Hello Friends! How are you? I am super excited to be part of the Simon Says Stamp “Hey Bestie and Love You ” blog hop today! My card was created with a stencil!! Yes a stencil. So much fun! To start at the beginning go to the Simon Says Stamp Blog .
I created a video for you and for some reason I don’t think you can watch it on my blog anymore. Click here to watch it.
Love the Simon Says Stamp theme and I think there is such a need for “Hey Bestie” and “Love You More” stamps, dies and stencils. PLUS they are always in season!
My card was created with minimal supplies that I would bet you already have except for the new goodies lol.
If you are like me there are many people in your life that you admire and I was thrilled to see this coordinating stamp and die cut. My banner says “I wanna be more” like you. The stamp set called, “Like You Words” has lots of great sentiments to go with the “like you” die cut.
I built up the “Like You” die cut with layers of grey cardstock and white fun foam. Some twine was colored with a marker and tied around the die cut. I do the twine wrap often and won’t stop lol.
Does this watercoloring look like I used more than one color? I think so and that’s why I love this ink so much plus I can see what I am coloring or painting because it’s dark enough to see what you are doing.
I inked up the Peony Bouquet stencil with some Warm Glow ink. Distress ink was what I used to water color the peony once the ink dried on this watercolor paper.
You can find more inspiration in the Hey Bestie and Love You More galleries on the Simon Says Stamp blog. SO much inspiration!
GIVEAWAY!! Simon Says Stamp is going away $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from all blog comments on all the blogs in the hop. YOU HAVE FIFTEEN CHANCES TO WIN THOSE GIFT CARDS . There are more chances to win because there is another hop tomorrow. Good Luck!
Next on the hop is the talented Heather Hoffman . Thank YOU for your visit today it’s always appreciated. Happy Weekend! Hugs, Kathy
HOP ORDER:
DAY 9. W-PLUS 9 Creating Backgrounds
Day 10. Double Digits
Day 11. Wigs fix hair problems lol
that flowers look amazing!
I think it’s time for a shopping spree… I love all of these designs!
Love how you you used the stencil then made it into an eclipse card.
WOW! Just amazing colors and shading!
You are so talented!
I love the detailed flowers you created with this Beautiful stencil.
Wow, Cathy – you take my breath away with your amazing coloring!!!
All of this gorgeousness with a stencil? WOW
BEAUTIFULLY DONE, Kathy! I spotted that stencil RIGHT AWAY!!!! I think it might be my FAVORITE from the release! LOL Your card came out WONDERFULLY! LOVE how you did your sentiment & of course, YOUR COLORING! ;)<3
Fantastic choice of colors and coloring! <3
Wow! I love the way you watercolored those cards, I am so impressed by your technique! Very anxious to try that out!
Fabulous card Kathy! I love it!
Xoxo Olga
This is so beautiful and I’m glad I ordered this stencil yesterday because it soon won’t be in stock with all this great inspiration we’re seeing, such as your card! Thanks!
Beautifully executed. Lovely cards.
OMG! The flowers are stunning!
Only one color and you got that much dimension? Fantastic!
So beautifully. Your watercoloring is gorgeous.
Wow!!! Gorgeous!! Your coloring is AMAZING!!! I love your color choices!!
Kathy, another awesome card. I love watching your creativity. Thanks for sharing.
Great colors!
This card is absolutely GORGEOUS! I can’t say enough about it!
Love how you used the Warm Glow ink on the stencil then watercolored the peonies. That’s a cool idea. I love the colors you used. It turned out beautifully!!
I LOVE the card, I never would have thought to stamp in that color.
Gorgeous card!
Beautiful! I find it so relaxing to watch you do your magic!
Love your card, the colors are breath taking! Love this new stencil by CZ!
The shading is so beautiful!
the flowers are gorgeous.
The shading is fantastic – as
always. thanks for sharing
txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Amazing Kathy. Another beautifully colored piece
Such bold and beautiful use of coloring . Not the typical links and reds. Nice
Beautiful! You said it best…. I want to be more like YOU!
WOW! Beautiful card. Love the flowers, the coloured are beautiful. Thank you for the fantastic tips.
Absolutely love the coloring of the peonies, so dynamic. Lovely job. Thanks for sharing your creativity!
Beautiful!!
Beautiful choice of colors for the flowers and I like the dimension for the sentiment.
Wonderful color… I am going to try this ink. This Bestie release is really cool. I think C. Zielski out did herself. I can think of lots of uses for this one.
WOW! Just Wow!
Such a fantastic card! I must give this technique a try!
Beautifully done!
Gorgeous flowers and I just love the ‘chocolate’ leaves. So fun and pretty, too.
Stunning! Love your card!
Beautiful card, love!! Colouring is amazing as always!
Just beautiful and I can’t wait to try this technique!
Remarkable release and so very versatile…creative inspiration galore!!
As always, your coloring is amazing! I love this beautiful stencil and the colors you used are gorgeous.
Absolutely stunning! Gorgeous!
I can’t wait to try this technique!
Amazing ink blending on the flowers. Thank you for sharing!
Super gorgeous!
Wow, Kathy, this is incredibly beautiful, I have to try this technique!!!
Great color combination. Makes a unique card.
Beautiful cards.
What a beautiful color blend!
I just LOVE your beautiful jewel tone flowers and leaves! This is so pretty and such a nice level of craftsmanship!
Wow, these flowers are stunning!
Such a beautiful card, Kathy! I love that you used a stencil in a totally different way. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome card and stunning way to use this gorgeous stencil.
Thank you so much for sharing your colouring in a video tutorial,
have a great weekend.
This is so lovely. Your coloring is amazing–no more flat looking stenciled cards ever! 🙂
Wow – this is gorgeous and a great way to use a stencil
Your coloring is phenomenal! Flowers have such a velvety look!
your card is so very beautiful
Your coloring always leaves me speechless and these peonies are a testament! I really like the way you incorporated the die cut “like you” into the card as an eclipse piece, while leaving the smaller sentiment phrase in an all white strip. Truly a masterpiece!
It’s amazing what you have done with that stencil!!! Beautiful!!!!
Beautiful and yet so subtle! I love the color palette you chose. This release is amazing!
A gorgeous card Kathy. I am still very much a newbie at water colouring but I learned a few things again today while watching your video. (Some things to practice…pinned it to watch later for reference.) TFS!
You know how to make a stencil SING!
Gorgeous–but I am not surprised. You are the QUEEN of colouring!
Oh, wow! Kathy, these colors are gorgeous! What a beautiful card!
Gorgeous coloring, your cards is amazing!
Love how you used the stencil!
Absolutely gorgeous card! Love the colors…
Thanks for sharing.
So inspired…. love that colouring and the release
Stunning card, Kathy! The colors you chose are perfect & so hard to believe this was a stencil! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful inking on
these flowers, so
pretty.
Carla from Utah
Lovely new products. These would be fun to create with.
that stencil is so pretty – I love your colour combo!!
Loved seeing how you used a stencilled base & then adding colors on top to create so much shading. Great new idea!
I love the floral stencil and your gorgeous coloring! I wish your coloring talent would come with the purchase of the stencil!!
I love watching you color! And I love the result here!
What a wonderful coloring !!
Gorgeous floral stencil design!
Wow, fantastic job, the colors are outstanding and the depth you got on the petals.
Just amazing.
The colors are beautiful! It seems to give it a texture, like soft suede. Very rich, and nicely done!
Amazing coloring!
Omg, I love everything in this new release! And this card is stunning!
Even the partially completed card is stunning.
This is stunning! Love your coloring and design, amazing!
oh wow Kathy, this is just amazing!
Absolutely stunning! The flowers are gorgeous Kathy!
Amazing!!!! Love the colours!
Beautiful color combi. I tend to always use typical flower colors. Time to think outside the box.
WOW!!! Stunning and beautiful!!
Your flowers are just stunning!
Gorgeous card! Love your coloring!
Your colouring is beautiful and inspiring as always!
Such a beautiful card. Love the coloring technique and would love to see a video on how you did this!
What a gorgeous watercolor piece! So incredible!
Beautiful card, and fabulous technique!
Wow this turned out so pretty…love the choice of colour.
Gorgeous card Kathy!
Exquisite flowers on this gorgeous card! Love watching you work!
This stencil is wonderful and I cannot wait to try this technique. I am signed up for the OCC next week and cannot wait.
Wonderful new release and I absolutely love your card!
Such a cool look with a stencil!
So, so amazing! Love all the clever ideas you incorporated here!
Wow. There are so many things I love about this design. I love the coloring technique. I love the popped up die cut with the twine. I love how there is a lot going on but the card looks so clean. Absolutely brilliant; I am so inspired.
Absolutely beautiful! So many different things can be done with this stencil.
Great card! What a cool technique, I will be duplicating it soon!
Holy smokes, that card is beautiful!! Thank you for sharing your painting technique!
Beautifully colored!!
Gorgeous card! What a great idea to use the Warm Glow Amalgam ink to blend on the image before you watercolored! I learned a lot from you today as I would like to start watercoloring more often!
I can’t wait to try this technique!
Thanks for the great inspiration. I love the new release. Loads of great products, especially the new envelope dies. It will be fun to make matching, funky envelopes so quickly!
Splendid coloring, Kathy. Gorgeous card using this large, beautiful stencil. Thanks for the great technique video.
The coloring is so so Amazing ! I need to get the warm glow ink which can do wonderful effects. Thank you for the tips !
Gorgeous card, the colors are so striking!
Wow – what you did with that stencil is nearly magical – such depth and colour!
Your cards are just beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
LOVE this beautiful card, Kathy! Your coloring is superb and seems so simple, but I am sure it would take a lot of practice to make it look like yours.
Your card is gorgeous. I love the color combo you used and the way you added the sentiment to work into the design. Thank you for sharing your creativity.
A wonderful job on the flowers. So lovely!
Coloring is great. Love the flowers.
How gorgeous! I can’t wait to learn all of your colouring magic in your online class!!
Love the bold dark colors used with the stencil. And the sentiment stamp is much needed
to share affectionate admiration 🙂
Amazing design from a stencil!
This is just so pretty!
Gorgeous! Beautiful coloring and cool technique. Love the color palette.
I adore your card (this stencil is a must for me). Love this awesome release.
I’ve seen so many cards using the Peony stencil and the cards get more beautiful as I look at them. I can’t wait to receive my order all of you have sold me on that stencil more than I was already sold on it.
Lovely, what a great way to make so much depth.
Such a pretty technique! I don’t do much watercolor work, I’m inspired by your card !
Beautiful Cathy, thank you.
So glad I read through again and found the video for this process. The ink created a great base for the next coloring step.
Your peony stenciled card is amazing. Love coming to your blog to see what your working on, it’s always fabulous!
Great card Kathy! I love this concept of using a stencil to create a light image to colour over…it gives a whole new use to stencils for me!
Stunning design Kathy, would not have thought this started as a basic stencil, has given me an idea to try with one I have. Thank you for sharing your work x
Wow such beautiful and unique looking peonies! Love this card!
Love the deep jewel tone colors!
Those flowers are gorgeous!
Beautiful cards and like how you lay down the foundation for coloring. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! You really took this stencil over the top. Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful coloring, Kathy! I just love the peony stencil!
Stunning coloring as usual Kathy! I love the dark rich colors you used on the flowers!!
Interesting idea to use the warm glow ink under the water coloring, creates a soft but gorgeous look
Wow, Kathy, you make anything look so spectacular!
Oh, wow! This is gorgeous!! Would never guess it started with a stencil!
Kathy, as usual, great color selection and great coloring. Great new release from SSS, but the Peony Bouquet stencil is my favorite!
What a clever way to use a stencil Kathy. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
T x
This is stunning. Your watercoloring is exquisite and gorgeous. Thanks for sharing your process. I enjoyed the video.
Wonderful card! Love your technique!
I LOVE your coloring of the flowers stencil and the 3 -D raised word die that matches and blends. Fantastic!
As always, Kathy, this is stunning! I would actually prefer that you leave the video as is. I’m still quite new to watercoloring and it would help to see how often rinse, add water etc. Yes, it’s looks more flowing, and that’s great if I was just wat, but to learn I would need it all.
Gorgeous creation, I love the variations or color in each flower!
WOW!! Love all those pretty colors with the peony stencil! Stunning. The sentiment is perfectly paired with those florals!
Thanks for creating and sharing.
You are a rock star!
Lovely coloring, love the hidden sentiment technique.
That is crazy beautiful. You should’ve seen my jaw drop when I finally scrolled down and saw how you created the sweet spot. That’s amazing how the amalgam ink shows through. Love you and and all your tips. Just finished the OCC Roadtrip class with you and your entourage of incredible inspiration. Loved every minute of it. You are a wonderful distraction for me during a very difficult time.