Happy birthday for my family guys - 4 cards

Saturday October 10, 2020

Hello..

 I have two family grown up male birthdays in Oct. and two more in Nov. so I decided to do a painting similar to how I did some cards some months back.. this time I just did blue/green/gold in brush width lines.. I am not sure if I like this as much as the ones I did before where it was more of a wash of colors. But I think for guys it's going to work out.. I used Shin Han water colors and Kuretake gold then did the circles and black foliage with Fabre Castell brush pens. The sentiments are from Simon Says and Paper Pretties. I cut them down to about 4 x 5.25 and added to a white card base. My hubby likes them so I think they are male approved. 

card #1 for Samson Jr.

                                                                           card #2 for Samson

card #3 Trey

                                                                             card #4 for Jeff

                                             

Challenges:

Word art Wednesday wk. 460-461 - anything goes (all 4 cards)

Scrapping 4 fun #177 - two words (card #1)

A gem of a challenge wk. 21 - anything goes (cards #1, #2, #3)

 

Thank you, Sending a bouquet, thinking of you, with sympathy

Thursday August 13, 2020

I have four cards to share.. I saw this on U-tube over at Creations Cee Cee.. I love watching her paint and her ideas. When I saw her create cards like the ones I pretty much copied below.. I had to try it. 

You take a 9 X 12 watercolor paper and divide it into quarters with painters tape. and tape around the edges.  Then where you want your sentiment to be once it's done add a piece of Washi tape.  Then you figure out a few colors which I did purple, green, blue. (which is pretty much what Cee Cee did) You just swish your colors on the paper making sure to just leave it lose. and leave lots of white area. I did that. Then once it was dry I took some liquid gold and added a couple swishes and dots.. not much but just a tad bit. I then let it dry. I took a Micron pen and drew the stems and leaves. I used a Fabre Castell brush pen and filled in the leaves. (again I pretty much copied hers.. I have no imagination..) I added some black dots. I set it aside to dry. Once it was dry I cut them down using my paper trimmer. I then took Simons Says sentiments and added to the area where the Washi tape was. I adhered them to my card base.. The first two I did the liquid adhesive made the ink bleed on the sentiment so I had to re-stamp the sentiment on white paper and added over the messed up sentiment. So the next two I adhered I kept the adhesive out of the sentiment area.  I love these and plan to do again. I might make some as Christmas presents and figure out my own design.. or maybe not.. 

            Card 1                                                           Card 2

  

                                                            
                          Card 3                                                  Card 4

 Challenges:

Dragonfly dreams August - anything goes (all 4 cards)

Try it on Tuesday - words or numbers (all 4 cards)
Creative fingers #191 - anything goes (3 cards)
Crafting happiness #61 - anything goes (all 4 cards)
Word art Wednesday week 452-453 - anything goes (all 4 cards)
Simon Wednesday - mid summer blues (all 4 cards)
Lil red wagon #562 - good bye (card #4)
Time out #165 - photo inspiration (the colors - all 4 cards)
Cute card Thursday #647 - bright colors (all 4 cards)