Running With Scissors…

Today I have a fall leaf spray made with the Fall Flowers set from FireCracker Designs.  The leaves are colored with Prismacolor markers on watercolor paper and, because I’ve had several requests to do so, I’m including a coloring tutorial with this card.  First of all, I’d like to stress that I’m not an expert [...]

 This is a simple but cheery little card I made because I had all these Bud Basics flowers stamped out for practicing with my Prismacolor markers.  I stamped them when I first got the markers, gradually colored a few, and finally figured it was about time I turned some of them into cards.  I have others colored [...]

Hello, friends!  This will be the last of the weekly coloring tutorials.  We’ve covered: Twinkling H20′s Watercoloring With Inks Three Step Poppin’ Pastels Sponged Watercolor Background Pencil Over Ink Watercoloring With Markers All of these tutorials can be found here in the Coloring Today category.  There are certainly other methods of laying down color, some [...]

Surprise!  You might not have been expecting to see a Halloween card today…  Well, as it happens, Whipper Snapper is releasing two more of Anna Wight’s sets this very day and you know how I love to watercolor Anna’s images.  Doesn’t the ghost have the most lovely smile?  It looks to me like he’s been [...]

Begin with a solid white image.  Mask and stamp with a leafy background.  Paint flower center chartreuse, then feather burgundy toward petal edges.  Apply rust colored Fun Flock to the stamen ends. Okay…I’ll admit it…I didn’t have time to do a coloring tutorial this weekend.  I spent the weekend stamping for Flourishes’ new releases which [...]

Coloring Today is short but I hope you’ll find it sweet.  As I’ve mentioned before, there are so many ways to color an image and if you aren’t comfortable with one medium, perhaps you’ll find your niche with another. This is pencil over ink, a very quick and easy process that produces nice results with [...]

Hello!  I’m just checking in for a minute to say Coloring Today has been postponed due to lack of time.  I had a  busy weekend and I knew I wouldn’t have time to do a tutorial, but I had a card to share… well… then along came one of those bad headaches I get occasionally.  All [...]

Today’s coloring will be fairly quick since we’re focusing mainly on the background.  The poppies were watercolored in the same manner that was outlined in last Monday’s post here. I used Flourishes’ Poppy Patch for the main image just because they’re so darn pretty and the set provides a good variety of images for composing a [...]

Today marks the release of two new sets from Whipper Snapper, illustrated by Anna Wight, and it’s my privilege to be among the folks who will be sharing designs with these images this month.  Anna has a lot more info for you so please check here to get the full scoop.  The sets I’ll be [...]

I’m thinking ahead to my September anniversary for today’s coloring tutorial.  I may change my mind later…there’s lots of stamping to be done between now and then.  You know how anniversaries are named — golden, silver, etc…  Shouldn’t there be a chocolate anniversary?  Why was that option overlooked? My card uses Kitchen Sink Stamps’ Hearts [...]