I’d always known that the different coloured roses all had a different meaning, but I decided to look it up when deciding what to put on a friends birthday card. After looking up the meaning , I decided that yellow was the perfect colour for a friend (Primary Significance: Friendship, Joy)! So here it is.
After [...]
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I love this set.. it just loves to be watercoloured! Fifth Avenue Floral is so my favourite.
I’ve white embossed the outline and then really flooded the image with water. Then all I did was pick up some colour from the crayons & plop it into the flower and let it finds it’s own way. I did a [...]
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Posted in watercolours on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, there’s more watercolouring, more flowers – did I mention that I love using the crayons for this? Perhaps I did…
I’ve stamped the Bloomin’ with Beauty image using Staz-on Black – -that ink just stays on (gettit?) and is wonderful when you’re watercolouring – it just stays and stays. More crayons and a little bit [...]
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Posted in watercolours on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love water colouring with the Stampin Up! crayons – they are sooo silky smooth & just quietly, I have gone a little mad lately (yeah, I know, what do I mean lately? pfft!)
This is a close up of a card I made for my dear Aunty Jill’s birthday last weekend using Fifth Avenue Floral, [...]
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It’s been a while since I have blogged, so here is a catch up post with what’s been keeping me busy.
A belated Happy Mother’s day to all the mothers out there & especially to my mothers. I was lucky enough to spend Mothers day with my mum and my Mother-in-Law. We three went out for [...]
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Well I am back from my holiday that including the Stampin’ Up! Convention. It’s been awhile and this will probably be a long post ~ bear with me, it will mainly be pictures!
What a great time I had at Convention! I got to meet some great people that I had only spoken to on a [...]
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I set myself a challenge by doing a blind dip into my card stock case scrap section and same with the stamps. I had to make something up with whatever I found. Here’s the result ~
The stamps used are from the In Full Bloom set and the Floral background stamp. I really love this stamp [...]
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I spent all day Saturday over at Fleur’s place and we were Stampin’ Up! all day. For our first project we decided to each bring a challenge, something that neither of us had done before. Fleur had a doozy! It was a Waterfall card~ it was great once we got all the bits sorted out [...]
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Stampin’ Up!’s watercolouring products make it easy for you to be an artist. Watercoloring is a great, cost-effective technique that anyone (yes, even you) can do! During July, the Just Add Water promotion is the perfect way to get started! Make a $50 purchase an you qualify to purchase the Watercolor Wonder Crayons or Watercolor [...]
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I was part of my first ever cybercrop last Friday – it was hosted by my upline Jayne. She set the challenges and we had to complete them.. It was a great experience.. This page is from the first challenge Jayne set.. it was a sketch from the SU! website (here’s the sketch if you [...]
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