Mother's Day Swan

It's the beginning of a new week and I'm hoping it's the beginning of getting my creative mojo back again. I know I am not alone when I say that my mind hasn't been settled lately nut the weather is getting nicer and better times have got to be on the way. I am getting ahead a bit and have created a couple of Mother's Day cards for my two favourite Mom's using the new Lawn Fawn Swan Soiree stamp set. Also a bit of colouring for the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge.

My background was created by making my own stencil using a grass border die that I cut from a piece of lightweight cardstock. I started with the top piece and I ink blended my grass going downwards using Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide Inks. Then I used the bottom portion of my stencil to cover the grass and blend upwards with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink to create my sky. I trimmed my panel and stamped my sentiment to the top.

I cut a piece of grey Lawn Fawn Gotta to Have Gingham patterned paper to 5 1/4" x 4" and taped it to my card base. The ink blended panel was attached using foam tape.

The other elements from the stamp set were stamped, die cut and coloured with Copics markers. Then I created my pond scene by adhered the elements with foam tape for dimension.

Thanks for stopping by today!

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 1

Yay, today is Day of of Kathy Racoosin's Fourteenth 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

I am so excited that my friend Kathy invited me to be one of her Goodwill Ambassador's for this challenge!  I will will on Facebook and on Instagram throughout November looking for your colouring projects hash tagged with #thedailymarker30day

More excited new is that the 9th annual 25 Days of Christmas Tags begins on Monday, November 4th right here on my blog! I am hoping that you will be joining both the 30 Day Coloring Challenge and the 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2019 by colouring up some fabulous Christmas tags!!

I have been getting ready for the challenges by getting together all of my colouring mediums and making sure they are in ready to go condition. Markers filled, pencils sharpened, paintbrushes gathered together, Distress ink and Distress oxide inks, Waterbrushes cleaned and filled for the coloring challenge. For the 25 Days of Christmas Tags I have organized all my supplies that I am going to need on a daily basis. I have organized all my tag dies, inks, stamps I will be using throughout the 25 days, my jingle bells, ribbons, twines and cording. My Raskog carts are loaded and everything is at my fingertips when needed!

For me this next month is going to be very focused on Christmas! Cards, tags, colouring, decorating and lots of crafty projects on the schedule. Pop over to Instagram a bit later today to see what I coloured for Day 1!

Simon Says Stamp and The Daily Marker 30 Day - Days 28 and 29

For Day 26 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

I am doing a bit of catch up. The 30 Day Coloring Challenge is over now but I am still determined to finish.  I have stamped images for all that I have remaining but now it will be as I can fit it in. Today I have Day 28 which is Simon Says Stamp Center Cut Flowers which I coloured with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Markers.

This one is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp 100th Flickr Challenge - anything goes!

I am also submitting this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - anything goes!

This next card was for Day 29. The now retired Pinkfresh Studios Late Nights stamp was clear embossed with VersaFine ink and I coloured it with Copic Markers.

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 30

For Day 26 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

Today is the final day of the 30 day challenge! I have done most of the days, but I still have days to finish up and I plan to. For the final day we are colouring Papertrey Ink's Vintage Linens. I coloured my flowers with Copic markers and this is this is also the card I will be giving to my Mom for her birthday July 1st which is also Canada Day. She has a very special birthday! So Happy Birthday Mom, I hope that you have a wonderful day and I will be seeing you this afternoon!

Thank you so much for sticking with me through this month of colouring and thank you Kathy for hosting the event once again!  We are in the first heat wave of 2018, the humidity is absolutely horrible. It might not be a big deal to many of you who deal with extreme temperatures but here in the north we are just not used to the heat.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend, hope the sun is shining wherever you are!

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 27

For Day 27 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

Today we are using Altenew's Bejeweled Lady to stamp. For my card I coloured with copic markers. I also made two more butterflies using my Gansai Tambi watercolors. These second ones will need to be fussy cut but I have to do that on a day when my hands are co-operating.

Thanks for stopping in today!

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 26

For Day 26 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

Today we are colouring these cuties from Neat & Tangled Ride with Me Stamps (SSS|EH) and the Ride with Me die cuts (SSS|EH).

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 21

This one is for the Altenew June Inspiration Challenge and for Day 21 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

We used Altenew's Starry Flower to colour today. Stamped and embossed on watercolour paper I used ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Markers. When I was colouring I was going to add some purple in with my blooms as per the inspiration graphic, but the pink just kept flowing--isn't that what happens when we are inspired?

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 20

For Day 20 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

Today we are colouring Bun Intended by The Ink Road. I coloured my bun with Copic markers, cut her out with a circle die and then put the die cut back into the card mounted on foam tape. Easy peasy, clean and simple. 

I hope you excuse my sassiness today, but I think this card is actually really fun and perfect for that warrior in your life!

Thanks for popping in again today!

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 19

For Day 19 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

Today we are colouring Unity Stamps Tulips & Daisies. The image was heat embossed on watercolour paper. Once again I used Distress Oxide Inks to watercolour my image.

Have a lovely day!

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 18

For Day 18 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

Today we are colouring Hello Kids & Cats from Waffle Flower Crafts. I Copic coloured my kids & cats, combined them with a sentiment from Waffle Flower Crafts Bowtiful stamp set and some patterned paper.

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 15

For Day 15 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there. Especially to my Dad, this picture was taken this past January on my Dad's 90th birthday.

He has always been a rock star to me, the most unselfish man I have ever known who would do anything for his family and his friends. He taught me compassion, empathy, how to love unconditionally and how to laugh in goods times and in bad! Love him to the moon and back! 

Happy Father's Day Dad!

I am playing a bit of catch up with the challenge. Things got busy the past few days so I have fallen a bit behind. For Day 15 we used the cute octopus set from Jillibean Soup to colour with alcohol ink markers. I have been trying to make cards each day this challenge because I find if I just colour I never seem to go back later to make the card. I made a shaker card for the ocean scene, I probably could have filled it a bit more but once that lid goes on, it stays on--lol.

Enjoy your day!

The Daily Marker 30 Day - Day 13

For Day 13 of the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

Today we are colour Essentials by Ellen City Lady! These ladies have been so fun to colour with all their cute clothes and accessories! The Essentials by Ellen City Lady designer dies cut all the images out perfectly allowing you to create some of the most fun scenes.

All my images were copic coloured but her pants. I masked off her pants and sponged with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink and the I sponged the same ink onto the cross hatch pattern from the Essentials by Ellen Pattern Play stamp set and stamped over top of the already sponged pants to create the subtle pattern. The Pattern Play clear stamps are a must in my opinion, so many ways you can use all these patterns in all of your stamping!

Thanks for coming by again today!