Faux Watercolor - Make It Monday #36

This week's (might be last weeks by the time you are reading this) Make it Monday is Faux Watercolor. Faux watercolor BTW is awesome :D. Stamp images with water-based dye inks and then brush them with an aqua brush. For this card I used Papertrey Ink's Wonderfully Whimsical stamp set and Dusty Concord Distress Ink. Everything was gone over with an aqua brush except for the "happy".

Gift Box and Gift (updated with more pictures)

All the paper used in this project is from the For the Record Collection by Echo Park, except for the cupcake/ornament holder which is cut from a piece of scrap cardstock.

 

The ornament is decorated with leftover cuts from the box. I shortened the sides of the cupcake holder so the ornament sat lower in the box.

Cricut Cuts:

• Gift Box Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge (lower section made from  Lace Stripes, and the lid from Table Cloth).
• "Ribbon" around the lid made from Martha Stewart Elegant Cake cartridge borders welded together (Newsprint).
• Button Stars from Gypsy Wanderings (twine from Papertrey Ink)
• Flower Handle, made from George &amp Basic Shapes, three flowers cut and glued together to make a handle.

Rise and Shine!

The patterned cardstock is printed with the Cricut Imagine using one of the patterns from Kate's Kitchen. The Toast and Toaster are printed off in layers and assembled. The Rise and Shine is a layer from another layer. One of the things I really love about the Imagine is that after one side is dried, I can make two-sided paper by turning it over and, in this case, I used the matching yellow without the pattern for the inside.

Cuttlebug Card

Cuttlebug Folders: Plaid (Inked on the debossed side) and snowflakes (on the snowflakes)
Cricut Cuts: Snowflakes: Snowflakes from Gypsy Wanderings and Reindeer from Very Merry Tags.
Scrap and Stickles.

WOYWW 123!

I added some flat glass things to the white knobbly things because they needed more weight :D.

They are my tabletop banner holders, which is why the weight is needed. I'm still fiddling about with them and the banner was just made with a scrap to show what I was talking about. But the eye hooks are twisted open so they look like a pig tail so banners can be easily swapped out according to the need. They are made to be free standing to accommodate various lengths as well, and not so tall as to prevent conversation across the table.

Also on my desk are a couple of Club Scrap Projects, the little house and a kaleidoscope in the making (the cardboard tube). My Distress Inks and Brown Cricut Marker from my favorite card yet posted yesterday and some green paper painted with glow in the dark the circles from the hole punch used to embellish clear acrylic domes into glow in the dark eyes.

The little house comes as blank paper already to punch out, and I was having so much fun stamping with a ticket stamp I forgot to put the vellum over the windows. So I made a little tree out of a paper circle, a chenille stem and Stickles so there would be something to look at in the little house. That's a Sharpie lid to the immediate left btw.

If you are wondering what's all this WOYWW, head over to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a gander. Better yet, take a picture and join in the fun :D.

Monochromatic Color Card

And the inside says, "For helping me when I was stumped".

A brown Cricut Marker was used first (on the lowest pressure setting and the fastest speed). The "Thanks" sentiment was only written on and then filled in with Twinkling H2O's Indian Copper. Everything else was cut from the same cream/ivory cardstock and painted with Distress Inks. The card base is 5 x 5 made with Papertrey Ink Dark Chocolate.

And I couldn't have done it without my Gypsy and my Cricut Expression 2. The Thanks sentiment is on the first layer (hit return to design, NOT unload mat when layer 1 is done). The Doily and the Tree Stump are on the second layer because after they were drawn with the Cricut Marker, they were cut. If the Thanks was on the same layer, it would have been cut out also.

Cricut Images:
Thanks - Font Feature on Cindy Loo cartridge, 0.57".
Tree Stump - Create-A-Critter cartridge, 3.63".
Leaf Doily - Doily Feature on Sophie cartridge, 4.96"

Coloring.
Thanks, Indian Copper Twinkling H2O's painted in the lines drawn with Cricut marker.

Tree Stump. top layer, pressed on Antique Linen Distress Ink pad, face layer, painted with Vintage Photo "paint" made by smudging the ink pad on a non-stick work surface and spritzing with water, applied with an aqua brush, then put in puddle of "paint" made with Rusty Hinge Distress Ink. Base, put in a puddle of "paint" made with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Leaf Doily. Painted with "paint" made from Wild Honey Distress Ink applied with an aqua brush. While the doily was still wet, I sort of gently scrunched the leaves, which held the scrunch when they were dried.

WOYWW 122 - Toil and Trouble

I'm gathering all my mini-misters so I can see which ones need water added. The white things are a project in process :D (more to come later). The remote on the right keeps escaping, and it's odd I don't see it until it's in a photograph lol. The gray stubby things are Cricut Markers which need to be put away, only then I started working on another project with them. (I used them on my Bug Bytes project posted earlier today). I was tickled pink to have it done before yesterday even. The paper in the middle is another mat not used for project finding new life as a paint pallette lol.  Oh, and the light yellow thing to the right is a future present for DD (mum's the word eh?).

So if you are wondering about all this WOYWW, head over to Julia's Stamping Ground and have a gander. Better yet, snap a picture of your workdesk and join in the fun :D.