This is a LOT of stamping and coloring tutorials, and I have a feeling I missed a bunch along the way! I think you might say that yes I do LOVE creating with My Favorite Things!
I created guest posts monthly for them for a few years, that’s part of it – and I’ll miss it! I decided at the end of 2021 that it was time for me to step back and allow other folks the opportunity to join them and inspire us all. Make sure when you create amazing and beautiful art that you tag them on social media so they know you’re awesome – and join in their challenges too! I’d love to see someone else fill a coloring-focused spot there!
Scroll through the posts below….tap on any photo to go to the post with video tutorials!
Skunks….and chipmunks?
24 Tags of Christmas 2021 #1: Traditional Color Combos (Copic)
Coloring Christmas cards with Ballpoint Pen?
How to create a Monochromatic Dramatic Scene
Go from cartoony to realistic in Copic coloring animals
Simple stamp masking: a tree branch
Inked Blue Poppy Card – Glass Pen
Color a Rainy Day in Paris with colored pencils
Crafty Hack: Mask Stamps for Complex Scenes
No Line Coloring of Critters – Prismacolor
Christmas card: Cats on a cold winter porch
Watercolor mixing for skin tones
Coloring the Human Rainbow – in colored pencil!
Merry wishes: Color cute animals in Albrecht Durer Watercolor Pencils
Create contrast with Copic markers
Flying Dragon Card – Pantone 2020 Color of the Year
How to Color a Sweet Shop Scene
Draw your own Copic glitter
Gamsol and powdered pencil aerial scene (easy)
Magical Friends – Colored Pencil Shading for dimension
Sunshine!
The Simplest of Coloring
Celebrate!
Sweet Little Penguin Tag
Easy Stamped Gift Bags
24 Tags of Christmas 2018: Diorama Dog Tags
Misty Painted Poppies
Coloring Spooky Shadows on Desert Storm Cardstock
Fluttering Rainbow Dragonflies
Color a Cowgirl Card: Draw your own wagon!
Watercolor a stage for a dramatic lion!
Super simple scene with Aussie Animals
Watercolor Bird Wreath
No-line motion with pull-tab sentiment
No Line coloring: fuzzy bunnies!
Pet Themed Shaker Card – Easy watercolor
Halloween card: Witch way is the candy?
Coloring a Seagull Dock Scene (Mine Mine Mine Mine Mine)
Make a card that’s a colorable gift
Watercolor a greeting card with pirates
Peekaboo Mama-Baby Giraffe Card
DOUBLE interactive ninja warrior card
Doodle Coloring with Animal Stamps
Create a Bokeh Copic Watercolor Garden
Fixing my impatient mistakes in watercolor
Paper Doll Castle Card
Interactive Puppy Slider Cards
Medicine Cabinet Card
Color an Ice Fishing Pond
Blending and Shading Copic Markers
How to Draw and Watercolor Rocks
Pack up a coloring kit for summer travel
Painting animal stamps with Brusho
Three Marker Challenge
How to paint with Brusho on diecuts
Cats by a fence, Albrecht Durer watercolor pencils
Adventure Calls (Colored Pencil)
Monsters in the Mist
Stamps are no longer available but the video is still tons of fun:
Oh my. That many? Yes it’s true! Since 2014 I’ve been making six tag videos each year, with four tags in each, to create my “24 tags of Christmas” series with a giveaway. They’re all collected here for you!
Note that the older ones…well, those don’t have products in stock anymore, though the ideas are still worthy. And as I’ve gone through them all, I’ve replaced supply list items with things I would recommend *now* as opposed to wayyy back then. Coz I’ve learned a thing or three!
Click on any picture to get to that tutorial!
24 Tags of Christmas 2021: Traditional Color Combos (Copic)
24 Tags of Christmas 2021 #2: Christmas Door Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2021: Paper Pieced Critter Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2021: Coloring Sloth Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2021: Brick Wall Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2021: Coloring Sprigs on Red Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2020: Forest Choir Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2020: Watercolor bunny tag
24 Tags of Christmas 2020: Multicolored Ink Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2020: Color Pop Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2020: White Pencil Lantern Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2020: Pencil Penguin Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2019: Festive Friends – Copic on Desert Storm
24 Tags of Christmas 2019: Santa’s face
24 Tags of Christmas 2019: Felt Sasquatch!
24 Tags of Christmas 2019: Copic Amaryllis
24 Tags of Christmas 2019: Painted Candle
24 Tags of Christmas 2019: Snow Animals
24 Tags of Christmas 2018: Distressed Coffee Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2018: Snowy Window Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2018: Painted Pinecone Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2018: Fuzzy Fox Tag
24 Tags of Christmas 2018: Embossed Layered Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2018: Diorama Dog Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2017: Puppy tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2017: Layered Fussycut Images
24 Tags of Christmas 2017: Heavenly Angels
24 Tags of Christmas 2017: Concertina tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2017: Penguin Slider Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2017: Simply Folksy Bears
24 Tags of Christmas 2016: Watercolor Tree Farm
24 Tags of Christmas 2016: Pencil Ice Skates
24 Tags of Christmas 2016: Easy Copic Matchbook Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2016: Brusho Lights
24 Tags of Christmas 2016: Shaker Dog Tag
24 Tags of Christmas 2016: Bunny Wishes
24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Zentangle Birds
24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Embossing a Scene
24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Shading Elves in Copic Marker
24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Colored Pencil Rainbow Bokeh Tags
24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Copic on wood
24 Tags of Christmas 2015: Watercolor Snow
24 Tags of Christmas 2014: Copic Faux Watercolor
24 Tags of Christmas 2014: Stamped Watercolor with Tombow markers
24 Tags of Christmas 2014: Glowing lights on Kraft paper (Matchbook tags)
24 Tags of Christmas of 2014: FineTec Mica Watercolors
24 Tags of Christmas 2014: Copic Monochromatic Night Scene
24 Tags of Christmas 2014: Watercolor Critters in Snow
My collection of Christian-themed Christmas card colorings….hope they help you make the holiday blessed Click on any photo to go see the tutorial video.
Trifold nativity card – speed coloring, inktense pencil (stamp is on deep clearance as of Oct 2021)
Nativity circlet tags and cards
How to color vintage night scenes
Coloring a Copic night sky with lambs in Copic Marker
The Last Camel: Colored Pencil Nativity Card (Slimline)
Double blended light sources (Nativity card)
Pencil Sketching a Manger Scene – with stamps
Drawing the stable in Bethlehem in Copics
Animal Nativity Scene: Watercolor pencils on drawing paper
Nativity Christmas Cards with torn paper masking
Penguin Shepherds by Night – funny Christmas card
Nativity Mini TryFold Watercolor Christmas Card
Copic Coloring out a window: The View from The Inn
You’ll notice something a little different about this post – it’s shorteer than most of the inspiration colllections! That’s because some of the concepts are much harder than an average crafter often even cares to try. The beginner tutorials have basically no scenes, the intermediate introduce easy to draw elements – but once it gets into needing some drawing skills, or some facility in managing water – often that’s where folks bail on me! (I do have a great Drawing 101 class for just such an occasion!)
But for those ready to tackle bigger ideas – I present the advanced collection. Click on any image to see the tutorial!
Exploring Drybrush Watercolor
Mixing Spooky Hues in Watercolor
Watercolor a loose hummingbird – with a dot card
County Fair Themed Watercolor Card
Turn a solid stamp into a painting
Still life fruit in watercolor, & faux Copic watercolor
How to Create a Strong Shadow in watercolor
Watercolor a harvest moon (aka handling your hot mess moments)
Checking the weather – How to watercolor a Kwanzaa Card
Painting a rich watercolor background
Realistic Rainy Watercolor Card
Multicolor watercolor wash (inspired by illustrator Jon Klassen)
Mini Voices In my Head (2 cards – one easy, one crazy!) – very very 2020
Magical Gnome Card
Watercolor mixing for skin tones
Peekaboo Underwater Submarine Card
Nighttime Roller Coaster Card in just three watercolors
If you’ve made it through the Watercolor basics – then the Watercolor beginners posts – then you just might be ready to tackle some elements of scenes! Lots of these will be great next-steps as you grow in your watercoloring on cards….just tap on a picture to go see the tutorial video!
