Inspiration Emporium “Watercolor” April Challenge

Howdy Candies…I’m tickled to share this piece as I’ve attempted many different mediums in trying to re-discover my abilities to freehand draw & combine watercoloring with Distress Re-Inkers, Pearl Paints, & Distress Markers.  Suffice to say that I’m a bit rusty in creating a dimensional background drawing so it wasn’t coming up to par for me.  However, it was just pure joy to be able to draw & get in touch with my inner artistry during the process.  After several attempts I decided that I wanted to use my Favorite CTMH Stamp of the Month “Friendship Bouquet” for May 2012.  I’m very pleased as punch with my descion as it allowed me a bit more freedom to create a background & continue to apply the various mediums in shading, enhancing features, & enjoying the effects.  I actually figured either way I would share both (which one is uncompleted) & get some feedback from the experts…You my adoring Candies!  Along the way I do want to add that I absolutely love Inspiration Emporium because of the customer service I receive.  They are so much more than just an incredible outlet for me to find everything I love about Tim Holtz but they also sent me this Thank You gift “rain dots”, in my last order that I was able to incorporate into this “watercolor” challenge tag creation.  The really neat thing about it is that the week before last I won the very generous prize package offered by Sizzix & Glue Dots & though I wasn’t able to use my sizzlet yet I sure did make use of the glue dots in my creation too.  (I’m just itching to use the sizzlet in my next piece)  So without further ado…Photos: (To leave a comment, thoughts, suggestions, or feedback - just click the title to this post & scroll to the bottom)

These were my freehand draws & unusual attempt to watercolor:

Inspiration Emporium April 2012 Watercolor Challenge Entry:

(To play along with the watercolor challenge click the photo)

 

Thank You very very much to Both Inspiration Emporium & The Teams at Sizzix & Glue Dots:

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During this weeks hiatus I also had Spring picture day with my daughter…suffice to say it was a true “bad hair day” as they say. Daddy decided to have lunch and take this quick tag to her that I made.  Well after she came home I thought hmmm…there are a couple of things that I could do to it and truly the inspiration came from her but I wanted a way to thank the CC101 FB Group Admin for all of their hard work, support, & dedication.   So I figured I would share the base tags without the additions I made for them as they are always so encouraging.  I thought what a really cool stamp (CTMH “Be Yourself”) to share with them just for something fun of course:

Now that I’m able to spend a bit of quality time in my Studio this week I have a couple more creations to finish & start posting here. In the meantime I wanted to share a sneak peak of one of my upcoming posts with details that I know some of you have long awaited to join me in my Studio and create.  So in May I will be doing a 10 page lay-out workshop that was so generously created, designed, & provided by the person that has inspired me on my entire journey from day 1 of meeting her in Seattle back in 2007 Miss Fabulously Artsy herself The Stamp Goddess! 

What a whopping combination and We have her to Thank for such a gift!  So Stay Tuned for all the upcoming details this weekend.  Thanks for Stamping By…