Fun with Watercolors and a sketch

Hi again!

I hope everyone had a good day! I was able to enjoy a day to myself today as my husband took our sons to his work place for "Take your son to work" day. Although I had tons of errands to run in the morning, I had some time to craft later in the day.

The card I worked on incorporated two challenges. The first is the Moxie Fab World challenge that asked us to use watercolors in some way. The second is from the retro sketches site that gave a great sketch this week. Here's the sketch and my card.
Isn't this sketch adorable! I had so many different ideas for it! I'll be using it again, for sure! :) I wanted to use an adorable house made out of wood that I bought today at Michaels (Recollections brand). I used scraps of paper that I've had FOREVER and added some white stitching on the seam of the green and blue cardstock. To color the wood, I used my inktense watercolor pencils. I LOVE how they worked on wood! I used the bark color on the bottom part of the house and then used apple green and mustard on the roof. It's so nice to be able to mix colors with the pencils. I adhered the house using glossy accents so that I was assured it wouldn't fall off. I wanted to ground the image a bit, though, so I took my peeled paint distress marker and added some grass around the house with my water brush. The sentiment is from the dollar bin from a local craft store. Finally, a ribbon to go across the main panel and the card was done. Love how it turned out! So happy with my inktense pencils...totally worth the investment! (Granted, I had a 50% off coupon so the investment was even better!)

Have a wonderful weekend!
Pat

Color Blocking!

Hi friends!

After quite the busy weekend, I decided to take some time to catch up on some blog challenges. First up is the challenge over at the CAS-ual Fridays site. It's a technique that is really difficult for me for some reason...so I really wanted to try a clean and simple card with some color blocking. Here's the challenge badge and my card:
I've always seen cards where people have taken an acrylic block and used it to color block. I decided I would give that a shot with a rectangular acrylic block. I used my distress markers and then misted the block before stamping. Then I heat embossed a Hero Arts stamp and punched a small orange butterfly. I added a few gems and the sentiment and the card was done. It took a little longer than what I thought it would but it was kindda cool to try a new technique.

Hope you can join in on the fun--and thanks for stopping by!
Pat