Colouring Challenge Day 5

Day 5 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge, and Emily, Angela and I are colouring Hero Arts Christmas Crystals.

I thought they needed some holiday shimmer, so the blue and green ones are painted with Twinkling H2Os. Only problem is, I never have managed to find a good red. So for the third crystal, I mixed a little iridescent medium into red distress ink. It's an interesting comparison — the Twinkling H2Os are definitely more even but subtler in their shimmer. 
Once I'd fussy cut the three crystals, I wanted something suitable for a background. Using a technique I picked up from Jennifer McGuire, I sponged a panel in distress ink, added a few evergreen boughs in the same colour, then brushed Perfect Pearls over it before die cutting and running it through an embossing folder. The finished card: 

I decided to leave the sentiment for the inside, leaving the front to speak for itself. 

Supplies: white cardstock, Card Smith green cardbase, Canson watercolour paper, Hero Arts Christmas Crystals & Decorate You stamps, Versafine onyx black & bundled sage & festive berries distress inks, Ranger clear embossing powder, Twinkling H2Os, Winsor & Newton iridescent medium, white confetti Perfect Pearls, Sizzix holly embossing folder, Winnie & Walter Katharine cutaway die, silver elastic thread

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Otterly Awesome!

Day 4 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge, and today Emily, Angela and I are all using the stamp set Otterly Awesome. Lots of sweet images to colour in this set, but I kept it simple and picked the large single otter and a clam for him to hang onto. 

I mixed things up a bit by forsaking my Zigs in favour of distress inks for the otter, as I knew I wanted a deep brown that wouldn't go too "pinky" as I blended it out. For the clam, I used grey and green Twinkling H2Os, and for some extra shimmer added a coat of iridescent medium. You can also see my shimmery background, again using Twinkling H2Os. After I took this picture, I decided my splatters were a bit too obvious and watered them down a little bit. I added my sentiment to a small panel and put it all together. 

I _almost_ didn't use my blue panel, because brown and blue together are one of my least favourite pairings. But he's an otter, so I relented and gave him back his water.

September's CAS Mix up Challenge is to use a watercolour wash, so this is going there. (I also stamped, heat embossed, used patterned paper, Glossy Accents for a few water bubbles and die cuts on this.)  And I think this is my final entry for the current Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Wednesday challenge. 

 

Supplies: white cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, Studio Calico Memoir patterned paper, Essentials by Ellen Otterly Awesome stamps & dies, Versamark onyx black & ground espresso & pumice stone inks, Ranger clear embossing powder, Twinkling H2Os, Winsor & Newton iridescent medium, MFT wonky stitched rectangle die, pop dot tape

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Colouring Challenge Day 3

Day 3 and so far I'm keeping up with Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Colouring Challenge! Today my personal challenge was to turn a floral image into a somewhat masculine card. To explain, let me show you what I coloured: 

I could use just the die cut wreath for any number of cards, but wanted to use the inside sentiment part, too. So the logical recipient someday would be my husb. Before I worried about the card itself, I watercoloured the wreath, using lots of green shades, but keeping the rest fairly simple. I picked up on the little blue flowers (aw, forget-me-nots, perhaps?) and used the same blue Zig marker in a thick line around the part of the sentiment that ultimately wouldn't be seen. (Kathy used Zigs today too! Squee! 😜) Then I pulled the colour into the centre with a wet brush, leaving the centre quite light. I decided a little sparkle wouldn't hurt, and added a layer of iridescent medium. (Awesome stuff.) Then I worked out my card design. 

This angle has better lighting, but you can't see the shine.

Lighting's not great, but shows the shine.
(In a straight-on photo, the shine looks "dirty".
 Luckily, not in real life.) 

Imagine how happy I was to discover I had washi tape in the colours I'd used! I also have a thin strip of manly black glitter paper and a popped-up woodgrain-embossed panel. I think this is totally masculine, what about you? 😉
I haven't hit my limit yet, so off this goes to Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Anything Goes challenge. 

Supplies: white & American Crafts black glitter cardstock, Fabriano watercolour paper, Neat & Tangled Floral Heart stamps & dies, Versafine onyx black ink, Ranger clear embossing powder, Zig clean colour real brush markers, Winsor & Newton iridescent medium, Papertrey Ink woodgrain impression plate, Elmers washi tape, fun foam

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Polar Bear Colouring

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I'm back with a second post today for Day 2 of Kathy Racoosin's The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge!  I didn't mention this yesterday, but Emily Leiphart, Angela Hathikhanavala and I decided we would all play along this month using images from the same stamp set each day. We even planned far enough ahead that our cross-border packages of stamped images arrived in time (barely)! Today we're playing along with one of my sets. I seem to have been going for simple, since I picked polar bears. 😂 Luckily there are a few accessories in the set, too. 

Also, he does have a scarf to colour. And while I'm not thrilled with how the green worked out, notice how it doesn't bother me enough to redo. 😉 The embossing was a happy accident; I meant to reach for clear but grabbed the nearby white satin pearl by mistake... on black it turns into an interesting slate colour! I'll be doing this on purpose sometimes now. 

I've also decided to make what I colour each day into something whenever possible. Last September I only managed about half the month, and most of those images still live in a pile. Today I felt like going with a tag. 

The pail of fish makes a very polar bear-style gift, I thought. 

One more project to add to Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Anything Goes challenge. 

Supplies: Stampin' Up kraft cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, MFT Polar Bear Pals stamps & dies, Versafine onyx black ink, Hero Arts white satin pearl embossing powder, Zig clean colour real brush markers, Newton & Winsor iridescent medium, PTI tag sale #3 die, Lawn Fawn mistletoe hemp cord pop dot tape

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Who? Cats?

Time for a new Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge: J is for JUMBLE!

Our badge hints at what we mean — we are looking for a collage on your project. If you check Pinterest, Splitcoast Stampers, or any number of other sources, you'll quickly discover that collage is pretty much anything you decide it to be. My favourite style of collage is "freestyle collage" from the old Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking magazine... it's closest to my clean and simple style. (There's an example by Julie Ebersole here.) But then I accidentally found myself involved in a second challenge (issued by snarky sister Chris) to make a collage card combining Doctor Who and cats (long story...). So here it is: 

If you're not one of the four people in the world that already *get* this card, let me try to explain. If Doctor Who is an unknown quantity... well, he's a Time Lord that travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension In Space). It just happens to look like an old British police box. One of Doctor Who's enemies are the Daleks, who look a bit like giant salt and pepper shakers and yell EXTERMINATE a lot. Another scary element are the statues that come to life every time you blink and then try to kill pretty much anyone. Cats... are cats. Put them all together with a distress ink background and that's my card. 😜
For collage cards that don't require excess explanation, check out the Sisterhood's awesome creations on the blog, as well as that of our current Queen of Snark and guest designer, Toni! And just so you know, you can play along whether or not you like Doctor Who and/or cats! 
(P.S. I'll be back in a while with Day 2 of Kathy Racoosin's colouring challenge... not that this doesn't have some colouring...) 

Supplies: black cardstock, Strathmore mixed media paper, vellum, Viva Las VegaStamps Doctor Who stamps, Versamark ink, faded jeans, chipped sapphire & seedless preserves distress inks, Wow clear matte dull & silver embossing powder, Impression Obsession cat dies, Echo Park letter stickers, pop up tape 

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You're Framed! And a Colouring Challenge

September! Not sure where July and August went, but here we are. The first of the month means a brand new challenge at Naughty or Nice: FRAMED! Use a frame on your handmade card or other project. We are once again sponsored by the awesome and generous Bugaboo Stamps! You'll be seeing my Bugaboo card soon. 

September also brings the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge! The goal of this challenge, hosted by Kathy Racoosin, is to find a few minutes in each day to colour. For Day 1, I decided to colour a couple of Crazy Dogs, and one of them made his way to my card: 

I did colour two pups, as I wasn't exactly sure where I was going with them at first. Here they are before die cutting: 

(Why yes, I do save watercolour paper scraps.) 

My guy on the left seemed to have just the right expression for the sentiment. The popped-up frame matches his tongue, and the back panel brings out his colouring. :P 
I'm adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Wednesday challenge. 
Feeling you've been framed? Come and play along! 

Supplies: white cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, Basic Grey Hey You & Teresa Collins Santa's List patterned papers, Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz Mini Crazy Cats and Dogs stamps & dies, Technique Tuesday Sassy Birthday stamps, Versafine onyx black & MFT black licorice inks, Ranger clear embossing powder, (?) frame die, Marvy/Uchida corner-rounding punch, pop-dot tape

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