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{using my watercolors…}

by on January 26, 2012
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Have you been see­ing the new trend in the scrap­book­ing indus­try? Yup, its water­col­ors. I love love love Dear lizzy’s new line “Neopoli­tan” and Amy Tan­ger­ines’ new paper line  ” Sketch­book”. I seem to be see­ing the word “Paint” everywhere!!!

Which works well for me, coz I was a painter long before I was a scrap­booker. Way before I was a scrap­booker. I wish I had the time, to lose myself in my can­vases and paints (which I have tons of, all unused.… {sigh})

You can see one of my favorite paint­ings here, and most of my other paint­ings here.

I have done some paint­ing on my scrap­book­ing lay­outs, like the one I shared here. I wanted to do more now. Who doesn’t like to be trendy?

So two weeks ago, I went down to my base­ment and searched for some craft paints, brushes and palettes, brought them up to my stu­dio and have been hav­ing fun with them; just doo­dling, or paint­ing things at ran­dom (which I can­not share with you all right now…) This has made me so con­tent. 

Here is the card I wanted to share today, which I made for ThePunches Chal­lenge in the Moxie Fab World

For this card, instead of punch­ing pat­terned paper or card­stock, I punched some water­color paper. I first painted on the paper and then ran­domly punched out squares and used these squares for the grid/collage.

Now the paint­ing you see above, isnt really a paint­ing… It started out as a scrap paper I used to test my paints, before I actu­ally used them on the projects.… But then I liked the col­ors so I kept build­ing onto it. I really did not have the time to give it more atten­tion and fin­ish it up. It needed a lit­tle more love. So I took a punch to it and made it into a card…

I love the ran­dom­ness of the col­ors on the grid now. If you are scared to paint, go ahead and try your hand at it, and if you dont like what you have made, punch them into squares! This con­cept would also work beau­ti­fully with a large, bold pat­terned paper :)

I still have more ideas for the punch chal­lenge, time to get working…

Sup­plies used:
Card­stock: Bazzil basics, The paper company
Water­color paper: Strathmore
stick­ers: Authentique
Pat­terned paper: Crate paper
Punch, Paper edgers, cor­ner rounder: Fiskars
foam dots, craft acrylic paints, foam brush…
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Posted by Smitha on January 26, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/01/using-my-watercolors/

{thanks so much, a card…}

by on January 18, 2012
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A pretty flo­ral card for to share with you all today,
which I made for this Tues­day Trig­ger…

I love play­ing with paper and mak­ing flow­ers! I keep try­ing new ways and tech­niques and am always sur­prised with the results :)

 
Sup­plies used:
Card­stock: Bazzil Basics
Pat­terned paper: crate paper, stu­dio calico
Sen­ti­ment: Elle’s studio

 

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Posted by Smitha on January 18, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/01/thanks-so-much-a-card/

{tiffany doodles blog hop time…}

by on January 12, 2012
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Thank you for join­ing Tiffany Doo­dles’ first blog hop of 2012! I am so glad you’re here! It’s ALSO the sec­ond anniver­sary of Tiffany Doodles!

You’re going to find lots of inspi­ra­tion along the way, from sev­eral tal­ented ladies. Be sure to leave each of them a com­ment by Sun­day the 15th for your chance to win some­thing of your choice! That’s 19 chances to win! All win­ners will be announced on the Tiffany Doo­dles blog Wednes­day Jan­u­ary 18th.
If you’ve arrived from Mary John­son you’re in the right place! If this is your first stop, please go back to Jessica’s blog so you don’t miss anything!

And here is my card for the hop…

And this is the Tiffany Doo­dles image I used for this card…



My card is prob­a­bly the most sim­ple one you will see in this blog hop :) . But this is me, and nowa­days sim­ple clean lines, with no fuss is what I am all about. My house seems to be in an eter­nal mess, with plas­tic toys every­where ( I have two girls under the age of 3 years…), so my craft projects tend to be more sim­plis­tic. This card started with a dif­fer­ent idea in my head, but I LOVE what I made with it in the end!!!

I do not own a Copic marker. No madam I do not. I eye them every­time I am out at the art sup­ply store, but I have restrained myself. I really have too many scrap­book­ing sup­plies at home that I don’t use enough, so I am try­ing to use what I have more and more. But with no mark­ers, I had still planned to make this card with color pen­cils and glossy accents, but this clean kinda debossed effect of the flow­ers worked felt better.

For this card I used the color inspi­ra­tion from the colourQ chal­lenge #119…

And here is a look­sie at how I made this in Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5,

(click on the image to see enlarged version)

That flow­er­ing branch doo­dle is so pretty, it really didn’t need any more adorn­ment. I just drew a rec­tan­gle  pink box beneath it and a grey box (slightly larger in size) beneath it. The pink rec­tan­gle has a orange stroke around it.  To high­light my sen­ti­ment, I col­ored one flower dark bright pink by using a mask.

Print onto a 8.5 by 11 inch card­stock, trim and form the card. And I was done. As easy as that. This would be great pro­ce­dure for mak­ing cards in bulk. Imag­ine using one of the heart doo­dles to make your kids valen­tines next month!

I often make hybrid cards, so if you have any ques­tions, ask them in the com­ment sec­tion below and I will answer them there…

I hope you’re feel­ing inspired! Before you hop over to Ruby McGuire remem­ber to leave a com­ment for your chance to win! I get to choose one win­ner and that win­ner will receive the flow­er­ing branch image I used above!!

Tiffany is also giv­ing away the entire Jan­u­ary release and all you have to do is cre­ate a card or project using ANY Tiffany Doo­dles image, blog about it, and add your name to in linkz tool which can be found on Tiffany’s blog. On Jan­u­ary 18th the DT will pick one per­son to win the entire Jan­u­ary release!

If you are new to my blog go ahead and like me on my face­book page here or feel free to grab my RSS feed here… I love hear­ing from new peo­ple so come back sometime!

Thanks for hop­ping along with us, we look for­ward to see­ing your creations!
Sup­plies used:
Soft­ware: Adobe Pho­to­shop CS5
Fonts: Amer­i­can Type­writer, CK ali hand
Dig­i­tal image/ stamp: Tiffany Doodles
Card­stock: Wassau
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Posted by Smitha on January 12, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/01/tiffany-doodles-blog-hop-time/

{1…}

by on January 4, 2012
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I made a card for this weeks Tues­day Trigger,

and this was the trig­ger at the Moxie Fab World,

From the trig­ger I was inspired to quilt on my card and use num­bers. I think the “1” turned out just about how I had envi­sioned it :)

I have been think­ing a lot of our sec­ond baby turn­ing one year old lately. And today’ card just rein­forces that thought. She is only 5 months old, but I can­not fig­ure out where and how those 5 months have gone by?! It is like I blinked and time got fast for­warded! Any­way, I have been think­ing about her turn­ing one, and start­ing to walk (she doesn’t even crawl yet! but a moth­ers mind works fast I guess…) and am already plan­ning her first birth­day party in my head. I blame it all on Pin­ter­est. For now, her sis­ter and I agree that there has to be lots and lots of bal­loons involved :)

Sup­plies used:
Paper: Amer­i­can crafts, My minds eye
Sen­ti­ment: Cre­at­ing Keepsakes
Cloud punch, bor­der punch: fiskars

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Posted by Smitha on January 4, 2012

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2012/01/first_birthday/

{today’s cards…}

by on October 26, 2011
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The past cou­ple of days have been so hec­tic and busy, I have had no free time. We have been hav­ing so much fun; the pump­kin patch, rak­ing leaves, the apple orchard, the zoo…

So, I stayed up late last night, just so that I could have a lit­tle time to be cre­ative… My time.

Two cards to share today,

The first one is titled “Beau­ti­ful Autumn”, which is some­thing I am so thank­ful for right now! Fall has to be the best sea­son ever, it so col­or­ful and offers such  bril­liant oppor­tu­ni­ties for pho­tog­ra­phy! (you can see some of mine here)

This card was inspired by this Tues­day Trig­ger from the Moxie Fab World,

 

The sec­ond card, is all about nature and flow­ers and bright col­ors. And this is my first card with no sen­ti­ment. I need to try and make more of these! How con­ve­nient to have them on hand…

I was totally inspired by the new Color Challenge@ Embell­ish, what an awe­some color combo!

I also made this card with the new Cas-ual Fri­days chal­lenge in mind. Just add color. It was so much fun to pull out my color pen­cils and color in the stamped image. I added lots of glossy accents here on the flowers…

Now I gotta go and see what my girls are upto. Maybe give them an extra tight hug for being quiet for 15 min­utes so that I could blog this :)

But it seems toooooo quiet…

I can smell ‘mis­chief” in the air.

oh oh.

…

 

 

 

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Posted by Smitha on October 26, 2011

http://www.smilingcolors.com/2011/10/todays-cards/

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