Happy Halloween !!!

A bit of spooky fun just in time for Halloween!  I have this old Close to My Heart stamp set called Moonlight Scrapbooking Workshop Holidays.  It worked great for this nighttime scene card.

I blended my distress inks in Blueprint Sketch, Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron and Chipped Sapphire using my super awesome Picket Fence Studios Blending Brushes on white cardstock.  For a little more distressed look, I also added some stamping using my Timeless Texture stamp set from Stampin' Up! and also some Dr. Ph Martins Bleed Proof White paint spatters.

This sweet mummy was colored using a variety of copic sketch markers. I popped him up on some dimensionals.  I also heat embossed the lamp post using WOW! Embossing Powder in Ebony.  I paper pieced the lamp on top for some more dimension and colored using the copic markers again.

Here is my finished card, ready to give someone a spooky surprise! Hope you enjoy watching all the kiddos in their costumes on this fun day :)

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More "No Line Watercoloring" Fun

Hello There!

Hope you are having a fabulous Monday morning!  I wanted to share this pretty 

watercolor card with you all today.  Interestingly enough, I find that I have an abundance 

of pink flowers in my own garden so naturally I gravitate towards painting them pink as well :)

One of my favorite things about watercolor is just watching the colors flow and dance 

across my project.  There is something super fun for me in watching this happen.

For this card, I chose to use my new stamp set from the October Simon Says Stamp Card Kit. 

 I really enjoyed this set with its mixed font greetings and gorgeous line art flower images.

I did a soft background using my Picket Fence Studios Life Changing Blender Brushes 

and a Hero Arts Stencil called Waves.  By using a combo of soft and neutral 

Distress Inks as a base and then layering the stencil over top, you get this 

neat "hint" of shapes in the background.

I used Distress Ink to stamp my images of the flower and leaves in lighter colored inks 

so that it would mostly disappear underneath my watercolors.  Using the 

Ecoline Liquid Watercolors, I mixed and added to make different shades of color on 

my palette tray.  These paints are really fun and very vibrant but can also be toned 

down by adding water.

A few splatters of the pink watercolor and some liquid pearls finished off my design.

Here is the gorgeous stamp set called Thankful Flowers that 

I used from Simon Says Stamp!

My finished card - a sweet greeting of congratulations that would 

surely brighten anyone's day!

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