W is for Watercolour

 It's a New challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!!!

What a gorgeous water coloured background Edna has made for herself.

Hello friends, family and followers, W is for Watercolour, well it's not my forte' I have lots of equipment, tombow markers, watercolour pencils, twinking H20s, and many other things that could be used on the watercolour techniques. Today I made a color burst background, I have never had any luck using it but with time closing in on me to get the card done I had to go with it. 

I have tried using color burst many times and this was the best I have ever done with it, I had many inky paper towels and very inky fingers. I didn't want to cover up my work so went with a very large Happy Birthday which I cut 4 of and glued them together for some dimension, it certainly was not easy as this is a very fine die cut. I'm sure I'm still sporting glue. Now if I had remembered to bring my wide double sided tape it would have been much easier. 

Since I made a pretty card I had to add a slightly snarky sentiment.

Since I finished this in the early evening there was no lake setting and I'm not really a person to "stage" my cards but I wanted to show the three colours of color burst I used.

I'm adding this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~  Anything goes

thanks for stopping by today and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out the watercolour inspiration the rest of the design team have made.

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ A Colouring We Will Go.

What a great challenge....I LOVE to colour and the Jingle Belles are in the second week of the challenge and I just finished my first card (second one is done too). I'm so happy to finally get these created as when things are bothering me they fit in my dreams and I'm really tired in the morning. Now the brain can get on with the next challenge.

For this card I coloured the image with Spica Glitter pens and the background was made with Colourburst pigment powders on watercolour paper. 

Getting in tune with the Olympics and snowboarding I used ATV snowboarder and fussy cut it out and popped him up over the snowbanks.

Finished the inside with one of my favourite sentiments

Challenges I'm entering.

Jingle Belles rock ~~ A colouring we will go

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Christmas Challenge February (no optional hearts)

Thanks for stopping by and come back to see what I used to colour the next image.

It's a Colour Palette at Shopping Our Stash!!!

I can't believe it's November already, here in Canada we went back to Standard time and it sure plays havoc with my sleep and eating patterns but I'll survive. At Shopping Our Stash for Challenge #328 it's an Autumn colour palette and here it is.....

Gorgeous colours

I went completely out of my comfort zone for this one which is why it took me forever. First some coaching from the Colorburst Queen aka Lauren and some casing of one of her cards when placing and gluing the leaves then what to do with that brown ribbon? I made a rosette, it doesn't look too bad.

As you see I used an old dictionary and colorburst, my first attempt (I need more practice) The leaves are a set of 4 leaves. Thanks is an unbranded die I've had for a long while and never used. 

Since I am not sure of the recipient I just finished the inside with the leftover leaves. they look pretty good for the colour palette if I say so myself.

Everything on my card was from the scrap box except the dictionary pages, the leaves were cut with Cuttlebug leaves dies that came 4 in a package and are metal an foam I have had them as long as my cuttlebug over 15 years.

I'm entering this in:

Hiding in my Craftroom ~~ #325  Fall colours

Just Us Girls ~~ Word week Thankful

Thanks for spending time here today and the colour palette is beautiful and I'm looking forward to seeing your projects. Head over to the Main Blog and check out what the rest of the design team has made for the challenge