Altenew - November 2016 Inspiration Challenge

Altenew's November Inspiration Challenge is the following photo:

I was immediately drawn to the blue background in the photo and Sveta's card.  With that background, bold flowers were a perfect choice for me as a focal point. I decided to use Altenew's Botanical Garden and Wild Hibiscus Stamp Sets and came up with the following card:

The photo doesn't show all the Wink of Stella shimmer that you'd see in real life.

Hope you enjoyed the card.

Tammy

Products Used:

Altenew:  Floral and Butterflies

SSS:  Wishing and sentiment

Copics:  Floral and Butterflies

Distress Inks:  Background

Wink of Stella: Florals, Butterflies and Background

Gelly Roll Pen:  White detail

MFT Thankful for You-Spread Your Thankful

My Favorite Things, has a  Thankful for You - Spread Your Thankful inspiration/challenge to create a Thank You card.  I created the following card using MFT Birthday Bears as a focal point for a Christmas Thank You (need to get a head start on those!).

I hope you enjoyed the card!

Tammy

Products Used:
MFT - Birthday Bears
Copics for the Bears, Presents and Shadow
PTI - Sentiment and Snowflakes
Avery Elle - Finished Frames
Distress Inks - Background
Other:  Wink of Stella and Water to distress background

Simon Says Stamp: Monday Challenge - Summer Garden

Quick post for the SSS Monday Challenge. Used Altenew flowers to create a Summer
Garden!

Thanks for stopping by!
Tammy

OCC Watercolor- Day 3 Negative Painting

I was in awe of this technicque that Dawn showed us. Her sample was beautiful.  I was soooo excited when she commented on how easy it was to do.  Boy, did I struggle with the amount of water and paint to use.  In the end, this was my best attempt.  I definetly improved with each attempt.  Will continue to practice, practice, practice...

Prior attempts (others went straight to the recycling bin).

OCC Watercolor - Day 2 Simple Round Brush Flowers

Here is my practice of this technicque:

Very simple, but I really needed to work on how much water I used.

OCC Watercolor - Day 1 Part 2

In the second video, was practice on expanding what we learned about the brush technicque.  I didn't have a good stamped image to practice, but realized how easy is was to lay down water in a pear shape.  Here is what I did:

On the first pear, I made the mistake of putting my thumb on it to check if it was dry - oops.

OCC Watercolor - Day One

The first class was all about brush technicque, here is my practice:

Doesn't look like much, but learned alot!

OCC Watercolor: Intermediate - Pre-Class Exercise

I'm excited to take the OCC Watercolor: Intermediate Technicque Class over at OCC.  One of the pre-class exercises is to create paint swatches.  Here is mine for my KOI Watercolors (sorry that it's side-ways):

Happy that they did this as I didn't think that having a reference sheet would help.  But also, the info on the transparancy or opaquesness helped too.

Off to finish more of the pre-class.  Looking forward to the rest of class.

Tammy

Watercolor-Black & White Remake

So, I decided to retry making a pre-class watercolor. I am much happier with the result.

The two changes I made were using black embossing powder and Koi Watercolor Pocket Field Sketch Box.

Here's the result, followed by the before picture.

BEFORE:

Pre-Class Watercolor

Just posting some pre-class watercolor pictures. Very happy I'm taking the Watercolor for Card Makers-Exploring Mediums class. You'll see what I mean after seeing the before and afters!

http://onlinecardclasses.com/watercolorEM/

Here, I made the mistake of using memento black for stamping the flowers. This is a watercolor soluble ink that bleed giving a purplish color. I was looking for black and white.

PRODUCTS:

Altenew Wild Hibiscus Stamp

Memento Black Ink

Generic watercolor pencils

Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper

Simon Says it's a Guy Thing #2

First time doing a SSS challenge and it's to use Tim Holtz.  I only have his distress inks.  So when I saw this card on Pinterest - I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  I made two cards using that card as my inspiration.  On one background, I used TH Spiced Marmalade and Mustard Seed Distress Inks, the other one is TH Spice Marmalade and Picked Raspberry.

 

The flowers are Altenew Painted Flowers (love this set) using PTI Fresh Snow, PTI Orange Zest and then Memento Black.  

 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Simon Says it's a Guy Thing

First time doing a SSS challenge and it's to use Tim Holtz.  I only have his distress inks.  So when I saw this card on Pinterest - I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  I made two cards using that card as my inspiration.  On one background, I used TH Spiced Marmalade and Mustard Seed Distress Inks, the other one is TH Spice Marmalade and Picked Raspberry.

 

The flowers are Altenew Painted Flowers (love this set) using PTI Fresh Snow, PTI Orange Zest and then Memento Black.  

 

Thanks for stopping by! 

MIM #195 - A la carte

I decided to use the MIM from Betsy with the Artsy Watercolor Background for this challenge.  I used the Rosie Posie Stamp Set and then used a waterbrush to pull the color out. Here's what I ended up with:

 

 

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Altenew December Challenge

So, I discovered this amazing, relatively new company - Altenew.  Right away, I new I had to get their Painted Flowers stamp set.  With their December Challenge, I knew I wanted to use a yellow ink with kraft ink over it - can't remember where I saw this (love the look). 

Thanks for stopping by!

Tammy

MIM# 182: Mason Jar Stamping

I absolutely loved this week's MIM at Papertrey Ink by Melissa Phillips! Here's my take on the challenge.

I used Polka Dots Basics and embossed them in gold - it was a little tricky; but I'm happy with the results.  I added some sequins to the dots to add a little more interest and then embellished the jar with snowflakes and holly.

Thanks for stopping!

Tammy

MIM# 174: Wallpaper Stamping

This weeks' Make it Monday Challenge is Wallpaper Stamping.  When I saw the challenge, I thought of using the damask on smokey shadow with clear embossing powder.  I then added the label from celebrations and flowers from beautiful brushstokes.

Thanks for stopping,
Tammy

MIM #152: Layering Dye and Pigment Inks

This is a new technique for me and I really enjoyed seeing the process and how the lettering shown through on the butterflies.  I will definitely be doing this more often!  Here is my card:

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