Lovely Bouquet with Pajama Crafter Stamps

Floral Spray - Blooming Lovely w/Polkadoodles

 

Hello everyone!  Hope you are all doing well and enjoying the start of

summer!  Summer to me is flowers and today I'll be sharing a project

using a digital stamp from

Polkadoodles

Blooming Lovely Digital Stamp Collection

This Blooming Lovely collection is chock full of flowers, papers and

sentiments.  Today I chose to use the Floral Spray.  I had an unexpected surprise

which I'll share in a bit.  I composed my design in the computer first.

I used one of the papers but altered the color a bit.  I use Word as a

program and it allows me to alter and tweak the colors.  Then I printed

it out onto watercolor paper.

Can you see my surprise?  It wasn't particularly sunny the day I made

this and I wasn't really paying attention when I put the paper into my

printer.  But when it was done - SURPRISE!  I had forgotten I had

bought some glitter watercolor paper!  I purchased this on Amazon.  It's

by Paul Reubens and not expensive.  It's hot press so nice and smooth.  The glitter

does not rub off and you can still see some glitter underneath the paint.

It's also a subtle glitter and you can't feel it on the paper.  

There is a colored version of this in the collection and I used that as

inspiration for the color of the flowers.  I worked in layers with my

watercolors.

I worked my way around with successively darker colors making sure to

leave hard and soft edges of paint.  Then I moved onto the leaves.

After I finished with the main part of the painting I dug out my dot cards

by Iuile Paints.  I get these on Etsy and are a great alternative to having to

purchase 1/2 pans which can be pricey.

I printed the veins in the leaves and the slight veining in the flowers with

coordinating glitter colors.  I used a bit of gold in the centers of the flowers and

then I added Stickles.  I painted the butterflies with the glitter paints as

well.  Then did work with a white gel pen and a fine line black marker.

I die cut my panel after everything had dried and added tiny gems 

around the flowers!  This card came out more beautiful that I was

expecting - I love that when that happens!  You can find the

Blooming Lovely Collection and more at

Polkadoodles

Thank you so much or stopping by...

Betsy

In my capacity as a temporary design team member for Polkadoodles, I do receive the products I use from them.

 All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.

Floral Joy with Joy Clair Designs

Hello everyone!  Today I'm sharing this beautiful digistamp set called Floral Joy from Joy Clair Designs.  I was really taken with the floral clusters in this set and I wanted them to the the focus of my card!  Let me show you how I did it!  I printed out the images in my computer onto a piece of 90lb watercolor paper.  This seems to go through my printer well and because it's 90lb it also fussy cuts easily.

I die cut the patterned bird out of regular white card stock and decided to use the dotted piece of card stock as a basis for the flowers and bird.  I wanted to paint the flowers with a coral shade and I had recently purchased a pan of paint from ZahraAmmarArt on Etsy.  Not only was it coral, but it was a shimmer paint as well!  I started painting the flowers and I was mindful of the black outline of the print-out.  I eventually had to darken up my lines.  This paint is quite saturated with color!

I went over the flowers several times to make sure I had nice coverage.  The full shimmer takes effect when the paint dries.  I used the gold for the centers of the flowers.  

I had a handful of dot cards and I used a green from one of them for the leaves. 

For the berries I used a teal that matched the polka dot paper I was using.  After everything was dry I fussy cut the images.  I took a panel of white card stock and used a textured embossing folder and I die cut my polka dot panel and my sentiment.

I adhered my textured panel to a white A2 size top folding white card base.  Next I adhered flat my die cut panel with liquid adhesive.  I adhered the sentiment and the bird flat.  I popped up the floral clusters on foam tape.  For embellishments I added a few bits of confetti.

This card came together so nice and easy!  And it's very springy!  I hope I've given you some inspiration to make something beautiful today!  

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Betsy

In my capacity as a design team member for Joy Clair Designs, I do receive the products I use from them. All opinions and creative decisions remain my own, and I only work with companies/use products that I love.

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February Release Blog Hop with Joy Clair Designs

 

Hello everyone!  I am so excited to be a part of the February Release

Blog Hop and Giveaway at Joy Clair Designs!

You can hop along with us for your chance to win a $25 gift card to Joy Clair Designs store, valid for Digital and Clear Stamps. The hop will end on Feb. 3rd @ 11:59 PM EST. Winners will be announced on the Joy Clair Designs Blog between February 4th - 9th . The release is live now, so happy shopping!

I chose the "Forever Friends" set to create my first cards.  I changed my mind a lot throughout

the process of making these.  I was going to make one slimline card and it did not

come together the way I had imagined...on to Plan B!

I printed out my design onto hot press watercolor paper twice.  I changed the color

of the flower sprays to gray and the sentiment to a very deep violet.  I knew the color

palette I wanted to use so changing the color of the printing was helpful.

My plan for the slimline was to paint these images, cut them out, flip them

so one would cover the top half and one would cover the bottom half with the

sentiment in-between.  I wanted to watercolor these images and I used

the September 2019 Love From Lizi card kit as my palette inspiration.  It's

obviously a fall palette but I was ready for some rich color!  Enough already

with the winter and the snow!!

I painted these together - as opposed to painting one to completion and then going

on to the next one.  I painted my largest flower first.  This is the main focal point of

the spray.

I also painted the violet buds and then moved onto the gold flowers.  I painted

in layers not using a lot of water.

I used the same darker colors for shading on both flowers.

I tried to balance out my colors.  There were 7 flowers/buds.  I painted 3

in the plum color and 4 in the gold. 

I used green and plum on the leaves near of the plum flower.

I made one stem of leaves the gold color and one set in the plum color.

Watercolor Palette:

Aussie Red Gold

Bright Violet

Scarlet Lake

Olive Green

Stil de Grain

Yellow Ochre

Quinacridone Magenta

I added a few colors here and there to deepen and brighten.  And then I fussy

cut my images - including the sentiment.

I cut a piece of medium colored plum card stock to put on my cream colored

slimline base.  This is where things went in a different direction!  Although

I liked how it looked, sort of, when I put the pieces against the ivory color

it was beautiful!  And I felt that the 2 images were too busy for the slimline

card - so I made 2 cards.  On top of the ivory bases - one slimline base and

the other an A2 size top folding made from Neenah 80lb Classic Crest Cream

card stock, I cut a panel for both cards 1/8" smaller out of plum card stock.

This is a Hero Arts card stock called Plum...so pretty!  I also printed and cut

another sentiment for the second card.  I cut 2 panels of the cream card

stock - one 3" x 8" and the other 4" x 5 1/4".  I embossed these panels to give

a bit of texture and interest to the background.

I adhered my flowers and sentiment with liquid glue to the cards.  As an

embellishment I used clear iridescent sequins and gems.

I hope you'll hop along with us as we introduce the February Release!  I am

so loving this Forever Friends set!  Please comment for your chance to win!

Stay tuned for Day 2!

Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting!  I hope my project has 

inspired you to create something beautiful!

Betsy

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