Colouring Challenge Road Trip

I'm doing the Colouring Challenge Road Trip with Kathy Racoosin, and Day 1 is all about colour plucking and nooks and crannies.  I normally like to just slosh colour on in a very loose fashion, so building up colour like this is definitely a challenge for me.

So for Day 1 homework I picked some random Zig Clean colour brushes - I don't have the full set, so they were definitely random - and started colouring.  And I'm quite pleased with it :)

OCC Colour Theory - Day 3

Day 3 of OCC Colour Theory, and we were looking at complementary colours, split complementaries, tertiary and tetrad.  Here's some homework.

For my complementary colours card I smooshed some red and green Distress Inks, being careful not to let them merge into mud.  The stamps are from Layered Poinsettia.

For this next card I used tertiary colours: blue-green, red-violet and yellow-orange.  The stamps are from Altenew.

I'm entering this into Just Us Girls - Stripes.

OCC Colour Theory Day 2

Hellooo!  Thought I'd show you my Day 2 homework for Online Card Classes Colour Theory.  This first one was for monochromatic colour schemes.  I used Aged Mahogany, and on the left you can see the shades and tints, but on the card I didn't actually use any shades (i.e. adding black), I just used different strengths of the Distress Ink.  I missed the deadline for Simon Says Monday Monochromatic challenge. Oh, well.  But I am in time for Simon Says Wednesday Anything Goes.

My second card is for the analogous colour scheme.  I used green, yellow/green, yellow and yellow/orange.  I happen to have the same leaf die that Debby used, so why not?  I mixed some of the adjoining colours to get more shades.

Back soon with some Day 3 homework.

OCC Colour Theory Day 1 - Bright Lights

I've been doing the OCC Colour Theory Class with Debby Hughes, and I'm really enjoying pushing outside my colour boundaries.  You know how it is, you grab the same few colours every time because they 'go' and you like them.  But what about all those other poor neglected colours?  It's about time they took their rightful place alongside the faves, and this is the course that will make me do it.

Well, I'm pushing outside my colour boundaries, but I can't get beyond using Distress Inks.  I got my pan watercolours out, I got my tube watercolours out, looked at them and put them back in favour of my Distress Inks.  Can't break the habit.

We started off by making a colour wheel using the three primary colours, then making secondary and tertiary colours.  I used the nearest colours to primary: Candied Apple, Squeezed Lemonade and Blueprint Sketch, then made my secondaries and tertiaries.

Some of those new colours looked familiar, so I matched them with the nearest colours of existing Distress Inks so that I wouldn't have to mix them.

Which then prompted me to do something I've been meaning to do for ages - a full colour swatch chart of Distress Inks.  Easy peasy with the minis, just stamp them and add water.

Haven't done my homework for secondary and tertiary colours yet, but I'm entering my primary one into Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes.

Creative Chemistry Revisited - MkII

I'm back with a another background for my Creative Chemistry homework, and I've broken out my NBUS Crazy Cats, yeah!

This background was done at the same time as yesterday's, using the same colours.  Gotta get it into the gallery quick before the deadline!

Showcased at Online Card Classes, and a Floral Background

Online Card Classes have launched their new website, and I'm thrilled to have one of my cards from the Watercolour for Cardmakers class featured on their gallery page!  You'll have to scroll all the way down the page to see - my card is bottom left.  My original post is here.

Bragging over, on to today's card.  The lovely Bev from Happy Dance made a gorgeous card for three challenges, and it prompted me to make my own version.  I am now the proud owner of some Altenew stamps, albeit freebies from a magazine.  The set contains a three-part layered rose, a three-part layered leaf, a rose die, a leaf die and some sentiments.

I stamped the middle rose and middle leaf stamps with Distress Inks (Pickled Raspberry, Carved Pumpkin, Peeled Paint) onto mixed media paper then spritzed lightly with water.  The bleed varied depending on the amount of water I was spritzing.  The birthday die-cut is a Winnie & Walter Cutaway, and the 'wishes' is from STAMPlorations Sentiment Builders: Love.

So, thanks to Bev, I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Colour Throwdown (why have I never played here before????)

Task For Two Tuesday - Make Your Own Background

and CAS(E) This Sketch (flip it, stretch it!)

I'm over at A Sprinkle of Imagination with another card today.  Here's a sneak peek:

Split Personality Rose

Quickie from me - I'm supposed to be helping DH prep for a dinner party tonight in honour of his birthday tomorrow!  Couldn't resist playing along with a few challenges:

Paper Smooches SPARKS (see the rosebud?):

Fusion (there's no linky tool yet, girls, we're having to link through comments):

City Crafter Roses:

I used the same technique that Dawn demonstrated in Stretch Your Stamps 2.  For me, that is the best example of stretching your stamps and I love the technique.  My rosebud has a split personality because it's actually the tulip stamp from the Bold Blooms set!  Just shows what a bit of squidging and scribbling can do.  The leaves are from Reflections and the stem is from Bold Blooms.  I used a 0.5 pen to scribble.

Ok, playtime over, back to the kitchen to help DH :)

Sloshing and Scribbling

I really enjoyed one of the classes on today's Stretch Your Stamps 2.  You know how much I love sloshing outside the lines, right?  Well, this is the opposite.  Squidgy-stamp, then scribble your own outlines.  Oh, the freedom!!

I've used Waltzingmouse stamps so I'm entering into the Waltzingmouse Fanatics challenge, Make Your Mark.  They're not getting many participants in their challenges, despite all their efforts to encourage people to play, so if you do have Waltzingmouse stamps, please support Deborah's and Tara's efforts by playing along.  Actually, there are free digis available - you don't even need to own their physical stamps to play along - how easy is that?

I've used the colour from ColourQ:

(I did the colours from memory so my Coastal Cabana equivalent is slightly bluer.)

I thought it would make a lovely wedding card, so I'm entering it into The Card Concept - Clean(ish) and Layered.

Watercolour Butterfly

I'm doing the Online Card Class - Stretch Your Stamps 2.  We've already had a full week and this is the first piece of homework I've come up with so far.  This is inspired by Melanie Deasy's no-line colouring technique.

I've used one of Susan's colour schemes from One Layer Simplicity Challenge #8, Shades of Summer:

I stamped the butterfly image (Uniko Studio) in Antique Linen then swooshed some Distress Inks onto an acrylic block and used them as watercolours.  The challenge at Shopping Our Stash is Splish Splash - use some form of wet medium on your card (yes please!!).

And I'm entering it into Uniko Studio Challenge Anything Goes.

I'm off to splash and splash some more!

Aww, School's Out!

Aww, the waterolour card class has ended :(  But there's been plenty of inspiration.  One of my favourite lessons was the Tim Holtz one - surprise, surprise.  I love how these two cards have turned out - all those juicy colours!  I think I'll be using this technique for a while!

Off out to enjoy the sunshine while it lasts :)

Back To The Homework

Quick post from me - I'm on my way out to stamping club.  Two cards for Online Card Class homework.  The first is for Day 7, painting over a stamped image.

This second one is freehand painting - look at all that splatting!  I hand-wrote the sentiment, so not a stamp in sight.

I may come back and link up to some challenges...

And More Homework

I'm still on last week's lessons, Days 5 & 6 watercolouring stamped images.  My favourite thing!  For this one I sloshed around a few Distress Inks (Evergreen Bough, Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans) and coloured in the birdie (Dina Wakley), painted a bit of ground and added some stitching.  The background stamp is Tim Holtz and the sentiment is one of the new release stamp sets from STAMPlorations.

I'm entering this into Keep It Simple: Watercolour

And Virginia's View: Stitching

More Homework

Two more cards for the Online Card Class homework for Days 3 & 4: watercolour stamping.  This first one is also for ColourQ.  If you look closely, you can see the two shades of green on the leaves.

For this second one, I've used the colours from the current Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge.

  

Again, if you look closely, you'll see that the sentiment is purple.

Also entering into Simplicity One Layer Challenge: Fabulous Flowers

Stamps: Paper Smooches Bold Blooms, Sentiment Sampler, Simply Said
Distress Inks: Tattered Rose, Barn Door, Peeled Paint, Bundled Sage, Wild Honey, Dusty Concord
Memento: Elderberry

Such fun!  Back tomorrow with more.

Awash With Watercolour

Catching up on some homework for Online Card Class Day 1: watercolour backgrounds.  I embossed Penny Black Dots In Space and then used a selection of Distress Inks for the background.  The sentiment is from the new Sentiment Builders: Happy by STAMPlorations.

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For this next card I used an acrylic block.  Again, the sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

I'm entering this one into City Crafter Citrus challenge - use orange, lemon and lime.

Back with more tomorrow!

Wonderful Watercolour

I've joined the Online Card Class - Watercolour For Cardmakers.  The techniques are good for watercolour paints or Distress Inks, so you can guess which I went for.  I prefer them to paints, they're more fun to use and more versatile.

Anyway, I tried Jen Rzasa's technique using stencils.  Yep, happy.  Like it.

I'm entering this into Less Is More - use 3 colours or 3 shades of one colour.  I've used Worn Lipstick, Squeezed Lemonade and Wild Honey.

I'm also entering it into Keep It Simple where the theme is Watercolour,

And Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.

The stamps are from the new release by STAMPlorations.  We're having a blog hop tomorrow, so come back for your chance to win some of the new goodies.