Welcome to a new Tutu Tuesday! Long time between Tuesdays.
Look at this lovely little number, isn't it gorgeous, and my favourite kind of shoes too, blue suede! Well not so much the heals these days but look at that glorious ultramarine deep blue shade!
This last week I've been doing a bit of colouring in. It's something that is rather theraputic for me. The state of mind I've been in recently needed to 'escape' and loose myself in something that needs me to just 'do it'. I think I've broken my creative drought, my lost mojo is slowly coming back as is my sense of humour and sense of being 'calm' if there is such a thing these day. Last week I had a huge wake up call. Some of you may already know that a friend within my wider circle of crafting gal pals, took her own life. It has come as a huge shock to all of us. I'm still in disbelief, though her funeral is this Friday, myself and one of my good buddies just can't travel that far to attend. We are going to do something special together on the weekend to celebrate Marg's life and say our farewells in our own way, just like when our friend Debi passed away 3yrs ago.
So today, I have chosen a beautiful stamp set that will be available to buy from 4th June 2019. It's called Free As A Bird. Look at those cute little birds! They were just chirping at me to colour them in like little Robin Red Breasts. So I did. I've used some new Designer Series Paper too in my background from a new range called Bird Ballad, also onsale from 4th June! Oh my, you are going to love all the different suites and bundles in this new catalogue. It will be available to download for free in PDF format on 4th June too!
You are also going to love that in this new catalogue there are not one but two packs of Water colour pencils available. Yes, Stampin'Up! listened and that limited edition of pencils that was out last year has landed as a standard orderable item!
This is what my colouring looks like in the rough so to speak. See how it looks rather patchy? Next I've used one of Stampin'Up!'s blender pens to blend the colours as you will see in this next photo...
So many people ask me how I blend and colour. Honestly, I don't know, it is just something I have found that comes naturally to me. I've spent years colouring in using many different mediums. You are going to laugh because, when a child, I could never ever stay within the lines. My colouring in back then was atrocious and I was always getting in to trouble at school for it, hard to believe hey?
I used some crumb cake ink to sponge my edges, then layered it onto a pieces of DSP from the Bird Ballad pack. I sponed the edges of that DSP with Calypso Coral ink, added a cute bow using another new product, that beautiful Petal Pink Organdy striped ribbon!
To finish off my card, I punched out two scalloped cirles, layered then and stamped the Hello greeting onto the top layer. I hope you like a little insight into the way I colour in using water colour pencils. Remember, you need a permanent ink like Stazon to water colour/blend with blends. You don't always have to use water colour paper, it's your own preference. However I will say this, if I was using and aqua painter brush with water, I would have stamped on water colour card stock as it is more sturdy and doesn't pil.
Well that's if for today, thanks for stopping by, until next time, remember,
happy stamping, colouring & creating!
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