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Tuesday with Tara {take 40}

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Happy Tuesday!  I’ve got a simple card to share with you today!  I recently colored up a few Crazy Birds images and saved them for some quick cards, like this one.  I noticed that Color Burst has arrived in the shop (yay!) so thought I’d use them on today’s card!

For the card background, I cut a piece of watercolor paper to size and spritzed it with water, then sprinkled a few bits of Color Burst in yellows and orange into the puddles.  I mixed them a bit with a wet paintbrush, then dried it all with a heat tool.  I can’t tell you enough how much I love the way the colors blend together… so fun to play with!  Since I’d already colored up my main image, I just selected a sentiment (and oldie from my stash, by the artist that made this great set!) and arranged the pieces on my background.  A bit of bling finished it all off after I attached it to a black card base.

Here’s a few more shots- I love that it’s spring and I can take photos in the yard 🙂

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Materials used:

Watercolor Cardstock

Color Burst in shades of yellow & orange from Brights and Earth Tones sets

Memory Box Virtuoso Music Die

Bird Crazy stamps by Tim Holtz

Black Cardstock

Bling

Glossy Accents

Wink of Stella glitter pen

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a creative day!

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

p.s. leave a comment and you could win a surprise from the shop… how about a roll of Be Creative Tape?  Because maybe you have a pet like mine who likes to destroy your essential supplies 😉

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Tuesday with Tara {take 35}

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Happy Tuesday!  I’m glad you’re here today!  It’s March 1, the sun is shining where I’m at and it’s got me thinking about spring and bright colors and inky fingers and other things that make me smile…

First up today, I’ve got a winner to announce!  I took all the comments left on last week’s blog post and the facebook page post, and used a random number generator to come up with a winner!  (If it’s not you, stick around till the end of this post for another chance to win a prize!)

The winner is…

NANCY L.

Congrats!  Contact us with your mailing address and we’ll get your feather stencil sent off to you!

Today we’re moving from feathers to BIRDS- just a little crazy bird today 🙂  I mixed up another custom paste for my background using a couple shades of Distress Ink and Transluscent paste and a generous amount of chunky glitter by American Crafts.  I stamped my sentiment first, then placed the Crafter’s Workshop stencil over it and applied paste with a palette knife.  Once the paste was dry, I sprinkled some Color Burst over it and spritzed.  It made a fun background!

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My crazy bird was also colored with a mix of Color Burst and Distress Markers, then finished off with a generous amount of Stickles Glitter Glue 🙂

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Hope you like my crazy, sparkly bird card and it brings a smile to your day!  Everything was done on Watercolor paper today, so today you can win a package of Distress Watercolor Cardstock!

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Just leave a comment on this blog post and let me know- is it sunny where you are today?  Winner will be announced next Tuesday on the blog!  Earn an extra chance to win by commenting on the pinned post on our facebook page too!

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Tuesday with Tara {take 34}

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Happy Tuesday!  I’m pretty excited because today I get to show you a project with a product that is coming soon to the store… and you are going to LOVE them if you haven’t already tried them and fallen in love!  That’s right, Color Burst by Ken Oliver is coming soon, and they are a fabulous powdered watercolor medium that you can do all sorts of techniques with.  I had the opportunity to take a class with Ken Oliver and we created some larger pieces, one of which was finished on a 12×12 canvas.  Today I’m showing you that piece, even though I haven’t quite decided if I will be adding more to finish it yet… here’s what I made:

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We started with creating a lighter colored watercolor background on a large piece of watercolor paper, then added depth with deeper colors through a stencil.  Lots of water spritzing, dripping and a bit of detail added with a wet paintbrush… here’s some close ups of the fabulous bursts of color pigments:

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I actually haven’t decided yet which way is UP on my piece, and plan to add a word or quote in the “solid” panel, which will determine the direction I suppose!  Here’s another angle:

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I do love it as it is though!  And really need to add a feather stencil to my collection… but for now I have a chance for YOU to add one to yours!   Leave a comment on THIS blog post telling me your favorite COLOR!  Earn an extra chance to win by commenting on the pinned post on our facebook page as well!

Here’s the stencil that could be arriving soon in your mailbox (it’s on my wish list!):

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I look forward to hearing from you this week!  Have a creative day!

Inky hugs,

Tara

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