Foiled Fox "Trio of Colours" challenge

Hello crafty friends!

I have a cheerful card to share today. 

My creative friend Heather Telford suggested I enter it in the Foiled Fox's current challenge, so here goes:

I used the "Doodle Garden" background stamp from Catherine Pooler, heat-set with WOW's "Silver Pearl" embossing powder onto water-colour card-stock.

Next, I wet the panel and dropped Distress inks into the various areas, picking the colour up with a water brush, and adding successive layers of colour. Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio and Wild Honey were the colours used. Further spritzing with water and Ranger Perfect Pearls Mist ensured lots of blending and shine.

The waterfall card designs was inspired by a recent Youtube post by Ingrid Blackburn. You can see a video of the inside elements on my Instagram post @canadianliner.


 

Enjoy the sunshine and flowers!

Caroline

Fluttering by for FMS #275

Hello there! 

Another snowy day, and a great excuse to stay inside and play with inks. That is, after 90 minutes of shoveling the 20cm of new snow we received overnight...

I'm playing along with the newest design from Freshly Made Sketches.

I've been seeing a lot of stenciling done on the various blogs I follow, which inspired this attempt.

 

I just received my "Late to the Party" Collection of inks from Catherine Pooler designs this week. I love all the shades of yellow and orange in the collection, and I was already in love with Fiesta Blue. Must be because they are such bright summery shades...

I used a 6-inch stencil from KITE Artistic Stencils and Templates, called "funky squares," and sponged some Fiesta Blue ink to create a background in the circular area of the sketch. Earlier in the day, I had tried different ways to water-colour some butterflies from the "Butterfly Notes" stamp set, also from Catherine Pooler Designs. I ended up used Distress Ink minis to ink the periphery of the stamp, then spritzed it with water, mixing the colours a little more with a wet brush, before stamping on water-colour paper.

The sentiment was heat-embossed in white on Lagoon card stock, for the longer of the two horizontal elements. I applied Tutti Frutti ink direct-to-paper before cutting the "thanks" die. Both butterfly and sentiment are adhered with foam tape, for some dimension and shadow.

Check out the other terrific entries at Freshly Made Sketches this week.

You have until noon next Monday, Feb. 20th to link up.

Happy crafting,

Caroline

Supplies:

Cardstock: White Daisy, Lagoon (CTMH)

Inks: Versamark, Fiesta Blue, Tutti Frutti (Catherine Pooler Designs); Barn Door, Wild Honey (Distress Inks); Superfine white embossing powder (Ranger)

Stamps: Butterfly Notes (CPD)

Die: Thanks, Taylored Expressions

Stencil: Kite

GD for The 12 Kits of Occasions

So around the time my full-time job was cancelled, I got an email from my loyal blogging friend, Kim Heggins, asking me if I'd like to join The 12 Kits of Occasions team as one of their guest-designers for November.  Before the change in job status, I would have regretfully declined, as crafting has had to slip in the list of priorities in the past year. However, with only part-time work starting this month, the idea of creating with a kit of delivered goodies sounded delightful! 

In case you don't know about this fun blog, it has 12 permanent members, who take turns being hostess. Each month, the Hostess picks a theme and makes up identical kits of supplies to send to her team-mates, who, in turn, create 4-5 cards to post at the end of the month. It is amazing to see the variety and creativity the arises from the same materials.

Kim's kit arrived in early November and I had such fun with the supplies! Lots of polka-dot paper, Thanksgiving and Christmas themed sentiments and adorable critter images to colour.
I made five cards, and just kept going.
Here's a pic of all that was left of the original kit!

First, fun with Copics:

 

Inside the Beary Happy card...

Then a stab at watercolouring:

 Inside the ice floe card... (see the cool shades?)

Then, simple graphic paper-piecing (a favorite pattern from my quilting days).

 Then some Christmas cards with those big bold polka dots and shimmery washi tape:

And my favorite, a gate-fold card with those scampering mice:

Many thanks to Kim and the 12 Kits of Occasions team for including me this month. I had a blast playing along!

Check out the rest of the team's creations HERE:

Hugs,

Caroline