Forever Friends

 Hello and welcome back!!

Hope you all are doing well.

Since summer is winding down 
I thought I'd share some fun coloring tips,
 for flowers,  I've stumbled upon.

I will be using the new kit Watercolor Florals Card Making Kit from over at The Artsystamper Shop. This kit is brand new and I already have made dozens of cards. 

I think you will really love this kit.

Today I am specifically using the Outline Elements sheet from the kit
I printed that sheet onto vellum. (Works great with either ink jet or laser printers)

I decided to use alcohol markers, Alcohol Blending Solution,
 Alcohol Ink applicator and some felt pads

Next I started out using greens  to color the leaves.

These two sprigs are colored using the same color

Next I loaded some blending solution on the applicator and pounced it over the colored image. 

This lightens the image. It transfers some of the ink in to the felt

If you think the coloring came out  too light, just color the image again and repounce. 

I colored all the foliage and then moved onto the flowers.
 I chose a darker pink to start out with 
Once the blending solution is added to the pad and pounced
 it will tone down that color.

Since there was quite a bit of color on the applicator from applying the alcohol ink,
I pounced the applicator onto the smaller flowers 

Next I used a blue to some of the other blooms on this page. Did the same technique to the bloom portion and then went back and very lightly added green to the leaves.

Ok so here are the images all colored and fussy cut,

Ready to assemble the card.

I finished two cards using the flowers and foliage from the sheet.

Card #1

Card #2

I hope you try using vellum and coloring this way. It's really easy and I love the results

I know you are probably wondering, gee what about glossy paper. Well I will be back tomorrow to share how I worked with the glossy paper and the results on that. 

I am submitting my cards to the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge  - #17 - Anything Goes (W1 of 2)
Crafter's Castle  - August - Anything Goes 
Crafty Friends Challenge - #142 - Anything Goes (W2 of 2)
Colour Crazy Challenge -  Wk 31 (W2 of 2)  and Wk 32 (W1 of 2) -   ANYTHING COLORING GOES  

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A challenge and a theme

Hi everyone
Last night was our monthly club meeting and we always have a challenge and a theme card to make. Well the challenge card was really a challenge for me because of the color of a piece of card stock we were given to use. We were given  a piece of CS that was 8.5" X 5.5" and a brad. Well the card stock is double sided but on one side there  are these  pink/purple apples , the other side was dotted. I wasn't to crazy about the color of the apples, though.

 So I thought on that one for a while. In the meantime I downloaded a free digi stamp from the Michelle Perkett Studio blog, its an apple, so my card was coming together at last. But what to do with those pink/purple apples. Well what else but color them red. So I used a red Spica pen and colored them. They look great with the digi apple now that they are red.

Next was the theme card, A Splash of Color. So I decided to use alcohol inks and I also used a stamp I have had for a while from Hero Arts. I have always loved this stamp.

I found a card in my stash that holds a picture and has a frame built in. The spot to hold a picture makes it easy to quickly frame a picture or a stamped image. All I had to do was slide the stamped panel up in it and it became a framed piece.It worked out perfect!!

We made the coolest ornament in our meeting, so stop in tomorrow to check that out.

Well thanks for stopping in today, see you soon.