watercolor cards

One day before summer school started the boys were going at it so I broke them up by setting some Faber-Castell gel sticks (the kid version of gelatos) and water color paper in front of them. While they drew random Wall-e's and circles I painted some card backgrounds and later mounted them on some homemade paper I've been working on between projects.

Nothing really crazy about these cards, just lots of experimenting with my gelatos and a little bit of salt (guess it wasn't coarse enough because I didn't get the reaction I'd gotten with other salts).

Both sentiments are from Tim Holtz though I couldn't tell you which sets! 

These next three are probably my favorite, though I can't figure out why the photos make them look all sorts of crazy warped. The cards are totally normal shapes!

Such a Silly

Mixed media is a major focus at my local scrapbook store and some of the ladies who've gotten into the techniques are wanting ways to incorporate them into their layouts. We've done a few other themes, but this one is using masks to create the title. 

For the background I paintedFaber-Castell gelatoes through a Prima stencil and let it dry. Then I adhered my Hazel & Ruby alphabet masks and placed a The Crafter's Workshop stencil over the letters. I smeared modeling paste over the stencil/masks and let it dry, then dripped a whole bunch of green Studio Calico mist over the title block. I used modeling paste and the same green on the corrugated cardstock on the left side of the page. 

In the bottom right, I built up layers of embellishments to highlight the silly photo of Vance when he was two. 

Jan Card Sketch

It's time for the Practical Scrappers card sketch. I just loved the large triangle in the center and had to play along!

I did modify it a bit and made the card portrait style and eliminated a couple of elements, but you can definitely see the inspiration here. 

The papers came out of my scrap bin and I don't remember where they're from. 

The black triangles and the coloring on the edges was done with gelattos. 

The stamp is from Tim Holtz and it and the corners were inked with black pigment ink.