Expanding ideas

Sometimes a card format is too confining with design ideas. I wanted to use this stamp but because of its size it would have left little room for anything else. This size could be framed instead of a small card. The background is a stamp put down a number of times to fill the space. The next layer is a circle stencil that I modified to be longer.than my sentiment and leaf dies that I cut from watercolored paper.

Cutie witch and friends

I love these guys , so much fun to create with. I heat embossed a background stamp than layered a nice simple die. I watercolored the images with Zig clean color markers. I added birch tree dies and heat embossed the sentiment on vellum. I am pleased with the result. Textured layers with the cute images. I think the watercoloring adds to that texture.

Beautiful pattern paper

I have wanted to use this paper for a while. I think it is very pretty. So I tried with some die cut flowers. I’m not very happy with the result. Next time I will use smaller elements. It’s all experimentation.

Vellum and Halloween

I wanted to try putting the sentiment on vellum. I really like the translucent aspect. The challenge is to find a way to hide the adhesive.

Coloring fall cards

I used clean color brush markers for the middle image and than blended a little with a brush. The image on the left I used Koi brush markers. They don’t blend with a brush so I am not as happy with it. I did use some watercolor for there faces. I might just use watercolor for the third one.

Stamping

 Stamping is usually not the main technique I use in a project. In both of these it turned out that way. I love the teardrop shape and wanted to use it like a geometric design element.

Texture

I am pretty happy with the outcome of these projects. I feel like I am getting l bit closer to having my on style. I love the many ways you can get texture and the simple geometric shapes can ground the images into an idea.

Halloween

Halloween is my favorite holiday if you can't tell by looking at my blog. Therefore I have a hard time stopping making projects to work on something else. But the ideas keep coming and I can't help it. The little bat girl I could not resist.