Kathy Rac’s 30 Day Color Challenge 1-22-18 Water Color

Hey Crafters!! Today Kathy Altering a Holiday Stamped image , but I had this Red Rubber elephant and Stampin’UP! Zebra already stamped in my Canson 5.5 x 8 inch sketch book from Wal-Mart and I wanted to see if I could water color them.

I really wanted to go outside of my “Traditional Zone” and use some funky colors, like purple on the elephant and blue on the zebra, BUT in the end, I had to go back and dull everything down with some gray! It’s very hard for me to do non traditional, but I enjoy it so much when visiting other blogs.

They were a hot mess until I came back in with a Precision V5 fine point black pen (from Wal-mart) and drew on them. LOL. I love doing that! The results are so cool. And it just makes the image pop. You can do a similar thing if you leave your stamps in a stamping tool and just stamp over the images again. I faked this tree which is a bit sad, it was sketched in with a #2 pencil first, then added some water colors and let that dry, then doodled with Precision V5 pen.

These images were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink mid September, so they have had time to cure well and the water didn’t seem to affect them very much. Normally I would stamp these in a permanent ink like Ranger Archival Jet Black or StazOn. I had not planned the tree, but after the animals were colored they looked odd and I said to myself, an elephant and a zebra would Pro a ally not be this close to each other. I used the aqua painter to dab light green leaves and let them dry. Then dabbed dark green leaves and let them dry. Then used a fan brush to tap, tap, tap those wispy looking bits all over the dried leaves and extending away from the edges of the branches and leaves. I used a big scrub brush to blob in the bushes around the animals and the fan brush over the top of that. The bushes never quite got where I was trying to go with them! LOL. So, I called it good and doodled on the animals, the tree and added extra grasses.

My “water colors” are from Crayola Washable Kid’s markers and Marvy Markers scribbled onto a paint pallet and picked up there with a wet aqua painter. I use Pentel Aquash in large and small. I love these water brushes, they don’t leak and they supply water to the brush tip without dripping. They travel well too!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a Great Week!

July 2016 Name Tag-Card Video

Hey Crafters!!  I’m going with a “Summer” theme for this month’s name tag and turning the same layout into a shaped card.  

I’be been working on my resume’ after years of being at home with my kids and most recently my grand babies.  Applying for jobs online, which is nerve racking when you can not see the people, their facility, etc.  Not to mention, taking timed online clerical assessments, eek!  

Then, the sudden passing of an aunt Friday before last (my dad’s sister and one of my favorite uncle’s wife, this uncle was my dad’s best friend and he was my uncle long before he married my aunt). Our big family on my father’s side is shrinking (we lost 3 last year and 1 this year) and even though I am a Christian, grieving takes its toll on me.  As my favorite people pass or loose their people, it somehow compounds what I’m feeling.  I worry about all of the firsts after their person is gone (birthdays, holidays, anniversaries and especially Christmas, etc.).  

Supplies:

Canson 140 Lb. water color paper (9×12 inch pad from Wal-Mart Super Center).

Misc Blue card stock

Stamps:  Fluffy Passenger by Penny Black, Clear Monogram and Frames Stamps by Martha Stewart and Riley’s ABCs by Lawn Fawn.  

Dies:  Stampin’UP!/Sizzix Labels Collection 125598

Inks:  Ranger Archival Jet black ink (heat set with the Milwaukee heat tool from the lovely Jennifer McGuire).

Stampin’UP!  Water based Dye reinkers in Night of Navy(watered down for the 2 different versions of Gray), Calypso Coral, Pacific Point, Certainly Celery, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Pixie Pink.  

Pentel Aquash Painter w/small nib with water.

March 2016 Name Tag-Card Video

Hey Crafters!!  Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  The birds are migrating and the Spring bulbs are blooming.  Let’s bring out our inner Leprechaun and get crafting…

  
For today’s tag I improvised and used a $1.00 Pilgrim stamp by studio g or Inkadinkado and turned him into a Leprechaun by doing some selective inking with Memento dew drop ink pads and coloring with Copic markers.
I did not have a Leprechaun stamp, so this was an easy way to make one.  Watch the video and see how I work this out.  

   
   
For Better video quality…”click here”…to watch at YouTube

Kathy Rac 30 Day Feb Name Tag/Card~ Video

Hey Crafters!!  I hope you all enjoyed a lovely Valentine’s Day!  I’m a bit late, but still wanted to use some semi-Valentine type stamps for Feb. name tags and card.  Today Kathy Racoosin did some more Amazing copic color for Inspire Me Monday over at Power Poppy blog.  I’ve got to get over there and try some of their challenges as you don’t have to have PP stamps to play AND you could win some.  If you’re viewing this post in an email from me, you may need to pop over to my blog for the video link at the bottom of this post.

  
I created February’s Name Tag and created a card with a similar layout as the tag using the same stamps as the tag.  

Kathy sent me Lawn Fawn’s Lovin’ Breakfast during Stamptember 2012.  If you’re not familiar with Stamptember, visit Simon Says Stamp blog for all kinds of FUN.  But Stamptember is a Fall event where SSS and many of their Design Team share lots of new product, tutorials, give always, etc.  Sign up for their email so you don’t miss a thing.  Simon is also one of those great companies out there still giving away product for commenting and playing in challenges.  I even got a coupon to get a free stamp set for my birthday in 2015, but never got to place an order.  I wasn’t sure if I needed to place an order or if I could have just recieved the stamp set and paid shipping to get it?  Either way, I was very impressed with their offer of a birthday gift.  

  
These are the little name badges I purchased at Wal-Mart Super Center a few seasons ago.  This one is vertical, but you can get horizontal too.  The badges are seperate from the clips, but for around $4.00 you can create personalized name tags for your group or friends at card class.  

I also purchased the dies for this set recently from Tara Sell over on YouTube, her blog and YouTube are called Curl E. Cues.  She was very sweet and reliable to buy from during her Destash of stamps and dies.  

  
You can also layer up your name tags or a smaller die cut for Gift Tags, Gift Bag Tags or Cards as shown here.  I’ve got to stop cleaning my stamps with face wipes, they are better than baby wipes, but you still get some fibers on your stamp pad and that caused some smearing issues and I ended up stamping on the back of this white die cut during the video.  Enjoy!

Supplies for today’s crafts:

Heavy weight white and deep orange card stock by The Paper Studio, Black by Recollections 65 lb.

Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles dies.

Stamps:  Lawn Fawn “Lovin’ Breakfast” (toaster-toast-bow tie) and matching dies (bow tie). , Simon Says Stamp “I See You” (I love you – sentiment and small heart stamp, The Paper Studio “Months of the Year” (Feb – masked off for the abbreviation).

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black ink (for Copic markers), SSS Pale Blush (for the cheeks of the toaster).

Dec 2015 Name Tags

Hey Crafters!!  December’s name tag is finally here.  LOL. It really snuck up on me.  If you’re reading this post in an email, pop over to my blog for a 10 minute video at the bottom of this post.

  
I’ve used Papertrey Ink’s Poinsettia stamp set with Stampin’UP! Pacific Point dye ink and a couple of Crayola washable markers in blue to create this month’s tag. If you subscribe to my blog, you know this is one of my favorite techniques to do and I call it Faux Water Color. 😉

  

 
It’s Fun!  It’s Artistic!  And…It’s Easy!  Enjoy!

Supplies:

Stamps:

PapertreyInk, Poinsettia Stamp set (small poinsettia).

The Paper Studio, Months of the Year (December, masked off for Dec).

Inks:  

Ranger Archival Jet Black (Dec).

Stampin’UP! Pacific Point, dye.

Markers:

Crayola washable markers in Dark blue and Light blue.  Fine point Sharpie in black for writing my name on the tag.

Legal Pads into Note Pads Dec 2015

Hey Crafters!!  Last minute stocking stuffers for all of my favorite peeps made from Legal Note Pads!  I love to make these and personalize them for the recipients.

   

My dad has a tractor just like this!  A cottage cutz tractor die cut in red and gray card stock and pieced back together the tires were colored with a Bic markit black marker and glossy accents added to parts of the tractor and the wheels. 
  

My brother has a stash and glasses! LOL. This one didn’t turn out too great but I always do a hunting or tool thing for him and I wanted to do something different this year!  A little bit of white acrylic paint was smeared over the mustache to reveal the words on this momenta die set.  “respect the stash” The glasses are from a stampabilities clear stamp set. 

  

My nephew goes to a college that has changed its mascot?  What!  It kind of blew my mind and mojo.  They’ve been Indians as long as I’ve known.  We have a little Indian blood, if we sat around crying offended minority we wouldn’t have anything.  Just sayin’. Recollections varsity Alpha stamp set and spellbinders font one A. The wolf stamp is from Stampin’ Up! nature silhouettes. 

  

My mom loves the beach!  And she always has a visor.  This art impressions lady is perfect and I colored her with copics exactly the way she is on the stamp set.  The Beachball is from a little one dollar stamp set by studio G or Inkadinkado.  Just keep swimming…just keep swimming….

 

My niece loves a little dog named Alice!  Alice is a very cute long haired dog that is black and white. I should have used colored pencil instead of trying to limp along with my black Bic mark it, but just didn’t think of it sooner. Cottage cutz dog on chair die. 
   
   

The local print shop cuts these legal pads down for me.  
  

I cut card stock to 2 7/8th inches x 8 1/2 inches.  This note below is wrong. LOL

 

Scored (Landscape) @ 3 1/2 inches and 3 3/4 inches to cover the top of the notepads. Glossy Accent glued them down. It’s acid free so it won’t discolor the CS. 
   

This One is my favorite!  My daughter in law works at urgent care and I had to use these little Lawn Fawn birds!  and that sweet WPlus9 owl from winter pals!  I improvised a thermometer from a spoon handle.
 

A close up I elevated some of the diecuts on fun foam and added glossy accents to the thermometer the bird beaks and the heart on the medicine bottle. Lawn Fawn get well soon and winter sparrows stamp sets. 

  

The cooking one for my daughter with lawn Fawn’s baked with love set.
  

My husband’s deer hunting scene with the buck from Taylored Expressions birch tree accessories die set and doe from cottage cutz dear die the birch trees and birds from impression obsession birch tree die set colored with copics. 

  And lastly one for me I never make one for myself!!!   

Sadly I failed to photograph my son in law’s note pads, one with a deer scene and one with a party crowd scene because he plays drums and guitar in a band. Maybe I can get him to snap a pic of them and I will come back and edit the post.  Because this project was inspired by Cody he requested the notepads because he’s the only person who actually uses them!!!

Edited to add Cody’s!  

Gift Tags & Christmas Cards 2015

Hey Crafters!!  It’s crunch time!  I created some fun chalk board type gift tags and my Cards on Dec. 20th.  I hope you all have time to get all of your shopping and creating done.  I’ll be back with some stocking stuffers. In a bit!!

If you’re reading this post in an email, pop over to my blog for the 13 min. video at the bottom near the supplies list.  Enjoy!

   
 

   

  

 

Tag Supplies:

Spellbinders Big Scallop Rectangle LG. Dies S4-255

Stampin’UP! – Sizzix Framlits Ovals set 129381

SU – Sizzix Framelits Labels 125598

Aleene’s Turbo Tacky Glue

Stampendous embossing ink

White embossing powder

Doodlebug Twine in Black

Stamps: Stampendous Snowy Short Stacks (penguin & reindeer), Inkadinkado, Recollections (short snowman) (Tall snowman) or Studio g (clear and wood mount stamps as per video, Santa, reindeer, elf, gift and sentiment, etc.), Everyday Expressions (!), PapertreyInk Counting My Blessings (you).  

Card Supplies:

Recollections Misc. colored card stocks 65 lb. Base and scraps

ProvoCraft Winter Dies (snowman, Trees, snowflakes).  Sizzix Sizzlit Under the Big Top (hat only).

SU Four the Holidays (peace on earth sentiment).

Stampendous embossing ink.

White embossing powder. 

Recollections snowflake punch, small.

Copics on snowman:  Boooo, E35.  Trees: E27 Trunk.

Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders

White Acrylic paint (highlight on trees and hat)

Allene’s Turbo Tacky Glue

Oct 2015 Name Tags ~ Water Color ~ Video

Hey Crafters!!  October’s Name tags are a heat embossed stamped Mummy on water color card.  A nice break from copic coloring, I hope.  LOL  

   

After stamping and embossing the Mummy, I was really wishing I had room for a pumpkin.  I rummaged through my Halloween and Fall stamps and found several pumpkins, some in solid images and some that were  outlines.  All of them however,  would have required masking and more heat embossing and I was too impatient for those options and chose to add orange to my background to satisfy me desire for a pumpkin.  LOL  
 

I planned to squeak these into Kathy’s 30 day color challenge, but deer season and extra grand baby day care duties collided with a deep chest cold followed by a pinched nerve in my back.  My appologies for being late!  

I’ve actually quit going to card class, because I typically have Maddex on class day.  And even though his acid reflux is under wraps, he will not sit still in the car seat unless it’s in the car and it’s moving.  And he’s here late on that day, due to traffic so there is no point.  I’d be wrestling him and not making cards.  LOL  And I just don’t have the energy for that.  It’s really hard for me to not be Super Mom aka Nana anymore.  I have to realize my limitations.  One thing is for sure, I’m going to have to start a solid exercise routine and stick with it.  A super B12 vitamin wouldn’t hurt either.  LOL

Supplies:  

Canson 400 Lb. water color cards stock ( 9×12 inch pad from Wal-mart) cut down to 3 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ to fit the name badges from Wal-Mart Super Center.

Stampin’UP! Reinkers:  Night of Navy, Tempting Turquoise, Costal Cabana, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and Daffodil Delight.

Ranger Archival Jet Black ink for Sentiment, Versamark Ink for the Mummy.

Stampcraft embossing powder in black. 

Heat Tool and Embossing Pouch.

Happy and Smile Sun by SSS for Kathy Rac’s 30 Day Color Challenge Day 24

Hey Crafters!!  Today is the 24th day in Kathy Racoosin’s 30 Day Color Challenge.  Today she colored some beautiful cactus.  I’m preparing some fun images for some Greeting Card gift giving and stamped these fun sunshines from SSS’s Happy and Smile stamp set and enhanced them with Copics or Bics and made an additonal stamp for the cheeks.    Visit my blog for a short 5 minute video discussing the stamping of this adorable sun, coloring on it with alcohol markers and making a stamp for the cheeks, posted at the bottom of this post.

Dark cheeks or light cheeks, which do you prefer?  I liked the lighter ones myself. 

  

Bold cheeks with sunglasses on or off. LOL  It’s a very COOL sun either way, don’t you think?

  

I forgot that I used StazOn when I was shading the eyes with R12, see the sun on the right?  The right eye smudged just a bit and I quickly scribbled the ink off onto scratch card stock. 

  

You can stamp the eyes up or down.  Super cute either way you choose!

 

Father’s Day Cards 2015 – Stamping + Water

Hey Crafters!!   Today is Day 17 in Kathy Racoosin’s 30 Day color challenge 2!  And she did an amazing “window” card, but I’m crunched for time and really needed to squeak out my Father’s Day cards.  Millie’s Bday preperations and having my grands up to 4 days a week has shortened the time I get to play.  

I cut my water color panels with the stitched rectangle die from SSS Bundle of Stitched Shapes.  

For this Deer card, I stamped the tree 1st, then the deer on the right, added water and more darker brown to the deer to indicate a face, depth to the ears, front shoulder-plus leg, and back hip-plus leg.  Added more color to the tree  because this stamp is not level and does not stamp well, added more color and water to the tree to fill the blank spaces and let dry.  Stamped the Left deer,  restamping his rump area where there was no tree to darken that part of his body, added water to his body and another front leg (where there should be one!!  LOL)  which, might have made better sense, if the tree were stamped lower, but rolling on!  Added some sky color, let dry and added the sentiment and mounted this panel on a brown card base.  I love my Right Deer!!  

The Boat card was started by painting in a blue sky.  When I picked up this piece  it seemed more like water than sky, so I flipped it upside down.  The boat was stamped 1st in SU Pacific Point, then overs-stamped and off set with SU BLack, which is the gray looking line you see below the boat.  It didn’t look right,  and I took a Sharpie fine point marker and drew the main lines of the boat back in.  Added a little bit of green to the water for a more “lake” water look  and drew in some flying birds.  Stamped the sentiment and mounted on a blue card base. 

The pale blue background was added first with SU’s Costal Cabana, over the whole panel and allowed to dry. Due to the flaws in my pine tree stamp, I chose to stamp each side of the tree on the edge of the water color panel  and blended them out with water (yikes, looks like I should have blended better on the right), pulling some of the green along the bottom to bridge the gap between the trees.  Stamped the right deer  in full strenght ink and immediately did a second generation stamping for his shadow.  Stamped the left deer and did his shadow too.  For some reason I had a whim to make a blue horizon line, at the base of these mountains!!  And I really do know better..  It was bad.  So bad, that you can see I had to really work on the mountains to get anything half way that looked like Mtns. to the point, I completely forgot to add water to my deer!  Ohh deer….Katie was on her way to finalise some tags for Millie’s birthday party  and I skurried along and now see  I forgot them.  Added the sentiment and put this one on a gray card base.  * On Sat. I did go back and fix these deer!  See photo below  this one.

 I diluted the deer with water and added a bit more brown ink with the aqua painter, diluted the trees out a bit more too and added that 4th leg to the deer on the right. (why do artists intentionally create animals with 3 legs?)  I don’t know, but it drives me nuts.  

  

I started by adding the sky color in SU’s Tempting Turquoise.  And stamped this car in Going Gray, then did a 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation stamping behind the full strength ink card, in hopes this created movement.  Ha! Ha! Ha!  And we’re moving on.  I originally diluted the gray lines of the car, since my son has a little white cool car and added blue to the windows, all good.  Then, I decided this needed a big ole sunshine, so I removed some of the sky with water  and let dry.  Added the sun, great!!  Had on odd whim, to have some sunshine reflect on the hood of the car.  Big Mistake!  Washed it off with more water.   Added a gray ground and diluted the “”movement” cars with water, stamped the sentiment and called it done, but didn’t like it.  LOL  Yeaaah, it happens.  Went and did the other “white car” card below  and it was much better, which sparked an even better idea for this sadder card.  So, I made the car this orangy red color, which is the color of my husbands sports car!!  Oh, yeah, I’m back in and kickin it  in the cool car department.  Muhahahahahaha!!   After all, there is almost always a way to salvage it…

* On Saturday, I did add more color to this car as well, see photo below this one.

I used SU’s Poppy Parade to add more color to this car!   

  

Okay, this base got a gray wash for the sky, and let dry.  Stamped the SU motorcycle in SU Black..   Scribbled aa red  and dark pink Crayola washable markers down on an acrylic block and PU with a wet aqua painter for the red bits.  Drew in all of the “chrome” with a gray Crayola marker  and diluted it with water, let dry, drew in the chrome again.  Drew in the seat and tires  with a blackish Crayola marker.  Drew in the bumpy  off road landscape  with a gray Crayola washable maker and diluted it with water.  Stamped the sentiment and put on a red card base. 

Cool Wite car card #2, made like car card above, only without the mistakes.  Only one shadow car, in the wrong place…uhh….rolling on.  Jon will be getting this card.   

Did this motorcycle card, similar to the one above, only lighter.  The chrome bits are weak!!  But really, this stamp is so inaccurate, (like my Blogger Profile that no one can delete for me but Google insists on keeping it attached to Me), that it’s hard to color and I loose patience with it.  ((Wah–Wah))   I just kept fiddling and tweaking the one above and I like it better…I think this is the one Katie took for Cody.  

Supplies:

Canson Water Color Paper Pad (from Wal-mart).  Recollections multi color paper packs, 65 lb.  (for card base and this is really too light weight, but it is what I have.  

Stamps:  

PTI:  In the Meadow (deer and tree),, Spring Hills (Happy cut away from the spring Birthday sentiment and used with FFather’s Day from Year Round Happiness.   Stampin’UP!  Need for Speed 122717  (car and boat)  and Motorcycle 1176657.

Dies:  Simon Says Stamp, Bundle of Stitched Shapes SSSD111412.