This is Life blog giveaway

Okay, so today I came across this great blog where this lady is giving away this HUGE wall hanging of Santa...here is a pic check out how gorgeous this is!!!!  Wow, eh??  So please hurry on over to this blog: This is life blog

Hurry on over and put your name in so you can win this gorgeous piece of art :)!

Hugs,

catherine

blog candy etc.

Thank you so much Deborah for having us over to your place last night for a crafty night :) and it was a much time needed out :)! We all made ornaments, and exchanged them with eachother, then we had to guess who made them and have the maker of the ornament tell us how they made it...kind of neat. Louise wow, what a crafty soul she is :)...she made this ornament out of an egg, it was elegant that is for sure...beautiful work Louise.  Here is the ornament that I made, it is a small one but I should have made a bigger one...

Here is a card that I made a few hours before I went to Deborahs house, love these coffee stamps...found this on the bottom of my "new stamps" drawer.  Forgot that I had it, so I was thrilled that I found it...gotta love lost treasures like this one.  

I must also thank Deborah for letting me go crazy using her Slice Machine last night, what a treat and guess what is on my wish list now :). I think I like this one better than the Cricut everyone else is raving about...

Here is the blog candy that I picked up last night

 when I stopped in quickly to PhotoMemories store, hope you like what I grabbed :)!  Good luck to you all :)! 

Hugs,

Catherine

2 xmas cards for you

I picked up a few new stamp sets from my regualr stamping store hangout Carousel the other day, and so I made up 2 cards :)!  I LOVE these two sets and I just have to share them with you, the first card I made is of a coffee bean Christmas tree.  The second card I made is a holly flourished moon, very elegant...or at least I thought so :)!   I have 2 other sets that I will be making cards with, then I will post them for you on here :)!  

Tonight I am sooooo excited, because it has been awhile since I have been out with my usual stamping crew...so tonight I am going over to Deborah's place to do some stamping and creating with some of the usual crew.  Tonights challenge that Deborah put out to us was to make a Christmas ornament. Will be exciting to see what others created :), will post my ornament tomorrow since I can't figure out how to do the time post thing that Julie does.

Hugs,

catheirne

Crafty C's Crafting Library Blog giveaway

Head on over to Crafty C's blog to check out the blog candy giveaway that she has, hurry before it is too late and you miss out on all these super goodies :)!

Hugs,

catherine

Blog candy

Hello??? Anyone out there??? Lol, starting to wonder...anyways since I have 800 posts that I just noticed this morning on my blog...I am offering up some blog candy :)!  I will give you until next Monday to enter into my draw, so here is what I would like you to do:

~Tell me what your favorite Xmas treat is

Not too hard right??? Okay, so tell ALL your friends and enter in yourself...gotta go figure out what to have as my blog candy :)!!!  Need to get my readers back...lol :)! 

Hugs,

catherine

My oldest son's card

Here is a card my oldest son made at a siblings group that he belongs to, apparently there is a mother of a child in this group who is into SU and she sent along all the stuff to make several cards. Cool eh?? Anyways, I just had to show you his card...actually he kind of asked me to show you his card :)! Lol, too cute!  Pretty good for a first time SU card maker :)!

Hugs,

Catherine

My multi-layered watercoloring tutorial

Here is the tutorial that I promised you, hope you will try it out :)!  Here are the materials you will need to make a card like mine:

~the stamp that you will be using

~watercoloring paper

~Versamark watermark ink pad

~a small cup of water

~a fine paintbrush

~gold embossing powder...the finer powder the better

~heat gun

~markers of your choice

1)  Ink up the stamp of your choice with your Versamark Watermark ink pad very well, then stamp your image onto a piece of your watercolor paper. 

2) Take a piece of printer paper fold it in ha

lf, then put your stamped watercolor paper on the piece of printer paper before you start to pour your gold embossing powder over your image.

Next, pour your gold embossing powder over your image and make sure you coat it well so you don't miss any spots.  once you have gotten all your image covered well, tip your paper so that all the gold powder runs off your stamped image and onto your printer paper. IF you see some spots that still have the powder where you don't want it, I highly recommend you blow or tap it off and if that doesn't work you can use a fine tipped brush to gently brush it off. 

3) Now you can gently pour your excess powder back into your embossing powder jar easily without too much mess.  Then take your heat gun, heat up your stamped image until it turns a shiny gold color and let it cool down before you touch it. 

4)

  Here are the markers I used to do this technique:

~Tombow:  158, 899, 847, 985, 528, 991, 491, 993, 533

~ Copic ciao: CGO.5

~Faber

 Castell black artist pen

5) You start coloring the "sky" part of your image using the lightest blue marker (Tombow 491), 

and you color the whole sky with this light blue.

6) Then you color over the light blue with the next shade of blue (Tombow 533) only half way up from the ground up , but no further than that!  

7) Now color from the ground part way up using the darkest shade of blue (Tombow 528) , but don't cover your second shade of blue up totally or this won't work as well and you won't get the 3 nice shades of blue blended together. 

8)  Here is where you will take your water and your paintbrush and kind of blend all three blue's together. Will make a beautiful watercolored sky :)!  

9)  use your paintbrush with some water, and blend all three blue colors together carefully so it won't bleed or run.

10)  Here is what your image should look like after you blend the three colors together.  Cool eh?? Easy Peasy :)! Go wash your hands please after you are done doing the watercoloring the blue's. Don't want to dirty your next step...

11) Next follow the same steps as before with

 the blue colors, but this time use the 3 shades of yellow ( 991, 985, 993) , start with the lighter shade of yellow then the next shade, then end with the darkest shade.    

Here is the next shade of yellow 985, and see how I just colored part of the moon half way up the moon with this darker yellow?  

Here is the final dark shade of yellow 993, and only color part of the way up the second shade of yellow.  This way we can blend all 3 shades of yellow together to make that multi-layered look :)!  

12) Once you have done both multi-layerings of the blue and the yellows, it is time for you to finnish coloring the rest of your stamped image in.  Then, I suggest for you to go wash your hands again and now you can start working on the rest of your card that you will want to use this image with.  Here is what your image should look like with all the blended colors that you just finished water coloring...beautiful eh? 

Happy Stamping and Creating...thanks for stopping by :)!

Hugs,

catherine