Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Copic Coloring with Waffle Flowers Gorgeous Magnolia

Hi everybody! I hope you had a great weekend filled with relaxation and crafty time. I spent most of my weekend sifting through our house and packing boxes as we are getting ready to move. Moving is a lot of work but it feels so good to purge and get rid of things that we don't need. That being said, I am looking forward to when I can spend my free time getting crafty again! 

I bought this Magnolia stamp from Waffle Flower quite some time ago and hadn't had time to have fun with it. I finally busted it out along with my copics for some coloring.
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First, I'm going to have to apologize because I can't tell you exactly which color markers I used for this. Since we are moving I am making a huge effort to keep organized and put things away. Unfortunately, I put the markers that I used away before I could make note of which ones they were. I can tell you that I used a mix of V's, B's, BG's, and R's for the flowers... I love mixing unexpected color combos to see if I can get them to blend well.
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After coloring the flowers and leaves I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and adhere them to my card base which was blended with Distress Oxides. I popped some of them up on foam adhesive to give the card more dimension. I also popped the sentiment up on foam tape.
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To finish my card off and give it some sparkle I used my Glitter Gloss pen from Tonic Studios to color in the flower petals. You can just barely see the sparkle in the picture below but in real life the shimmer is fantastic. I also added some sequins from Simon Says Stamp (Moonshine) to give it a little bit more magic.
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That's it for today you guys! It's late here in California and I've got to get to work in the morning so I'm off to bed now. I hope you all have a fantastic day and I'll be back here soon with another card. Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Maria


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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Sammy the Sloth Takes a Nap

Hello Everybody! It's Maria here today and I am so excited to be sharing this card today because the Adorable collection was released yesterday in the UK! This collection of stamps is full of "adorable" critters and for today's card I've used Sammy Takes It Easy. This set has three different sloth images, leaves, vines and flowers and quite a few great sentiments. I love this sleepy sloth and decided to use him for my card. I started out by stamping him onto watercolor paper. Then I used a Sharpie marker to extend the tree branch so that it reached across the whole card. Then, I cut along the top of the sloth and along the branch so that I could pop the sloth up on my card. Next I stamped the hanging vines onto the tree branch. I also stamped some extra leaves and flowers so that I could color those in as well.
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I used my Nuvo Aqua Flow Pens and a paint brush to watercolor all of my images. I'll list the colors at the bottom of the post for you. I cut out all of my images by hand but if you are in the UK you can purchase the coordinating dies for this set. After cutting out my leaves and flowers I decided how I wanted them to fit behind the sloth and then adhered them in the right place. I adhered the card front by popping it up on foam adhesive to give it a bit of dimension.


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My background is watercolored using Nuvo Aqua Flow markers and you can't tell from the picture but it's actually very sparkly. I splattered the background with my Glitter Gloss pen and it's really shimmery in real life. The sentiment is stamped in Nuvo Hybrid Black Shadow Ink. I did have to stamp it multiple times to get a crisp sentiment because I was stamping on watercolor paper. Luckily, this was easy because I used my Tonic Stamp Positioner to do this. The final touch on my card was to add some highlights with a white gel pen.

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That is it for today you guys. It is nearly 3am here in California and I've got to get up soon to head off to work. I hope you all have an amazing day!

Maria


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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Watercoloring with Nuvo Shimmer Powder

Hello Everyone! It's Maria (Cardbomb) here today and I am so happy to be joining you for a little watercolor fun. For today's card I decided to use the Ellie Goes Nuts stamp set and some of my Nuvo Shimmer Powders. 

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I used every elephant in the set and used my Stamp Platform and some basic masking to stack the elephants on top of each other. Then I used Nuvo Shimmer Powders (Cherry Bomb, Solar Flare, Falling Leaves and Blue Blitz) and a paint brush to watercolor them. To do this I puffed a little shimmer powder out onto my media mat and added a little bit of water to each color. Adding water to the shimmer powder turns it into a watercolor medium that is vibrant and full of shimmer.
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After watercoloring the elephants I cut them out and watercolored my background. I wanted the elephants to be the star of the show so on the background I used my Nuvo Aquaflow pens in Clear Water and Indigo Dawn so that the background wouldn't shimmer like the elephants do. I adhered my background onto black cardstock, then, I used foam adhesive to adhere the elephants onto the card base.
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After adding the elephants I heat embossed the sentiment and popped that up on foam adhesive as well. As an after thought, I decided that I wanted the background to have a little shimmer too. So, I covered the elephants with masks, and splattered some Solar Flare and Blue Blitz onto the background. You can see how magical it looks where it landed on the black cardstock. To finish my card off I added some Dream Drops in Indigo Eclipse.
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I hope today's card will inspire you to watercolor with Shimmer Powders. It's such an easy and fun way to use the powders to get a magical effect. That's it for today you all. Thanks so much for joining me and we will see you back here tomorrow with another fantastic project from Design Team member Zinia.

Have a wonderful day!
Maria



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