Welcome to a brand new challenge!

It seems like nobody likes to make TAGS!

What a shame!

We only had a few entries last week for

our TAGS WITH A FLOWER OR

A TREE ON IT challenge.,

sponsored by Hope Jacare Doodles

but the ones we did have were FABULOUS!

Thank you to all of the ladies who participated.

Now, let's see who "Mr. Random Integer"

chose as the winner.

The WINNER of

Challenge # 78

is

You have won 2 images

of your choice from

HOPE JACARE DOODLES!

Please email me

susan_paulson@verizon.net

and I will arrange your prize for you.

And please do not forget to take our

from our side bar and

place it on your blog!

Now on to this week's challenge!

This week is CHALLENGE # 79

and our lovely sponsor is

A FREEBIE will be available

for any participant who would like

to use it for their entry.

Please email me

and put

and 2 images if the winner has used

a

Sylvie Stamps image.

beautiful "ORIENTAL LADIES" our own

wonderful Ladies of the DT have found for us!

Let's get ready for our trip to

"Chinatown, my Chinatown
When the lights are low
Hearts that know no other land
Drifting to and fro

Dreamy, dreamy Chinatown
Almond eyes of brown
Hearts are light and lights are bright
In dreamy Chinatown"

SUSAN

JULES

Now that you are all humming the tune to

"Chinatown, My Chinatown"

and you have seen your inspiration
for this challenge,

it is time for YOU to
show us some lovely

"ORIENTAL LADIES!"


See you all next SUNDAY,

Susan

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This week I am going to share with you the way I color in a lot of my images here at IDIC. I simply paint the image using distressing inks and water with a regular paint brush I bought at Hobby Lobby. I have a craft mat that I pressed the distressing ink pads on and then spray them with water. You can find the Craft Sheet at the OWSE store. Another thing you can use if you just want to try it out is wax paper. It works well but after a while I decided it was time to invest in the craft sheet. It is well worth the money for this technique and so much more.

I use distressing inks because they react beautifully with water, where other ink brands do not. I often use water with Perfect Pearls in it to give the image sparkle. I printed out the digital image from Robyn's Fetish on regular cardstock from Michael's but I have to tell you I really like to use watercolor paper. I found some at Hobby Lobby that I felt was reasonably priced and only needed to be cut down slightly to fit in my printer. The cardstock can warp when you add the ink with water. This doesn't happen with the watercolor paper.


For this card I am using the following supplies:

1.) Distressing inks Barn Door and Broken China

2.) Perfect Pearls color perfect pearl

3.) Mini Mister (to blend my water and Perfect Pearls together)

4.) Mittens image from Robyn's Fetish

5.) cardstock, lace, thread and stamp from my stash

Let's begin!

After I printed my image out onto the cardstock I gathered all my supplies.



Take your ink pads and pat them onto the craft sheet to make your very own painting palate. In order to keep your ink pads from becoming contaminated with other colors set the different colors apart from each other. See below:


If you plan on combining inks to make your own colors place them semi close to be able to pull more of one color to the other until you get the color you are looking for. The more water you add to the ink the lighter the color will be. I usually spray the water to the side of the ink spot so I have the choice to make it lighter or darker.


This next photo show my paint brush and the combining of the water (with Perfect Pearls) and ink together on the paint brush.


I then started painting in my image. I started with the smallest part of the image, the hearts, so that the red was prominent and would stick out from the blue mittens. After cleaning my brush with water, I went onto the blue. I colored the first coat light blue because I like to go over the image a second time with the same color after the painting dries a bit. The lines from the paint brush seem to blend together better the second time it is painted.


You can see in the photo below I have paint brush lines so I am going to wait a while before I go back in with my blue. So because I was being impatient I decided to blend the blue and red together and make a purple color for the top of the mittens as you can see below.


Here is my final image. I painted a second coat on the hands of the mittens but not around the cuffs. I wanted the lines to show on the cuffs and for the color to be lighter than the bottom.


Here is my final card. I wanted the lace to flare up when the card was standing up. What I will do is fold the lace upward when I put it into the envelope so when the recipient takes the card out of the envelope it will naturally flip up like the picture. You can really see the sparkle that the Perfect Pearls add to the image. Love that.


That's all I have for you today. I hope you have enjoyed a new twist to coloring in your images and using those distressing inks you may have in your stash.

Check out my BLOG for more examples of this technique, especially this fairy card.

See you next Thursday!

                                                      

                                                             

                                                    

Before we begin our next challenge,

we have a WINNER to announce!

The lucky winner of Challenge # 77  - "ANIMALS"

sponsored by Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps

And More

is

Congratulations!

You have won 1 image of your choice

from the

Robyn's Fetish Store!

Please email me here at

so that I can arrange your prize for you.

You may take our WINNER'S BADGE from our side bar

and place it on your blog.

Now, let's get on with a new challenge!

This week is CHALLENGE # 78

and we have been making TAGS

Our wonderful sponsor this week is

who has kindly provide these images

for the DT.

There is also a FREEBIE for this challenge,

if you would like to use one for your entry.

Please email me

and write

of your request.

Do not forget to tell me the name of the DT

member, please!

ONLY 1 FREEBIE PER PERSON, PLEASE.


The PRIZE for this challenge
will be
1 image from Hope Jacare Doodles
or
2 images if the winner has used a
Hope Jacare Doodles image for
the entry.

Now that we have shown you our TAGS,

it's time for YOU to make some TAGS.

BUT BE SURE THAT IT HAS

EITHER A TREE or a

Until our next challenge,

Click here for the CURRENT DT CALL
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Click here for the ROBYN'S NEST

Here we go into week two of Fabulous Friday Fun. Today I'm going to show you how I make a shaped card using Spellbinders dies. You can use any type of die and die cutting machine. This just happens to be what I have.

For this project I used minimal supplies:

1.) Three shades of cardstock

2.) Tim Holtz stamps (from Birds and Baubles and Soulful Journey)

3.) Distressing ink (Frayed Burlap)

4.) Colorbox petal point pigment ink

5.) Stampendous clear embossing powder

Tools that I used: distressing tool by Ranger Industries, Spellbinder die (Beaded Square), Cuttlebug machine, Fiskars 12 inch paper trimmer, Marvy heat embossing gun and an old school embossing stylus.

The first thing I do is figure out where to score my cardstock. I don't have a fancy dancy scorer so I use what I have on hand, which is my 12 inch trimmer. Where the blade cuts a straight line is a groove that when you line up your paper and push down into that groove with a stylus you score your paper.

6.  Snowflake Punchies & Rhinestones

Here is Annette's blog.

Birdie and I hope that all of you "Robynettes" will visit and see all of the wonderful cards and projects that Annette has to show you.

Why not sign up to be one of Annette's followers?  She has so much to teach and show us.

Thank you, Annette.  Your 1 FREE image will be on its way to you soon.

Until next week, Robynettes,

                                          KEEP COLORING!

                         

                                                             

                                                              

                                                           





                                                             



Welcome back to another

challenge!

Before we begin, have you all

noticed that we are having a DT CALL?

Also, we have added a new page during the week.

It is our "FABULOUS FRIDAY FUN" page

and we hope that you will join Cindy there

for lots of tips, techniques and other great

information about digis and stamping.

Now, let's get on with the winner announcement for

last week's challenge!

The winner of Challenge # 76 -

"ANYTHING GOES!" that

was sponsored by

ROBYN"S FETISH

is

Congratulations!

You have won 1 image from the

Please email me at

so that I can arrange for you

to get your prize.

Don't forget to take our

from our side bar

so that you can

display it on your blog!

Let's see what the challenge for this

week is, shall we?

Here is a hint for you!