Watercolor Weekend

 Hello and Welcome!!!

So this weekend I got to take a big four-day weekend!!!

Most of the weekend I crafted...surprise, surprise! LOL!!!

I had the watercolor bug...

mostly from watching YouTube videos of 

various people doing this same technique.

So no, I did not come up with this...

Please check out YouTube to help you out even more.

 So I tape my watercolor paper down to my cutting sheet.

Don't put it directly to wood since you will be adding a lot of water to it.

 Here I have a laminated piece of paper that I put some

Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber Distress Inks.

I learned the laminated piece of paper from Kristina Werner, thank you!

 I have now added a lot of plain water to the piece of watercolor paper.

 Now on to the coloring.

I have the Fossilized Amber on top and the Spiced Marmalade on the bottom.

With the water and the way Distress inks are, they blend beautifully.

I then took a paper towel to get some of the pools of water off.

I took a sprayer and sprayed some water, 

then taking it off with the towel as well.

This takes some of the ink off the paper leaving drops of white.

Then I took a heat tool to the paper and dried it completely.

 Here I took some of my mica powders that I have had for a bazillion years...

added water to them on a brush and tapped away 

to leave dots of the color all over.

 I let this dry a bit and took my heat tool to it again to make sure it was dry.

 I hope you can see how much this shimmers from the mica powders.

(As always, you can click on any picture to make the item bigger)

 So here's what I did with the background I created.

I added some sequins and glossy accents.

I also added a 'hello' die that I glittered up with some gold.

Here's a close up of the glittery goodness!!!

 On this card, I used my watercolor pencils for the first time!

I tried laying color down first then using my brush,

but I eventually like the control of using my brush on the pencil then going to the image much better.

Thanks for that tip Julia Altermann.

 Here's a close up of the image.

If I do say so myself, not bad! LOL!!!

 On this card I used three different blue distress inks 

and some blue mica powders.

 On this one, I used the same colors as the first...

Orange Marmalade and Fossilized Amber.

I then stamped with Versafine and embossed,

which I would have done first, but it is such a detailed stamp.

Then put a bunch of Enamel dots.

 Here's a close up of the stamping.

 This one I went from light blue, to medium blue to purple.

I then again glittered a die cut per Jennifer McGuire.

I also added sequins and glossy accents.

 Here's a close up of the glitter goodness again!

 I made two of the gold hello die cuts,

so I added it to this card that I threw together 

with some items I colored with pencils a while ago and had no home.

 My hello shaker card!

Sheesh, I don't know how many times I messed this one up while creating it!

But finally, it is done and I love how it came out.

A close up on the shaker part.

I used my Wink of Stella pen to the hello die cut to give it a bit of shimmer.

So I know I did a lot of name dropping in this post,

but I do feel that I should give credit to the incredible people

that share their expertise on their blogs and their 

YouTube Channels (which I am addicted to).

There are so many talented crafters that I follow

and try to create along with and am so grateful that they put

themselves and their creations out there for me to get some great ideas from.

Thank you!

I also tried my hand at a new manicure...and it's all made with a dotting tool!

Thanks to Nicole at NailPolishWars!

It's called Interlocking I believe and it looks way harder than it is.

Here's a close up.

So glad that Fall is on it's way...

darker colors on my nails is something I love.

Well, I hope that you all enjoyed your 

Labor Day weekend here in the United States.

I know I did and hate that I have to go back to work.

I can't wait to retire and keep myself busy with creating 24 hours a day!!!

Take care and thank you so much for visiting!!!