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.

Many of the supplies that I have used for this project can be found in our OUTLAW WOMEN SCRAPBOOK EMPORIUM.

It is a Yahoo Group that you can join if you would like to be a part of a fabulous group of people who chat about everything under the sun, hold swaps and challenges, too.

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!

Just click on OUTLAW WOMEN SCRAPBOOKING EMPORIUM and it will take you right to the HOME PAGE!

See you all next Friday for another FABULOUS FRIDAY FUN!

Cindy

Christmas Cards all year Round monthly challenge

A new monthly challenge at Christmas Cards all year Round. It is quite simple to play at this lovely blog. All you need to do is make five Christmas cards using this months theme (they can be five of the same cards or five different as long as they follow the theme) and link them up to Mr Linky for your chance to win a wonderful prize. The following is this months theme/challenge: 

July Challenge 

With summer weddings coming up, white should be a main "colour" and then we'lll need some bling - gems, plearls, glitter, etc. Added challenge for fun - Flower(s) of some kind too!!! 


And these are my examples:

The silver paper is actually glitter paper and then there are rhinestones in the center of the those snowflakes)

(There is sparkle on the middle sticker and the ribbon too)

(hard to see but my sparkle is on the white die cuts. I sprayed them with Perfect Pearls and water. Can you also see the tulle that I used just under the green paper? I cut it using the Cuttlebug and a Spellbinders die.)

(The hats on these snowmen are "colored" in using Stickles and the fiber is also sparkly)

So I hope to see you join in on this months challenge. Check out the other DT members examples for inspiration on the CCAYR blog.

See you tomorrow with.... I'm not sure yet.  

Then Sunday is I Did It Creations new weekly challenge. This past weeks challenge has been Christmas in June which you only have one day left to complete and get posted for a chance at a free digital image. 

If you would like a Christmas digital freebie stop on over to SNR (Scrapbook News and Reviews Groups) at the group that I am an administrator of  representing I Did it Creations. Join the group and write on the wall or send me a message that you would like a freebie. And poof just like that I can get you one. I have been trying like crazy to get people over there to play but have been getting the sound of crickets at night instead. So if you are not a member at SNR it is worth the sign up. If you are worried that you will get a bunch of emails from joining you can set your settings so you don't receive any emails from them. Basically 

I'm saying it's quick, easy and painless for you to join. Join a few groups get a few freebie images here and there. You can have your own photo album there as well that you can share with others by giving them a link to look through your creations. The service is there but not many people are using it. 

Scrapbook News and Reviews or SNR - HERE's a link to the home page. They have a tab that tells you how SNR works. And if you need help such as navigating through a group I have a tutorial already made and would be glad to share it with you. 

Best wishes for a happy holiday weekend. My husband was diagnosed with pneumonia this morning. Poor thing is not doing well. So any prayers that he's able to fight it off with antibiotics at home would be really appreciated. 

Dancer Card for I Did it Creations Challenge

This week at IDIC the challenge is a recipe: 1 image, 2 patterned papers, and 3 embellishments. We were sponsored by Stitchy Stamps. Here is my card.

 Now you see my 1 image and the 2 patterned papers are the circles behind the image and the butterfly. My three embellies are brads, stamped flourish and label from Elle's Studio. I must get going. Have a Happy Easter everyone.

I'm also using this card for the challenge at Frosted Designs for their Friday challenge of a butterfly. Thanks for looking.

Duck Egg Digital stamp Happy Easter Card

This Sunday at I Did it Creations we are sponsored by Lexi's Creations and the theme is Spring. I chose this cute little Easter image for an Easter card for some lucky family member. I used my Copic markers to color it in and you can see a little improvement here and there on my coloring. I signed up for a Copic class in May and I am just jumping out of my skin in anticipation for that day to arrive. But on to my card for this challenge:

Supplies: Ribbon unknown the little eggs (yellow and pink) were fussy cut out of ribbon that I no longer have, patterned paper is by The Paper Studio and Creative Memories (yellow polka dot), cardstock by Provo Craft and Recollections, ink by (purple) Stamp it, (pink) by Ranger and (yellow) by Versa color, stamps by Close to my Heart and Maya Road.

Be sure to stop by the other DT members blogs and leave them some love on their wonderful cards. You can find their blog addy's HERE (scroll down to the second DT list) or HERE (they are listed on the right side, down a little bit).

We would love for you to join in our challenge and can do so at I Did It Creations blog. The I Did It Creations group is home of Robyn's Fetish images, The Outlaw Womens Scrapbook Emporium, then Crafting with OWSE and also the IDIC SNR Group. All of these links carry a variety of resources to which a scrapper, card maker or altered art maker can benefit from. If you have any questions about them please email me at grohcm@gmail.com with the subject line reading - IDIC ? Thanks for stopping by and see you tomorrow with my husbands birthday invitations and come Tuesday I am going to show you a technique I used to make my nieces birthday party invitations.

St. Patrick’s day Bagpiper

I did it Creations  Sunday challenge is a sketch. Here is my card based on the sketch. Our images were given to us by The Stamping Boutique. My white paper with shamrocks on it had no manufacturers name on the back of it but the other patterned paper is by Accord Publishing. It's from one of those scrapbookers calendars where you use the paper and elements in the paper for youSBing LO's after the day has passed. I had one in 2004 and 2010. The right hand paper and paper mat is from the 2004 edition. The ribbon in the middle is by Karen Foster, the sentiment is by Stampin' Up, ink by Memento, black cardstock by Paper Reflections, white card base by Recollections and I colored in the image using my Copic markers. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my St Patty's Day card. Now it's your turn to go look at the sketch and submit your card using any theme.

This card also goes for the following challenges:

The Crafty Pad (SUN)-ribbon

Aly's Sunday Challenge (SUN)-Anything Goes

Card Cupids (SUN)- ANything Goes

Catered Crop(SUN)-Color med (Copic), theme (Spring) and embellishment (Ribbon)

Corrosive Challenges (SUN)-Green

Crafty Ho's (SUN)-St Patrick's Day

Creative Inspirations Paint (SUN)-Green

Scrappy Frogs(SUN)-Good Luck

Catch the Bug (SAT)- Anything Goes

Crafty Emma (SAT)- St Patricks Day

Easy Craft Project #33 (SAT)-Green

Send a Smile For Kids (SAT)-Anything Goes

Stamp Something (FRI)-Digi Day

Paper Cutz #81 (FRI)- St Patrick's Day

Mami Doodles (FRI)- Mono Green

Fairy Knoll(FRI)- Think Spring

Card Making Mama's (FRI)-Something Green

Easter Egg cards for challenges

Looking for Shannon's Sentiment preview day #2? Go HERE to see my really bright card. lol.

Today being Sunday means another wonderful challenge from I Did it Creations. Yeah!!

*Remember we give a freebie with every challenge. Just choose an image that a DT member has used and send your request to jeanette_wtrs@yahoo.com with challenge freebie request in subject line. She will also need the name of the DT member.

*This week Challenge #42 - Bling It Up  and our sponsor is Beary Dust Stamps where you will find a wonderful mix of digi stamp images. 

I chose the Imposter stamp for Easter cards but I couldn't decide what color I wanted to make him so I did two. You are probably thinking Easter? It's not even Valentines Day yet. I like to think and work ahead and work ahead a little bit.

*I'm not going to give a supplies list for these cards. There's a ton of product in these two and I can tell you this much, it's all older materials. You probably wouldn't be able to find the products very easily. If you want to know what company makes a specific item just leave it in the comments. 

*I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend and come back tomorrow for another card. It's preview days for Shannon's Sentiments with a blog hop and release day on the 15th.

Purple and Aqua Snowman Christmas Card

I do not understand this card for this description of the challenge. 

WTF! On 4-11-23

I Did It Creations challenge #28

This week our challenge at I Did It Creations is called holiday color mix up. We want you to make a card with non traditional colors for that holiday. Here's a cheat sheet to help you out: 

Christmas-red/green

Easter-pastels and white

Halloween-orange/black

New Years Eve-silver/black/gold

Thankgiving-orange/brown

Valentines-red/pink

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by Lexi's Creations. You can see and purchase images at Stitchy Bear/I Did It Creations store. See my card below and thanks for stopping by.

A basket full of Apples

This weeks I did it Creations challenge is kindly sponsored by Trees Award Digi Stamps (no longer there)


Our challenge theme for this week is Keep it simple.

To enter the challenge you are encouraged to use an image from the Trees Award Digi Stamps. Your choice of one image used by the DT will be available upon request as a freebie to use in the challenge. Please email jeanette_wtrs@yahoo.com with

Freebie Request on the subject line.
Challenge #22
Keep It Simple

Then please leave a link to your new challenge creation at I did It Challenge blog (no longer around) linking directly to your creation (not just your blog)

Here is the card I made with one of the beautiful digi stamps made by Trees Award which I colored in using Copic sketch markers. The sentiment and background stamp along with the red cardstock are by Stampin Up. Bakers twine by Prima, green apples have Stickles by Ranger on them and brown CS is from Hobby Lobby.

Make sure you go check out the other Design Team members creations (links on
the sidebar) and browse through the wonderful images that Trees Award has for sale over at the Stitchy Bear and I Did it Creations Crafting Boutique.



Thanks for stopping by.