ME AND MY PUG

Hello everyone! I like Dogs, we had a pug but he left us three years ago. That's really a sad and heart breaking because he died exactly a few months after the demise of my dad. He used to sleep with my father. Such a huge loss for us and we were in so much grief, we lost both our beloveds in less than no time. I'm so sorry if I bothered you with the saddest part of my life. Anyhow we coped with the things and we are doing good by the Grace of God. :)

The images was hand drawn as you guys know how much I love doodling. I tried no line water-coloring and it's such a therapeutic. I love to fussy cut and water color the images while watching to my favourite programs.

MY CARD MAKING DETAILS

• I started by water-coloring the background with grey, purple, yellow, blue and nude shades and added splatters of the same colors and I let the panel dry.
• I fussy cut the leaf images from Craftangles element packs.
• I hand drew the image and tried no-line watercoloring.
• Once everything is dry I went ahead and adhered all the images as shown
• To add more depth and definition to the card, I applied a wash of Gesso from Papericious here and there.

And that's the card for today. I didn't want to add any sentiment because I love the way it looks.

a few more shots for you

I'm entering this card for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Animal Fun and Simon Says Monday Challenge - It's a dogs life. 

No Line Water Coloring with Catherine Pooler Inks | Video

Water-coloring is becoming one of my favourite techniques! In my last week's post I mentioned that I wanted to be a water color artist. Since then I just kept trying and I'm not saying that I am pretty perfect at this moment. You can point out many mistakes but I just love the result and I wanna keep trying :)

CARD DETAILS

As soon as I got my inks from Catherine Pooler Designs I almost tried out all the techniques, kind of tested it out and found that these inks are not only juicy and vibrant but also very versatile.

• When stamped it gives a solid and non splotchy image (ex: here)
• Gives a perfect ink blended background (here)
• Great for ink smooshing (here)
• Can do water coloring also 

I started stamping a few floral images from Beautiful You stamp set on Timholtz water color paper with Antique Linen Distress Ink. I didn't mask any of my images just nested the flowers by turning the images in different angles. I smooshed Flirty Fuchsia, Party Dress, Rockin Red and Lime Rickey inks on a DIY palette and water colored the flowers with a paint brush.

I just love the result. As always I added splatters of black paint to enhance the beauty of the design. I struggled a bit on where the sentiment should go but I decided to stamp on the center of the flower. I outlined the sentiment with Gold Calligraphy Marker to stand against the bright bold background. Finally added Wink of Stella clear for the images.

I have made a video for you and I hope you'll enjoy watching it. :) Thanks for visiting. See you soon!

You Octopi My Heart

I like to make interactive cards but due to time constraint I seldom make them. But if I decided to create one, I choose the simplest design! I am choosy that way! :P So for my today's card the interactive element is going to be Action Mini Wobbles. I told you I choose simple designs but this card literally took me two days to complete. Fussy cutting and No Line Distress Water coloring are another highlights on this card! :) 

CARD DETAILS

I started by ink blending the background with Black Soot, Chipped Sapphire and Peacock Feathers Distress Inks and I blended the inks over and over again until I am happy with the results. Then I added splatters of water and picked up the excess with a tissue paper for some beautiful texture. This already looks like deep down in the ocean ( never been there but have an idea from the pictures). To add more depth and interest I added splatters of white paint - Picket Fence and Stardust Stickles.

To resemble the plants in the ocean (seaweed) - I stamped the Octopus from You Octopi My Heart | Lawn Fawn in Peeled Paint Distress Ink and colored only his tentacles. To add more depth, I mixed Peeled paint + Black Soot and colored over again.

Fussy cutting the tentacles is really a tedious part as it is very intricate. I adhered the tentacles (ocean plants) in two groups. To add more interest I adhered glass beads from Prima at the bottom of the ocean plants (tentacles). I really like how they turned out! :D

Next I stamped the Octopus in Festive Berries Distress Ink on a piece of white card stock and distress water colored him as well. Fussy cut him, placed the Mini Wobble behind him and adhered him onto the card base. 

Lastly stamped the sentiment with Versamark Ink and heat embossed it with Zing White Embossing Powder and finished the card off by adding a few sparkling clear sequins. And I didn't miss the heart this time also! ;) added next to the sentiment.

This is how Mr.Octopus Wobbles.. Wobble, Wobble, Wobble... Haha! :) I hope you liked the card. I am entering this card for Lawn Fawnatics Challenge #2 - Interactive Cards. Thanks for stopping by! :)

Funky water coloring.

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a great weekend. Mine was a little busy asusual, filming videos, editing them and making cards but I'm also having some quality time with my family. I just had a cup of coffee. What about you?

I made this card for Paper Smooches Sparks June 14-20 Picture Perfect challenge and trust me I had a lots of fun while making this card. I simply watercolored the funny images. I simply stamped the Kangaroo from Little Lovin stamp set with broken china and mustard seed distress inks and water colored the kangaroos with the same colors! Finally stamped the sentiment from Chilly Chums and dusted it off with Perfect pearls. And also used a golden string, flicked some brushed pewter distress stain  and adhered sequins from Lawn Fawn to  finish off my card.

(I see blue, yellow and white colors and some animal too in the inspiration pic)

There is a video on 'NO LINE COLORING' coming out your way very soon, so stay tuned!

Thanks!

No Line Water Coloring without Stamps

Hello friends! Today I'm going to share a watercolor card using the technique 'No line water coloring with out stamps'. Yep! I haven't used any stamps except the sentiment and it is from Avery Elle. I used Distress inks - Peeled paint, vintage photo, frayed burlap, picked raspberry, spiced marmalade, mustard seed and broken china as my water colors.. I'm going to show you a step by step pictorial on how I made this card!

  

I took a piece of glossy cs and dropped some water, in the shape of a log, with my paint brush and dropped vintage photo distress ink and I let the ink spread and flow. I then heat set it with my heat tool.

  

Like wise, I did same for the grass, the chicken and the balloon. It's a very easy technique with loads of fun. Once all dry, took a dry paint brush with the respective inks and I gave some details for the well-defined look!

 

Hope you would give this try. I know the final result is not that good but I enjoyed making it thoroughly. You'll see me sharing a few more cards in future using this technique!

Entering this card for

1. CAS-ual Fridays CFC136, Watercolors

2. Little Tangles #53, watercolors

3. AAA cards Game 32, Love

Hope you like it. Thank you so much for stopping by. See you soon.. :)