It’s finnnnnally here……Flower Power 2020!! This is a brand new class that I hope everyone will love….and I hope it inspires you to not only make beautiful things but to make someone else’s day! Watch the promo video and check out the little backstory below.
This class is for two good causes: supporting Ellen Hutson’s small business by using her beautiful flower stamps, and raising money for World Central Kitchen too! You can get this class FREE if you buy either one of the listed stamp sets on the website here, or FREE if you guy $75 worth of anything from Ellen….or you can choose to pay $10 for the class in addition to shopping, so you can help feed hungry people through World Central Kitchen!
A few weeks back, while the end of the StayHomeStaySafe orders looked soooo far away, I was trying to figure out a way I could help do something to assist someone else with my classes website. Not many of us have excess money, so it was going to need to be something special!
One cause I’ve fundraised for before – and give to monthly myself – is World Central Kitchen. So I wanted that to be a beneficiary somehow.
I also was heartbroken for my friend Ellen Hutson, who had to close her business temporarily under governor’s orders. I don’t know much about retail but man do I know it’s a bad time right now! Ellen was able to go in by herself to try to fill orders, but got so backed up as just one person….she’d pack up a ton of orders and was still staring at stacks of more! I wanted to do something to help her get back up and going once she was able to reopen…..and I came up with an idea.
I approached some of my friends from Ellen’s design team, and got takers right away – everyone wanted to help out! We met on Zoom and giggled and planned….what a great time it was to just be together; this was the first Zoom for several of them!
We spent some time putting together our lesson videos and taking our pics, and I spent more time assembling the class and getting everything set up. We were delighted to hear Ellen was open again, and had staff in to help catch up on orders again! Last weekend she had a big sale, so we waited til today once they were caught up from those…..so let’s all inundate her with more orders for this class!
My project uses the Crocus Flowers and Courage sentiment – in loose loose watercolor! If you’ve struggled with loose painting, I’ve got some encouragement in the video that might shake you from being so tight!
Paint a loose background – then if you paint out of the lines it really won’t matter at all. It’ll just be some extra pretty splatter!
If you need something different to shake you up creatively, try a different format for a card – long skinny, 5×7, something other than your usual!
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A while back I shared how to loosely paint poppies – today it’s buttercups! You knew I had to have this stamp set with yellow flowers, right!??
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I had a bunch of flower stamps in my growing stash that I haven’t shown yet, so they’ll be collected together this week into a series. Enjoy!
These elegant poppies just cried OUT for watercolor! And in this video I’ll show you how to do kind of a cheater “loose” style….it’s fun and isn’t as out of control as you’d worry it might be!
The card front is layered onto black, then the pink card base, setting it off nicely. One flower was masked for the stamping of the sentiment “HAPPY”….I didn’t have the right color pink ink, so used some red with some Picked Raspberry on top of it to get close to it!
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MFT Painted Poppies stamps not available, but try this stamp!
These beautiful ‘handdrawn’ flowers were sketchy in the stamp set – so I kept my card in the same vein, and used some new liquid watercolors!
I’ve been doing floral watercolors for quite some time now – there’s a giant playlist you may want to go sit through sometime if you haven’t yet. Tons of techniques! This one creates a very soft look with washy layers, over images stamped in Avery Elle Daisy Pigment Ink.
The finishing touches on the card were to trim the panel to 4″, then pop it onto a card base using dimensional adhesive. I also stamped the sentiment in Avery Elle Mermaid ink and clear-embossed over it.
Here’s the chart I made recently of the colors….go pick some favorites and get busy painting!
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Avery Elle Clear Stamps, Handdrawn Florals – no longer available
Even as a seasoned card maker, I enjoy learning tips & tricks from other crafters. My favorite tip/trick is one that applies to all of us whether we are stampers, colorists, diecutters: create something every day. If all we do is look at our pretty crafty supplies, or run our hands through a cup of gorgeous sequins, but never use them….we’ll never learn our craft! So even on days when I make something totally ugly – I make sure I make something.
While wanting to do a comparison between the old and new Quinacridone Gold paints (the planet recently ran OUT of the pigment for the old one, and Daniel Smith engineered a replacement)….if you know me, I got bored just doing swatches. Let’s paint something! How about tulips, since Easter and Mother’s Day are around the corner?
Hope you found these tulips bringing a little sunshine to your spring – Easter and Mother’s Day are on the way!
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