Watercoloring with distress inks on Fizzy Moon stamps

A little coloring done for The Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge. I tried out some stamps from Fizzy Moon and colored them in with Distress Inks.

Congrats on a new home

I saw this idea as one of the mentions at the Lawnfawnatics blog and thought I had to create something similar for our neighbors who are moving to a new place.

I cut the little town border from white cardstock and also from some patterned paper from Doodlebug and replaced one of the houses with a more colorful front. I cut the grass from some green paper with a simple stitched hillside border. The sky is Lawn Fawn watercolor wishes paper and the cloud comes from their Plane and simple stamp set. I just love the little faces on the clouds, their adorable. Been using them a lot lately. The little butterfly comes from a My Favorite things stamp set (with the cute little elephant). The colorful mats are cut with Hero arts basic rectangles. The sentiment is Lawn Fawn, heat embossed in white.

Best of luck in your new digs!

Light up the holidays - take 2

I made a second version of this shaker card (Light up the holidays - take 1). I colored the exact same way, the differences are;

• different background
• kitty and snowy hill are mounted inside the shaker
• different kind of sequins

(see the card shake on Instagram)

Challenge
Inky Paws challenge -  Using polka dots (the snowfall get to double for polka dots here *smile*)

Light up the holidays - take 1

I had the idea for this card in my head since I got that Lawn Fawn leafy tree backdrop die quite some time ago. Now it finally came into fruition.

I  colored the kitty with distress inks Scattered straw and Wild honey. The lights are colored with Zig clean color real brush markers. I haven't been able to get them to work very well lately. I have tried several watercolor papers but can't really get the color to move. So, I went back to distress inks which worked as I wanted. The lights in the trees are cut from the kitty image (just remove the kitty) and placed in the tree.

(See the shaker in action on Instagram)

I cut the tree out of plain white cardstock and I used a patterned paper from Panduro as the backdrop. The snow is a Lawn Fawn stitched hillside border. The sentiment is white heat embossed on black cardstock cut with flag ends.

I cut a piece of transparency in A2 size and then mounted the hill, frame, kitty and lights on top of that. Then flipped it around to add doubled up foam tape. I used a power tool on the sides so that the sequins and stars would stick as little as possible to the sides. I placed all the shaker material inside the frame, removed the release paper and placed the background on top.


Challenge
Inky Paws challenge -  Using polka dots (the hearts get to double for polka dots here *smile*)
Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

You are jawsome

Playing with Lawn Fawn miniset You are jawsome. The shark and fish are colored with Zig clean color real brush markers. The background is heat embossed with Nuvo glitter embossing powder and then watercolored with distress inks Chipped sapphire, Blueprint sketch and Salty ocean.

There were more glitter initially on the card before I started to watercolor it so I might have to think of a different way to add that embossing powder. The cool thing is that the powder melts clear and just the glitter shows. So the color is actually the color of cardstock underneath. Something to keep in mind (I noticed it while I tried to heat emboss the same powder on the sentiment and the text wouldn't show up *big smile*)

The panel is die cut with a Lawn Fawn stitched rectangle and then added with foam tape to a cardbase that has a mat of rainbow plaid paper, also that from Lawn Fawn.

Challenge
Lawn Fawnatics - Cards for kids

Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge - Anything goes

Daily marker challenge on Instagram

I decided to put my coloring for The Daily Marker coloring challenge on Instagram. Just easier to post that way. If you want to have a look, check it out here;
https://www.instagram.com/melfving76/

30 day coloring challenge - 8th edition

Tomorrow starts the Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge. I'll be joining and hoping to advance just a teeny tiny bit by seeing all the wonderful work of the other people in the community.

You can share either directly on the blog, the link above or on a private Facebook group or Instagram by using #thedailymarker30day. If you want to involve your kids or grandkids, you can post under #thedailymarker30daykids. I think my 5-year old daughter will be very interested to join me.

The past couple of days she has been enjoying to finally try ink blending with mommy's extensive collection of Distress Inks. One very happy little lady;