watercolouring – Page 3 – A Stamping Journey

WEEKLY DEALS AND UPDATES!!

May 20, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Wednesday again which means it is WEEKLY DEALS time. I love these deals. There have been some great deals lately to save you money. I have a reminder too on the retiring list and Clearance Rack so you can check about that but before you leave here today you have to see this cool technique video I have posted below.

Here is this week’s deals.

Punches and Big Shot dies are always great! How can you get these??

Contact me directly to place your order

Order Online at my store HERE.

Have you checked out the RETIRING PRODUCTS (see Here) OR THE CLEARANCE RACK (see Here)??? Items are selling out fast. Check them out and contact me to place your order or Order online. (Australian residents only and if you haven’t got a current Demonstrator). 🙂

Of course, I can’t leave without sharing a project. Check this fun technique out using Watercolouring and Spritzers. I love the effect!

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SCALLOP TAG TOPPER TRI-FOLD CARD!

March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 Jenny Hayward

When I first got my Tag Topper Punch I thought it would look cool to make a fold out card with it. I had seen a couple around my blog travels but wasn’t sure how to go about it. Well I made one AND I have put together a tutorial just for you so you can make one yourself.

Here is some close-ups.

Now on to the Tutorial.

SCALLOP TAG TOPPER PUNCH TRI-FOLD CARD!

1. Cut your base card to 14.8cm x 21cm. (I used Baked Brown Sugar). On the 21cm side score the card at 7cm and 14cm.

2. Slide the edge of your card (long side) in to your Tag Topper Punch. It takes a little wiggling but you can get the card in and line it up in the first scored section in to the punch. You can roughly line the card up between the rectangle shape on the top of the punch where the image of the punch is on. See the photo.

Punch the card. Then move it along to the next scored section. Line it up and then punch again. Repeat for the last section again.

Trim off the excess tabs to level them off.

NOTE: The card does get a little bent when you punch it out but just press over it and when you add the card to the front you don’t notice it.

3. Cut your card mat pieces and whisper white and DSP (designer series paper).

Card mats (I used Crisp Canteloupe) measures 6.6cm x 12.2cm (3 in total).

Whisper White (x2) and DSP piece(x1) 6.2cm x 11.8cm. The DSP is from Venetian Romance.

I stamped one of the Whisper White pieces with the flower from ‘Happy Watercolor’ in Baked Brown Sugar and coloured it with the Aquapainter and inkpad.

To finish the card off I sponged the white card pieces and the DSP with Crisp Canteloupe ink and adhered them to the card. I added some Gold Washi Tape and also some gold sequins over the card (still not sure about these???). Then I tied some Crisp Canteloupe Ruffled ribbon through the holes and tied them off with Linen Thread.

Here it is again – the finished off card.

Do you like it????? Why not go and make one for yourself.

Thanks for taking the time to visit me in your day. I do appreciate it as I know your time is precious. I hope you are inspired.

See you next time.

Jenny x

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SPONGED ‘BY THE TIDE’

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013 Jenny Hayward

At our team meeting on Wednesday night Sarah showed us how to create this card using ‘By The Tide’. As usual I didn’t finish it then but managed to finish it today. (Fancy that not only do I finish I card from a team meeting BUT I post it the day I finished!!!). The base card is Midnight Muse and it is all stamped on Marina Mist card. The coral is stamped in versamark and embossed with white Embossing Powder. The “sand” edges are torn strips of Crumb Cake and sponged over with Soft Suede. I added a little extra sponging around the edge of the card with Midnight Muse and added a couple of seahorses in the background stamped with Marina Mist. The fish are stamped in Stazon on Whisper White card and coloured with a blender pen and inkpads. I added the tag from the set too punched out with the 1″ circle punch and some burlap style trim.

You did good Sarah 😉

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

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“EVERY MOMENT” WATERCOLOURING!!

May 11, 2012 Jenny Hayward

After my frustrating attempts at watercolouring a few weeks ago I was determined to give it another go. I was not going to be beaten! I pulled out my stampset “Every Moment” which is a good one to colour. I received this set from Sydney Regionals 18 months ago and it hadn’t seen ink since! (is that bad????). It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s just that I have so many other stamps to use (and I get a bit lazy when it comes to colouring!) Now I used several different mediums in my attempts and different types of cardstock to see what I came up with. I tried the pastels, markers and inkpads using the blender pen and aquapainter and I tried it on whisper White cardstock, confetti White and Watercolour paper. So this is my final attempt. Let me say Number 6 attempt! Sorry you are not going to see the other attempts. They looked like a kindergarten child had coloured them. They were not good believe me. They are now neatly filed in our paper recycling bin to be off to a new home! LOL

So here is the final card.

With this one I used the inkpads and aquapainter. Using watercolour paper is a must I think. I built the colour up in layers. I remembered this was a trick they showed us at Regionals when we used this set. Picking up the colour with your aquapainter you brush a light wash over the area you want coloured. So for the bird I gave it a light wash in Baja Breeze. Let that layer of colour dry. It only takes a little minute. You can move onto another area to work on while you let that dry. Then come back to the first area and give another wash in certain areas. This will give a darker colour. Then later apply another touch up in certain areas you want highlighted. Does all that make sense??? I think I added some highlights in part with the fine tip of the marker like on the reeds and the bird’s head. Once this was done I assembled the card. The card is CASED on a sample card from Regionals. The Baja Breeze mat was embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder. I added linen thread and a Vintage Brad to finish it off. The sentiment is from ‘Curly Cute’. So I think I was happy with this attempt.

Thanks for looking. As far as my swap count goes. Well, I haven’t fully completed any cards this week. I have had so much else going on. But I have 20 more cards cut and stamped ready to go if that is anything. Hopefully I will have some time to put them together this weekend. I am not sure when that is going to happen exactly though!! So the count still stands at 35.

Have a good weekend. I hope all the Mum’s have a lovely Mother’s Day on Sunday and get spoilt. Stop by and visit again soon. I love to see you have visited. Don’t forget to say ‘Hi’

Jenny x

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THE CARD THAT NEARLY DIDN’T HAPPEN!!

February 5, 2011 Jenny Hayward

Do you have days when a card just doesn’t come together??? When anything you do, doesn’t go right and you have to redo it??? Do you look at the card and think “I just don’t know what is wrong”??? This was one of those cards. It has just taken me 2 days to complete it. I think I have redone every part at least once! Maybe the heat was getting to me. Well, I finished it! I could have tossed it so many times but I was determined to see this through.

It started out as a card for this week’s sketch challenge at Inkspirations. I had been wanting to try the faux tile technique and thought this would be good with this sketch. After stamping and colouring (twice!), I cut the card up to 1″ squares and realised they were too small for the challenge. I tried to make it work and it just wasn’t happening. So, I gave up on the idea of it for the challenge but wanted to complete the card – eventually getting there!! Enough of the sorry saga you just want to see the card.

The flowers from ‘Elements of Style’ were stamped in Stazon on Very Vanilla card measuring 3″x3″ (7.5cmx7.5cm). They were then coloured using the Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Certainly Celery and Always Artichoke Markers. I spritzed the card with the Crumb Cake marker, then cut it in 1″ (2.5cm) squares. I then covered the squares in Crystal Effects to give it a glaze. It is a bit hard to see in the photo. You need to leave it overnight to dry properly. It was after I covered it in Crystal Effects I realised I should have sponged the edges. I just touched them up a bit with the Crumb Cake ink. I then adhered the squares to a Certainly Celery mat and then Pretty in Pink.

For the card base I stamped the swirl from the stamp set in Crumb Cake and sponged the edges. I redid this 3 times. The first time it didn’t come out right. The second time I realised I cut the card wrong. (That’s ok, I have used that on another card!) This card opens upwards, so I wrapped around some Victoria Lace around the bottom edge. The label is cut with the Big Shot in Pretty in Pink and the edges sponged. I had to do that a second time too! The greeting is from “Fresh Cuts”. (Thats a set I haven’t used for a while). I stamped it in Pretty in Pink onto Very Vanilla and punched it out with the small oval punch. The edges were sponged in Pretty in Pink too. I adhered them with mounting tape and stuck some Adhesive pearls on it. Phew!! I WAS DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I couldn’t even think about doing the inside of the card then.

Sorry about the ramble. I hope you kept up with all that! That was a marathon card. I have another card that I made later while I had all the stamps and ink out. I will show you that tomorrow. I’m done. It’s exhausting just reliving it!!!!!

Take some time to stamp today – you deserve it!

Jenny xx

Stampin' Up!, swaps

SYDNEY REGIONALS!!

November 20, 2010 Jenny Hayward

I have just got back from Sydney Stampin’ Up! Regionals. What a great day!! There were lots of ‘WOW’ and ‘AAH’ moments. So much to take in! I can’t wait to give all these different ideas a go. I think that will have to wait a bit though until I get through the Christmas rush. It was so great to meet up with lots of demonstrators that I chat to online or that I stalk their blog. Of course, always a fun time with my stamping buddies too. I received lots of great swaps back but I will need to go through them and take photos. I will show you those soon. I can now show you my swaps that I did. I just kept to one design and did 2 different colours.

I started off doing the Old Olive. After stamping the flowers from ‘Elements of Style’, I used the blender pen and inkpad to colour them in slightly. This had been stamped on Very Vanilla, but I have to say it looks a little white in the photo. I spritzed the card with the Old Olive marker. A strip of Old Olive card was run through the Big Shot with the Very Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder. I added some Adhesive Pearls. The sentiment is from ‘Teeny Tiny Sentiments’.

I decided to do some in the Rich Razzleberry. I quite liked how these turned out. I didn’t colour these ones. I added Rhinestones on these ones.

These cards were inspired by a card by Natasha Zandbergen here. Why don’t you stop by her blog sometimes. She does some beautiful cards!

After a big day, I’m heading off to bed. I will try and get back very soon to show you the swaps I received. Have a lovely Sunday!!!

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NON-CONVENTION CARD CHALLENGE!

May 3, 2009May 3, 2009 Jenny Hayward

Many SU Demos have been in Chilly Canberra this weekend for the annual Stampin’ Up! Convention. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it. A forum I am on had a non-convention goers card challenge, among many other fun challenges. Thanks Tanya for organising this!!

This is the sketch that we had to create a card. I like this sketch. It is very simple. I might be using it for some upcoming workshops!

This is the card I created. I was inspired by this card by Claire. I loved how she used the Baroque Motif swirls on the background.

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I have used the faux silk technique for the rose. First I stamped the rose image from Embrace Life in stazon on white tissue paper. Then I watercoloured the rose with the stamp pads and aquapainter. Leave it to dry for a short time and then scrunch up the tissue into a ball. Carefully unwrap the ball. Adhere the tissue to white cardstock. For the card I stamped the Baroque Motifs swirl with choc chip ink onto choc chip cardstock. I scalloped the edge of Ruby Red card and adhered a piece of the Raspberry Tart DSP onto this before adhering both to the choc chip card. I used mounting tape to mount the faux silk image. The greeting is from the Level 1 hostess set, Best Yet. I inked up the words with markers and used the Large oval and the new Wide oval punch. I was really pleased how this turned out. There are so many other projects Tanya has set for us, but I think I will be trying these over the next couple of weeks. This week is turning out to be very busy.

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MAKEESHA’S CHALLENGE WITH BLOOM AWAY!

March 26, 2009April 29, 2009 Jenny Hayward

I made another card with this set for Makeesha’s sketch challenge this week. You can see the sketch here. I had been thinking about this sketch for a few days and I wasn’t sure what to do. I had already watercoloured the image so I thought I would incorporate that somehow. I wasn’t sure about the colours either. I wanted to pick out the colours in the image but I didn’t want it to look like a Christmas Card. (Although I think this set will be really good at Christmas time). While I was tossing around a few combinations and not quite happy with what I had, it was then that I saw it…… Sitting on the table next to me was the new Stampin’ Up! Catalogue. This colour combo. was on the front cover. The catalogue was an inspiration without even opening a page!

On to the card: I used Ruby Red for the card base and stamped the leaves from Embrace Life with Versamark. I sponged around the edge of a piece of Old Olive cardstock. I scalloped the edge of Chocolate Chip strip with the Border scallop punch and adhered it to the Olive piece. I stamped the Eucalyptus Gum on watercolour paper in Going Grey. I watercoloured it using the inkpads and aquapainter. I then cut around the image and mounted it on a circle with dimensionals. The circle was cut using the Round Tab punch. I punched out 2 pieces and offset them. I mounted this on the card with dimensionals also. I stamped the greeting from Short and Sweet in Choc. Chip and punched it out with the word window punch. I also cut one from Choc. Chip and adhered them together and trimmed off the end. I mounted it against the side with dimensionals. You’ve got to love that stuff! The card is straight IRL, believe me.

I have actually finished one of Keesh’s sketch on time!

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More “Summer By the Sea”

March 21, 2009April 29, 2009 Jenny Hayward

When I was stamping the other images from a previous post I stamped this one as well. One lesson learnt: It is very important to stamp the image in Stazon if you intend to watercolour to prevent the ink from running. Hence, the purple mark in the water. Buy hey, I think it looks like reflection from her pants!!!

I used inkpads and aquapainters to watercolour the image in Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive. I used an Old Olive marker to ink up just the word ‘happiness’ on the text stamp in this set. I matted this on Old Olive. I used a strip of Bali Breeze DSP and matted that on Old Olive as well. The base is Elegant Eggplant. It may not show up too well, but I paper pierced around the image. I have enjoyed watercolouring these images from this set and I will be sad to see it go at the end of the month.

While I had the paper scraps out I whipped up another card for my niece’s birthday next month. Early for a change!! I cut a strip of the Pumpkin Pie DSP and mounted it on Ruby Red card. I sponged around the edge with Ruby Red and stamped the text from ‘Sincere Salutations’. I mounted this on Tempting Turquoise base. This is not a colour I have used very much but it goes well with the paper. I cut out the flower images on the reverse of this ‘Bali Breeze’ sheet and adhered them to the bottom of the card. The flower brad is not SU and I can’t quite remember what brand it is – Sorry. This card didn’t take long at all.

I just received my new stamps that demonstrators can preorder from the new catalogue. It is very exciting. I have been getting them inky so I will show them to you next time.

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“Summer By The Sea”

March 18, 2009April 29, 2009 Jenny Hayward

It is not just the summer season that has finished here, although we are having some beautiful autumn weather, the stamp set “summer by the sea” will be retiring at the end of the month. This is a set I should have used more. It has such fine line images which is beautiful to watercolour or to stamp just by itself. I wanted to try watercolouring with the set before it leaves us. I haven’t done a lot of watercolouring so I was experimenting. After several attempts I think watercolouring with the inkpads and aquapainters worked better. Just open the inkpad slightly and squeeze a couple of times. When you open the inkpad there will some pools of ink. Pick up some ink with the aquapainter and paint on your image. I have stamped the image onto watercolour paper with stazon. This prevents the ink bleeding when it is watercoloured. The more ink you apply the darker the colour. I was pleased with the end result. I have stamped ‘wish big’ from “short and sweet”. I thought this image would be great for a young boy so I pulled out some bold bright scraps. These are colours I don’t use very often, but it is nice and summery.

Ink: So Saffron, Certain Celery, Pumpkin Pie, Going Grey, black Stazon plus Brilliant Blue Marker.

Card: Brilliant Blue, Green Galore, Only Orange, Yoyo yellow, watercolour paper.

There are only 2 weeks left to buy any of the retiring products. Also, there is only 2 weeks left for the Victorian Bush Fire Appeal so let me know if you want to place an order for any of the products.