Lesson 3 was about creating an ombré effect using watercolor. I love this look of this I, just wish I could have gotten the silhouette pure black. But that’s hard to do with the texture of the watercolor paper.
I’ve been working on the Artists Watercolor 101 class at Altenew and just finished it. I learned a lot and am glad I took it. Lesson 1 was color swatching all the paint colors, which I did but didn’t bother to take a photo so […]
Altenew just announced their year end Challenge. We can use any of this year’s monthly challenge inspiration image for the year end challenge. I’m using June’s inspiration image. I love the color combo as well as the feeling of calm the photo represents. If you […]
Today’s class was on line. Not sure if I like this design. But it is beginning to grow on me. We did pen work to make thick and thin lines on the stamped image.
Here’s the first card I made for today’s class, talking about value. I think I’m trying to keeps my cards pretty simple, but today I did put some pink spatters in the background and some pink Nuvo Drops. Maybe a little too simple? Maybe a […]
A new class at Altenew just started today, taught by Jaycee. He’s a fabulous card artist. Today’s class was Elements of Art – Color. Using the 60 30 10 rule, using 60% of one color then 30% of a second color and 10% of a […]
I hope this finds you all well and safe. I had an interesting summer. My 93 year old mother fell, twice. Once on May 22 and the second time 2 weeks later. The first time was on her birthday. She lives in a lovely condo […]
Here’s the inspiration for the June a challenge. I do so love the blue and brown color combination. For my first contribution I chose to use a stamp set from Altenew that was a gift. I stamped the flowers with Versafine Onxy Black pigment ink […]
#Altenewlove Altenew sent me the stamp set on the right, AS A GIFT, just for being a customer. Thank you m
Here is my second card for the challenge. I think I like this one the best. Originally it didn’t have the large leaves at the top. But I was going through my stash and found those leaves leftover from another project and thought they balanced […]
