Hello Everyone! Hope you are enjoying your start to spring! Have you had a chance to play along with Newton's Nook Designs' Inky Paws Challenge #19 - Watercolor yet?
I decided to dust off my watercolor crayons and pencils and create this 'I'm Sorry!' card using NND's Holiday Hounds (pup), Naughty Newton (sentiments), and Newton's Antics (paw prints):
First I colored the solid paw print images in brown watercolor crayon and swirled the wax around with a waterbrush and stamped on the WC cardstock to give the impression of muddy paw prints tracked across the floor. I thought they needed a little more definition so I stamped the outline paw print image over them. Then I stamped the doxie and colored him in using WC pencils & a waterbrush and added the sentiments. Then I created a mat with my favorite paw print border using an EK Success edger punch. I can't recall whether the background DP came from Michaels or HL, sorry!
Hope you like my card, and hope you will get a chance to play along with NND's Inky Paws Challenge - it runs until April 9th and you could win a gift certificate to the NND store too if you're lucky - good luck!
Thanks for stopping by!
~ Crafty Math Chick
Hello Friends & Followers! I hope you have had a good weekend! Those of you who follow my blog know I tend not to use watercolors much, but when I saw Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday Challenge 158 to stamp with watercolor mediums I broke out my watercolor crayons, Out on a Limb- Revised & Out on a Limb Sentiments sets and gave it a whirl with this sympathy card:
I used watercolor crayons in chocolate chip for the branch and pale plum & perfect plum for the blooms but I think I used a little too much water in my watercolor brush and washed them out a bit too much, they have a pretty soft quality IRL, but they are a little difficult to even see in this picture. I really like how this came out though, I think I am going to make a bunch more, perhaps in other colors, so that I have them on hand in the unfortunate event they are needed as sympathy cards can be difficult to make on the spot if you know what I mean.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great week!~ Crafty Math Chick
