STAMPlorations 8th birthday celebration Day 2

 It is STAMPlorations' 8th Birthday Celebration. Today is DAY 2 of the celebration. 

    

All the designers featured today will be showing you:

Birthday Bundle #2

Which includes: 

Blossom Sprays #5

See the Good

Design Blox #6

Art Border Die #2

I used Blossom Sprays #5 on kraft and watercolored it. I wrote a handwritten sentiment. This is going to my friend who lost her husband recently.

Recently I joined a weight loss group. I thought it would be fun to use the Blossom Sprays #5 to make encouragement cards. This is how they looked but then I thought they needed just a little something more.... Butterflies. 

So I added little wooden butterfly buttons to the cards. They were a big hit. Everyone loved them. 

I have been making a lot of postcards lately because they are cheaper to mail.  I made this one using the Blossoms Spray #5 but I also used the border die from the bundle. But I used it in a non traditional way. I put a piece of cardstock over it and used the side of a colored pencil to make an etching. I trimmed it down to make a border on my postcard. 

My grandson Noah and I have been telling eachother puns to make the other one smile. I thought he would like this one. I used the design blox #6. I traced it and watercolored orange and blue. I then used colored pencils to doodle over the orange areas.  I then hand wrote the pun. I have decided against sending this to him because when I told him the pun over the phone he got upset and didn't like that it was making fun of his name.   My dad said that 1/2 of puns are PU. I guess he was correct.  

- one (1) winner of a $75 prize code randomly drawn from current store mailing list subscribers
- one (1) winner of a $25 prize code randomly drawn from comments left on the birthday hop posts (STAMP blog and designers' blogs)
- one (1) winner of her choice of birthday bundle randomly drawn from the birthday linky
- several surprise prizes in the form of prize codes and products

Event ends July 8. Winners announced on July 10.

 

4th of July post card - Patriotic water color tutorial

Fourth of July patriotic water color card tutorial

I started with my card front  5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. 

I sketched out a box in the top left hand corner that was 2 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches

Using a red water color paint, I painted 4 stripes leaving 3 white in between. They are about 1/4 inch wide.

I then skipped about 1/4 inch then did three more red lines. I then used some little tree stamps and stamped them at the bottom. Making sure that some of the trees covered the bottom of the "flag"

I then used some blue water color paint to paint the left hand corner.

I then splattered the "flag" with red and blue water color paint.  

I then took black paint and painted over the trees and the bottom to make the trees look like silhouettes. 

I made it mixed media by splattering white acrylic paint for the stars and I took red colored pencils and doodled on the red lines. 

I finished it off by doodling with a white gel pen. 

 

I was inspired by post on Pinterest HERE.

STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge Reminder Post June

 It is not too late to join the STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge. 

My faith art was made with a print I made using ARTplorations BOLD FLORALS MINI Stencil

I also used CUTplorations PERCHED BIRD DIE  but after I die cut the bird out, I cut the branch off so there was more room to journal the verse. 

STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge June

 Welcome to the JUNE STAMPlorations Stencil Challenge. 

• You can link up a maximum of 3 projects -- any type of project is welcome as long as a stencil is used -- but each project must be in its own blog post.
• Use of stencil (any brand) is a requirement.
• Non-STAMPlorations products are OK 
• No sneak peek project entries; full project photo must be displayed on blog post in order to qualify for the prizes.
• To qualify for the prize, you must display challenge graphic and have a text link to the challenge post (blogs only)

In my bible. I used a print made with my gel press and Bloomdala Bliss # 9 mask

I loved how the colors looked on this print. I hand lettered the scripture.