Distressed Watercolor

Hi again,

I was playing with my new Penny Black and Dina Wakely stamps.  Watercolour seems to be the hot ticket at the moment, so I pulled out my distress markers and ink pads.
I used the watercolour paper from Ranger to give a "true" watercolour look.

Years ago, I took a watercolour class and I was terrible at it. With rubber stamps and distress markers, you can get a beautiful look with  minimal artistic expertise.
I stamped the card on the left with Squeezed Lemonade distress and then watercoloured over the yellow. I achieved a sharper image with this technique.

The middle and right cards were stamped with ink and then painted in with water to blend the hard line of the edges.

thanks for taking a look at my watercolour cards, see you next time...

The Timekeeper

Hi again

I made this card a little while ago, but never got around to posting it. It's one of the sweet man's favorites. He kept bugging me to post it on my blog so here it is...

I love the stamp set(Time Travellers) from Tim Holtz. I used the gears in the background. Can you spot them? I also used Tim's paper stash (Destinations) for the whole structure of the card.

Here you can see the layers a bit better.

A time keeper gentleman that travels through time . The holes in the card could be rips in the time/space continuem. Sweet man thought they were bullet holes. That's cool too. I guess art is in the eye of the beholder. What do you think?

Thanks for surfin' by, I also want to submit this one to the "anything goes challenge" over at Simon Says Stamp and Show blog. You can check out the link here:

 http://simonsaysstampandshow.blogspot.ca/2013/07/challenge-anything-goes_1.html

Birthday Blues

Hello again,
I was really excited to drive down to my local scrapbook store when we got back from our trip. Not much stamping or scrapbooking going on in Southeast Asia. I knew the new releases from winter CHA were arriving here at home, (I would find a WiFi spot and check my mail.)

I "needed" the compass and blueprints embossing folders and the birthday blueprint stamps. I wanted to make a faux blueprint so this is what I came up with...

I debossed the folder on light blue paper, added some faded denim distress inks to the surface to get the two tone blue effect. Next, I stamped the mini blueprint birthday stamps on the background, then stamped them again on specialty stamping paper ( can I rant and rave about how much I adore this paper?) and watercolored them with distress markers. I then cut the images out and mounted them onto the background with foam tape.
Of course, every card needs a sentiment, so "make a wish" was stamped on scraps and trimmed to size.

That's it, pretty simple, but I like it. Now go play with some of your new stuff, you know where I'll be...