How to Color Your Hair When Quarantined Card

Hello, all you poor, bedraggled peeps!

I was ecstatic when my hairdresser finally was allowed back to work! They have a huge retail space that’s broken down into individual salons and everyone has to stay in their cars until called. She is very fastidious, so with both of us wearing masks, we felt safe. I don’t color my hair, but thought these cute free digi stamps by Impression Obsession stamps (HERE) would give her a chuckle – So I colored up one for her and one to give to a friend. She like them both!

I started out easy, getting back into coloring with Marvy Uchida LePlume II markers, and Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils with Pebbles Inc. chalks.

 

It’s always restful to take some time to sit and color — no matter what your age!!

While the markers are brighter, I had a hard time remembering how to blend and the paper kept wanting to ball up on me, so I switched to the colored pencils…

Hope this brought a smile to your face!

Hang in there and be very careful out there!!

~D.Ann

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Stamplorations Love Always Card with Salt Colored background

Hi there! Welcome back to another crafty whim! This time I’m experimenting with a ‘digi’ and watercoloring with salt. Because a printed ‘digi’ (digital image) from my printer often smears, I decided to do the background FIRST and then print on top of it. I really wanted to play with this nifty technique I’d seen on Betsy Veldman’s blog (HERE). She had a cool variation of the salt technique — where you sprinkle salt on your watercolor and let it dry for some interesting patterns. She COLORED her salt and sprinkled it around for some really cool effects! I especially liked her aqua border with flowers, so decided to try something similar. I guestimated where the orchid and lily would fall and tried to get the yellows and pinks more in those areas. Since I wasn’t going to do much until I was sure I could get similar results, I colored up 1/4-1/2 tsp of coarse salt.

The handiest colors I had on hand were distress inks and spray stains. It only took 2 drops of the ink, but about 6 of the spray stain to color up the salt. I didn’t have a purple, so mixed Mermaid Lagoon with Abandoned Coral until I got the color I wanted. By the time I sprinkled my salt down, the paper was dryer than I’d’ve liked, so I gently spritzed a bit of water across the top. Let dry and brushed off the salt:

Sherry Russ at Stamplorations kindly made available these lovely free digis over on their blog (HERE):

You know I rarely use digis, but I decided to give this lovely one a whirl. First, I had to size the digi. Another reminder of why I prefer stamps. Sure you can resize digis easier, but getting them exactly right is a bit of trial and error (for ME, at least!)

Not bad, but I thought it could use a little more. When Betsy was done with the salt, she went back and added some more watercolor. I was afraid to re-wet the surface as these were distress inks and would react with the water, so I chose to use some Copic markers to make the leaves and a few details stand out, then added a bit of sparkle…

In the end, it turned out nifty, but not near as cool as Betsy’s projects. Some day I will have to come back and revisit this, experimenting with different watercolors and inks.

Supplies used:

• Stamplorations framed Love Always digi (Free HERE)
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor cardstock
• Yasutomo Metallic Watercolors
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink – fossilized amber
• Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain – abandoned coral & mermaid lagoon
• Costco Kirkland Mediterranean Sea Salt
• Copic markers: C3; G24, 82; RV17; V6; YG17, 61; YR2, 4
• Spectrum Noir by Crafter’s Companion Sparkle pen – clear
• Scotch adhesive runner
• Core’dinations Parisian Nights card base

I’m playing along with the following challenges – click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun:

• Stamplorations – Hey, Love linky party
• Betsy Veldman’s Watercolor + Salt Technique Linky
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Love Is in the Air
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes
• Stamplorations Never-ending Anything Goes Challenge

Thanks for stopping by and for sharing your comments!

~D.Ann

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‘You’ve Got this in the Bag’ Spellbinders Gift Purse and Verve Card

Surprise! Betcha thought I wouldn’t be back today. Me neither, but my morning plans fell through and, after so much caffeine from the green tea yesterday I was up late last night fiddling around with another project, so here I am posting it.

Let’s talk about that cute Spellbinders purse first. That little purse, like any truly good women’s purse, holds a lot more than you’d think! Yes, the three Starbucks Via and two Ghirardelli chocolates all fit inside and let it latch closed just fine!

Speaking of the latch, I thought I’d gussy mine up and put a mini teacup charm on top of it. Fortunately, I just happened to have put it high enough for the latch to still work. (Note to self: remember to leave room for the latch to bend and fit in place if putting a decorative piece on top next time!)

I just love these beautiful papers from K & Company! I cut out some of the butterflies, wrapped their wings around a small paint brush handle for dimension and added some shimmer to them.

For the card, I used the sweet free digis from Verve Stamps – Thank you, Julee! (Click the pic or HERE to get them.) For those of you dinosaurs like me, digis are digital images you can print from your computer – like what we used to call ‘clip-art’ in the previous century!

  

I followed Verve’s Mojo Monday challenge sketch, too.

The double meaning of the sentiment with this gift set makes me giggle! I love how the shimmer on the blue butterfly makes it look like the real life Morpho Adonis butterfly.

The inside says: ‘May your burdens be light and your coffee strong.’ Hmmm… from this angle, that coffee with the lines reminds me of a kitty… maybe next time Julee will do up a coffee kitty digi for us… (hint-hint, Julee!!)

I used some vellum leaves for the ‘steam’ and added some shimmering bling to the sun.

Supplies used:

• Verve Rise & Shine digi set
• Verve Love Everlasting stamp set
• Verve Beautiful Flowers die set
• Spellbinders Purse contour die, Exquisite Labels Eleven dies
• JustRite Spellbinders Vintage Labels 7 dies
• EK Success: K & Company Susan Winget Floral designer paper pad
• Core’dinations Parisian Nights A2 pink card and white & pink cardstock
• The Paper Studio printed vellum
• Memento dye inks: Pear Tart and London Fog
• Copic markers: R20; Y17, 28, 32; YG61; YR26
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen – clear
• Pebbles, Inc. Pearlescent Chalks Jewel Tones
• iCraft Therm-o-Web Easy Tear Tape 1/4″
• Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue
• Bead Landing Pemberly teacup charm
  • Viva Decor Perlen Pen – Ice White (to fill charm hole in saucer)
  • E6000 adhesive
• Misc. ribbon

I’m playing along with the following challenges… click on any one of them for more information on how you can join the fun…

• Spring Coffee Lovers Bloghop (both the card and the gift purse)
• Verve Spread a Little Sunshine Challenge
• Mojo Monday #490 challenge
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Work-It-Wednesday: Spring
• Cropstop Linky Party #26: Anything Goes (Aleene’s, Core’dinations, E6000, EKSuccess, Justrite, Memento, Pebbles, Inc, Spellbinders and Viva Decor)

Thank you so much for stopping by and for all your kind comments!!

~D.Ann

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pps: Stopped by and gave yesterday’s card to my favorite barista, who was quite pleased. Enabler’s note: Target cartwheel 25% off Fraps is good through Sunday 4/2/17!

Thanks, Angie! You’re paw-some!