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Showing posts with label Spectrum Aqua. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spectrum Aqua. Show all posts

Happy Birthday, Wise Owl


I had this piece of "smooshed" background, that I'd made with Spectrum Aqua Markers from Crafter's Companion, sitting on my desk next to The Wise Owl from Sheena Douglass' line of individual EZMount stamps. I wondered what would happen if I stamped the owl onto my colorful background and lifted the color from the image, leaving the pretty background around it.

It takes a bit of work and time, but I love the result. I added color to my owl friend, along with a sentiment from the latest http://www.crafterscompanion.com/Crafters-Inspiration--Issue-6-Spring-Edition_p_3555.html Issue.

I can't wait to try this with some of my favorite Sheena Douglass florals.

Spectrum Aquas: orchid, purple, marine, aquamarine, gold, tan, charcoal, black

Just For You



Kinda not loving this, though--wish I'd done less to the background...or less to the typewriter. I will revisit this and get back to you. ;)


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Happy Mother's Day

to all the Moms, Mommys, Mums, Memas, Mammaw, Grandmas, Grannies, Nannies and Ghees out there, have a beautiful day and know that you are loved and appreciated each day




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Watercolor Rainbow



I can't put down the Spectrum Aquas from Crafter's Companion. And I won't!

I used one of the new Individual EZMount Stamps from Sheena Douglas, this one is Silhouette Grass. I colored directly onto the stamp with various colors and added water with a paint brush after I'd stamped onto watercolor cardstock. I added the rainbow freehand, also with a paint brush. 

Finally, I added a Die'sire Beautiful Butterfly that I also colored with Spectrum Aquas and the sentiment. Boom, super easy...lots of drying time in between, though. 

Thinking of You



I'm still digging my Spectrum Aquas from Crafter's Companion. I don't even care that this dragonfly got messy, the edges and the bleeds are totally my thing right now.

Sheena's A Little Bit Scenic Flying Colors
Vintage Floral Sentimentals
Antique Linen Distress Ink
Spectrum Aquas Charcoal, Wildflower, Orchid, Bud Green, Evergreen, Aquamarine
Kraft Cardstock

I'd Pick You Twice



Can you OVER-use a stamp set? Sometimes, I make one card with a set and i'm ready to purge it--as if I've gotten the idea that I had for it out of my system and I'm done. But this set by Sheena Douglass (Wild Rose & Hibiscus from her Floral Fantasy collection) just keeps calling my name.

I stamped the hibiscus images in a pale, water-based ink and colored them in with the new Spectrum Aqua Markers from Crafter's Companion. I put lots of juicy color onto the paper and then touched the centers with a wet paintbrush. I loved the look, and in hindsight, wish I'd left them as is.

But I went on and stamped over the painted flowers and leaves with the outline images again, inking the stamps with the deepest color I'd used to color in the original image. I stamped the blooms over the original image, but I went a little nuts with the leaves.

I added an appropriate sentiment and added my panel to a simple kraft card base.

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Sheena's Floral Fantasy Wild Rose & Hibiscus
Sentimentals Memories Are Made
Spectrum Aquas Spice, Marigold, Peach, Gold, Moss
Kraft Cardstock

Spectrum Aqua Butterflies



I am so happy with how these butterflies turned out. I used Flying Colors from Sheena Douglass' A Little Bit Scenic line of stamps and sentiments from Bebunni Celebration

I stamped the butterflies with Ranger Antique Linen Distress and painted the images in a "no-line" style with Spectrum Aquas

top butterfly: SA spice, marigold, chestnut
bottom butterfly: SA peacock blue, aquamarine, amber, sepia

Friendship


The butterfly panel here is the first time I played with the Spectrum Aquas. These markers are a dream, they are juicy and blendy and the colors are just wonderful! 

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Spectrum Aqua: Sea Green, Rose PInk, Orchid, Topaz, Turquoise