Beary Special Valentine Card Prisma and Watercolor

Simon Says Stamp and CAS-ual Fridays

have new challenges up this week. The challenge for SSS is an  ANYTHING GOES challenge! How cool. I can keep creating for Tommy's charity card drive! 

The challenge for CF was to use a WATER COLOR TECHNIQUE and keep it CAS.

Honestly, this was so fun to color and paint.

The image is from Purple Onion Designs. I colored it with my Prisma Color Pencils. I added a piece of water color paper and created a water color wash with a three colors. 

First, laying down water on the WC paper and then touching on colors.

I popped it up off of the card and then added the sentiment from Penny Black.

Stay crafty my friends and join in the fun!

PS CAS-ual Fridays is having a 20% off sale until Sunday. Hurry on over.

Purple Onion Owl and Bunny Sparkle and Shine

I'm not sure I've ever told you of my love of Purple Onion Designs...specifically Stacey Yacula, one of their designers. I just adore her animals. It may be because my own doodling style is very similar when I draw animals. These are just so precious. Just a heads up though, the stamps come to you as unmounted red rubber. You need to foam mount them or use them in their rubber state if you like.

The Paper Girls Challenge blog is having a challenge this week called "Sparkle and Shine" so I tried to really make this card SHINE! 

I began by inking the background panel with distress inks. Faded Jeans and Peacock Feathers are go tos for this panel. I stamped the background trees in Versamark ink and then embossed with Stamp-A-Mania Desert Rain embossing powder. It's super sparkly. I stamped the bunny and the owl and then water colored them used my water brush and Stampin' Up  Smokey Slate ink and Vintage Photo Distress ink. A little Tattered Rose and Picked Raspberry for the bunny's cheeks and ears. I used my Wink of Stella clear glitter brush to add in some snow hills. I wish I had some white flocking powder because I think that would have looked even more awesome.

The owl's eyes were filled in with Inkssentials Enamel Accents white enamel first and then I added in black enamel for the pupils. I added black enamel for the bunny's eyes and nose. Sorry, my pictures don't do it justice.

Hope you're having a crafty week!