
Yes, I have tried your wonderful tip and it does work, with a brand new pen…sadly I don’t know why, by mine dry up, or so it seems super fast. Yours always seem to work so well!!
Hugs
Lisa
Linda Tupper says
How so beautiful! I just love how you made the feather strokes the coloring and adding the white dots. Awesome card. I can’t wait to see another of you’re videos.
April Story says
What a lovely technique. Thank you for sharing it. I am going to be trying that one.
April
Diane P. says
Lovely work as usual Kathy. I will try the feather strokes for sure. Congrats. to Angela too!
Tricia Ann says
Your coloring is beautiful. I love the flower hanging over the side. The white dots on the flowers spell perfection.
Cindy C. says
So beautifully coloured!! The posies are stunning!!!
Betsy Megna says
Beautiful card! Love the color.
Maggie N says
This is so pretty, Kathy. I love it!!
Ann B says
Gorgeous card Kathy! I love those flowers AND the dots,one question- when you have an element overhanging the side of a card,how do you post it,in a bigger envelope?
I’m really into dots and stripes at present,whether it be patterned paper,colouring,stamps-whatever! Thanks for an opportunity of winning a prize too.x
Kathy Racoosin says
Yes Ann I use a larger envelope 🙂
Marisela Delgado says
I told you that I’m running out of adjectives in English and may have to resort to Spanish. Ha,ha AWESOME card! Hermosa tarjeta!
Kathy Racoosin says
thanks lol
Lynne in NI says
Your flowers are beautiful … I love the addition of your white dots 🙂
Stacey Schafer says
gorgoeus card, Kathy! thanks for the chance to win such a fantastic prize!
Teresa says
WOW, your card is amazing and those feather strokes really take it up a few notches. Absolutely beautiful, Kathy, and your video shots of the process/progress is great.
Milka says
Stunning!!! 😀 Love how you colored poises and gorgeous design. 😀
susie sonnier says
Kathy this is a beautiful card. I hope your husband is doing well.
Sue D says
Very pretty–Love the dots on the flowers.
jengd says
Gorgeous flowers and card!! I hope your husband is doing well.
Nancee Purdum says
Such a cute card! Yeah! I found a little time to color today!!!!! First day in the past seven!!! I need to do more of it….it lifts my spirits so much! 🙂
TracyM #6773 says
BEAUTIFUL posy, DELIGHTFUL dots and COOL Flipagram!!!
ANOTHER AWESOME day of colour and colouring 🙂
TracyM #6773 says
PS – just a note about the flipagram, it is cool to be able to watch your colouring progress but I had to watch it a few times because it went a little fast for me and I couldn’t work out how to pause it – please don’t be offended, I really did enjoy it!!!
Kathy Racoosin says
I know sorry it was an experiment since I haven’t had time to do a video. I value your feedback and agree. Thanks Tracy 🙂
Valerie Breingan says
Hard to say Kathy but I think this is my fave so far
Cheryl W says
Ooooooh, that card is so pretty, Kathy. I love those white dots you added to the flowers. It really adds an extra dimension. Need to try that!
Yoonsun Hur says
Kathy!! Your card is totally amazing!!!!!
Billie A says
This card is beautiful, I love the colors, the way you presented the flowers on the blue circle and the flowers coming off the card. I really love the added dots. Makes for a stunning card.
Donna says
Cool flip gram, card too! 🙂
Tracey Magner says
Hi Kathy, I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE this card, LOVE the color, the flower. I sure hope on the video you do on Monday it explains ” fussy cut” I have been scrapping and card making awhile and seen this word so many times BUT I have NO idea what it means ?? Or how you do it, I would love to finally learn that. Also this “flipagram”, I was so confused what to do, are we suppose to sign up on there to see your videos now? You can tell I am NOT up with all this new stuff and I sure am not computer savy, like I have really enjoyed the coloring challenge, but I still can’t figure out how to get a few of my things uploaded on my computer, but I decided it was finally not worth my frustration, it was taking away from the reason I was trying this, I have a HUGE amount of stress in my life and I was using this challenge to try to help with that. Anyways, back to your amazing card, I so look forward to that video. Thank you Kathy. OOPS, I almost forgot tell your hubby he is in our thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery, bless you both.
Anastasia says
Love this card!!! Very beautiful!!!
Damaris Velazquez says
The card as it was looked great, but those white dots really made a difference in bringing out texture and detail. Love it!
x0, damaris
Dana C. says
Kathy thanks so much for sharing this card today. It is drop dead gorgeous! Wow is all I can say!! The flowers just pop with that vibrant shade of purple and so love how they are clustered. Love everything about it right down to the stitches on the card. Love those die cuts. I just want to say that the way you did your video with the flip-a-gram was a very clever idea! I had no problems seeing the video and I really would like to learn more about it so maybe I can use it for my own blog when I share things. I think it is much more convenient for bloggers like myself, who are finding it hard to make a post, to use something like this instead of making videos which can be very time consuming. Thanks for sharing it here and providing us all with another way to share our creations. Love what you sharing here and look forward to creating with you. Hugs.
Joyce says
What a gorgeous card!
And congrats Angela!
KathyJH says
Gorgeous card! Love the white dots – need to give that a try!
Effie says
This is absolutely beautiful! The shading is on point!!
Bobbie says
WOW, WOW, WOW what an awesome card just beautiful dear. I so badly want to be as good as you and hopefully some day I can. I’ve been taking a lot of the online classes but I get so far behind because I am trying to make cards along with the instructor’s. I do take my time and I am learning but, not sure I could ever produce something as beautiful as this card. Kathy you have out done yourself. Your hubby must be very proud of you.
Diane Quinlan says
I love your card…..it is simp,e, but not really! The colors are pretty, especially for this time of year when I am craving Spring and warm weather!! I am new to your blog and have enjoyed looking around and love your videos. I have been stamping and making cards for at least 20 years…..I started out stamping, but now I really look for stamos that I can color….either watercolor or with Copics. I love the Copics, but their price prevents me from having as many as I would love to have! Thanks so much for the time you put into your videos. They are so appreciated!!
Kathy Racoosin says
Hi Diane, Thanks for sharing and so happy you found my blog too. 20 years in card making is a long time! Did you see my Copic giveaway? Here’s a link and good luck 🙂 https://www.thedailymarker.com/2015/03/day-13-video-wstencil-dots-copic-giveaway/
Aileen says
I dont remember postig a comment about this card. Such a beautiful card so just thought I better comment again just in case. So eye catching. Love the look totally.