Hello Friends, How are you today? I can’t believe that we are getting close to the end *gasp! Many of you have expressed how much you are enjoying the challenge and I am seriously thinking of hosting it again.
This weekend I am a lucky enough to get away and craft with some friends. Being with crafty friends is so inspiring and fills your heart. The icing on the cake is trying out supplies that you don’t have. I was able to get to know the owner of Clearly Besotted. She’s such a doll and so delightful. You can imagine that I fell in love with her flower stamps set called, “Friends Forever” .
The Spetrum Aqua markers (watercolor) are so easy to use and have nice variety of colors. I wanted to add more depth to my petals so I used a colored pencil to add a few highlights and a wash of light color over the entire petal. (with a very light hand)
There is a die cut for this stamp set but, it was easy enough to cut two of the blooms so that I could pop them on my card with some foam tape.
This is what my flowers looked like before I added the accents and outlined the image with this marker. If you get a minute please let me know your thoughts another coloring challenge. Have a great day and see you tomorrow. 🙂
CARDS SUPPLIES AND LINKS: Click on any of the thumbnails below.
DAY 21. No Line Coloring
having fun with die cuts and watercolor-masculine cards
Video-Giveaway-Blog Hop
Wow first comment, probably cause its early hours of the morning over there. Or I am an over eager really keen Watercolour Challenge stalker. What can I say, I love flower stamps and this card looks brilliant. The touch of highlight colours and wash just perfect, really gives a mix of colours that are very unique. As for another Challenge ohhhh YES please. Would love another, I am so enjoying this and seeing what everyone else is adding.
This is beautiful. Great colors + great dimension!
I didn’t find enough time to participate in the coloring challenge, but if you host it again in the future, I will try!
Such a pretty card. I liked the card a lot in your “before” picture but really loved it after the accents and outlining!!! So realistic looking and so much pop!
Beautiful! I’m a little afraid of using watercolors. They seem difficult to control, but maybe that’s the fun of it. Guess I need to try again and forget my apprehension. Thanks for all the inspiration using different mediums!
Another beauty, Kathy. I’m really enjoying this challenge. Even if I don’t mange to colour every day or post my creations on my blog, I do find that I’m trying new things based on your work. I would love it if you would do another challenge, but maybe you could do shorter once, like 7 days, or make it a monthly feature, focusing on a single technique each month where you would only need to post once (or 3x a month for additional inspiration). For as much as you love inspiring us and we love being inspired, it also needs to remain fun and doable for you and not become a burden.
Marianne x
Wow! So much inspiration from this single piece. I would not normally mix such different colors together but it looks wonderful…and the addition of the outlining and pencil makes it pop. Thanks for all of the ideas!!
I am loving #thedailymarker30day! When I first saw it I thought. Color for a few minutes every day? I can do that! I didn’t make it everyday but I did on a lot of them and have read all your post and learned new things. I hope you do the 30 day challenge again. If you do, I will make a basket like you did and (no excuses) will try for every day. Your no pressure for us to do it everyday made this very enjoyable and I loved reading your comments on the days I did instagram. You are amazing! Oh and I love the added detail your pencil highlights have made here. Simply gorgeous!
Lovely card Kathy. I really like what you did with this stamp set and your editing – yeah i think thats the right word- you add, subtract, alter…. Its very interesting to see. I appreciate seeing what it looked like before you started the editing 🙂 And the results are so beautiful. I’d be in for another coloring challenge. It’s keeping me coloring (as well as drawing etc) and for me that’s good. Daily scheduled therapy LOL!
Gorgeous!! Incredible the difference a few finishing touches make!
I’ve really enjoyed this series and gained a lot from watching your processes. I’m hoping you will do another series. Thanks Kathy!
Beautiful and realistic looking.
Awesome coloring Kathy (sounds silly ME telling YOU that!) but it’s very pretty and it did make a huge difference going in with the pencils!
Okay I think you should know where I stand on the coloring challenge! I have loved playing along….every….single day! The only one thing I can say outside of loving it is …I need more images to color I think! LOL I’d definitely keep going! 😀
Absolutely beautiful colors! You have such a good eye.
I would love to do another coloring challenge, even though as a single mom who works full time, I wasn’t able to keep pace with you all! I am still on day 12! But it was really fun to see other people’s artwork and I really enjoyed interacting with them. I am new to blogging so it was a treat to visit the participant’s sites and see what others do. Thanks for doing the 30 Day Challenge!
Hi Kathy
Gorgeous flowers. Love the way they came out with the added color. I was just thinking this morning how I was going to miss everyone’s posts daily. I am so enjoying this challenge and learning to color a little better each day. Practice makes perfect as they say. I was so excited to read that you will do this again. I am definitely up for the challenge. Thank you Kathy for being such an inspiration to myself and everyone else through this challenge. I love making new Instagram friends and love seeing there creations.
Your the best!!!!
This card and stamp set is super gorgeous! Did you use Copic pens to make the shadow outline of the flowers? My coloring challenge experience has been really great. It allowed me to develop my skills simply by having to practice every day. All of the current coloring methods I use are just a little better than when we started at Day 1. And after seeing so many amazing examples and getting such nice feedback from participants on Instagram, I’m inspired and encouraged all the more to try new things and enhance my knowledge further. I’ve not attempted any month long challenges before but I might be more willing now because of this awesome experience. Maybe the only downside of this whole experience is that I now desperately want to buy Copic markers which are pricey – but maybe I can buy just one or two (or a few) at a time. Thank you for setting up this whole challenge and keeping up with all of us! Besides all that I’ve already said, this experience was very enjoyable and I’m so glad I participated!
What a beautiful card! Every day I learn something from you!
Your flowers are gorgeous! The colors and the color blending are just lovely.
What a treat to receive a card like this!
this is STUNNING..love it..just amazed ..
love all the inspiration..so would love another series..learned a lot!
Thank you so very much.
Love those flowers, and the way you’ve colored them is awesome! I mostly follow your 30 Day Coloring Challenge on Instagram, but I really enjoy it and thought I’d hop over here to tell you how much I appreciate what you do. I’m impressed by all the commenting you do on our works. I can by no means imagine how much work this is but a lot is surely understated. Thank you so much!
Oh, and of course I’d like to be part of another coloring challenge. I didn’t color every day for this challenge but I definitely crafted every day and I’m really happy about that.
Wow this set is beautiful. Your coloring is so gorgeous. I’m dying to try the Spectrum Aqua Markers. Very very pretty.
Gorgeous cards. I haven’t tried the Spectrum Aqua markers yet. I enjoy their alcohol markers. Love your shading and detail on the gladiolas. My fav flower. I am enjoying the challenge. I don’t get to color as much as I want, but when I get the chance, I am lost in coloring and trying new things. I am always learning something new from you and try to add it to my art. Since this challenge started, I got a Uniball white pen and now a Wink of Stella pen. WooHoo. And I am always using a black marker to go around my cut edges of my image when I cut it out. Thanks for all you do and how you have inspired me. YES, another challenge. Maybe a 2 week challenge. Thanks, Kathy, for all you do to make art fun.
Kathy,
You have such a big heart besides being super talented! I love this card, the coloring with the pencil and marker added is amazing! I have enjoyed the challenge so much, even though I wasn’t able to post most of my work. You got me doing some coloring each day and I am better for it, thank you. I would love for you to do another challenge, but as others have stated, please make it manageable for YOU, I think this must have been an awful lot of work especially with your hubby’s surgery on top of it. Glad to hear you are having some fun with crafty friends this weekend, you deserve it.
Hugs,
Maureen
That is just gorgeous! I have enjoyed the 30 day challenge, even though I haven’t had time to participate. I’ve been busy selling off some old stuff so I can buy new stuff.
The flowers are stunning, first of all. Secondly, I hope you will do another coloring challenge, after you recover from this one – this has got to be an enormous amount of work, especially with your husband recovering from surgery. Thirdly, I have to thank you for all the amazing projects and ideas, tips, instructions. I have really enjoyed it. Thank you so much!!!
Absolutely gorgeous!
These flowers are exquisite and your coloring fabulous! I don’t have the spectrum watercolor pencils, but I have the Derwent. I will try it with them. And, definitely a big YES on another coloring challenge. That is after you have time to recoup after this one. So much work, and while nursing your husband, wow! I keep saying it, but will again.. Thank you for all your work putting together this challenge…and all of your wonderful ideas and techniques instructions and videos.
Dear Queen of Color,
Yes please!!!! I have LOVED this challenge so so much!!
Amazing what a few extra details with the colored pencils and gel white pen made to your image. Just gorgeous. Loving your posts each day. Thanks for sharing with us. I look forward to checking out what you have done each day.
Wow! Gorgeous!
Oh your cards brilliant and I just adore how you take what could be ordinary and add the details that make it extraordinary!! I have loved this challenge, didn’t post anything but I did follow along and color every day. I would love another challenge.
This is so pretty.
STUNNING! ♥
Gorgeous flowers, Kathy! I’m a huge fan of CBS stamps and dies…looks like I’m going to need this one, too!
I hope you’re having a great time with your Crafty Friends’!
That’s gorgeous. The pencils and white pen add so much detail! I’m glad you have a crafty weekend. I can only imagine how much fun it must be with all those amazing artists all in one place! Have fun!
And yes, please host the challenge again in the near future. It’s been so much fun! While I started off strong and have petered out with finished projects, I’m still getting at least 5 min in each day — it’s doing wonders for my crafty mojo!
Wow, the flowers are absolutely stunning!! I don’t think I could add that many colors and it ever end up looking like this. Such beautiful work. I sure am enjoying seeing you’re wonderful coloring and ideas.
Stunning, absolutely stunning card! Great colors and such depth! This has been a great challenge! Would love to do it again.
Wow wow wow love what you did to the flowers with the colored pencils those colors together mmmm I’ll take a shirt a skirt and a dress in those colors please:). Love the 30 day challenge my first and it has been so much fun and some days hard to do.. but a challenge is a challenge for a reason…whatever you decide will be just right!
Please host another challenge Kathy. You have taught me so many new techniques. I’d forgotten how much fun it is to color, I feel like a kid again. You are a good teacher.
Love, love, love this card! As far as the challenge – I would love to see you run it again. Life has interfered with my participation this month, but I have thoroughly enjoyed the inspiration your cards have provided. Kudos!
How did you keep the color from coming up through the white uniball Signo? Beautiful card that makes me want those stamps!!!!
I’m a new (and intimidated) stamping crafter, so I look at a lot of different techniques and tutorials online. I can definitely say that I have found your 30 day challenge to be the most inspiring, helpful and supportive “resource” available. You have my whole-hearted vote for YES, PLEASE – do another challenge!
I have enjoyed seeing all your examples – today’s is stunning!
Your tutorials are so great that I hope you will repeat it. Looking forward.
LP, Marjeta
The pencil highlights certainly bring them to life! They are gorgeous! I am hoping to use my Spectrum Aqua markers today to make a card! Depends on how my foot is doing.
I would love it if this became an annual or semi annual event! I have had a great time participating and it has helped me get through a VERY rough month! Thanks for putting this whole thing together! Will post on IG later!
Your flowers are absolutely lovely!
Wow Kathy, this is so pretty! I love the final look after the markers and colored pencils. Gorgeous! 🙂
this set of flowers are lovely. I would have loved them before you added the marker and colored pencils, but now they are fabulous. I have seen people use black markers, but it just never sank in until today just how much of a difference it makes! thanks so much for the 30 day challenge! I have really enjoyed it. color on girl!!!!!! lol
I love your blog and your cards with copic coloring. I wish you could make more videos showing us your Copic coloring. Love your 30 days of colors.
Love your flowers are amazing. I’m enjoying a lot your 30 day Challenge I’m learning a lot of new techniques and enjoy coloring with different mediums and I’m knowing a lot of new craters. Thanks Kathy for you ideas and comments. Hugs from Spain from your fan number one
Wow, your water coloring on this card is so pretty! The colored pencil and highlighting enhances the image so much. I’m hoping you host another 30 day challenge – you’ve been so inspirational!
WOW! Gorgeous!!! Thank you for sharing with us and all tips. :o)
hugs
Milka
Kathy these Glads are gorgeous! What a difference the pencil makes. I am still trying to learn how to shade and blend with Copics, the idea of using the pencil too is scary. I need to take some classes.
Your card is so pretty. I love those flowers and the coloring Kathy is beautiful. I like using my color pencils over my marker coloring to add a tad bit of depth. You did a fantastic job on this one as always.
How very clever! That’s why I love coming here. I would have never thought to pop out some extra flowers and float them on top. It just gives it that little extra something, and so does the outlining. I love it! Thank you for all the inspiration.
Beautiful card.
This stamp set is gorgeous and how you colored it wonderful as well. I’m really enjoying the color challenge, in fact I’ve started keeping my art journal in my family room, so I can color and watch TV in the evening. It’s very relaxing.
Hi Kathy,
Thanks so much for doing this series. I’ve learned a lot-techniques I plan to try.
Hi Kathy,
I have really enjoyed your colour challenge (even though I haven’t participated). I would really like to see you do another one, and IF you get any time, to do more video footage of you colouring (loved your videos in the recent OC class). The flowers look beautiful. What a difference the pencil, outline and the pop of white make! Well done! Love the stamp set too btw – clearly besotted do some lovely ones 🙂 take care.
Absolutely.. Most deffinetly I would love another colouring challenge.. I am soo enjoying your 30 day challenge.. I have been loving all the inspiration, the friendliness and the sharing that has been happening especially over on Instagram.. Thankyou for running and organising it… As for your card.. Nothing short of drop dead gorgeous, cheers, x
Wow…it really is amazing how those details add so much to the card!
I’d love another coloring challenge…I wish I could’ve played more but I still enjoyed seeing all the coloring and playing when I was able to!
Gorgeousness!!! LOVE the depth here! I haven’t been able to play along every day, but I have been trying to do much more coloring this month! It’s been amazing inspiration!
This is lovely!!
beautiful card.
Your card is gorgeous Kathy. I have been colouring every day that I can. I find is therapeutic and enjoyable. I’d love it if you hosted another colour challenge. Even though I haven’t uploaded any pics, I enjoyed my colouring time each day that I could do it and I even coloured with my grandson on an occasion or two and we both enjoyed it. LOL Time WELL spent, in our books! Thanks for the inspiration!
Even though I haven’t posted any of my coloring I have been doing it, and enjoying it. To be able to say to myself, you don’t have to finish it today, it doesn’t have to be brilliant, just have fun and PLAY, has resulted in some really gorgeous cards! So I’d def. follow along if you were to do this again sometime in the future. This flower set is a beautiful stamp set, love glads. Your coloring is truly inspirational. It’s amazing how adding the pencil work totally transformed the card. From pretty to AWESOME! This has now gone into my inspiration file. Enjoy your crafty weekend, you certainly deserve it. Doing the 30 day challenge while caring for your husband after his surgery was quite an undertaking. Thank you for the fun.
Another challenge pleeease!
Wow! What a beautiful card. I’m not familiar with these particular markers and would really, really appreciate a quick video on how you achieved such beautiful results. Are these markers similar to Tombows… also waterbased markers? Now, regarding your question : yes yes, please, please do another challenge. While I’ve not posted anything yet, I’ve purposely set aside time almost everyday to color. It’s made me so happy and greatly improved my Copic coloring technique. I can’t thank you enough!
Oh my gosh! The flowers you did were beautiful and even though I loved both that you did, I can see where the second one is the better of the 2. What do you use to cut your designs out? If you say and exacto knife, is there anything else you can use? In my high school art class we made lino cuts. Basically, it was making your own stamps. Lino because it was linoleum? I’m not sure exactly what they were but they were cut out with an exact knife. I can’t tell you how many times I sliced my fingers up. I’m surprised I don’t have any scars. My art teacher had plenty of band-aids. We put ink on them from a tube I think and used a brayer to spread the ink and then put it on paper. All these years later, (this was in 1972) I’m doing the same thing almost except no cutting out stamps for me. Wish I knew where that lino cut was today.
I loved the challenge even though I color quite a bit. However, if you ever want to do a challenge again, I am totally up for it! Will we continue to get e-mail’s every day because I love everything! If we could only spend our days crafting and coloring instead of working. Thank you for all that you do for all of us.
Stunning card–the coloring is beautiful! Though I haven’t had time to participate in this color challenge, I have loved every one of your samples. And I’ve learned so much by reading your explanations and being introduced to lots of new products. Due to your inspiration I’ve also taken time to play with many of the supplies I already have. It would be wonderful if you did another coloring challenge! Thanks for all you’ve done!
Gorgeous! Thank you for the before picture too. There is so much more depth and color once you added the finishing touches. It made a big difference that one might not notice had the before picture not been there.
Hi Kathy! This card is absolutely beautiful! It might even be my favorite so far. But your projects are all so good it’s hard to choose a favorite! Thank you so much for all your hard work for this challenge! As the others have said it’s amazing how you even found the time to do this especially with your husbands surgery. I would love to see another challenge but only when you’re ready & if 30 days was too difficult for you make it shorter so you don’t get burned out! Who know, maybe next time I’ll be brave enough to share some of my coloring! 🙂
Kathy these are the prettiest flowers!!! Love the addition of the pencils to the watercolor markers! I hope you will host another 30 day challenge! I love all the inspiration!!!!
The colors on your card are beautiful. But of course you never disappoint.
Another beautiful piece and such a heartfelt sentiment. YES, please do another challenge. I have not had time to even participate in this one, although I have been following and oohing and ahing at the beautiful coloring talents posted! Please, if you can, another? I will make time the next go-round and I think these challenges are awesome!
Beautiful card!
I am enjoying the 30 day challenge. It has inspired me to get into coloring, to use my products and taught me different techniques. Thanks it’s been fun, love your work.
Yes to another coloring challenge!
Beautiful, I love all the shading. Your coloring is top notch, super beautiful and inspiring. I’m a new reader, and I’ve really enjoyed following along. Thanks. Michelle t
First of all, your coloring of this is to DIE for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously pretty. As far as a challenge goes, I would really like it if you would do it again because I was too busy to enjoy and particpate in this one. Thank you for continuing to inspire us all Kathy!
The 30 day challenge has been really great. I haven’t been able to do *every* day, but I’ve done most and it’s been a great excuse for me to use products that have been just sitting around that I keep meaning to try. Thanks for being SO motivating!
Beautiful card Kathy, love the flowers and of course your coloring. Yes, yes, yes, I would love another coloring challenge, that was so much fun, and it helped in my therapy to get me out of bed and in my scrapbooking room to do the challenge, so thank you for that Kathy, like I told you before you have no idea how this challenge has effected so many people.
Absolutely beautiful!
Beautiful watercoloured flowers. Another challenge…sounds awesome. You have made me reconnect with the fun relaxing side of just colouring.
Beautiful–love the pencil accents. I have enjoyed this 30 day coloring challenge even though I did not always take photos and post what I was working on.
Wow! this is another stunning card and love how you combine different mediums and add more details to the images. I was looking at the spectrum water color pens but never tried them but this looks wonderful. Another color challenge would be awesome if you did.
WOW Kathy… this is amazing and gorgeous! I cannot believe you used pencil colors for this flower.
Gor-geous!!!!!!
Absolutely Stunning card Kathy! The before and after picks are so helpful,amazing how different the gladdies look after your highlighting! I haven’t had time to play along with the challenge but have so enjoyed reading your daily posts and seeing what you’ve created. Another challenge would be great! Thanks for all your inspiration 🙂
I love how the pencils seem to change the complete look of the image. The outline and using the white for a little pop of color really makes it so much better. Great job. TFS
Beautiful card! Love it!
Beautiful card, love the colours.
Would love to take part in another colouring challenge!
awesome will have to try
Yes please please please do this again. It was a delight in my busy day to see and try what you have done. Some I wish were a bit more in depth but I know everyone has things to do. Thanks for making my day a bit brighter.