Peony Blooms

Happy Monday all! I am hoping that I have a much better week this week than last. I just have to give you all a quick recap. I run an endoscopy unit and last Monday, I found that our unit had been broken into and all my colonoscopes that are used for colonoscopies had been stolen!! 18 scopes!!  

How crazy is that!! It seems there is a huge black market for scopes. Third world countries and drug cartels. Who knew! I was grateful to be able to borrow 5 scopes from my sister hospitals, so I was able to get my procedures done. It was hairy when I am used to having 18 scopes and had to make do with 5.

Anyway, it's a new week and I am happy to be sharing another card for the Inky Paws colored pencil challenge this week. Last week I talked about using my besties colored pencils because I really do not have a full set. This week I used her Farber Castell watercolor pencils.

Today I used the Peony Blooms from Newton's Nook for my delicate watercolored card. To get the soft watercolor look I wet my brush and take the color off of the tip of the pencil directly rather than color the image and then watercoloring it. I find when I do that I get all kinds of lines. The splatter is fun and easy to do. I get the tip of the pencil really wet and pigmenty with a thick brush and just start banging on the pencil with the brush to create the splatters.

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in our new colored pencil challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is this Friday, May 3, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

Colored pencil twofer

Happy Easter Monday all!! Hope you all had a blessed and sweet Easter holiday. Mine was very low key. The holidays are done for a while, so I can get back into my routine.  I love routine!

This week's challenge at Inky Paws is sometinh completely different! We are hosting a colored pencil challenge. Now that's a challenge for this girl! I only use copics for coloring. But Haven't I always said that's why it's a challenge!

I do not have a full set of any colored pencils, so I was off to my bestie who has a number of colored pencil sets.  For today's card I used her Inktense pencils. I had heard they work well on dark paper.

They worked like a charm on the floral fringe stamp set from Newton's Nook. Newton has the best new die set that I used for my card today.

I had such fun with thisstamp set and the colored pencils that I decided to try it on kraft paper.

I will let you decide if the Inktense work well on kraft also.

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in our new colored pencil challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is this Friday, May 3, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.

comfort zone

We all have a comfort zone when it comes to creating. I like a clean and simple look using my copic markers. As I was pulling out various stamp sets for consideration in creating my reminder card for the color challenge at Inky Paws, somehow  "cottage garden" was stuck in the middle of the 3 or 4 Newton sets I had pulled. 

It must have been devine providence. Because looking at the stamp set I immediately decided on the card I was going to make. I stamped the images with a very light gray ink and dusted off my colored pencils for a bit of very easy no line coloring. While it's not perfect I did like the softness of the images. 

The card turned out well enough that I will try this technique again soon. 

Head on over to Inky Paws and join in our super color challenge. We will chose a RANDOM entry to win a $20.00 Newton's Nook store gift certificate. Our favorite entries from each challenge will be highlighted the following Monday, so all entries have a chance to be featured on the blog.

The deadline to enter today's challenge is Friday, February 22, 2019 at MN CST. The winners will be announced on the following Monday at Inky Paws.