Favorite Technique

Hallo,
   Just a short note before I head off to sleep for the day - showing you a card for the current challenge over at Impression Obsession. The challenge is to use your favorite technique - and mine is coloring, pencils in this case but I love my copics too!!!
   Check out the challenge here - www.mitrafriant.typepad.com
   I used the stamp 'Watering Can Fence' #H1799 and colored it with koh-i-noor pencils (stamp is from Impresssion Obsession of course)
   I layered the main image to red cardstock and then some pretty DP with red flowers.
   Lastly I added some rub-ons that I found on my desk today that I had forgotten I had.
    Have a great day!!!
                                                                                                                  Tera

Springy yellow and blue

 Hallo,
   Welcome to Monday everyone!!!
Just a quick card for you today for the first release challenge for March over at Flourishes. The challenge was to use blues and yellow.
Check out the challenge here - www.flourishes.org/blog/ - play along and you could win this months entire release!!!
   I used the cherry blossum stamp and took some liberties with the color of the blossums - we can pretend they are really a differnt type of flower :)
I colored the main image with koh-i-noor pencils and then smoothed out the background a bit with OMS.
   I cut out the main image with a Spellbinders die and edged it with a gold mettalic pen - layered it to some yellow DP from my scrap bin and added a blue with yellow ribbon and some blue micro beads in a thin strip on either side of the ribbon.
  Lastly I added some blue pearl dots with a fabric pen from tulip.
    All for me today as I need to get ready to go to work - Take Care
         Tera

Senior Prom

Hallo,
  Just a quick little post tonight - it was my DD's Senior Prom tonight - only 1 picture as she wouldn't let me take any more.
DH and I took her out to eat and then she went to meet her friends at the dance. The dress is slightly pinker in real life....
   Have a great weekend!!!
      Tera

#4 Watercolor class

Hallo,
  Well this is my last class for this year - I am planning on teaching again for the second session next year. (first session will be a bit tight on time with getting DD off to college and school starting - wont have any time to work on the class over the summer - I have to start waaayy ahead of time because of that thang that always seems to mess up my crafting time - work.....too bad the work thang is what funds my craft budget ....)
  I was a really bad girl this last week and my craft budget is now trashed until  - oh about the end of the summer - I have some fun new toys on the way though  - a Grand Mark from Accu cut which was on sale for 200  dollars less than it normally costs. I have had some dies from my friend Vicki Chrisman - www.vickichrisman.blogspot.com  that I have been wanting FOREVER!!! ( and a couple other of their dies that #1 were too cool to pass up -  #2  the accu quilt dies to cut fabric strips for my newest addiction - locker hook as it is the same machine and all the Accuquilt Studio dies are interchangeable with the Accucut Grand Mark.....and someday when I decide to get back into quilting it will make it easy to add some quilting dies (thats the part I didnot like about quilting was the cutting of all the pieces).
   Well enough blathering....todays class we combined watercolor with the blendable pencils. I asked the class to have a watercolored piece done ahead of class so it would be dry to work on with the pencils.
    What I often do when I combine the 2 is do a light base color of watercolors to more or less block in the colors or if I am working on just cardstock instead of watercolor paper I will often just wash in the backgrond and then color all the rest with pencils.
   I did one of todays images onto the watercolor paper and the other on cardstock - cryogen white.
The trick to using watercolors on regular cardstock is minimal water - so pick up the color with a drier brush than you would with watercolor paper as the cardstock is not nearly as absorbent and if it gets to wet may pill or warp. The cardstock will warp a bit any way but the more water the more warp. I usually let my cardstock dry mostly and then put it under a book to dry the last little bit as it helps it to flatten out a bit.
  Once dry you can add pencil on top to finish coloring your image - pencil onto watercolor paper is definatly not as smooth going as the cardstock but gives a different look and can add some nice texture too.
  Both of todays images are from Flourishes - www.flourishes.org and we used Koh-i-noor pencils and watercolors.
   All for today - off to the couch to do some more work on my locker hook project.
Take Care
   Tera

Vintage Hummingbird

 Hallo,
   Well I didn't get done what I had planned to get done in the craft room today or yesterday....I sat down yesterday to make up some cards (I am planning on making cards for each of the gals who took my 'Coloring for cardmakers ' class but still have 3 or 4 to go) but I didn't feel like making a card - I wanted to do something else....first I tried a frame, but couldn't find a frame that hit me right, then I found this wooden hanging that I got somewhere for a pitance so I pulled out one of the images I did for class and started pulling out papers to put down as a first layer, which I did with decapage glue.
   Well I pulled out one set, then another, and yet another but couldn't decide....meanwhile as I tried to decide I cut up some cardboard and some paint - tourquoise blue and a sparkly bronzish/copper and pulled off the first layer and distressed the cardboard a bit and painted it.
   So now I could chose the paper - 2 with some blues to match the paint and 2 in a pinkish maroon to bring out the pink in the flowers. I edged another piece of DP with the same blue paint from the cardboard.
  Next I cut out the main image with a Spellbinders die and edged it with a mettalic gold pen. The main image is from Flourishes - colored with watercolors and pencils. I am using this for the current tuesday challenge over at Flourishes - www.flourishes.org/blog/
   After all the layers were dry I layed them out, and then rearranged them, and rearranged again - several times total and decided it needed something more and started digging through stuff and found a vintage cloth napkin that was a good size and that was what it needed. So I glued the layers down and then layed a book on top to keep it all flat.
  Once I got 5 minutes in the craft room this am I played with it some more and added the flowers with a bronze buttom that has a blue center. And that was all I got done in the craft room today - had to get groceries and go to the bank and I took the puppy for a long walk in the woods, which is just her very favorite thing - she always looks at me like ' your kidding, we CAN'T be done already' after we've walked an hour or more.....
   Oh yes I also stopped at JoAnn's - they had some great sales on fabric so I added to my 'locker hook' stash - I have been a bad girl this week!!!
   Ah well I am going to lay down now for a nap before working tonight - earlier than usual but I am tired and I will have a short sleep day tomorrow so I can go watch my DD's softball game.
  Take Care
        Tera
 

Vintage look pointsetta card

 

Hallo,
  Welcome to tuesday morning - I worked all weekend and got up early yesterday to catch up on errands so hopefully today I will be able to catch up on some house cleaning and crafting :)
   I am hoping to get out for a walk here in a couple minutes - looking like it might try to rain  so just waiting for a bit more daylight :)
   This card was done with a pointsetta image from Flourishes - www.flourishes.org and Koh-i-noor pencils onto neenah desert storm paper.
   Then I cut it out with Spellbinders ornament dies - I edged the main layer with a gold mettalic pen.
All for today - off for my walk :)
   Take Care
        Tera

#3 Watercolor class

Hallo,
  Showing you some more pictures today from my class with the local 'Center for Lifelong Learning' here in Fort Walton Beach (all volunteer teachers and organizers and tons of interesting classes to take, all the way from art and photography to history, skeet shooting, and zoomba classes)
  The first picture is of my demoboard - I give this to each of the students to take home and then demo one of the images in class (usually - sometimes everyone is ready to just dig right in and get to painting and coloring :)
    This week was watercolors again with koh-i-noor watercolors and I used watercolor paper and white embossing powder. It makes for a really different look. I will have to admit that the cross image was a bit small for the embossing powder and watercolors but I really love that image !!! (so much so that I ended up buying it twice :) The cross is an image from Flourishes - www.flourishes.org
  The other flower image - glads - is from Papertrey Ink - www.papertreyink.com
The glad image is perfect for this technique and I love how my purple turned out on this one :)
   All for today - hoping to get some stamping done tomorrow before work but not looking like it - errands to run and I am deteremined to get a nap :)
    Have a great weekend!!!
       Tera