Papertrey Ink March 2018 Blog Hop

I decided to play along with Papertrey Ink's March 2018 Blog Hop Challenge using a card I made during a paper crafting morning with some friends.

I love the flowers in the Gran's Garden set and inked them up in some of my favorite spring colors.

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink: Gran's Garden Stamp Set and Dies

Papertrey Ink: Bigger Blooms - Happy Birthday Sentiment

My Favorite Things: Striped Sentiment Strip Cover-up die

Stamp Pads:

Papertrey Ink Hibiscus Burst

Papertrey Ink New Leaf

Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz

Stampin Up Daffodil Delight

Stampin Up Pumpkin Pie

Versafine Onyx Black

March Cardmaking Day

Every other month or so my daughter-in-law and I along with another friend get together to make cards. We each choose a design of our choice, make a sample and prep enough supplies so everyone can make three of each. It's a lovely way to spend a Saturday morning, visiting, sharing snacks and having a nice assortment of cards to show for our efforts.

These were my creations from this month's get together:

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink: Botanical Silhouettes Stamp Set

Stamp Pads:

Papertrey Ink Bright Buttercup

Papertrey Ink Green Parakeet

Papertrey Ink Hawaiian Shores

Papertrey Ink Lavender Moon

Papertrey Ink Pale Peony

Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink: Gran's Garden Stamp Set and Dies

Papertrey Ink: Bigger Blooms - Happy Birthday Sentiment

My Favorite Things: Striped Sentiment Strip Cover-up die

Stamp Pads:

Papertrey Ink Hibiscus Burst

Papertrey Ink New Leaf

Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz

Stampin Up Daffodil Delight

Stampin Up Pumpkin Pie

Versafine Onyx Black

Supplies:

Papertrey Ink: Sending You Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink: Fancy Flourishes Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink: Year of Flowers: Violet dies

Papertrey Ink: Framed Out #3 Stamp Set and die

Darice Embossing Folder: Checkerboard

Papertrey Ink Stamp Pads:

Dark Chocolate

Plum Pudding

Royal Velvet

Tropical Teal

Here are a few variants of the above projects:

One less small flower bloom in this design.

Enchanted Evening instead of Royal Velvet Ink on small flower

Green Parakeet Cardstock instead of Bright Buttercup

Thank You Sentiment

Stamper's Select White Cardstock

Easter Sentiment from Papertrey Ink Take Three: Spring

Congratulations on New Home Card

This is a congratulations card for a co-worker who is moving into a new home.  I followed the Art Impressions Watercolor Wednesday Tutorial #27 - Bright Cottage, except I used #15 Olive Green for the trees and grass and also brushed in a sky.  Because I wanted to personalize the card, I added in the signpost (also from Series 8 - Set 2).

Supplies

Stamp Sets

#4035 - Art Impressions Project Series 8 - Set 2

#4051 - Art Impressions Foliage Set
#4052 - Art Impressions Flower Set 1
Sentiment from Papertrey Boards & Beams
(Congratulations on Your New Home)

Marvy LePlume II Markers

#15 - Olive Green

#29 - Prussian Blue

#45 - Sepia
#48 - Leaf Green
#79 - Grape

#86 - African Violet

Other Supplies

Art Impressions Stamp Positioner

Art Impressions Watercolor Palette

Art Impressions Watercolor Brush #4

Papetrey New Leaf Carstock

Strathmore Watercolor Paper

Acrylic Blocks

Art Impressions Challenge 217 - Watercolor Wonders - Happy Mail

This is my second entry for the Art Impressions Watercolor Wonders Challenge.

I thought I would challenge myself to create a project without benefit of following along with one of the Art Impressions' Watercolor Wednesday tutorials, however I did use the instructions in the Project Series 5 booklet. I think I'm still at the follow along with the tutorial stage.   (Supplies listed below.)

I couldn't locate my Molotow Masking Liquid until after I started my project, so I just left some open spaces when adding the green background and vines so I'd have some white space available when I added the flowers..

Take aways from this project - I'm still overworking the sky and I need to improve my shadowing when adding color from the palette. I also lost some of my lines when I stamped the image (not enough ink on the stamp pad and overworking things when pulling color from the lines.)

I still have a long way to go, but even seeing all of the areas for improvement, the final product still makes me happy.

Supplies

Stamp Sets

#4058 - Art Impressions Project Series 5 - Set 1

#4052 - Art Impressions Foliage Set

Papertrey Keep It Simple Happy Mail

Marvy LePlume II Markers

#8 - Violet

#15 - Olive Green

#28 - English Red

#29 - Prussian Blue

#40 - Brownish Grey

#43 - Brilliant Yellow

#45 - Sepia

#86 - African Violet

Other Supplies

Art Impressions Watercolor Palette

Art Impressions Watercolor Brush #4

Watercolor the Art Impressions Way - Project Series 5 Booklet

Strathmore Watercolor Paper

http://artimpressions.com/

Art Impressions Challenge 217 - Watercolor Wonders

This is my first blog post as well as my first time participating in an Art Impressions Challenge.

Watercolor Wonders

I love the little bunnies in the Art Impressions Bunnies set and thought the Watercolor Wednesday tutorial #62 - Stump with Bunny would make an adorable tag to accompany some Easter treats for my co-workers.

I am still a newbie when it comes to watercoloring the Art Impressions way, or watercoloring any way for that matter, so I'll be following Bonnie's tutorials before I branch out too far on my own.

Please pardon the photo quality too.  I'm still trying to find the best lighting to avoid shadows.

I created six "paintings", die cut them with Spellbinders dies and mounted them on patterned paper.
(supply list below)

I stamped an Easter sentiment on the back, accented with the long stem flowers used on the main image.

Supplies:

Art Impression Sets

http://artimpressions.com/

#4874-WC - Bunnies

#4868-WC - Flower Set 2

#4051 - Foliage Set 1

#4867-WC - Foliage Set 2 New

#4871-WC - Rustic Containers

Marvy LePlume II Markers

#6 - Brown

#8 - Violet

#15 - Olive Green

#29 - Prussian Blue

#40 - Brownish grey

#45 - Sepia

#55 Iris Purple

Other Supplies

Art Impressions Stamp Positioner

Art Impressions Watercolor Palette

Art Impressions Watercolor Brush #4

Strathmore Watercolor Paper

Papertrey Ink - Take Three - Spring - "Happy Easter" Sentiment

Papertrey Ink Raspberry Fizz Inkpad

Papertrey Ink- Pretty Pastels patterned paper

Dies

Spellbinders Oval dies - Large

Spellbinders Scalloped Oval dies - Large

Spellbinders Circle dies - Large

Spellbinders Scalloped Circle dies - Large