Splashes of Watercolor

I got some new toys!!  A full set of Tombow markers…and I couldn’t wait to play!

Lucky for me, the Featured Stamper at Splitcoaststampers this week is (Sandra McLean (B-gin-r) who is a super-talented watercolorer.

I chose to use THIS CARD as my inspiration.  Of course mine is the little girl version of it!!   Sandra’s is just incredible!

I love using the Tombows!  And there are so many colors!   Basically I just watercolored with them by wetting the paper first, laying the color where I wanted it to be the darkest, then spreading it with my water brush.  (I decided to use patriotic colors too in celebration of the 4th!)

Thanks for visiting today!

• Stamps: Untamed - Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellie
• Paper: watercolor paper (hot pressed), vanilla, real red, pacific point, Daisy D 8×8 winter fun pad
• Ink: StazOn jet black, Tombow markers, Ranger Distress - antique linen
• Other: water brush, curved rectangle Nestabilities, Martha Stewart arch lattice border punch, May Arts ribbon, button, crochet thread, ink blending tool, corner rounder punch, foam tape, rhinestone stickers, lace, wonder tape
  

It’s time for another Color Throwdown, y’all!

LeAnne has a way of coming up with the greatest combinations and this one is beautiful!!  She’s chosen a couple of retiring SU colors for us to work with this week.  It sure doesn’t seem like it’s time for new In Colors already!  I’ll hate to see the current ones go, but the new ones are incredibly cool!

What a sweet and calming combination!

I’ve been dying to ink up one of the Gorjuss Girls that have been sitting on my desk for weeks now!  Shame on me!!  This is the first one I chose, because I thought I’d like to try something I haven’t done in a while…color on kraft paper with my Prismacolor pencils.  I wanted to see how these particular colors would look on kraft.  I don’t know why I haven’t done this more!  I love how it looks!

Now it’s your turn!  We’d love to see what you come up with using these colors (or whatever you have that’s close)!  All the details for the challenge can be found on the Color Throwdown blog.  And don’t forget to check out all the inspiration at the other designers’ blogs:

Stay tuned for more in a little bit.  I’ll have my Wacky Wednesday challenge card up, and it’s also a preview of a new stamp set to be released with another Red Hot Mommas Blog Stroll tomorrow!

• Stamps: Guardian Angel – Gorjuss Girls (Sugar Nellie)
• Paper: kraft, baja breeze, pink pirouette
• Ink: prismacolor pencils, whisper white craft, Memento – tuxedo black
• Other: gamsol & stump, Labels 4 Nestabilities, May Arts ribbon, lace, buttons, linen thread, crocheted flower, pearl stickers, Icicle stickles, foam tape, ink blending tool