Die Cut Divas - Watercolouring

 Hi - can you believe it's the end of May.  Where has the year gone!  Today I'm sharing my card for the last day of our challenge at Die Cut Divas.  

Art Impressions are sponsoring us this month,   I have a few of their rubber stamps and some of their clear stamps in association with Hampton Arts.   And our challenge is Watercolouring - Real or Faux

I started by using some Distress Spritz drops to make my faux watercoloured background.  I dropped little dots of the spritz and used my finger to make them "splat" and the spritzed some white Altenew ink spray.   I stamped these two (from Laughing Girlfriends set) I used my Scan'n'Cut machine to cut out the image.  I then used Zig Real Brush  watercolour markers to paint in the girls. Scribbled some of the colour onto a plastic mat and used a paint brush to do the colouring.  Used the packaging to help work out where the shadows needed to go.  I grounded the girls with some darker marker.  The sentiment is from the clear set - Got Style.  Perfect card for a friend who is turning 60 in a couple of months. 

Our challenge finishes at 9pm Pacific time tonight, so do come join us Here

Elfing around at Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

I'm back home now.... brought a cold back with me... so no work today as I've been coughing a lot. Spend the morning in bed - didn't get a lot of sleep over night Saturday and into Sunday... so caught up with an extra 2 and a half hours sleep this morning and a quiet afternoon.   I decided to make a card for Christmas Kickstart Challenge where the theme this month is "Just Elfing Around"

I have a digital image from Mo's Digital Pencils that I've had for a long time.   It's called Little Elf Mim and is adorable.   I printed it onto some Canson XL watercolour paper- re colouring to a grey colour.   While I was away I was watching all of the Penny Black & Jill Foster 12 days of Christmas You Tube videos.   Jill is amazing colourist using Distress Ink re-inkers as paints.   I also watched her video about how she colours.  As I don't have reinkers I smooshed some DI onto a stamp block and used a paintbrush to colour my image 

I was quite pleased with the results.   I mostly used Distress Inks but for the grey/silver and the brown blending.  For the grey/silver I used Altenew Siver Lake ink and for the blending I used Altenew Sand Dunes ink.  For the sentiment I used Spellbinder's Yana's Christmas Sentiments.  I used some of the Canson XL watercolour paper and gold foil and die cut the sentiment with the dies.  Added some of the ink blending.  

And here is one final photo of me and the boys before I left on Saturday 

Missing them already!