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Animal Tiki bar cards
A llama walked into a tiki bar….. I know there’s a joke here somewhere, right? Ha! Well the Market Stand stamp set from Avery Elle – combined with Peek-A-Boo Pets (there are several animals, it’s so cute!) and Llamazing – inspired my three cards for today! Scroll down for detail on each one. Which is your favorite?
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I made three versions of this card – in three different coloring mediums! While I stamped one of them I figured I’d do it on several kinds of paper. The good thing – I could use Lawn Fawn, Jet Black Ink because it works with all three mediums I wanted to color with!
Ps: since it’s the first day of spring, it’s also free ice cream cone day at DQ!
#justsaying
- Market Stand, Avery Elle
- Peek-A-Boo Pets, Avery Elle
- Llamazing, Avery Elle
- Happy Hedgehogs
- Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Jet Black
- Copic Markers
- Neenah Cardstock
- Daniel Smith Watercolors
- Silver Brushes
- Arches Cold Press Paper
- Prismacolor Pencils
- Polychromos Pencils
- Pencil Sharpener
- Stonehenge Paper
- Blending stumps
Clean and Simple Lilies plus “Glassy” text
The Darling Lily stamp by Altenew is so pretty, and so ready for Easter – and yet has no Easter sentiments. But it makes for a lovely thank you card or any theme throughout the year – pretty flowers are always in season.
Watch the video below or click HERE to see it in HD on YouTube.
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Just a few colors to use on this pretty lily….
I kept the deisng super simple – just a layer of white paper, and a Desert Storm card base to match the coloring panel.
I love how white pencil shows up, yet remains soft!
The Bible journaling page was created first by making a cross from 2 strips of washi tape; I stamped the flowers and leaves on the right half with the tape in place. I removed it, then stamped the upper left flower while masking off the horizontal bar only with a sticky note. The rest were stamped on top, though I wished after that I had masked the tail end of the stem of the flower!
The demo of the text was created in one of my books – the workbook, printed on Bible paper. It’s a great place to practice art and techniques before putting them in your Bible. Or, like me, a way to go backward and teach something I did in my Bible, but since that page is taken – I can still create it on Bible paper in the workbook!
The only place you can get signed books and workbooks is at Ellen Hutson (links below) – be sure to order one for your Mom for an Easter gift!
- Darling Lily, Altenew Clear Stamps
- Neenah Cardstock, Desert Storm, 25 pk
- Bible Journaling Made Simple
- Bible Journaling Made Simple Creative Workbook
- Prismacolor Pencils
- Pencil Sharpener
- Stonehenge Paper
How to experiment with the human rainbow
It’s been a while since I’ve covered the Human Rainbow…and thought the new release from Art Impressions would be the perfect time!
Bonnie Krebs, owner and designer, is one hilarious lady. Just look at the sentiments on her stamp sets!! I picked out five of the stamps to show you today from the new release, and did a quickie coloring on video of parts of them, but mostly the purpose in today’s post is to get folks back to experimenting with their colors to create a human rainbow of skintones!
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Watch the video below or click HERE to see it in HD on YouTube.
The Cowgirls are such fun– three ladies having a hoedown all their own! I added a crowd to enjoy their performance.
The Yoga Set cracked. me. up! Exercising and eating cake TOGETHER? Heck yes, sign me up for that gym!
I combined Birthday Laugh Lineswith Never Too Old Laugh Lines to create a card with the old couple making their way to – or from – a birthday party.
The Housework set is very much like my style of housekeeping. Little to none! Having pups around always mucking things up isn’t much incentive…lol!
Last but not least Loads of Fun makes me think I might need a new ironing board, so as an old lady I can also go surfing!
Those free Human Rainbow charts!
I’ve moved the free charts over to Art-Classes! I also added to it and called it the Rainbow Chart Collection – but the main chart is still the same as the one you may have gotten over here.
If you hadn’t noticed I’ve been slowly moving stuff over there – because this blog is going to be overhauled in coming months, and I want everything to still be available for ya! (Note that any charts or digis you bought on this site are only accessible here, I am not able to move everything over.)
Here are the charts – click HERE or on the photo:
- Human Rainbow Chart Collection
- Art Impressions Clear Stamps:
- Cowgirls
- Birthday Laugh Lines
- Never Too Old Laugh Lines
- Loads of Fun
- Housework
- Yoga
Half-a-stamp Stamping
Sometimes less is more….and sometimes half a stamp is all you need!
The cool part about stamping only part of an image – or only including half an object on a canvas, for that matter – is that it gets the viewer engaged. They imagine what else is there. They’re intrigued by just what is going on there. In each of the examples in this post, I went through my stamp collection to find sentiments that would start the idea of a story going – scroll down to see a little more on each one.
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At first I only had the Balloon Bear peeking in from the bottom, and as I looked for a sentiment to go with him, I saw “Let it go….” and immediately had to stamp one more balloon up in the air as if he’d let it go!
In this version of Balloon Bear, he’s just peeking in from outside with a balloon gift….it makes you wonder if he’s standing on something, is he peeking into a door or from behind a tree? Lots for the imagination to ponder…
Fancy Hat Bear, when peeking in from the side, is a little shy. So telling her to go be fabulous in a sentiment seemed good to encourage her to step out boldly!
In another version of Fancy Hat Bear, I wanted her to look like she was throwing a kiss, so when stamping her I wiped off the eyes – and added lines instead so she could look dreamy!
Can you think of stamp sets you’d use to try some half-lea
- Stamp sets used:
- Fancy Hat Bear, Impression Obsession Cling Stamps
- Balloon Bear, Impression Obsession Cling Stamps
- Sentiment sets used:
- Hang On, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- High Five, Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- Pure Magic Essentials By Ellen Clear Stamps
- Totally Random Sayings Vol. 1 Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps
- Other supplies:
- Scotch Foam Mounting Tape
- Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Jet Black
- Copic Markers
- Neenah Cardstock
- Daniel Smith Watercolors
- Silver Brushes
- Arches Cold Press Paper
Color Vintage Easter Bunnies
The Art Impressions Basket of Blessings set has some really pretty rabbits to color for Easter cards. Lots of ways to color them – but I chose vintage. Using watercolor pencils on drawing paper!
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Watch the video below or click HERE to see it in HD on YouTube.
I’ll be in a five-day watercolor workshop all week…if you need me for anything, I’ll be slow at responding.
thanks for understanding!
Here are the Albrecht Durer pencil colors I used….
The bunny in front is darker than the one behind to create depth.
And that ribbon? Not thick! There’s no knot in the larger yellow ribbon….
…it just has some tiny twine holding it in place. With a little adhesive to assure the yellow ribbon doesn’t come undone.
- Basket of Blessings, Art Impressions Stamps
- Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils
- Stonehenge White pad 9 x 12
- Gravel Gray, My Favorite Things Dye Ink Pad
- MFT A2 rectangle stitched dies
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