TP casting roses

Art nudge #3 is had peach colored roses. That inspired this mixed media card. I did toilet paper casting. You layer 3 sheets of tp onto a stamp. You spray with water and use a stippling brush to push the tp into the crevasses of the stamp. When it dried, I used watercolor paint to add color to the casting. 

 I used an orange thin marker to outline the flowers. I wish I hadn't because I liked it better before, but I pressed on.

I water colored with same colors onto a piece of white cardstock. I also splattered it.

 Glued the roses to the top of the cardstock.

The stamp that I used was STAMPlorations Darling Dog Rose stamp.

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Get well soon- STAMPlorations stencil challenge- Rosegarden

Remember that you can still play along with this month's STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge. 

I took one of those prints and made this Get Well Soon card.

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A month of watercolor sketches

Last month I started doing little watercolor sketches using Doodlewash prompts. I got most of the month done, then I went to St Louis to help care for my grandkids. It was hard to finish with a 3 year old and a 9 month old. So I waited until I got home. I have been finishing them this week, as well as trying to get caught up on the prompts for the month of March.  For these little sketches I used watercolor, black ink pen, white gel pen and arteza thin line markers. 

March STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge

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I made this little thinking of you card using. ARTplorations Clustered Hearts. I used the stencil and my gel press to make a monotype . I used blues and greens. I then water colored some poppies over the top of the clustered hearts. I hand lettered a sentiment. Don't you think that the little hearts kinda look like a trellis?