Fairy Valentine

Tiny fairy card up on Altered Pages today.  Pop on over.

Jess

Tim tag for July

Dang! This is the closest I've ever cut it to the wire! Truth be told I have had a hard time finding my craft mojo this month.  I have been reading like crazy instead.  I read 12 books this month.  12! Sheesh.
But you're not here to hear about what I read, you're here to see my tag.

My tag is a bit different than Tim's.  I really wanted to use these images from Dina Wakley.  I'm taking a class with her tonight and thought it would inspire me a bit.  

They are watercolored using watercolors and a few distress markers.  The backgrounds are colored with distress inks using my water brush.  I like the resin flowers they have too.  It's a pretty girly tag.  

There ya go! My tag for July.  

What have you been crafting?

Jess

Watercolor Distress Marker Card

I am not a painter.  I never have been.  I love how Distress Markers make it look like you have been watercoloring for years.  I started making this card simply by playing with the little kid set of watercolors I have had forever.  I used shades of blue and purple.  I just kept layering them to deepen the color.  I dried it between layers and then blotted here and there.  

I stamped my background image and then set it aside.  I stamped the main image using Archival ink on watercolor paper.  I used my Distress Markers and the watercolors to paint.  I used my waterbrush to do all the detail.  

I used plain white cardstock and my latticework stencil to make the body of the card.  Broken China and Black Soot Distress markers in the spritzer made a light background.  

I added a flower from my stash when I was on my Tattered Floral kick.  

You'd never know I wasn't a painter ;)

Simon Says Stamp Artsy Challenge

What have you been crafting?

Jess