Yellow Roses

Another offering from a team training day. Lovely and fresh and springlike. Like yesterdays tortoise the rose is water coloured. The stamp set is Happiness shared and I do like it's simple elegance, it just cries out for some delicate colouring, the organza ribbon just finishes it off nicely.

Watercolour Tortoise

An evening out has been an extremely rare occurrence this year so when I had a last minute opportunity to attend a team training evening I grabbed it with both hands.  My upline is the lovely Amanda Fowler, you can see her blog here and this was one of the projects she had for us that night. 
We were trying different colouring techniques and for the tortoise image we used the watercolour crayons and an aqua painter.  The designer paper is from the neutrals stack and the button accent is "stitched" on with a narrow strip of card stock.

Cup Cake

How cute are these two greedy mice mates?!!   I stamped the image in Staz on ink so I could use my favourite watercolours again! Just a simple dotty background paper from Stampin up's paper stack and a touch of ribbon to complete.

Lovely as a fir tree.

The quality of this photo isn't very good I'm afraid, I will replace if I ever find a spare five minutes. I went back to those images I stamped and watercoloured a couple of weeks ago for this card.  The fir tree this time, matted onto crumb cake and wild wasabi card and mounted onto a crumb cake base card.  I also used one of the tiny stamps from the Lovely as a Tree set to stamp a background for the card.  I added a scallop punched greeting in wasabi to finish it off.

 

A tiny touch of Spring

I don't know about you but I am getting very fed up with this weather, I want Spring to arrive and I want it now!  I went digging through my stamps to find something a little more Springlike and rediscovered this one that I hadn't used for sometime.  It's a retired Stampin Up set (I hate it when they retire my favourites :(  ) It's so pretty, the girl is wistfully looking across the field enjoying the sunshine don't you think?  Another watercoloured image cos this one definitely needs a soft focus then matted onto Marina Mist designer paper and card.  A touch of ribbon and a scallopped oval punch and greeting.

 

Balloon Bear

 You can't have a birthday without balloons can you! and this little cutie has lots.  I was feeling a little more creative with this one, I used papers from the Stampin Up designer stack again, Wild Wasabi this time.  The papers are double sided so I ripped it in half along the diagonal and used both sides.  The ribbon is Very Vanilla grosgrain and instead of tying a bow (or more probably a knot!) I twisted the ribbon once before adhering inside the card.  I'm not quite sure if I like the effect yet, time will tell.  The stamped image has been watercoloured and matted onto Wild Wasabi card.

Springtime trees

Remember those images I stamped and watercoloured the other day from the "Lovely as a Tree" set?  I finally managed to get one onto a card today.  The weather is so wet and grey outside that I felt the need for something a little more springlike so the colour combination of Certainly Celery, Daffodil Delight and Wild Wasabi did the trick perfectly.  I background stamped the base card with celery ink using a flower stamp from one of the Sale-a-bration sets, the birthday greeting comes from there too but due to the poor photograph it doesn't show very well.

More Razzleberry!

 

Don't look now but this is my fifth entry this week!!  I had a delivery from Stampin Up this morning and even though I was as excited to open it as always I also had to check it very carefully as the box had been so badly damaged in transit and was very water damaged.  The delivery man was most apologetic and made sure I had all the information I need in case the contents were damaged.  Thankfully only one pack of card was  spoiled and will have to be sent back for replacement.

Todays card has Rich Razzleberry as it's base once again, I so love this colour. The stamped image is from one of the hostess sets, Punch Potpourri, stamped in black staz-on ink and then watercoloured with razzleberry ink.  The greeting is from one of the Sale-a-bration sets "So Happy For You", I used the scalloped oval punch and 3d mounted it.. The final accent is a ribbon bow in Whisper White.

A change of colour scheme tomorrow I think!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
3rd January and I've made it to Blogland :)  That's my resolution this year, to make it here much more often than I have managed in recent months.
I'm back to school tomorrow but the holidays have given me a few opportunities to catch up with myself.  So much so in fact that I found time to have a play with some stamps and watercolours today.  The stamps are from the "Lovely as a Tree" set from Stampin Up.  I stamped the images with a staz on ink pad and then coloured them using watercolour crayons and a waterbrush.  I played about a bit with trying to make the different seasons.  Here's the results:

Happy Birthday!

Another birthday card, this one destined for the postbox for a friend of mine. Again I watercoloured a stamoped image and layered it onto Bazzil cardstock, with a little more imagination this time I think, adding diamonds and squares into the mix. A touch of glitter and a ribbon to finish off.

Cheeky Girl

Oops! been nearly a month since I last blogged :S well on this blog anyway; I have been blogging on www.4thhestonlejog.blogspot.com
Anyhow, here is a cheeky little lady! I watercoloured the stamped image and layered her onto orange and yellow bazzil cardstock and attached the tag to the card with a brad. Backed onto a pretty plaid paper and a stamped message added to the bottom. Oh and a dash of glitter to add some bling :O)

Wishy washy ?

I'm still not sure about this one. It's the same House Mouse image that I used the other day but in pale pink tones this time and I'm not sure that it isn't a little too pale. I matted it with silver mirri, as is my wont, onto a background paper of pale pink candy stripe.

Full to bursting!

Another new House Mouse stamp that I bought at the Farnborough Make It show last weekend. Sooooo cute! Stamped with staz-on ink and watercoloured then matted onto some coordinating blue paper and silver mirri card. Mmm might have to go do another :O)

Mouse afloat!

Here's the first one! Housemouse afloat in his nutshell awww. Stamped in timber brown stazon and watercoloured, matted onto a coordinating paper which has a print of tiny green leaves, but you can't see them very well in this photo. An edging of mirri card for accent and a ribbon sash to finish.

Ready to go

These are two of the stamps I bought at the Make It show at Farnborough this weekend. I just adore Housemouse he is sooo cute. I stamped him with timber brown staz-on and watercoloured the images so they are all ready for mounting on cards during the week :O)

A lilac promise of summer

I definitely had a lilac moment with this one didn't I!! The image is from Stampin Up and is such a beautiful promise of summer to come, I stamped it with a Staz on pad and watercoloured the image. I backed the card with a lilac paper from that winnie the pooh kit but the image needed something more. I found a piece of handmade paper and feathered the edges by wetting and tearing.

Blue Goose

Remeber that Goose image from a couple of weeks ago ? I used her again today, she reminds me of that range of kitchenware so I used a blue gingham backing paper which also reminds me of that range. The image was stamped with Staz-on and watercoloured as before. Then I backed it with mirri card and an accent of plain clue card. A ribbon sash down the spine to complete.

Cake!

looks yummy doesn't it! I stamped the cupcake with a staz on pad and watercoloured it. I then mounted the image onto mirri card and added three peel off greetings, why I did that I shall never know! it's hard enough to line one up straight let alone three!!!

Mouse Mail

Another "nearly" monochrome offering.

Monochrome Moggy

Well, ALMOST monchrome. The backing paper has a touch of pink which I echoed in my colouring of the image.