Good morning! Today is the second day of Kathy Rac’s The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge and we’ve got something special to celebrate! Today is the FIRST day of a THREE DAY blog hop to jumpstart your creativity. If you’re new to the coloring challenge or have any questions about the coloring challenge you can refer to this post.
If you are coming from Kim Kimmel Becker’s blog you are in the right place. To start at the beginning of the hop, head to The Daily Marker’s blog here.
Today I wanted to try something a little different and I combined distress ink watercoloring with copic marker coloring. And here’s what I came up with!
This was also my first time using stamps from Unity Stamps and I’m in love with these Phyllis Harris designs. If you know me on Facebook or Instagram you know that I’ve been having some rough times with my senior dog late this summer and fall. We’re still going day by day but I’m learning to appreciate every moment we have together and thought this image from Unity Stamps and sentiment from Paper Smooches worked perfectly together.
To start off I masked off the sailboat in the image (it’s cute but not quite what I was going for) and then stamped the image and sentiment onto watercolor paper with versafine before embossing it with clear embossing powder. Next I smooshed distress inks onto an acrylic block and watercolored the background. I used spun sugar, picked raspberry, and shaded lilac for the sky; chipped sapphire, stormy sky, and salty ocean for the water; and mustard seed and wild honey for the sand. Then I colored the girl and her dog with copic markers and added spectrum noir clear sparkle to her dress. To finish the card I die-cut the Park Avenue frame from Mama Elephant with light grey cardstock and adhered it over the watercolored panel. I’m really happy with the way it turned out…I think I might just frame it and keep it!
So what’s a hop without prizes!?! 12 crafty goodie bags, compliments of the wonderful Kathy Rac, will be given away to random comments left on the blog hop and instagram hop! That’s TWELVE CHANCES TO WIN during the three day hop. The more you comment on each blog or instagram photo, the more chances you have of winning. The full list of winners will be announced Wed. Nov 16th on Kathy’s blog!
Now it’s time to hop to the fabulous Lisa Tilson!
Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you’ll join in the fun this month. Be sure to use the hashtag #thedailymarker30day so we can find your work or you can join the Facebook group here.
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I can almost smell the beach. Love the sentiment and the card!
It’s gorgeous Jessica, I love how you combined both mediums and created such a beautiful card, it’s so tranquil. I understand about your dog, we lost ours about 2 months ago, so treasure those moments you have. We had our Daisy for 12 years and feel so lucky she was in our lives for so long (she lived a long time for a Newfoundland :))
Beautiful job on the card Jess, love the soft watercolored look! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Love this scenic beauty with a cute pet! Great combo of distress inks and Copics! Love this Unity stamp!
This is beautiful! Love Unity stamps!
Your beautiful card makes me long for the ocean.
Jessica, your card is beautiful! I definitely need that stamp! Combining Copics and watercolor is very interesting, I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks for the inspiration!
Awesome colors!
Love that Image made me cry, I lost one of my dogs and a cat this year. Its been a crap of a year to say the least. Your work on this card is wonderful
Nicely done!
Thanks for sharing how you did this beautiful card! Prayers for you and your pet!
I would totally frame this… beautiful! That sky is perfection 🙂
I too understand, we have a 16 year old Llasa Aspo, and everyday that we have him still here I am thankful for. (We lost his sister 3 years ago at the age of 16)
Your card is so lovely! The scene is perfect for what you described. I can totally relate as we lost our second of two dogs last February and they had both been sick before We had to say goodbye. Hang in there and hugs!
a sweet scene and that frame is wonderful around your coloring!
What a sweet scene, and the sentiment is perfect
I love Unity stamps. I have…well let’s just say…too many! 🙂 I love your coloring. I never think to add copics to my watercolor. I will have to try it. So sorry to hear about your sweet dog. Hugs!
So sweet. Love the coloring!
Your card is lovely! Hang in there and just enjoy the time you do have with your sweet pup. We lost both of our senior dogs last year and it was so hard to experience, but I wouldn’t trade the pain of losing them for the joy of having them in our lives!
Beautiful watercoloring,
I love the sky coloring.
Carla from Utah
Wow, such beautiful colors and what a great card!
Wow. What a beautiful card !! Lobes the whole scene. And the pink sky.
Lovely and sweet scene!
beautiful card, jess!! ^^
I saw this posted on IG and was so taken by the beautiful soft colors. Just gorgeous.
what a beautiful card!!! I can almost feel that breeze!!!