Natasha's Colorful Creations

Winter Flowers – Alex Syberia Designs

Hi everyone! I hope your having a great weekend! Today I am using the beautiful digital stamp Winter Flowers by Alex Syberia. I am attaching a link here to her store in etsy…. https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlexSyberiaDesign I love her stamps and her work! I am also participating in the Daily Marker 30 day challenge hosted by Kathy Racoosin. I love this time and setting time aside for me to do what I love… COLOR!

I started by printing the Winter Flowers on Bristol smooth card stock. When working with digital stamps I like to print and let them sit for 24 hours before coloring. For this card I used my Tombow dual brush pens and then shaded in the nooks and crannies using my Arteza colored pencils. I die cut the card panel using a Gina Marie Designs die and then mounted the card on an A2 card base. I then wanted to add some extra shine so I used a Glitter embossing powder from WOW – Pearl Gold sparkle. I used an embossing pen to add embossing ink to the centers of each flower and added my glitter powder, then heat set.

I then used my metallic watercolors (from Hobby Lobby) to add splatters, I chose a purple and blue color to highlight the flower. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to add a sentiment, but I then decided to add one (it felt like it needed a little extra) – the sentiment is from The Gray Muse.

Supplies Used:

  • Stamps: Alex Syberia Designs (Winter Flowers), The Gray Muse
  • Paper: Bristol Smooth card stock, 120 lb Recollections for card base
  • Coloring Medium: Tombow Markers, Watercolors

Hope you have a great Sunday & a great start to your week! – Crafty Hugs,

Natasha

Graciellie Designs & WOW Embossing Powders

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great week! I am so excited to share with you a collaboration between Graciellie Designs and WOW Embossing Powders! Be sure to visit Instagram for more information on the hop, see beautiful inspiration from the team, and ways to use digital stamps with embossing powders! As well as enter to win a PRIZE!!!!!!

For my first card I used the Beautiful Peony stamp set from Graciellie Designs. https://gracielliedesign.shop/product-category/digital-stamps/floral/ You can see this set along with many other beautiful floral images here in the link provided. I started by layering the large peony and added leaves to my image to create a large floral cluster! This is one of the reasons digital images are so fun and easy to work with! You can layer/mask right on your computer, no masking paper required! I colored my images using my zig brush markers. I also used colored pencils in the nooks and crannies on the peony image.

The WOW embossing powders were so fun and easy to work with! I had a great time! For my first card I chose to work with the beautiful Sea Turtle Embossing powder. https://wowembossingpowder.com/embossing-powders/ I love the tones of green and white in this powder, I thought it was perfect for leaves! I also wanted to add some more embossing to this project, so I die cut my sentiment (hugs) from Simon Says Stamp and added the metallic gold rich to the word hugs. For both the leaves and the sentiment I used my embossing pen by Ranger to emboss the area prior to adding the powders. I then added splatters and sequins for additional shine and interest!

For my second card I chose to work with the Hey Beautiful stamp set https://gracielliedesign.shop/product/hey-beautiful-mega-digital-stamp-set/

I started by working with this beautiful large floral image in word and added leaves behind the image. For this design I wanted to make the floral image bright and use pops of color! I used my arteza brush pens for my coloring. I used many layers of color, I wanted to create a bold and bright card! I also used colored pencils in the nooks and crannies. I love adding deep rich colors here, it truly makes the image pop! I then wanted to create added interest using the embossing powder, I used the Metallic Gold Rich powder here on my card. I used my embossing pen to create horizontal lines across my card front using my t-square ruler on my card front panel. In some areas I chose to leave an area off for embossing to create added interest and more of a distressed look.

I hope you had a great week and join us on the hop! There are so many beautiful cards and inspiration on ways to use digital stamps with embossing powder!

Have a wonderful weekend! Crafty Hugs,

Natasha

Fresh Cut Bouquet

Hi everyone! I am excited to share a card with you, I apologize I haven’t posted on my blog in about a week. It was a busy week! I am happy to be back!

I am participating in the Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge, are you? I love this coloring time and all the encouragement we share with each other! For the first 3 days I focused on using alcohol markers. I am learning which colors blend well and which colors are harder for me to blend. I had a much harder time with purple, but that is ok! I will keep trying!

I started by stamping this beautiful image using Momento Tuxedo black ink. I then used my Altenew artist markers to color. I am finding I do better working from the lightest shade to my darkest shade. After I was done coloring I used pencils to add more dimension into the nooks and crannies. I chose a sentiment, heat embossed this and adhered this with foam tape. My card was then complete.

Supply List:

  • Stamp: Simon Says Stamp & Memory Box (collab stamp) – Fresh Cut Bouquet
  • Paper – Neenah 80lb for alcohol markers, 110 lb. Recollections Card stock for base
  • Coloring Medium – Altenew Artist Markers, Arteza 120 Colored Pencils

Have a great week! Crafty Hugs,

Natasha

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