A very dear friend lost her Mum a few weeks ago. You want to give something, say something, do something at times like these, but they all seem not enough.
We shared visits and many phone calls and in between those I made this card. Not your normal sympathy card. The four flowers represent her Mum and the three daughters she had.
I used my Sennelier watercolours, Black Velvet Silver 4 brush and Artistico Fabriano paper, along with a Fine Lin 0.1 pen.
Smiles
Watercolour once again, simply because I love it so much!
These bright fresh colours just fell on to the paper, but again I found it difficult to simply let it happen without some sort of guide, but I guess only practice will help!
Hope your day is special!
Smiles
Happy Australia Day! How lucky we are to live in this beautiful country.
What a wonderful thing watercolour paints are. The way they blend and mix to create never even thought of combinations…they have always been a favourite.
Really when you’re playing with watercolours, no matter how they come – pencils, crayons or pans, they make it very easy to create and oh so much fun.
Before I start with any watercolour I tape my watercolour paper onto my work surface which at the moment is a bamboo chopping board – making it easy to move around.
This image was created backwards to what I usually do. Normally I lay down an outline very lightly in pencil so I can see where it’s going, but with this the colour came first. The background then the flowers followed by a finaliser for definition. It was fun and scary all at once.
I had a lot of fun creating this little watercolour, time for the next!
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I have nearly completed a video to go with this very simple water colour card. I love watercolours because they are so very forgiving! I am constantly eyeing off new ones when I don’t really need them, and planning how I can squeeze them into my budget.
The card came together very quickly! After printing my images on Derwent Watercolour paper I trimmed to desired size – border marked on card – then started colouring.
Smiles for now
I love bright colours! Not so much in my clothes but definitely when I create. They’re just so much fun!
This collection of three designs was created using my very much loved Derwent Inktense Pencils. I have had these pencils for a very long time and love the ability to blend like normal watercolours but also go back and add colour without disturbing what I had already laid down.
I created these images in part using the Printable Stamp set Doodle Delicious – bottom image. I selected the stems, leaves and circle flower heads then added in my own detail to complete. It gave a base to work with as well as leaving me free to add my own style.
Enjoy your day,
Smiles
Hi and thanks for stopping by today! Remember this card I made a little while ago, well it made it as a favourite on CAS(E) this Sketch! I was blown away, and so very excited to be asked by Chrissy to be a guest this week for a brand new sketch!! So here is the sketch and my take on it.
I decided to use a new digi image I’ve created and twisted and turned it to fill the front of my card, then coloured it using Derwent Watercolour pencils. This time I didn’t use my Inktense, which was really hard to do, but then I felt these lovely pencils had long been neglected and so therefore were chosen…(lucky them).
I wanted to keep it fairly subtle , and I have to say (after taking numerous photos) this card is far prettier in the flesh….I simply couldn’t capture it with my limited photography skills. I added Lagoon Sprinkles as an afterthought, and they really make a difference – in the flesh!
Be sure to check out the new sketch over at CAS(E) this Sketch and join in with us!
Smiles for now,
Andrea
I loved the simple sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch this week and have had it sitting on my desktop for daaayyys, so today I got around to doing something about it! I wanted to use both Copics and Inktense and have tried to match the colours as close as I could just so I could see the differences.
This one uses Inktense pencils. The light background at the top took mixing 3 colours to get something close to the colours I used in the Copic card, but I came pretty close with that I think. To me it looks like a watercolour card and not smooth like the Copic, but then I liked the Copic as well 🙂
The Copic card actually took a lot less time because I didn’t have to wait for anything to dry.
Not good lighting in my office today so it was hard to get a good shot, even with three lamps going! The image is from the Flowers For You set but I’ve used the digital version (coming soon) and scaled them larger to suit the card I had in my mind. The sentiment I created and printed at the same time as I printed the image out.
Here’s the sketch and I hope you enjoyed the comparison 🙂
Smiles,
Andrea
Ok, so when I stamped a sheet of watercolour paper the other day I stamped more than one of Lil Monster, so thought I’d better colour him and move him to the finished box of cards. After using my new Peerless watercolours for the last few projects I went back to my favourites for colouring in – Inktense pencils by Derwent (they’re just so easy to use).
Very plain, possibly a little boring, but I don’t know another way that I’m comfortable with, so went with it! Lil Monster is coloured using – Golden Yellow, Mustard, Amber, Dk Aquamarine, Sea Blue, and the floor, background and balloon with Neutral Grey. The background and balloon was a combination of yellow and grey to create a very muted colour. I used the Neutral on the balloon and allowed it to dry before brushing the watered down yellow over. This time I left the image as is without adding any additional shading 🙂
I used the colour combo from the Color Throwdown challenge blog
Smiles,
Andrea
How do you celebrate your birthday? I tend to buy myself a treat and usually it’s along the lines of a crafty item, and this year I settled on the Peerless Watercolor cards by Jane Davenport. I’ve wanted to try these for ages (as well as the DR PH Martins!)- maybe next year for those 😉 This collection of 60 colours is beautiful. I spent an entire afternoon yesterday colouring the free download sheet from Jane’s website (below), as well as creating how I was going to store them. Now these colours were not cheap (well I don’t think they were), at $64.00AUD (find them HERE), and only time will tell if I think they were great value or not. I found that like most watercolours they lifted and blended beautifully, and for the most part the colours were vibrant, but my concern is how long they will actually last. For me that may be a long time because I have so many other favourite supplies to use, and it may simply be that the colours I chose to use in my cards below were not what I expected….
As I had a few days waiting for my present to arrive, I planned how I thought I’d store them. Many ideas I saw from other bloggers was to cut the squares so that they fitted on one sheet (above), but I didn’t want to do that, so I set off to Officeworks and found a 10 page binder with sleeves and created a sheet to put samples on…(below).
Once I’d coloured a sample of each square I placed the sheets in to the binder sleeves and then adhered the squares to the outside of the sleeves….does that make sense?? I do have a video of this, but I’m still having issues with iMovie, my new computer, and just me. Why they change things when they worked in they’re wonderful simplicity before I will never know! Before I could just drag and drop a photo in, but no, not anymore. So this binder now complete with the first reference sheet above, the five sheets with the pigmented squares, my Koi watercolour reference pallet and my Inktense reference pallet inside is still only no more than 1cm thick, so I think it’s still very portable without having to trim them down!
So here is a card I made using my birthday present to me. The softer pink is Geranium and the darker Jackqueminot, and Olive. I know the Geranium is a light colour, but this is one of the colours I think will not last long as there just doesn’t seem to be the same intensity as most of the other colours when you pick it up with your brush.
I used the colour challenge on at Splitcoast CC617 for my inspiration 🙂 and the stamp set Remember When for my images, with Olive Sprinkles to decorate.
I used the same colours in my second card and kept it also as a one layer card like the first. For this one I used Rose coloured Sprinkles.
Well either way I had fun playing around with my new watercolours! Let me know if you’ve tried these before and what you thought of them.
Smiles,
Andrea
Supplies:
Peerless Watercolors by Jane Davenport
Remember When Stamp Set
Derwent Watercolour Paper
Well I have to say I’m liking taking some time to colour! I should be doing a little more cleaning before I get started in to this or my New Years resolution to craft is going to go up in smoke! I hate crafting in a mess and my office has been in disarray for months and months!
Today I’ve used Lil Monster’s Balloon and once again my Tombow Markers. I don’t have many colours in these markers so I am finding the colour range a little restrictive, but I have to resist spending any money on more when I have so many other mediums that I can be using. I also have already recently purchased more watercolours (I’ll share later this week – still setting them up :)), and can’t allow myself to spend anymore!
Li Monster has always been one of my favourites, I have made many cards using this little guy. He was designed by Helen Pickup from the UK, and is just adorable. I once again coloured directly to the paper with the maker for his body and top, and then picked colour up from an acrylic block for the lighter shading. The colour moves around easily and blends beautifully. The shading was done with Pastel pencils.
Have a wonderful day and I’ll be back with my new watercolours 🙂
Smiles,
Andrea
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