Posts

Showing posts with the label foxes

Trick or Treat

Image
 Friends. This might be my favorite stamp set we are showcasing this week. Its called Fox Costumes Before & Afters. It would be perfect and so fun to use with the Magic Picture Changer interactive die. Or, how I used it today just a regular schmegular card. To start, I created a background of purple and orange clouds. It magical and festive. Its also Lawn Fawn and 2020 so there are no rules. The critters were stamped in jet black ink, colored in with copic markers and then fussy cut out. The sentiment was stamped and then the critters were adhered above with foam adhesive. To embellish purple twine was added.  The Lawn Fawn design team, created some incredible samples with this stamp set, be sure to visit the blog to see them all!

Magical Christmas

Image
Watercoloring can be very intimidating, even for me. But the more I watercolor using good brushes, and watercolor pans, and a watercolor I like, the more it becomes muscle memory.  Using the same materials each time, dramatically helps with consistent results (for me). I began this card by creating a rectangle water wash onto the watercolor. Then dipping into a blue ink, creating a blue background, which is considered a wet on wet technique.  Once dry the snowflakes were stamped on top in a navy ink, and the sentiments were stamped in black ink. Using the same watercolor paper, the foxes from the Winter Skies Stamp set were stamped in black ink onto a separate piece of paper, and then water colored in using, sepia, brown and orange tones.  You cannot tell in the photo but a shimmer watercolor was added to the scarves to make them sparkle. Once dry the foxes were cut out and adhered to the panel using foam adhesive.  The panel was then adhered to navy blue ...