Anita Jeram has new stamps with Colorado Craft Company – and I’m here for it! I still just love her stamps; there’s a lot of the stamping industry that is just the same ol’ same ol’, but Anita never lets us down!
NOTE: GIVEAWAY AND SALE ARE OVER.
I’ve got a bunch of watercolor pencil scenes to share today – it would have made the video too long to show all the coloring but see the notes above each of the cards below for ideas to use regular colored pencil techniques along with watercolor pencil techniques to add extra interest to them!
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Video
Watch the video below or click HERE to see it on YouTube.
Which is your favorite?
The card demonstrated in the video is based loosely on a watercolor pencil technique in the Autumn scenes watarecolor pencil class – with some tips based on homework I’ve seen from students. It’s hard not to make quick little blobs look like a tree and not just a series of polkadots….so try seeing if my theory of saying to connect every third leaf makes sense to you?
The other stamp in this set is so sweet, looks just like my little G, staring at birds! ha!
Snowbunnies! Oh my goodness what cuteness. For this scene, I used powdered pigment in the background and then sketched the trees on top and applied water to them, not to the sky. Worked out great!
The trees in this next card are from the Storybook Scenes Colored Pencil class – just adding water onto the trees instead of leafing them dry. Leafing. Get it? ha!
Who doesn’t love a conga line in the rain? I feel like I’d like to gather up the neighbors to do this once our rain comes back. It’s been sooo dry here! For the background on this card, I turned to the Rainy Days Colored Pencil class; the distant background was left with just that technique but I did add some baby wipe and water on a brush to the foreground to differentiate them from each other.e
Kitties in love! I immediately thought of mistletoe when I saw this stamp and turned it into a Christmas card! I did have to draw mistletoe, but just put a bow on some leafy greens and people will know just what it is supposed to be.
Last but not least – one more slimline card! This time with another storybook inspired background from the COPIC Winter Storybook class. Just had to translate the technique to change it up a little and it worked out great!
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I absolutely love all AJ stamps but I’m this post Flurries of Fun is my favorite and of course you made it even cuter! I’m a huge fan of “cutesie” and her stamps check that box!
So hard to choose…loved the pup walking himself as my daughters dog “Oakley” would definitely do that ANYTIME!! DOGS RULE❤️
I love all of your cards!!! I placed my order but could get everything I wanted. My favorite of your cards is Birdbath Friends. Love my dogs. I would love to get that set!!! Thank you for sharing❤️
Could not get instead of could
I always love your designs/techniques. The dog walking himself is my favorite
Great cards Sandy! My favorite is the conga line critters. They look like they’re having such a good time!
Wow! So many beautiful stamps and what absolutely wonderful cards you created with them! My fav is the Birdbath Friends! I love dogs and bird watching so it is right up my alley!
My favorite is You Always make me smile.
The stamp is Whisker Kisses
I enjoy your videos and learn so much. The Conga line stamp set just shouts FUN!
Love Flurries of Fun and Big Love stamp set. I already bought the Conga Dance stamp set! Who doesn’t have fun doing Conga lines like these adorable mice. “Come on everybody do the Conga!”
I love all of Anita Jeram’s animals & it is hard to pick a fave in this group, but ‘Big Love’ is calling my name! Your talent & imagination is so inspiring (& enabling). Thanks for all you do.
Oh, my! Tough choice! I’m going to say Flurries of Fun is my favorite just because that snowbunny makes me so happy, but really all of them are wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing and inspiring! (I already subscribe to your YouTube channel and follow CCC on Insta because there’s always so much inspiration there!)
I love them all but Whisker Kisses. This colouring is beautiful and suits these images perfectly.
That should be “especially” Whisker Kisses.
I narrowed my favorites down to Birdbath Friends and Conga Line, and I have to choose one, it’s Birdbath Friends. I love colored pencils so scrolling through this post was wonderful.
I really love Colorado crafts. The sets are so sweet. I love them all but love the doggie behind the bird bath. I love the doggie card you made.
BIRDBATH FRIENDS is my favorite! My pup enjoys the birds visiting my feeders and bath. I wish they would be friends! Thanks for the inspiration!
My favorite is the Whisker Kisses. I am a cat person, although I don’t and I can’t have cats anymore because my son is allergic to it. Thank you for the give away!
Gorgeous cards Sandy, I love the Happy Dance card!
Thank you so much for sharing, stay safe and have a wonderful day.
I adore the conga line stamp. SOOO cute. I suppose that is my favorite, followed closely by the Go Big or Go Home. Your cards are so fun. I don’t have any wc pencils. Might have to look into it….
Love the kitties in the “Keep Growing” set!
Anita Jeram is my FAVORITE stamp designer/artist! My favorite stamp set from the release is Flurries of Fun. I love what you did with it on your card. I also love the fall scene cards you created with Birdbath Friends. Your cards are always so beautiful, Sandy. I enjoy your videos!
I recently discovered and fell in love with Anita Jeram’s stamps. So now I have to collect them all. But now I have discovered you, Sandy, how fun to learn how to color these stamps. I subscribed to your youtube channel and already follow CCC’s instagram. Lastly, my favorite stamp is the Flurries of Fun.
I already subscribe to your YouTube and I follow Colorado Crafts on Instagram. I love Whisker kisses and Big Love. Winning either would we fabulous! Love all your colouring tips.
Keep Growing is my favorite! I love all of the critters in these sets, but I am partial to the kitties!
I’m a follower of your YT channel and of CCC on Instagram!
Thanks so much for the great coupon code! My favorite is Whisker Kisses! And I ordered it!
Your awesome, my favorite is go big or go home. A saying I use all the time. Beautiful job
Your videos are always so inspirational! I love Flurries of Fun–such sweet bunnies!
Love your use of the storybook classes in these cards. My favorite is the Flurries of Fun and the Bird bath Friends. Thanks for sharing your talent with us. ❤️
Love your cards! My favorite stamp set would be Birdbath friends as I am a dog person! Thanks for the tutorial!
Definitely Birdbath Friends. As soon as I saw that puppy with the leash in his mouth I was like, “I need that stamp!”
Love the flurries of fun! Those bunnies are just having so much fun. Great tutorial- thanks!
I’m a sucker for birds! So birdbath for me!
They are all so adorable, but my favorite is definitely Birdbath Friends, I am a dog mom and I just love the pup on the leash. I adore your coloring! Thank you for the great videos!
They are all so adorable, but my favorite is definitely Birdbath Friends, I also have a dog who is a hunter. My little Sadie patrols my backyard for anything that may wander in. I can see her “hiding” behind the birdbath while watching the birds.
Love the Anita Jeram stamp sets…it’s so hard to pick a favorite. The “Happy Dance” one would probably be the favorite but several are right after it. I follow both your YT channel and CCC on Instagram already. I so enjoy your talent and how capable you are of putting it in words and demonstration so we can all learn from it. Thanks for challenging me in new ways.
Your cards are amazing! My favorite is whiskers kisses but I think that is more because I love cats! I almost said big love as well. Lol! I received your colored pencil class for Christmas (haven’t had time to complete it) and really enjoy your teaching style. Thank you for all the hard work you put into sharing your talent with the rest of us. You are truly one of God’s blessings to the world.
Oh my stars the cute is killin me!!! Adorable!!! The Wisker Kisses is my very favorite but I do love them all! I love your cards and techniques as well. The trees on the Keep Growing set are precious!!! Love love love!!!! Thanks Sandy and thank you CCC for such a nice give a way❣️
They’re all adorable, so it’s difficult to choose. Conga Line, where they’re having so much fun in the rain.
These sets are all absolutely sweet but if I have to choose I have to say I love ‘keep growing’, my second choice would be ‘big love’ and then ‘flurries of fun’. Thank you and CCC for this lovely giveaway!
My Anita Jeram stamp stash is growing quickly and surely… and this sale will help! These new stamps are all adorable! I think my favorite is the big love one. Too cute!!
Whisker kisses is my favorite. I am going to sign up for class now!!! Thank you so much
Our littlest granddaughter has two special stuffed bunnies and loves to watch the rabbits in the neighbourhood. I’ve sent her a card using CCC’s Snow Happy stamp (and others) which she loves to open and gabble away as though she can read (18months). So, Flurries of Fun would be my first choice and also love Conga Line. Your skill with colour brings these stamps to life with such fun! Thanks for all the time and effort you invest.
Such great cards Sandy! I am a youTube subscriber of yours and I just followed CC on Instagram. My favourite set is Birdbath Friends!!
I think Whisker Kisses is my favorite but they’re all too cute. You always paint them so beautifully.
I love Flurries of Fun, but all of them are so cute! Beautiful cards, Sandy.
I love their bunnies! My favorite from this post is Flurries of Fun. I love that snowbunny. I also am really liking the colored pencils as opposed to copics. Don’t get me wrong, I love my copics, but occasionally something different is wonderful.
Hi, Sandy! I love the mouse with gifts!! So cute. Truth be told, I love all of Anita Jeram’s work!
Love them all, but the dog in the park speaks to my heart! And so glad it was the one in the video! Thanks for the tips. No polka dot leaves!!
Oh my goodness! Your cards are the cutest!!! I love, love, love animals and love Anita’s work so much!!! If I had to choose one, I’d have to say the snowman with the bunnies, “Flurries of Fun”, is so darn cute.
Anita‘s stamps always make me smile. It‘s hard to pick a favorite; I love everything cat & dog but here my favorite one Is the bunnies and the snowman „Thank you snow much“.
And you make it look so easy to create backgrounds!!
1. I already follow your YT channel and always learn so much; 2. I also already follow CCC’s Instagram; and, 3. My favorite Anita Jeram stamp set from the new release (which is really all of them!), is Flurries of Love. Those snowbunnies are so cute and it will go so well with last year’s release with the deer and bunny. Thinking about trying your Storybook Scenes background technique with both sets together on a slimline card.
Whoops…Flurries of Fun!! But, “Love” is appropriate:)!
Love Anita’s stamps – sweet, funny, & fun to color up in any medium. My fave is the last one shown – “Go big or go home!” Gonna have to have that one for sure! Thanks for coloring them all!