Doodled Flowers

 

Welcome

Something a bit different for me today.

On Friday night, I like to watch Vicki Boutin's live classes.  They are free and lots of fun.

Last week, she showed us how to make simple, doodled flowers.

I decided to give it a go and this is what I came up with.

So here's what I did to create my card. 

• I began by making these doodled flowers...very simple to do.  I used a Pigma waterproof pen to doodle the flowers...that part is important as I wanted to watercolour them.  Check to see if your pen is waterproof before you start to paint them.
• After I drew a few I was happy with, I started to paint them.  I used Vicki Boutin's Art Crayons to do that.  I rubbed the orange and pink crayon onto a piece of acetate, sprayed with water and picked up the wet ink with a paintbrush to add to my flowers.  
• I dried the flowers a bit, then stamped over them with the Friends Script stamp using some Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide ink.  I inked up the stamp and then stamped off onto some scrap paper as not to overwhelm the look of the flowers with heavy stamping.  The script added a lot of interest.
• Next, I drew some leaf shapes and watercoloured them using the Art Crayons again in greens.
• I splattered them all with my white and black Posca pens and set aside to dry.
• I started looking through my stash of previously made backgrounds and came across this one.  It was done on the Gel Plate using some pink acrylic paint and this super stencil from ACLD called Messy Dot Grid.  I thought the colour worked well with the flowers.
• The flowers were now dry, so I fussy cut them out with the leaves.  
• I placed the stenciled background into my Misti and stamped the sentiment in the corner.
• I curled the flowers and leaves a bit, then arranged them with pop dots onto my card front.
• I glued the finished panel onto a piece of pink cardstock, then onto a white card base and added some small black gems to the flower centers.
• Finished card is 5 1/2 x 4 1/4".

Here is the stencil I used:

Messy Dot Grid

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Alphabet Challenge- 'B' FOR BLOOM

Cut it Up- APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS

Supplies

Stamps- Enjoy the Moment (Daisy Bucket-no longer available); Friends Script (HA)

Inks- Vicki Boutin Art Crayons; DOX inks; Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ontario)

Accessories and Tools- Pigma marker; Posca pens; Basics Acrylic paint; 

Messy Dot stencil (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); black gems

Your Precious Soul

Welcome

For today's card, I decided to pull out this older stamp from Penny Black called Together.

I haven't used it for so long.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by looking through my stash of inked backgrounds.  This one was done using the Geometric stencil from ACLD.  I had used it to stencil another card with Distress Oxide inks.  When I went to clean off the stencil, I saw how much ink remained on it, so I pulled out a white card base and cleaned off the stencil onto that using a baby wipe.  It transferred the colour right onto the cardstock giving a more subtle, soft look to the inking.
• I took the stenciled panel and placed it into my Misti and positioned the flowers along the side edge.  
• I coloured directly onto the stamp using my Tombow markers in pink first, sprayed with water and pressed onto the panel.  I repeated that process using some red next just in a few places and not all over coloured.
• I used some green for the stems as well.
• When I was happy with the inking, I moved the stamp down to ink the last flower at the bottom.
• I used my white and black Posca pen to splatter just over the flowers, then set aside to dry.
• When it was all dry, I placed it back into my Misti to stamp the sentiment.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of orange cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.

Here is the stencil I used:

Geometric

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Adding my card to these challenges:

Challenge Up Your Life- SPLATTERS

Inkspirational- WATERCOLOR

The Creative Crafters- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Together (Penny Black); Be Still (Impression Obsession)

Inks- Tombow Watercolour Markers; Distress Oxide, Versafine Clair

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Geometric stencil (ACLD); Misti (My Sweet Petunia);

baby wipe; Posca pens

Many Smiles

Happy Saturday!

Today, I'm having some fun with this great Paint Strokes stencil from ACLD inked up with happy colours of Distress Oxide inks.

So many possibilities using it too.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I cut a piece of white cardstock that was 3 3/4" x 5" first.  I wanted my card to be simple with a clean white border around it, so I placed one of the Marvelous Rectangle Masks from ACLD over my cardstock that masked off an area in the center of my card panel.
• I used the Paint Strokes stencil in a random way, placing it onto the panel and inking some of the strokes from the top and some going up from the bottom all within the rectangle mask.  Here are the colours I used in order from left to right:  Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed and Picked Raspberry.
• When I was happy with the inking, I splattered using my white Posca pen.
• When the ink was dry, I die cut the sentiment outline from the middle of the panel and the word part from some white cardstock, then glued them together.
• I used my ScorPal board to score a border around the inked area after removing the rectangle mask.  It really helped to frame it up and gave some more visual interest.
• I glued the stenciled piece onto some blue cardstock, then onto a heavy white card base.
• I pop dot mounted the sentiment back into place in the center and glued on the white heart.

Here is the stencil and masks I used:

Paint Strokes

Marvelous Masks Rectangles

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress Oxides

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- stencils and masks (ACLD); ScorPal; Posca pen;

Sending Smiles die- (Simon Says)