Mediterranean Moments – Sidewalk Cafe

I love, love, love the Mediterranean Moments stamp set.
If you feel like relaxing, coloring and making a beautiful
picture, this is the stamp set for you.

I saw this card on Pinterest (I believe it was Amy Knoeder's) and I fell in love with the look.
It's a little bit rustic, it's soft and romantic.
It reminds my of last year's incentive trip that I earned
through Stampin' Up!
You could sit at one of these cafe tables almost any
where in Spain or Italy.
Mediterean Cafe Table
The city scene is stamp with Basic Black ink on Watercolor Paper
(no coloring on this).
Then the cafe table is stamped on another piece of
Watercolor Paper.  This one is colored with the
Watercolor Pencils and blended out with a
Blender Pen.

Card base is So Saffron.
A Black layer is added to make it all "pop".
The designer paper strip is from
Cupcakes & Carousels.
I love the added Lace Trim and Linen Thread.

I'm ready to sit right at that table with a
glass of wine and enjoy the view.
How about you?

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Beautiful You Watercolor

Our final card in class featured the
Beautiful You stamp set — a new favorite for me.

This time we used Stazon ink on Shimmery White cardstock.

Erin went over the light and dark areas of this stamped
image to help everyone understand where the colors
changed.  They started light with the Old Olive pencil
coloring the skirt and going over the lines (beside the lines)
for the creases to give a look of depth to the skirt.

The top is colored with Melon Mambo pencil.

The umbrella is Basic Gray — again starting light we colored
the whole thing — use the Blender Pen to smooth our the
pencil — then start adding heavier color around the top.
Erin told them to use the Basic Black pencil to add a little
shadow at the bottom of the umbrella.

The lady’s skin is colored with the Calypso Coral pencil
start very light — even touching the Blender Pen to the
top of the pencil and coloring until you get the skin tone
you want.

Beautiful YouWe used the new Lace Doilies — cutting one in half
and attaching to the left side of the card.

I love how this card turned out.
The black cardstock helps give it all a big “pop”.

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Watercolor Dragonfly

Here’s the second card we made at my
Watercolor Pencil Class Wednesday night.

We stamped the dragonfly from Dragonfly Dreams stamp set
on Whisper White cardstock with the Basic Black ink.
We used Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo and Bermuda Bay
pencils to fill in the dragonfly — lighter in some areas.
Then we used the Blender Pen to spread the color and
blender them together.  Last we add some
Clear Wink of Stella to give the iridescent look to the
wings.
I had a blast checking out all the different looks
of the dragonflies as each person colored a bit different.

Dragonfly Dream

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