Over the weekend I was able to take a bit of time to scrapbook. (this is always a plus) I looked through some photos and found one of my two daughters horsing around on a bush walk we did at the beginning of the year. We had stopped in front of a beautiful big Kauri tree and were trying out our new camera. My daughters were sitting across from me and I just happened to snap this photo. I really like how it brings out the fun side of both of them.
It is not very often that I use pink on my layouts but for some reason this just felt right. I also decided to use punched out circles from left over pattern papers instead of flowers on this layout. I used a range of circle sizes of punches (2 1/2", 2", 1 1/2", 1 1/4", 1" and 3/4" circle punches were used)
I also used some sequins to add a little sparkle to this layout. For the title/journaling I jumped onto Pinterest to find some 'sister' quotes. I found about 8 quotes and then took them to my daughters and had them choose the one they felt was the most like them and would go with the layout.
I hope you all were able to celebrate Father's Day yesterday (in NZ). I made my Dad a cute little card and will be sending it shortly. It just did not happen before Father's Day, but I did get to talk with him yesterday which was really nice. My Dad lives in a little town up north, just South of Kerikeri. I miss going out for a hot chocolate with him at a local cafe.
Ok last week I promised to do a colouring post this week. So I have two cards here for you. One of which I did use for my Dad's Father's Day card. So I will start with that one first (I am hoping to do a video on how I did this technique soon - I miss making videos).
I created this card using Watercolour paper and Distress Crayons. These are really nice to use. See the video below where Tim Holtz takes you through using Distress Crayons.
So I used my set of Festive Berries, Rusty Hinge, Fossilized Amber, Peeled Paint, Chipped Sapphire and Seedless Preserves. I took each colour and added it to more watercolour cardstock to make an Ombre look. Then I took a wet-wipe and carefully wiping from left to right and slowing down ward to move and blend the colours.
Once dry I stamped with my favourite dandelion puff stamp. Later I added a sentiment 'For my Dad'
I was not totally happy with the blending but I am going to try this again on the smooth side of the watercolour paper to see if that helps move the colour and blend better.
Here is my second card that I made. I really love how this one turned out. Firstly I used one of my Party Paws stamps from Crafter's Companion and a sentiment stamp from Kaiser Craft.
To colour this I used my Spectrum Noir pens. I used TN2, TN3 and TN4 for the teddy. The TN3 and TN4 are from the 'Lights' set of pens, they give a really rich, warm colour to teddy. So I started colouring this Teddy's head first and then the rest of the body.
When I was happy with how Teddy looked I went onto the gift. I used TB1, TB2 and TB3 from the basic blues set of 6 pens. TB2 is quite a different blue so I used that as my base for the side of the gift going over it with TB1 so it looks a little darker.
For the ribbon on the gift I used DR1, DR5 and DR7. Use the DR7 sparingly as it is very dark. To finish off I used EB1 for the tag and IG4 for the ground shadow.
Very happy with the result of my colouring for this card.
