BLOG HOP: The 30 Day Color Challenge

Welcome to Day 2 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge Blog Hop. Kathy Racoosin from The Daily Marker wants to share her love of coloring with you. Today Kathy has assembled a blog hop to give your creativity a jump start with some of the stops that will be on The Coloring Challenge Road Trip & her favorite OnLine Card Classes.

The premise of The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge is to color something every day, even if it’s just for five minutes - however feel free to jump in or out as time permits - and any coloring medium is welcomed. It’s been proven that coloring can lower your blood pressure & make you feel happy and relaxed so it’s worth carving out a little time for yourself each day. You will find that Kathy encourages you along the way to stretch your creativity a little bit more and to feel successful with your coloring.

Click here to check out Day 1 and get all of the details on ways to participate, share your work and be inspired by all of those participating.

And if you have any questions about The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge you can refer to this post.

Blog Hop

You should have arrived here from the always fun Lawn Fawn.

For this round of the 30 Day Color Challenge, I am challenging myself to do a series of floral studies. The goal is to do a different flower each day in varying mediums. Some may span several days and some may be very quick, depending on how in depth I decide to get with each one. I decided to start with traditional roses.

I thought I would give you all a kind of behind-the-scenes look at my process. Most of our stamps start with hand illustrated sketches, so I turned on the camera and thought I'd share some of it with you guys - from simple sketch to full shading. I hope you enjoy!

Watch above or watch in HD at YouTube

The next stop on the hop is the one and only Debby Hughes!

Giveaway

So, will you be participating in The 30 Day Color Challenge? Let me know in the comments below by 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday, September 8, 2017. I will select one random winner who will win a $50 store credit to wplus9.com. Perfect to use on our upcoming September 2017 Release coming later this month!

You will find lots of generous giveaways along the hop. The full list of ALL winners from the individual blogs will be announced on Kathy's blog on Tuesday September 12th. (check each blog for the specifics of their giveaway)

Birthday Wishes Watercolor Pattern Card w/Yana

Hello friends! This is Yana and I hope you are having a fabulous week!

Today I’m sharing how to quickly stamp a custom pattern for a Birthday card using images from the Big Deal & Big Deal Additions stamp sets and also how to easily watercolor them using the wet-on-wet watercolor technique.

I picked 3 images to stamp my pattern - a hippo, a lion and unicycle and stamped them repeatedly and in the same order using black ink waterproof. You can easily stamp patterns like this one using multitude of various images; for a pattern like this I would recommend you go with images that are about the same size. The lion here is a bit taller but not so tall as to distort my pattern.

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Depending on how you want to color your pattern later you'll need to pick appropriate type of paper and ink for your stamping. Since I wanted to watercolor I went with Arches Hot Pressed watercolor paper and Versafine Onyx Black ink which is a waterproof ink.

I also heat embossed my pattern after stamping in clear embossing powder to make watercolor process go a bit faster. The razed embossed edge serves as a barrier when watercoloring different sections and allows to color faster.

If you are not into coloring, you can heat emboss or stamp this pattern onto colored cardstock or maybe even strips of colored cardstock and have a colorful background composed of colored cardstock blocks and maybe white or black stamped images, so you don't have to color a pattern if you don't enjoy coloring.

I used Daniel Smith watercolors to color these, I am still using my Dot Chart (I describe it in detail in this video here - be sure to watch it if you are not familiar with these watercolors ) and did very simple wet on wet coloring. I wet my image with a brush and clean water first, next came in with some pigment and added it to the sections I wanted to be darkest on my image.

After my coloring was done I trimmed my panel and adhered it onto an A2 top folding card base. I also added a white heat embossed sentiment that reads “Birthday Wishes to The Greatest Person on Earth” and added black enamel dots to complete this project.

I’d like encourage you to pick a few critter images of similar size and stamp a quick pattern. Color it or go with colored cardstock instead and just have fun creating!

Have fun stamping!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list contains affiliate links.

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Watercolor Ranunculus Two Ways with Kelly

Hello Crafters! When I started out with today's card my goal was to do really simple watercoloring to show you how easy it is to achieve beautiful results with minimal effort. The effort was so minimal in fact, I ended up with two cards. Ha!

The clean and simple card was where I started and it was just as simple as I envisioned it. I really just dropped color over my white heat embossing and let it dry. BAM. Beautiful card. It helps when you're starting out with such amazing stamps!

After I finished the first card, I had all this gorgeous Distress Ink that I was about to waste by just wiping it away. Sounds almost blasphemous right? I decided that I could at least swoop some water color paper through it and have a piece to practice my hand lettering.

Instead I ended up with a background that I really loved. Since I already had all the pieces and parts out, it took no time at all to do a bit more heat embossing to create my second card.

You can watch both cards from start to finish in the video below.

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I love how both cards use all the same products but are two completely different styles. Versatile stamps are something we can all use.

Thanks so much for visiting!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list may contain some affiliate links.

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