The Crafty Bat: Watercolour

Today I would like to share with you all a recent make which I have been doing and this one was done for the May Progressive Challenge over at Simply B Stamps.

Here is what did with this months image

This month I wanted to do something a little different with doing cards for the last two months :)

I hope you like what I have done every element is either handmade or hand-coloured

Here is a list of products I have used to make this piece including some NEW Stampin' Up! products which will be launched on 1st June 2017.

May Blooms Digi

Powder Pink 12x12 Cardstock (New Stampin' Up! Product)

Fresh Florals DSP (2 pieces) (New Stampin' Up! Product)

Watercolour Pencils

Blender Pens

Watercolour Card

Flowers

Dylusions Ink Sprays - Funky Fuchsia, Crushed Grape, Bubblegum Pink

Dylusions Mica Sprays - Vibrant Turquoise

Berry Blast Ink Pad (New Stampin' Up! In-Colour)

I hope you have like what I have done and it gives you some inspiration.

I would like to enter this piece into the following challenges:

Always Fun Challenges - Anything Goes

Crafty Cardmakers - Floral Profusion

Crafting When We Can - Bright & Colourful

Great Impressions - Feminine

Crafting from the heart - Challenge 160 Anything Goes

Tuesday, 16 May 2017

Teamie Tuesday - Blue

Hi Crafters

Well it is that time of the week again where myself and some of the ladies from the team get together with a theme and make something :D

This week the theme is Blue

So here is what I have done

I chose to use three different shades of blue for this challenge. Here is some close ups of each one also showing the inside

First we have Night Of Navy

The Inside of the card

Next we have Island Indigo

The inside of the card

Last we have Dapper Denim

Inside of the card

Here is a list of products that I used to make all three cards which are also linked to my store

Birthday Blooms Stamp Set (Also available in wood-mount)

Night Of Navy Ink Pad

Night Of Navy Cardstock

Island Indigo Ink Pad

Island Indigo Cardstock

Dapper Denim Ink Pad

Dapper Denim Cardstock

Garden Green Ink Pad

Whisper White Cardstock

Watercolor Cardstock

Gold Embossing Powder

Silver Embossing Powder

I absolutely love how these turned out I have been wanting to do some water colouring with this stamp set for a while so when this theme came up I knew what exactly I was going to do. I hope these have given you some inspiration and you give it a try yourself.

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Lets go on over and take a look at what the other ladies have done this week

Michelle - Ugly Bug Plans

Alyson - Scarlet Moon Crafts

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

I would like to enter these cards into the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations - Always Anything Goes

Crafting from the heart - Anything Goes

Oh-la-la Creations - Something beginning with B

Paradise

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Teamie Tuesday Challenge

Hello all

Today I am flying in to share with you a Teamie Tuesday challenge which I have been itching to get stuck into since it was decided on and we all knew what we were doing for this week. Then again I have been itching to get stuck in with my kit goodies and I have to say WOW!!! Those inks *Swoooooon*

This week is a Anything Goes Challenge

So here we have my piece for this weeks challenge

For this piece I have used the following products:

Crumb Cake Note Cards

Watercolour Paper - 300gsm

Aqua Painters

Over The Rainbow Stamp Set

Stampin' UP! Ink Pads in the following colours Rose Red, Crushed Curry, Garden Green, Island Indigo and Perfect Plum (These are all apart of the Regal Collection Ink Pads)

To do this piece all I did was use the Ink Pads as watercolours with a Aqua Painter in the order I have listed the colours above, dry this off using your heat tool once this is dry enough to stamp on top of stamp the images onto the card using an acrylic block.

To finish it all off I glued the main piece to a Crumb Cake Note Card and used a fine line black pen to do the stitching detail.

All the products above can be purchased from my store and I have linked each product so you just need to click on to them.

Now let's see what the other team members have made this week

Michelle - Ugly Bug Plans

Alyson - Scarlet Moon Crafts

Louise - Slow Cooking Crafty Girl

I am hosting an Online Stampin' UP! Party over on Facebook it is being held from 27th March to the 30th at 10pm which is the very last week of Sale-A-Bration spend over £45 and get some fantastic free products. So if you would like to come along then you are more than welcome

STAMPIN' UP! ONLINE PARTY

MY STORE

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Bloobel Progressive Challenge Feb Entry

Hello all :)

Well I am a little behind on blogging this piece as the blog post title says this was my entry for the Feb Bloobel progressive challenge.

Here is what I did for the month of Feb

For this piece, I used the digi in which was designed for us to use for Feb's challenge Bake Me A Cake

Watercolour Pencils

Brusho's

For The Love Of Stamps - Alphabet Stamps (Upper Case)

I really enjoyed doing this image and building up the cake I just had to use the skull on the cake with the candles.

As we are already into March I will be showing you all my March entry very soon, If you would like to take part then check out the Bloobel Facebook Group HERE and you can also purchase the Bloobel Digi Stamps from HERE

Xx The Crafty Bat Xx

Thursday, 15 December 2016

Own Kind Of Beautiful ATC

Hi all.. Me again with another ATC to show you all..

I have been watching a fair few You Tube tutorials and Demo's the passed few weeks and been making notes of techniques which caught my eye and that I would love to try so I thought I would try one of the techniques on an ATC.

The technique i chose to try on this ATC was the watercolour stamping technique with Distress Inks... So here it is

I absolutely love how this turned out as I was so nervous in trying it just in case I misted too much water onto the stamp etc - Hence why I tried it on an ATC ;) I also did my watercolour stamping BEFORE doing the background as I wanted to try out the awesome Distress Micro Glaze.

What did I use to do this piece?? Here is what I used:

Watercolour Card

Distress Inks

Mini Mister

Visible Image Stamps - Own Kind Of Beautiful

Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders - Firework Burst ( I highly recommend this one the colours it throws off are awesome one of my favourite pixie powders)

Distress Micro Glaze (another fantastic product)

Memento Ink

If you have not tried watercolour stamping with the distress inks yet - I highly recommend giving it a go and maybe do like I did and do it on an ATC size piece first.

I was so chuffed with the outcome of this piece that I will definitely be re-creating it again with more detail and stamping on a larger piece, so keep a look out for that.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Sunday, 11 December 2016

Crafty Sunday -

Hi all

Well It has been a long time since I have been able to craft on a weekend for me (custom orders needed doing lol) and I took full advantage of being able to do just that.

So today I have done another ATC YAY!!! on this one I did a few techniques I have not done before and I think trying them on an ATC is perfect due to the size of them and I am over the moon with the outcome.

Here is today's ATC

I used the following products to make this ATC

Watercolour Card

Distress Inks

Memento Ink - Black

Dew Drop Brilliance Ink - White

Sponge Finger Dobber

Circle Stencil

Visible Image Stamps - Where dreams take you and Edgy

The techniques used on this ATC were.. Watercolour using Distress Inks, and the Bokeh Technique.

I also started on another project which I will blog about properly in a new post as soon as it is completed, I have not been able to get it finished today due to leaving it to dry and so on but I do have a little sneak peek of my WIP (Work In Progress) to show you all.

Any ideas on what I could be doing???

Make sure to pop back in a few days to find out what the above is and what I used to create it.

Xx The Crafty Bat xX