Tuesday 13 October 2015

Weekend colouring

We spent the weekend at our friend's place at Mangawhai Heads.  I took along some Copics, watercolour paint palette and my Zig Markers and spend some time colouring .. did a few stamped images, made some watercoloured backgrounds and generally had a fun few hours both Saturday and Sunday.

This evening I made up one of the watercolour panels with stamping and colouring into a card

The background was a colour wash of watercolour paints.  Once it dried, I stamped the Lily (from Stampendous) and then used my Zig Markers to colour the image.  I love how you can get such vibrant colours with using the markers with only a little water.   This card is for my NZ Technique swap... theme is Spring and technique is stitching.  My stitching is faux - I used a MFT die to cut out the panel and then used a silver gel pen to do some faux stitching along the die cut stitched line.  Added some texture with an embossing folder to my base card.  The sentiment is from Winnie & Walter. 

 These are a couple of the other bits of colouring I did.   Still to make up into cards.  The bottom one has had a few added bits of colour since I took the photo.  This will be hubby's birthday card for Friday.  

And I'm finishing with a picture I took of some visitors to the house on Sat evening.

Mama Duck and 11 midsized ducklings came waddling across the lawn to the window.  The ducklings then pecked on the window while Mama looked on.  She then called them and the waddled around the back of the house to the other ranch slider then off to the wetland beside the property.

Thanks for stopping by.  

7 comments:

Betty said...

wonderful watercoloring Dawn - love the colors you chose

CinnamonSally said...

Great cards Dawn and love the photos of your garden visitors!

kiwimeskreations said...

Love the wash on your card - it made a stunning background to the lilies. the rest of your colouring looks intriguing too.
Blessings
Maxine

Christi Conley said...

LOVE love love those colors! So vibrant! Absolutely beautiful :) xx Christi

Greta said...

Beautiful card, Dawn! Sounds like a fun weekend & those ducklings are so cute! Can't believe they pecked at the window!

Barb Ghig said...

Another stunning card, and I love all the beautiful coloring you did on your images! Can't wait to see more!
Thanks for sharing these sweet photos with us...your visitors are so cute! Sounds like they listen to their mama, too!

Monika Reeck said...

oh wooow so wonderfully water coloring Dawn
I adore that orange flowe so much and soft BG
cute duck foto hehe