Flower Cluster Art Journal Page

 Hi Everybody,

Hope all are doing well and keeping sane in these tough times. Today I have a soft and serene looking layout page from my art journal for you. Here it is!

Here is how I went about doing this layout

• I prepped the base with clear gesso and then did a light wash of watercolors and let it dry.
• I then took a stampset of flowers and framed the layout with flowers on the borders
• I stamped a single rose in the center and stamped my focal point sentiment from a Kaisercraft stampset. 
• I colored in the focal point stamped image using watercolor pencils so that it stands out from the rest of the flowers on the border.
• Finished the page with a few gem drops.

Do let me know how you like it and how it has turned out. Your comments are what motivates me to keep making these!

Entering these to the below challenges:

1. Crabbie moments- Anything Goes
2. SplashyMix Challenge Moodboad: Inspiration is the flowers on the moodboard
3. Chocolate Baroque - Anything Goes
4. Butterfly reflections Ink - October Moodboard

SunBurst Making Rainbow card

Hi all!
I am sharing a simple card today that I made using some masking and water coloring techniques over the stamps.

First I masked off half f the card vertically and added washi tapes in a sunburst pattern. i added distress and memento inks and sponged the areas to give a rainbow effect. Once this was done , in the clear space i stamped some open and closed umbrellas and colored them using watercolors. Finally added a sun pee[ing behind the clouds and added the sentiment.

Linking this to the following challenges:

1: A Blog named Hero 

2. Sisters of Craft : Anything goes

3. Pile it on: Create your background

4. Peek-a-boo : Color Inspiration:

5. Happy Little Stampers: Masking

6. Penny Black and More: Anything goes with Stamp

7. Stamping Sensation : ANything goes

8. Ranganjali : Favourite technique masking

Mommy to be!

Hi, Pals!
First up, wishing you a very happy friendship day and hope everyone had a great time. Today I am sharing a quick card that I made . I just randomly picked up a stamp set and went crazy with it. Here it is first.

I stamped the focal image on the centre of the card and added all the text sentiments around it to create a text background. The stamp set is from Craftscrappers owned by Konica Das! Do check out the wonderful and affordable collection that she has.

I have colored the entire focal image using plain color pencils. For the background I created a two tone background in pink and blue to help keep the gender surprise for the mommy. I have given random strokes to keep the background a bit uneven. I think I like this better than a clean one!!

Here is another closer look.

Here is the stampset that I have used.

Linking it to the beow challenges
1. Word Art Wednesday  :Anything goes

2. Paru's Card making challenges: FAMILY:

3. Love to create: Anything goes:

4: Incy Wincy: Anything goes

5. Sisters of Craft : Anything goes

Let me know how it turned out guys.

Watercolored Flower using Distress Inks

Hi crafty friends!
I have been wanting to try watercoloring using distress inks for some time now and finally got around to doing it. I am sharing a loose watercolor painting using Mini DI kit #1

Watercolored flower using Distress Inks [Kit #1]

First I sketched a hibiscus flower roughly and started layering colors. I have used spiced marmalade, mustard seed and picked raspberry for the flower and a combination of mustard seed and peacock feathers for the leaves and stems.
Then once I was happy with the basic coloring added some definitions to the outlines and strokes using some watercolor pencils.

I fuzzy cut the image and mounted it onto another CS and then layered it onto another panel.[Not visible in the pic though]

Let me know how it is guys!!

Linking it to below:

ICR's anything goes with flowers :

Happy painting guys!!!!
Uma