January Calendar Layout Snow Day

The patterned papers are from the Carte Bella paper pad. The Snow Day title is cut out with my Cricut.

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Manly Monday Snowmen in a bucket

I have this card with the same image

Snowmen in a bucket 2022

This reminds me of the “boys” in the hot-tub on Tuesdays for what my husband calls “Hot Tub Tuesday “. Anyway,

I colored the Stampin Up snowmen stamp with Copic markers. That’s all I know about on this one. I did mess up the back side with a stupid ink spot. So I stamped the backside with the snowflake stamp. (Thanks for stopping by and looking at my layout.

So, according to the blogger website only 5-11 people visit my blog. Lol. Leave me a comment below so I can see who the 11 people are. Lol.  Thanks for looking.

January Calendar layout Grandpa Brian

Here we go with another year of Calendar layouts on Wednesday. This one was for my brother’s 2023 calendar. The blue background is the actual calendar base. February is pink. March is green. April is blue and so on. Sometimes I used the color instead of adding anything to it.

Anyway, I used some really old products for this layout. The snowflake paper circa 2005 and is by Colorbok. The large white snowflake on the right side was cut out with my Cricut. I have not touched my Cricut in well over a year.

The border at the bottom is a blue vellum by Creative Memories. The title on top is a Sunborn die cut and I can’t remember if the letters/words were in the circles or if I stamped them. I think that the letters are perfectly straight, so I’m going to say I didn’t stamp them.

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February Calendar Winter Wonderland Chair Ski

The background paper is unknown. The frame around the picture is by Forever in Time. The title and snowflake are cut out with my Cricut, The stickers are unknown. Thanks for looking.

Snowman Merry Christmas Card

I know very little about this card because I bought the snowman and the sentiment stamps in a bundle without packaging. The patterned paper at the bottom was left from having a friend 4 years ago. I did die cut that paper and a piece of white glitter cardstock underneath it with an eBay die The small little snowflakes are sequins made by American crafts. thanks for looking 

Fabulous Friday Fun

This week, I am going to share with you the way I color in many of my images here at IDIC. I simply paint the image using distressing inks and water with a regular paint brush I bought at Hobby Lobby. I have a craft mat on which I pressed the distressing ink pads and then sprayed them with water. You can find the Craft Sheet at the OWSE store. Another thing you can use if you just want to try it out is wax paper. It works well, but after a while, I decided it was time to invest in the craft sheet. It is well worth the money for this technique and so much more.

I use distressing inks because they react beautifully with water, whereas other ink brands do not. I often use water with Perfect Pearls in it to give the image sparkle. I printed out the digital image from Robyn's Fetish on regular cardstock from Michael's, but I have to tell you I really like to use watercolor paper. I found some at Hobby Lobby that I felt were reasonably priced and only needed to be cut down slightly to fit in my printer. The cardstock can warp when you add the ink with water. This doesn't happen with the watercolor paper.

For this card, I am using the following supplies:

1.) Distressing inks Barn Door and Broken China

2.) Perfect Pearls color perfect pearl

3.) Mini Mister (to blend my water and Perfect Pearls together)

4.) Mittens' image from Robyn's Fetish

5.) cardstock, lace, thread, and stamp from my stash

Let's begin!

After I printed my image out onto the cardstock, I gathered all my supplies.

Take your ink pads and pat them onto the craft sheet to make your very own painting palate. In order to keep your ink pads from becoming contaminated with other colors set the different colors apart from each other. See below:

If you plan on combining inks to make your own colors, place them close to be able to pull more of one color to the other until you get the color you are looking for. The more water you add to the ink the lighter the color will be. I usually spray the water to the side of the ink spot so I have the choice to make it lighter or darker.

This next photo show my paint brush and the combining of the water (with Perfect Pearls) and ink together on the paint brush.

I then started painting in my image. I started with the smallest part of the image, the hearts, so that the red was prominent and would stick out from the blue mittens. After cleaning my brush with water, I went onto the blue. I colored the first coat light blue because I like to go over the image a second time with the same color after the painting dries a bit. The lines from the paint brush seem to blend together better the second time it is painted.

You can see in the photo below I have paint brush lines so I am going to wait a while before I go back in with my blue. So because I was being impatient I decided to blend the blue and red together and make a purple color for the top of the mittens as you can see below.

Here is my final image. I painted a second coat on the hands of the mittens but not around the cuffs. I wanted the lines to show on the cuffs and for the color to be lighter than the bottom.

Here is my final card. I wanted the lace to flare up when the card was standing up. What I will do is fold the lace upward when I put it into the envelope, so when the recipient takes the card out of the envelope, it will naturally flip up like the picture. You can really see the sparkle that the Perfect Pearls add to the image. Love that.

That's all I have for you today. I hope you have enjoyed a new twist to coloring in your images and using those distressing inks you may have in your stash.

Check out my BLOG for more examples of this technique, especially this fairy card.

 A couple of things to note are these:

Become a follower of my blog, use this technique, and leave me a link in the comments before the next Fabulous Friday Fun, and you can win a prize from me. I make you become a follower so I can get in contact with you for your prize.

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It is a discount club, so once you are accepted, you can get great discounts on so many paper crafting supplies, like those that I used for my project.

We hope that you join us there for a lot of fun and learning!

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See you all next Friday for another FABULOUS FRIDAY FUN!

Cindy

January {MIL's} calendar of Us in the snow at cottage LO

Supplies- green polka dots are by Fancy pants; ribbon by Offray; Stickers by EK Success; rub-ons unknown; snowflake die cut from high school Ellison machine; the White shape is by Cricut Storybook; ink by Stampin Up:) TFL

UPDATED 1-20-22 PIC, WORDING, LABELS, FONT