Grow Your Own Way

Hey there – welcome back. I love to garden and I’m impatiently awaiting springs arrival. Until them, I’m creating cards with flowers like this one called Grow Your Own Way.

I tripped over these stamps while cruising the Simon Says Stamp site a few weeks back and had to have them – LOOK – FLOWERS! haha. I have a big love affair with the Impression Obsessions stamp collection. Their stamps are fun, quirky, and some times a tad sarcastic (just like me!) haha.

For today’s CAS card (clean and simple) I used two stamps, the floral image is “garden” and the sentiment is “Grow Your Own Way“.

I decided to knock the dust of my Zig Markers for today’s project – have not loved on them for some time, so we have a BRIGHT in your face CAS card today.

What’s your favorite coloring medium? watercolor pens/pencils, aqua painter, colored pencils? Would love to hear!

Tips and Tricks for the “Grow Your Own Way” card:

Start by using VersaFine Onyx Black to stamp the images onto the Ranger Watercolor Paper with the Misti Stampin Tool. I LOVE my Misti, just in case I need to stamp a second time, and perfect for lining things up too.
VersaFine Onyx Black Ink is waterproof and I knew I was going to use my Zig Markers to colour with.
Start by painting a small part of the image with the Zig markers and then use a water brush to blend and pull out the colour.
Colours used: 81, 84, 44, 48, 42, 33 – 22, 23, 20, 27 – 50, 52, 60, 65, 63. Pretty much a light and a dark for each colour and for the sunflower I added orange and brown.
Use turquoise and light green on the word “grow”.
Once the image is dry, do a little highlighting with a Ranger white gel pen, it really pops on those bright colours.
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