Water Colour Paint Tips and Tricks - Tutorial

Hi there!

I treated myself to some water colour paints the other week, and I had so much fun with them I thought I would share some of the ways that I used them.

Here is a look at the colour palette, I just love how rich and vibrant the colours are.

Since this was my first time playing with water colour paints, I started out by just playing around.  I really had no ideas what to do, what would work and what wouldn't. (As I write this, I realize that I could have searched for a You-Tube video! ha!)  But really they are super easy to use and loads of fun!

I started with a mask, plain white cardstock and a paint brush and bowl of water.  I got the colours I wanted to use quite wet and started applying paint over the mask, in a random fashion.

This is what it looked like when I removed the mask, look at how vibrant the colours are!  I had some bleeding between colours because I used a fair bit of water, but all in all it is still a fun look.

When the paint was dry, I ran this piece through my Silhouette and cut our a sentiment for an altered tin.

See how cute it turned out, even my test piece went to good use!

I used a similar technique on this layout, but once the paint was dry I doodled around the water colour circles with a black fine tipped Sharpie. I love the way the water colours look on this page.

Then I moved onto something a little different, and altered some little wooden disks with my water colours.

I used a Sharpie to define the two tones.

Next I tried a spattering technique, super easy, just wet your paints, load your brush and flick away.

This ended up being the base for this layout.

For my last two techniques, I switched from a paint brush to a sponge and didn't have my paints quite so wet.  I used a mask to create this star-burst pattern, adding more paint towards the centre and letting it fade a bit toward the outer edges.

And lastly, I used a sponge and a ruler to "ink" the edges of my layout.

The colours are amazing, the finish is almost chalky, and I really like how well the water colours work to tie my page elements together.

You can order your own water colours by emailing ScrapMuch?.

Thanks for visiting!

Kit Club Tuesday - August Kit Club Reveal

Hi friends1

We have a brand new kit to reveal to your today, and you are going to LOOOVVVE it!

here is a peek at the basic kit....

... and how about this premium kit add on....

Now for a couple of really inpsiring layouts, created by Elaine!

We bet you can't wait to get creating with your kit!

Thanks for visiting today!
Your friends at ScrapMuch?

August Colour Challenge and a Winner

Hi there!

Happy Monday (and in our case a long weekend Monday!) we have a new colour challenge for you, but first let's pick a winner for our July challenge!  Using random.org to draw a winner.....

 ... which means, 1. Shelby M is our winner!  Congratulations, please email us at scrapmuch@rogers.com to claim your prize, and don't forget to grab your winner badge from our left hand side bar!

Now here is a look at our August colour line up.....

This fabulous colour board is from Design Seeds.  The photos are for colour inspiration only, this is not intended as a mood board.

To play along, all you have to do is create a new paper crafted project, of any type, that uses at least 4 of the colours from the colour board and post it on your blog or any other online forum  (ie. your Flickr Account) that you can link us up to, by our deadline.  Then link it using the Inlinkz tool in our sidebar.  

Please share the challenge colours on your blog (just copy and paste them) and show a link back to this site to encourage your readers to play along, as well.  You can link up your projects here for about 3 weeks following the challenge.

One lucky participant, drawn randomly, will be winning a prize!! It doesn't get much better than that!  Everyone is welcome to play, though there may be some shipping charges to our international winners. 
   

The deadline for linking to this challenge is August 29th 2014  at midnight.

Thanks for visiting!
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Sketch-y Friday and a winner!

Hi there and happy Friday!

It is the first Friday of the month, so that means we get to pick a winner for last month, woo hoo!

As always, we used random.org to generate a winner....

Which means Kristie is our lucky scrapper! Congrats Kristie, grab your winner badge from our sidebar and email us at scrapmuch@rogers.com to claim your prize!

And now here is your first sketch. for August...

And here is your Team A DT inspiration!

Danie

Laureen 

Sandy 

Tiiu 

Here is a run down of our Sketch-y Friday rules.  Just link up your creations in our sidebar to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize.    You have until Friday August 29th, at midnight to participate in any of August's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!

If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

*note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks for visiting!
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Designer's Monthly Reveal with Laura

Hi there!

Today is the first of the month and that means I have a reveal to share with you, this month I was given some goodies from My Mind's Eye to play with!  There were fun papers and elements from both Market Street and Necessities in my kit and I adore them both!  You will love how versatile these products are, you can use them for almost anything!

I have created 4 layouts, a card and a little altered item to date, but you will likely be seeing more from me using this collection soon.

Date Night

I don't know if you can tell, but this polka dot paper is actually vellum with teal foil polka dots (I LOVE IT) did I say that out loud?  ha!   I have layered it over white cardstock to let it be a feature on my page. I used a few other patterned papers in smaller quantities, I like the way the colours tie together.

On the bottom of my page I layered some stickers, flair, a metal heard and 3 x 4 card.

I created my Polaroid frames out of the wood sheet in the Necessities collection, yes an actual wood sheet.  It is awesome!  Watch for a future tutorial with tips on how to use these wood sheets!

Always Together

This layout features a wood grained paper, a bold teal polka dot paper and a diagonal striped vellum from Necessities as well as some fab patterns from Market Street.

Market Street has a great coordinating sticker sheet and Necessities has fun alpha stickers with great words as well, for us memory keepers.

I used some masks and inks from my stash to add some fun to my background.

This particular sticker says it all about the relationship between these two. 

I also added some doodling to this page for a bit of impact. I like the way it defines the papers.

Celebrate

On this layout, the silver striped vellum and the teal diamond paper are from Necessities, the rest is Market Street.  I use my Silhouette to sketch on the title and faux stitched circles, a super easy technique.  The I layered up some patterns and a couple of 3 x 4 cards keeping my central focal point small and in scale with my 3 x 3 Instgram selfie.

The clean background on this layout help the multiple patterns pop.

Sweet Moments

For this layout I used the sketch being revealed today at Stuck?! Sketches, as a jumping off point.  I had fun layers up the sweet candy coloured patterns for this babyhood page of my husband and his dad. 

Clustering small circles of patterned papers and a few small embellies

I used my Silhouette to create some fun die cuts to adorn this page and used a brown Sharpie to add some doodling.

Great stickers,flair, enamel dots and metal arrows from Necessities and Market Street make for fun accents on this page.

You sparkle You shine

A quick and easy card created with a bit of leftover patterned paper and two 3 x 4 cards, with added doodling and metal accents.  The doodling gives great contrast to the patterns.

Altered Tray

I grabbed this little tray (about 4 x 6 inches) from the dollar store, it was raw so I painted it with my Martha Stewart chalk paint, then I lined the middle with this fabulous gold foil polka dot paper and added a fun flair and some enamel dots, I also used a few small flowers from my stash.

Thanks for visiting!
Laura
xoxo

PS If you want to know a it more information about the photos you can pop on over to my blog, but I will spare you the details here in case you don't want to read that much! ha!