Tag Archives: watercolor

2021 Card Design Superstar Challenge

Posted in CLean and simple, distress ink, My Favorite Things by

Hey friends! Today I am sharing my project for this years MFT Stamps 2021 Card Design Superstar Challenge Clean and Simple!

I started by cutting out the Artist Palette and Brush die. I do believe it may be retired, but I have never used it and this card idea was just to perfect for this challenge not to!

Using distress ink and watercolour to colour the die cuts as well as.

A ruler and a black pen added some great little details to frame this simple design in!

Supplies :

MFT Stamps Artist Palette and Brush

MFT Stamps Unicorns and Glitter

Distress Ink Antique Linen

Distress Ink Ground Espresso

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugs
Jess!

Stamptember 2021!

Posted in Simon Says Stamp, Simon Says Stamps, Watercolor by

Hey friends! It is one of my most favorite times of the year again Simon Says Stamp Stamptember!!!

I love these XL Greetings! They allowed me to freehand paint a flowers and put a nice bold sentiment right over the middle of it! Keeping it simple with just a big thanks!

I really enjoy being able to add my own art to a statement sentiment!

Now as for Stamptember, make sure you stop back at Simon Says Stamp everyday through the month to see what they have instore for us!
Did you see the coupon code I have at the top of my blog post? Make sure you head over to the Simon Blog and go check out the other creators and see what codes they have for you as well! It is a giant scavenger hunt!

Thank you so much for stopping by!
Hugs
Jessie

My Favorite Things May 2021 Release

Posted in Copic, My Favorite Things, Watercolor by

Hey friends! Jessie here playing along with MFT Stamps May new release!

I am always super excited when they invite me to play along, and being as I have been in a funk, this has really pulled me out of it!

So for my first project I had to paint up the Freshly Picked Bouquet! Flowers always speak to me! So I had a play with this gem and my watercolours. Probably my most favorite medium of them all!

Onto my second card, how can you not love the Festive Old Friends, also my grandmothers 86th birthday is this weekend so this set went perfect for it!

I hope she loves it! I had a blast making this one, I also used the In Stitches Alphabet Dies to cut out the Eighty Six.

But I did love this set so much that I had to colour up the entire thing with my copic markers!

You can check out the entire new release HERE

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs
Jessie

Party Like a Panda

Posted in Copic, Prima, Simon Says Stamp, Simon Says Stamps, Uncategorized, Watercolor by

Hey friends! Today I have a fun card and video, creating my own background with watercolours and some copic colouring!

It was great fun creating the pastel rainbow background, then keeping the bright colours for the panda and his little balloons!

Come on, I just can not get over these cute little pandas! I have used this set a few times and just love it every time! The sentiments in this set are also super wonderful!

You can watch my video to check out my entire process!

Supplies:
Affiliate links used where possible at no additional cost to you! But I do receive a small commission which helps support the blog and my youtube channel! I appreciate those of you that use my links so much!
Simon Says Stamp Party Like a Panda – https://shrsl.com/2t2vy (SSS)
Prima Marketing Pastel Dreams – https://shrsl.com/2t2vz (SSS)
Neenah Solar White 110lbs – https://shrsl.com/2t2w1 (SSS)

Thanks for stopping by,
hugs
Jessie

Altenew Paint-A-Flower: Camellia Outline Stamp Set Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Posted in Altenew, Watercolor by

Hey friends! I am excited to be participating in another Altenew Blog Hop. This month they are releasing the Paint-a-flower Camellia!

I went outside of my normal warm toned colours while painting this one up. The purples in the Altenew 36 halfpan watercolour set are magnificent, and the blues are wonderful. I really just love all the colours to be honest. But i painted this one up in a no lines style, keeping the colours soft and dreamy really made me fall in love with this image!

Now onto the giveaway!
$200 in total prizes!
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $15 gift certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/28/2021 for a chance to win. 
Altenew will draw 11 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/30/2021.

Blog hop list!

Altenew Card Blog
Erum Tasneem
Amanda Baldwin
Lilith Eeckels
Christine Pennington
Norine Borys
LauraJane
Nathalie DeSousa
Jessie Banks < you are here
Preeti Chandran < NEXT!
Terri Koszler
Mindy Eggen
Virginia Lu
Laura Volpes
Cheryl Espie
Tenia Nelson
Dana Joy
Emily Midgett
Tina Smith
Jenny Colacicco
Michelle Short
Seeka
Teresa Litchfield
Agnieszka Małyszek


Altenew Fresh Start Stamps/Dies/Stencils/Embossing Folders Collection Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Posted in Altenew, Watercolor by

Hey friends! Today I am thrilled to be participating in Altenew’s Fresh Start Blog Hop! You can see the entire Fresh Start Collection here!

I have a couple projects to share with you all today, but I will kick things off with this gem using the Airbrushed Flowers Stamps, dies and stencil.

I started off by inking up the background panel in a brown gradient, then adding some silhouettes of the flowers and leaves in the same brown in the background.

I then stamped out the flowers and leaves on some watercolor paper and painted them up using the Altenew Artist’s Watercolours and die cut those out layering them on the card front. Keeping the sentiment simple with a little Hello to to finish it off!

For my second card I white embossed the large floral in the Enchanted Roses stamps set on some kraft coloured cardstock.

I then kept it simple using Tea Party and Green Hills mixed with a little Green Meadows to paint them out. Kraft paper does not take watercolour as well as watercolour paper, but I kept the water to a minimum and it worked out so well! Stamping “Live” with the Limestone ink and outlining it with some white really set it off, and a small flag pannel finished off the rest of the sentiment!

Giveaway Prizes! $300 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 2 lucky winners and a $20 gift certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/11/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 12 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/13/2021.

Supplies:
Affiliate links used where possible at no additional cost to you!

Airbrushed Flowers Stamp Set (Altenew)
Airbrushed Flowers Die Set (Altenew)
Airbrushed Flowers Stencil (Altenew)
Airbrushed Flowers Stamp & Die Bundle (Altenew)
Airbrushed Flower Stamp, Die & Stencil Bundle (Altenew)
Enchanted Roses Stamp Set (Altenew)
Artist’s Watercolor 24 Half Pan (Altenew)
Pure White Crisp Embossing Powder (Altenew)
Limestone Crisp Dye Ink (Altenew)

Blog Hop List
Altenew Card Blog
Vicky Papaioannou
Jaycee Gaspar
Terri Koszler
Erum Tasneem
Jennifer McGuire
Tenia Nelson
Nathalie DeSousa
LauraJane
Therese Calvird
Amber Rain Davis
Dana Joy
Nicole Watt
Tina Smith
Norine Borys
Zsoka Marko
Virginia Lu
Amanda Baldwin
Seeka
Laurie Willison
Michelle Short
Maryam Perez
Mindy Eggen
Teresa Litchfield
Svitlana Shayevich
Emily Midgett
Preeti Chandran
Reiko Tsuchida
Jessie Banks <- You are here!
Agnieszka Małyszek
Kelly Griglione
Lilith Eeckels
Cheryl Espie
Tania Ahmed
Jenny Colacicco

Let’s Curl Up

Posted in Karin BrushMarker Pro, My Favorite Things by

Hey friends! Today I pulled out the Let’s Curl Up set from MFT Stamps and decided to remake, with a video and a different medium so I guess not remake but yeah.

So I got the honour of guesting for MFT for their December 2020 release and I fell head over heels for this fox set. I watercoloured one of them up for one of my release projects. Now I decided I had to colour up another one, this time I pulled out my Karin BrushMarkers to colour it!

I really love how these simple little cards come together, they have been a blast to make! And this fox set is so perfect and dreamy for it. Now that I am writing this post I also wanna make a blue fox… maybe there will be another card from this set lol.

Check out my process video!

Supplies:
Affiliate links used where possible at no additional cost to you!
MFT Stamps Lets Curl Up – https://shrsl.com/2p6iw (MFT)
https://shrsl.com/2p6iz (SSS)
Karin Brush Markers – https://shrsl.com/2p6j0 (SSS)
https://shrsl.com/2p6j5 (Marker Universe)
Ink on 3 No Line Ink – https://shrsl.com/2p6j1 (SSS)

Altenew Build-A-Flower: Cora Louise Peony Release Blog Hop + Giveaway

Posted in Altenew, Watercolor by

Hey friends! I am honoured to be participating with Altenew New Build-a-flower Blog Hop!

I am always thrilled when I get to play along with Altenew, nothing makes me happier then when I get to play with watercolours and Altenew ALWAYS offers that opportunity with their floral images.

I embossed the image and the main part of the sentiment with rose gold embossing powder, then painted it up with pink and green. I then decided I wanted less contrast from the background and went in and did a dip dye look with the same pink colour from the floral itself.

Adding the remainder of the sentiment with black ink, I decided to take a black pen and add drop shadows to the embossed part of my sentiment.

Giveaway! $200 in total prizes! To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away a $50 gift certificate to 1 lucky winner and a $15 gift certificate to 10 winners! Please leave a comment on the Altenew Card Blog and/or each designer’s blog post on the blog hop list below by 01/07/2021 for a chance to win. Altenew will draw 11 random winners from the comments left on each stop of this blog hop and announce the winners on the Altenew Winners Page on 01/09/2021.

Supplies:
Affiliate links used where possible at no additional cost to you!
Altenew Build-A-Flower Cora Louise Peony Stamp & Die Bundle (Altenew)
Altenew Artist’s 24 Half Pan Set (Altenew)
Altenew Rose Gold Embossing Powder (Altenew)

Blog Hop List
Altenew Card Blog 
Laurie Willison
Jenny Colacicco
Virginia Lu
Zsoka Marko
Nathalie DeSousa
Jessie Banks <- you are here
Emily Midgett
LauraJane
Norine Borys
Amanda Baldwin
Erum Tasneem
Dana Joy
Laura Volpes
Tenia Nelson
Teresa Litchfield
Terri Koszler
Seeka
Mindy Eggen
Tina Smith
Preeti Chandran
Svitlana Shayevich
Michelle Short
Agnieszka Małyszek
Christine Pennington
Lilith Eeckels

Be Kind

Posted in Daniel Smith, Derwent Inktense, Simon Says Stamp, Simon Says Stamps, Watercolor, Youtube by

Hey friends! Welcome to my last post and video for 2020! Just remember going into 2021, no matter what happens just Be Kind!

So I pulled out one of my favorite sets from 2020, called Be Kind from Simon Says Stamp. I used some OLD sticky back canvas (that’s not really sticky anymore) and some watercolour ground so I can use my favorite medium!

Once I watercoloured up the leaves, I then took some inktense to finish off all the little details! I do have a process video, hope you enjoy!

Supplies:
Affiliate links used where possible and no additional cost to you!
Simon Says Stamp Be Kind – https://shrsl.com/2peh9 (SSS)
Stoneground Paint Co – https://stonegroundpaint.com/
Simon Says Stamp Kaiki – https://shrsl.com/2pehd (SSS)
Distress Ink Antique Linen – https://shrsl.com/27a0s (SSS)
Inktense Pencils 72 set – https://shrsl.com/2pehh (Blick)
Intense Oak – https://shrsl.com/2pehx (Blick)
Inktense Sepia Ink – https://shrsl.com/2pei2 (Blick)
Golden Watercolor Ground – https://shrsl.com/2pek1 (Blick)

Merry Christmas

Posted in Altenew, Daniel Smith, Uncategorized, Watercolor by

Hey all! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and all that good stuff!

Here in Saskatchewan we are only allowed to gather with those in our household, so that has lead to my son playing video games, my fiancé playing video games, so I am in the craft room for a while!

I pulled out the Majestic Mistletoe set from Altenew and pulled out my watercolours. Stamping it out with some no lines ink and painting the leaves as well as the sentiment and a light wash in the background tuned out so much fun on this card! Finishing it off with a few drops!

I hope you all are having a wonderful day today, reguardless if it is a lot smaller then normal, like my families Christmas is, or if you are blessed to be able to spend it with all your love ones!

Supplies used:
Affiliate links used where possible at no additional cost to you!

Altenew – Majestic Mistletoe Set – https://shrsl.com/2p18k (Altenew)
Nuvo Drops – Simply White – https://shrsl.com/2p18n (SSS)
Daniel Smith watercolor half pan set of 24 – https://shrsl.com/2p18r (Blick)
Daniel Smith Buff Titanium – https://shrsl.com/2p18t (Blick)
Daniel Smith Sap Green – https://shrsl.com/2p192 (Blick)
Daniel Smith Perylene Green – https://shrsl.com/2p18z (Blick)
Daniel Smith Permanent Alizarin Crimson – https://shrsl.com/2p191 (Blick)
Daniel Smith Jane’s Grey – https://shrsl.com/2p18x (Blick)