HLS September Watercolour Challenge

Hi everyone! Woah, September already?? It's a big month for me - Father's Day on the 2nd and my dad's 60th birthday on the 11th. I am also starting to plan my grandson's 1st birthday party which is in November - can you believe he is nearly 1????

Over at Happy Little Stampers we kick off a new month with our Watercolour Challenge.

Anything Goes but you may like to play along with our twist and use a butterfly or two or three...

Here are my cards (yes I made two lol) -

For my first card I placed a stencil on watercolour card, sprinkled turquoise brusho, misted with water, then lifted the stencil. I used my heat gun to speed up the drying process.

I stamped and die cut my butterfly from some left over card that I flipped the stencil over and pressed the ink on to it. 

I rounded off the edges of this card for a bit of interest.

I would like to enter this card over at -

My second card was created in the same manner but I used orange and yellow brushos.

Supplies Used

HLS Butterfly Birthday

HLS Smile!

HLS Perfectly Succulent

MISTI

Brushos

Here is a video tutorial that I created a while back to show you how to use your watercolours with stencils.

I hope to see you over at the challenge blog!

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HLS August Watercolour Challenge

Hi everyone, it's time for a new Watercolour Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers!

Anything Goes but you may like to play along with our twist just like I did by making a number of cards :)

Card 1

I embossed all my little images from the Doodled Flowers set, watercoloured them with Zig Markers, then fussy cut them out. 

I  also used my Zigs to scribble on my background and blend them with water. I dried each colour with my heat gun before adding the next.

Card 2

Another masked and embossed card!

Once again coloured with Zigs. This is a combination of two stamps - Especially for You and Everyday Sentiments.

Card 3

This cute flower arrangement is a Woodware stamp that I bought at a sale while in the UK. Sarah and Anita were with me at the time and we had LOTS of fun!

I embossed the image with Liquid Platinum powder. I coloured everything with Zigs then went over it with a clear glitter pen. I die cut the Thanks out of the panel and then die cut it again 3 more times in black cardstock. I layered them all together so the sentiment would pop up a little. The 'for everything' is from the HLS Simply Said set.

Supplies:

HLS Doodled Flowers

HLS Everyday Sentiments

HLS Especially for You

HLS Simply Said

Thanks for popping in and I hope to see you watercolour up a storm and enter over at the challenge blog :)

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HLS July Watercolour Challenge

Welcome everyone! How are you? July?? Where did you pop up from?

July is actually my birthday month and we have a very fitting theme for our new watercolour challenge over at Happy Little Stampers!

Well, anything goes really but you may like to join us with our optional twist :)

Here is my card -

I had actually looked around pinterest and found a card that I loved and wanted to CASE it. Now I can't find the link for it because I made this card some time ago but it was a lady from PTI.

I die cut my panel and embossed my stars with clear powder. I used my zig markers to scribble colour and wash it out with a water pen. I embossed the sentiment from Dandelion Wishes on a smaller panel that I had watercoloured the same way.

Supplies:

HLS Dandelion Wishes

I hope you will join in with us over at Happy Little Stampers!

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

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HLS June Watercolour Challenge

Hi everyone, we have a new watercolour challenge happening over at Happy Little Stampers!

Here is my card -

I smooshed yellow, orange, and rose red brushos onto my panel. I also watered down some gold mica powder and smooshed that in as well. I had a small piece leftover so I stamped a butterfly and die cut it to pop it up on the card.

Once my panel was dry, I used my MISTI to stamp my sentiment. I added my sequins using glossy accents to adhere them. While I had the glossy accents out, I smothered the butterfly to make it all shiny :)

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Supplies -

HLS Butterfly Birthday

HLS Butterfly Dies

HLS Smile!

HLS Multicoloured Sequins

Brusho Watercolour Crystals

I hope to see you over at the challenge!

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HLS May Watercolour Challenge

Hello and welcome to May! The first of the month is the start of a new round of challenges over at Happy Little Stampers. We kick off with our Watercolour challenge :)

Anything Goes but you may like to play along with our optional twist.

I masked and embossed my butterflies and coloured them with Zig watercolour pens. I fussy cut them out and popped them up on my card panel with foam tape.

Once dry, I put an overlay of glitter using a clear glitter pen.

I think this gives the colours much more depth.

Supplies:

HLS Butterfly Birthday

HLS Dandelion Wishes

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

I hope to see you over at the challenge blog!

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HLS April Watercolour Challenge

Well, hello April! I hope you are ready for a new challenge over at Happy Little Stampers? We always kick off a new month with our Watercolour Challenge.

We would love if you played along with our optional twist but you don't have to. Anything Goes!

Here is my card -

I stamped my sentiment with Versafine black ink and embossed with clear powder. I masked it off and placed a stencil over the entire panel and used my versamark pad to smooch ink through the stencil. I then embossed it all with white powder. 

Using Zigs, I watercoloured the panel to create a rainbow.

Below is actually my first panel that I made but for some reason I didn't quite like it. It will grow on me and end up on a card, I'm sure :)

Supplies Used:

HLS Smile!

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

I have finally moved house. It took nearly 5 days of solid moving - thank god it was just around the corner! Unpacking has nearly come to an end. 

I hope to see you over at the challenge blog!

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HLS March Watercolour Challenge

Hi there! Time for a new monthly challenge over at Happy Little Stampers! We kick off March with our Watercolour challenge.

Here is my card -

I have used the new Perfectly Succulent stamps set from HLS. I know that I have received many plants when moving into a new home so I wanted to create this card using one of the cactus plants.

I used brusho smooshing for my background panel. I embossed the sentiment. I also embossed the image and watercoloured it with my zigs. I fussy cut it out and popped it up with a little foam tape.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Supplies:

HLS Perfectly Succulent

Brusho Watercolour Crystals

HLS Purple Sequins

I hope to see you playing along and check out the Designers over at the challenge blog for more inspiration :)

Ta ta for now xx

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HLS February Watercolour Challenge

Hi everyone! Time for a new Watercolour challenge at Happy Little Stampers!

Here is my card -

My background was created by applying Brusho with a brush to get an Ombre look. I also added a little gold mica powder.

I die cut my little hearts from my strip of black card, embossed the sentiment and attached the Happy die cut (this was cut about 3 times and glued together). 

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

I went with our optional theme of hearts but created a Birthday card instead of something for Valentine's.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges -

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HLS January Watercolour Challenge

Happy New Year everyone! Here's to 2018!

The first challenge of the year at Happy Little Stampers is our Anything Goes with Watercolours - our option this month is SEQUINS.

Here is my card -

I have smooshed brusho colours onto watercolour paper. I've used yellow, orange, and crimson.

When smooshing with more than one colour, start with the lightest first. Build up your layers by drying in between smooshes.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Supplies:

Brusho Powders

Echo Park - Birthday Party Word Dies

Quickie Glue Pen

Multi-coloured Sequin Pack

Thanks for coming by and I hope to see you over at the challenge blog :)

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HLS October Watercolour Challenge

Hello everyone. Well, this year seems to be flying by. In just a few short weeks I will be off to the UK for the HLS Craft Retreat. Wow, it has crept up on me like you wouldn't believe - so excited!

This month for the HLS Watercolour Challenge Anything Goes but you may like to play along with our optional twist.

I've made two cards for this challenge using our optional twist.

Card #1

I smooshed versamark ink through a stencil and embossed with gold powder. I applied Rose Red combined with White Brusho powder with a paint brush. I dried the panel in between applications to achieve the deeper colours at the top. I cut the shine from Gold Mirror Board and stamped the sentiment from the 'Simply Said' stamp set from Happy Little Stampers.

Card #2 

 I applied Brusho colours the same way as Card #1. This time I had a little gold mica powder added to the mix. Unfortunately the photo doesn't pick it up. It is quite subtle but gives it a lovely shine.

I die cut the Happy from Gold Mirror Board and then wondered if you could actually stamp on it too... I don't think I have ever seen stamping/embossing on the gold board so I gave it a go. I used my MISTI so as to make sure my stamping didn't slip. It worked beautifully! The sentiment is from the HLS Mix Mash stamp set.

I adhered my die cuts using my Quickie Glue Pen which is perfect for small areas.

Here are the supplies I have used to make these cards -

        

        

I hope you will play along this month. Don't forget Anything Goes!

I would like to play along in the following challenges -

Card 1



Moving Along with the Times - Geometric Shapes
Stamps and Stencils - Metallics
Always Fun Challenges - Anything Goes



Card 2

CAS on Friday - Use Dies

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HLS September Watercolour Challenge

Well hello there! Welcome to a brand new month! We have our first challenge kicking off over at Happy Little Stampers and it is our -

We want you to make anything you like as long as there are watercolours involved. This month our optional twist is Spritz - get those water misters out and spritz away!! I did on two cards :)

For my first card, I spritzed a little water straight onto my cardstock and then sprinkled Violet Brusho over the water. It made a lovely background!

For my second card, I sprinkled the Brusho first and then spritzed it with water. This colour is Prussian Blue.

I really wanted the backgrounds to be the star so a simple die cut (in glitter foam) was all that was required for these.

Seriously the EASIEST way to create watercolour backgrounds in just seconds!

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

I hope to see you over at the challenge blog!

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HLS July Watercolour Challenge

Hello! It's the 1st of July and time for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers. As always, our first challenge of the month is our watercolour challenge!

Create ANYTHING that is watercoloured and if you feel like playing along with our optional twist, please do so :)

Here is my card

This a classic design for me. I have created similar thanks to Sarah P who inspired me with a card she sent me.

This was very easy to create. I embossed my butterflies from the HLS Especially for You set onto watercolour paper then smooshed it into brusho colours - Turquoise, Ultramarine, and Cobalt Blue. I started with the Turquoise first and dried in between colours.

I die cut the happy from a piece of glitter foam. The sentiment is from the HLS Everyday Sentiments set.

Such an easy card to make and simple to replicate!

Here are the products I used -

          

          

I hope to see you playing along over at the challenge blog.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenge

Incy Wincy Designs - Sparkle or Shine

Thanks for popping in today xx

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