Laura's Loft Absolutly Inspiring Watercolor Challenge LLC3

Welcome to our challenge!
I hate to start this off on a sad note but one of our Inspirational Compadres lost her husband yesterday so I'm dedicating my blog post to Linda Gorman. Sending prayers your way.

This is Linda's beautiful card! Even though she is going through a lot right now and couldn't be with us I couldn't let her card not shine.

On a Happier note....
 We hope you have as much fun as we have had creating with Watercolor.

I can't wait to see all your creations. 

For this months challenge we are happy to have the support of Newton's Nook. They were generous enough to give us a $20 store credit for one lucky person to win.

Another participant will will this awesome $25 gift card to Laura's Loft.

To enter to win these prizes go to Laura's Loft Blog and enter your creations in the Inlinkz.

All entries need to be linked through  Inlinkz by 11:55 pm March 5, 2016 .
Winners will be anounced March 7, 2016

Here are some of my creations I made using Watercolor.

This card was water colored with Gansai Tambi. The stamp set was Altenew Magnolias For Her and the sentiment is from Young At Heart SOA

I think I have a thing for Gansai Tambi and Altenew since this and the next card are done with Gansai Tambi. This stamp set is Beautiful Day.

and this one is Golden Garden.

This card was done with Inktense pencils, the stamp is Ellen Hutson's Mondo Hydrangea and the sentiment is from Hero Arts Acts of Kindness.

Hero Arts Colored Layering Bird And Branch watercolored with Tim Holtz Distress Ink.

My last card is Altenews Wild Hibiscus watercolored with Zig Real Color markers.

Be sure to check out the other girls blogs, they have some beautiful cards and projects to share. You will find their links at the bottom.

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1. Laura- http://www.lauralscott.com/llc3/
2. Deana-http://www.designcreativelybling.com/2016/02/lauras-loft-absolutly-inspiring.html
3. Jasmine- http://journeywithjasmine.blogspot.com/2016/02/lauras-loft-challenge-watercolor.html
4. Emma- http://heartofcraft.blogspot.com/2016/02/watercolour-challenge-with-lauras-loft.htm
5. Noe- http://elscrapdecrisynoe.blogspot.com/2016/02/lauras-loft-february-challenge.html
6. Debbie- http://debbielovestocraft.blogspot.com/2016/02/lauras-loft-february-watercolor.html
7. Valentina - http://valentinascrap.blogspot.com/2016/02/february-challenge-dt-lauras-loft.html
8. Lisa - http://royalpumpkinart.blogspot.com/2016/02/watercolor-new-challenge-with-lauras.html

Ellen Hutson Mondo Poinsettia and distress ink watercoloring

 I have fallen in love with Ellen Hutsons Mondo Poinsettia set. I took a piece of Cannon cold press water color paper and cut it into quarters the taped it down to my work surface leaving a 4x5.25 work area.

                                                                                                                    I then chose antique linen, evergreen bough, pine needles, peeled paint, and forest moss from the Tim Holtz distress inks to stamp and watercolor my images. I used peeled paint first and dabbed it in the center of the flower then carefully added antique linen to the petals and stamped it on the watercolor paper. I did the same thing twice more but wiped away the ink that would overlap my previous image from the stamp before stamping it. Since the stamps are clear you just hold it above where you want it and wipe off a little at a time till you see it won't overlap what you already have. The next step is using the same colors to watercolor your images. I pressed my stamp pad on an acrylic block and add a couple drops of water from my aqua brush. Picking up some of the color I painted where I wanted my shading first then went back an spread the color to the rest of the petals so they would be lighter.i did add just a tad of forest moss to the peeled paint to get my shading color. It's important to let areas that touch dry before painting next to them. After my flowers dried I painted the background using evergreen bough and a little pine needles. I cut my gold frame using blueprints 25 then blueprints 13 frame dies out of  MFT gold shine card stock. Joy was cut from the same paper using Lawn Fawns Scripty Joy. Last but not least I added Little Things from Lucy's cards Caribbean Dream sequins.

Watercolor with Distress inks and whimsical flowers

I really loved how this turned out.
Starting with Strathmore 140lb cold press watercolor paper I started stamping my images from the Altenew set Whimsical Flowers I colored the center with a wild honey Tim Holtz Distress marker and dabbed salty ocean around the petals. I then stamped it in the center of the paper. As I worked I used my water brush to paint each flower and blend the colors sometimes touching my brush to the ink pad if I needed a little more color. I created a mask for each stamp used with masking paper. Using the mask I stamp the rest if the images painting them as I went. It is very important to let each area you work up against dry to keep the colors from mixing and bleeding. The leaves are stamped and painted in peeled paint. The Sentiment is from Essentials by Ellen Mondo Magnolia and stamped in Tom Holtz Black Soot. Thanks so much for stopping in.

Hello Altenew Painted Flowers

There are few times when you ,yourself look at your work and are completely satisfied. This is one of those times for me. I wasn't sure of my layout, which isn't unusual for me, so I just went with it. What I did know was I wanted to use my new Altenew Painted flowers set and Tim Holtz Distress Inks. I choose my flowers and created mask with masking paper. The inked I used were shaded lilac, crushed olive picked rasberry, abandoned coral and black soot for my sentiment. The first flower was the lilac one in the middle. I applied the lilac to the petals and crushed olive to the leaves. After stamping the image in the upper center I painted it with a water brush. I did each flower the same way using the mask as needed. Some of the leaves I drew in along with all the curly qs with a crushed olive distress marker. My sentiment is stamped in black soot and is from Essentials by Ellen Mondo Magnolia.  Thank you for stopping in, it's my pleasure to share.

My Favorite Things Meets PageMaps

My cardstock mostly came from American crafts summer 6x6 paper pad. Using My Favorite Things Die-namics Blueprints 25 to cut the red swiss polka dot cardstock.  I then used Ellen Hutsons Folk Heart dies and My Favorite Thing Pierced Heart Stax to cut and in lay the hearts. I took a piece of white ribbon and tied it around one side of the large heart. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things  All My Love and embossed with ranger detail white embossing powder. I decided to add the three buttons for a little something extra.

MFT Sketch Challenge 223 and Color challenge

I made this card for the MFT Sketch Challenge and decided to use the color challenge color selection. I started off by stamping the Simply Circles background stamp in Nightshift Blue on cream cardstock and cut it out with the blue prints 15 stitched rectangle. The summer splash was die cut with the Stitched Circle Frame Die-namics. The star was cut from the Pierced Star Stax Die-namics. The sentiment and hippo image are from Ellen Hutson Wish Big by Julie stamp set. I love the cards youthful masculine  flair.

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sketch challenge 223

Ellen Hutson Bold Blooms By Julie Thank You Card

I had a lot of fun creating this card in between rounds at the race track. I used Ellen Hutsons Bold Blooms and Bold Blossoms by Julie. Color box white pigment ink was stamped on craft cardstock. All other stamping was done using Stampin' Up Soft Suede.

Thank You Card using Ellen Hutson Bold Blooms By Julie