On Tuesday night I held a launch party; you should have been there, we had loads of fun! One of the make and takes used watercolor pencils and I enjoyed playing with them so much, I decided to pull out other stamp sets to colour. This time, it’s Mediterranean Moments.

I stamped the image using the archival basic black and then walked away for a short time to be sure that the black was really dry. Next I took a number of the pencils – real red, old olive, pacific point, daffodil delight, early espresso and a little calypso coral and roughly laid down some colour. You don’t have to be at all precise at this point. Then I used a blender pen to move the colour where I wanted it. I left about half of the image uncoloured so as to keep the sketch look rather than trying to make a painting. All that remained was to choose a card base – I often use a skinny basic black mat around watercolouring and this time I decided to use the black for the card base. I really like how it left all of the attention on the image.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free handmade cards; the current one is PNF6CKRH (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free cards from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here.

And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Here’s a sneak peek at a set coming up in the new Occasions catalog that will be live from January 4th. As a demonstrator, I’m able to buy from the catalog tomorrow but I also had an opportunity to order from a selected list when I went to Onstage recently. This set, Mediterranean Moments, was inspired by Susan Nygaard, one of the recent million sales achievers. It consists of four images made for watercolouring.

I stamped the image in the archival basic black and then used a handful of regals – cajun craze for the bricks, garden green for the chairs and plant, crushed curry for the table cloth. I also used sahara sand for the paving stones and the edges of the chalkboard and a touch of delightful dijon for the lamp. I varied the amount of water that I used to give me different tones of the same colours. So the wood on the chalkboard and the paving stones are both sahara sand, but in such different strengths that they look totally different.

Once I’d finished watercolouring, I cut a piece of basic black a tiny bit larger than the watercolour paper and then mounted it on a delightful dijon card base. It was a lot of fun to do and a refreshing break from the sparkle of Christmas cards. I love making Christmas cards but it’s nice to do something else occasionally.

Get ready to shop! From tomorrow, there will be a Year-End Closeouts sales – a selection of retiring Holiday product, clearance and high inventory items will be discounted up to 60% off. Some will be whilst supplies last so get ready!

I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the hostess code to get free product; the current one is MSJ9ZMGN (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift from me). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. Don’t forget to keep track of what you spend with me – once you get to $400 you get to select $40 for free. Check my Customer Loyalty Program tab for all the details.

See you tomorrow,

Liz