Hello Friends, Ack it’s day 27 and I am nodding off as I edit this post. We went to dinner with some friends and 2 drinks did me in. Dozing as I type.
You all know I love flowers and this stamp set called, “Sunshine and Smiles” it’s right up my alley.
I filmed a video using some Zig watercolor brush markers and didn’t have time to edit it. Blame it on posting daily but, I will get up up and let you know when it is. I used the .03 urber thin marker to add lines in each petal, leaf and the flowers center.
When the kiddos were little we were in France and pulled over on the side of the road to take photos in someones sunflower field. This stamp takes me way back 🙂
Short post today I am super tired and need some sleep. Have a happy and crafty weekend. Hugs, Kathy
Day 15. Inspire Me Monday
Day 24. Spotlight Coloring
Day 11. Monochromatic Florals
You deserved a night out and I’m glad you enjoyed it. Beautiful card on two glasses of wine – might try it!!! Xx
Great colouring, I cant believe we are so close to ending. I have been using this challenge to give me a break from the stress of looking after mum and dad, what will I do now? Ahh well it has been brilliant.
Aileen, You must keep challenging yourself. You need to find time for you to recharge. Coloring is a great stress relief. Take care of yourself so you can take care of your folks. 🙂
Love those sunflowers. There’s so much depth in your colorings!
Those flowers are gorgeous and I love the color of those leaves. I look forward to seeing the video.
My Clean Touch markers are arriving at my door any minute now… can’t wait to try them, and can’t wait to see your video!!! I have those beautiful new Clearly Besotted sunflowers too, and LOVE them! Thanks for all the inspiration, Kathy!
So awesome!
Gorgeous!
What a sight that must have been Kathy! I grew different colours of sunflowers the first time my husband and I had a garden. They are a striking flower and the birds love the seeds. Great card.
So pretty! LOVE those flowers!
All I would have to do is open the bottle and sniff and I would be under the table! LOL Hope you got a good night’s rest! LOVE Sunflowers and these are beautifully colored! TFS!
Such vibrant and beautiful coloring!
wow… very beautiful
Bless your heart. Your 30 day challenge was such a success. I cant imagine how much work you put into it. you rest now and relax. thanks so much for all of your support and such sweet comments on my instagram site. things are about to get much better in my craft room. I had a meltdown (lol) and finally figured out what to order to help with even more organization. i’m getting a new table, some alex drawers from ikea and 2 billy book cases also. I was getting frustrated in the middle of my cards. i’m better now and my pictures seem better with the new photo studio in a box. you are wonderful, Kathy. I’m so grateful that we have you.
Katrine, Thank you for your kind words. You’ll be amazed how many supplies you can fit into the Alex drawers. They are super for all your inks and essential tools etc. You’ll love your craft room and will find more fun time for you. 🙂
Oh right up my alley too! Love these sunflowers and I’ve seen it when a Farmer plants an entire field of Sunflowers they’re an amazing site!
I LOVE this card! You sure have some crazy good coloring skills.
This is a beautiful card. Love your coloring as usual. You are the coloring queen. Cannot wait to see the video. Get some rest and TFS
I like how the leaves look like the sun is making them glow. I am new to cardmaking, so I did not participate in the challenge, but I did more coloring this month! Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi, love your sun flowers. Is this a challenge that any one can do and if so where do we upload pics. I am new to the blogs and want try a challenge. ….any ideas some one can give me would be so much appreciated. Have a wonderful day.
Lol. Sounds like me. And I only drink girly drinks and they kick my butt!
I love sunflowers. What a nice memory. I bet it was beautiful!
I just got my watercolor markers but haven’t found them as easy to use as some other mediums. Hopefully with practice that will come.
Beautiful–love your story about France! It’s hot and humid here today–112 I think–once it gets over 110, doesn’t help to know. Great job coloring, so proud of myself, I’ve colored every single day too. We are going out with friends tonight, so better get mine for today done early. Have a lovely day.
Sheri, So proud of you. Good idea getting yours done before you go out. That’s what I should have done before two drinks. LOL Keep finding time for yourself! 🙂
The nodding off was well worth the yummy drinks and visiting with friends. Beautiful sunflowers. They remind me of South Dakota…there are fields and fields of these beauties. Thanks for posting. 🙂 Now you can take a nap…lol.
Hello….I too, saw the numerous fields of sunflowers in SD last fall while visiting the famous monuments. My trip to SD was on my bucket list. (I’m 70 yrs. old). We just had to stop the car and take photos in the sunflower fields. So beautiful.
Yes, Connie the monuments are amazing, as well. My favorite time was camping in the Black Hills. We lived in SD for 6 years and loved every minute. I am glad you got to check it off your bucket list!
these flowers are so beautifully coloured; they look like they could be picked right off the paper!
So pretty!
What a gorgeous stamp set,love it. I also looove the coloring.
HOPE you got your needed sleep Kathy! Dreams of France? Your coloring is WONDERFUL with this image!!! 😉
Thanks for your dedication, Kathy! Hope you had a good nite’s sleep! Lovely flowers… LOVE ‘EM!
I’ve always loved sunflowers and yours are perfectly colored and beautiful. Love the details you added.
So glad you had a great evening. Your sunflowers r outstanding
Hola, Kathy! Your sunflowers are beautiful. Talking about dozing off, you know you’re tired when you fall asleep on the toilet and actually start dreaming. (ha,ha) And that actually did happen to me. =) I hope you got some much deserved rest. Have a great weekend, too.
Hope you got yourself some good sleep. Stunning sunflowers. They are my twin sister’s favorite. I always to try color some up and give a pretty card to her. I need to add these beauties to my flower collection.
Just love the colors you use. Gosh, I’d never think of using the gold/yellow on the leaves!!! You continue to teach me ‘stuff’!
Wow! Those flowers almost look real!! Beautiful as always!
I, too, love that stamp & as always, your coloring is superb. Wonderful cheery card!
Absolutely gorgeous!
Love the sunflowers Kathy! What a sweet memory!
Hope you got a good nights sleep. But the fun time with friends is worth a few yawns. Really pretty flowers, but the leaves are stunning! Looking forward to the video, think I know how you did it, but you frequently surprise me! I’ve been playing with butterflies today, such fun.
Wonderful coloring – especially the leaves.
SLEEP WELL – hope you have a great sleep and colourful dreams!!!
LOVE the sunflowers, LOVE how they are standing tall & proud together!!!
Oh my gosh! I love how you did the coloring! I have done something kind of like what you did but it didn’t look as good as yours. I love how you did the leaves and the colors in the flowers. They look so real! My sister is a photographer who puts her photos on handbags and other things. Her photos of the sunflowers at Buttonwood Farms look like what you did.
This week my parents had a doctors appointment. I brought my clipboard and some coloring. Tomorrow I am going to color a flower pot for me. I’m going to use Washi Tape, and some flower stencils. If I can’t do the stencils properly, I will probably do polka dots. I can’t wait to have some fun coloring! It’s probably going to rain tomorrow so I will have fun inside! I will post a photo when I finish it.
Gail, Smart gal bringing along your bag of treats to stay cool, calm and collected at a doctors office. Coloring is good for the soul no matter where you are. 🙂
You’ve got that right! When you have to go with your parents to all these doctors appointments you get so you’ve read all the magazines or they don’t have any worth reading. I could bring one of my library books but I also love to color. Its compact and its fun and people even comment on it and say how they like it. Once I had a little boy help me pick out the colors. It kept him busy and his mom was happy he wasn’t running around and being a nuisance.
Very pretty card Kathy. That sunflower image is lovely. Thanks for sharing.
love the card (as always) and if you did this card after 2 drinks you are even more amazing than i thought LOL. (the 2nd one is the one that puts me to bed :-)) love the story about pulling over to look at the sunflowers in France. I bet those are some wonderful photos.
Hi Kathy, Well I hope you are well rested, and can get back to your colour challenge,
I do love those sunflowers, they are lovely and bright, love how you coloured them in with the zig brushes pens, they seem to be awesome set to get!!! still thinking about it! Cheers Anna.
So so cool! Your coloring is stunning! Love how you shaded those sunflowers. First I thought they were popped-up. 😀
The poppies are beautiful, but I’m still trying to figure out how you masked the macaron cookies one in front, one in back, over, under, etc.! Are these die cut and layered or is this a one layer marvel? Inquiring mind…
Maureen, This is a one layer card. The macaroons were stacked on top of each other. The bottom macaroons were masked in order to stamp the teacup in front of the macaroons. The images appears popped because of the grey copic outline shadow.:)
Oh I love those sunflowers Kathy,thank you for all your inspiration!
I love your instructional posts. I am not naturally artistic, but I do follow instructions pretty well, especially step by step instructions when it comes to coloring. Copics make it so much easier for me since mistakes can be fixed…except maybe for the darker reds. Love your floral design….so pretty….and I always like to pop something on my cards to give it dimension….I rare make a totally flat card. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Jan, Red copics are difficult The only tip I can share is to stop shy of the outer line since red tends to bleed more for some reason. Wait and see if you need more by the line and use a light hand with the marker tip. The blender still can get rid of a red “oops” but do one swipe of blender then let it dry before you swipe blender again. Dimension is always dynamic. 🙂
I love sunflowers too! Love how you colored them. Wonderful!
Lovely! Thank you for this challenge, I’m so inspired!
Love seeing your cards! You are so talented!
Hi Kathy! So glad you had a night out with friends! I am a total lightweight when it comes to drinks, too. Wow, is your card gorgeous!! The sunflowers look like they are popped up, so realistic! I join everyone else in looking forward to your video. Have a relaxing day!
beautiful
Gorgeous!!!! I found this stamp company via IG a few weeks ago but haven’t ordered any yet…. I’m going to have to get on that! 😉 love the colors you picked! Have to try your R/RV combo! ❤️
Thanks for sharing your beautiful sunflowers and sweet memory.
Crafty hugs,
Dawn
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Glad you had a nice time out. A couple of glasses of wine will do it for me too……boy you have brought those sunflowers to life I can almost see them moving. Beautiful.
Love the description of the lovely and awesome memory this beautiful image brought to your mind!! You have done such an amazing job of coloring it and adding details to this – it is gorgeous!!!
Your generosity has made me so hopeful that I will be able to have a great stamp collection. I join everyone with hopes of winning . Thanks Kathy!
Beautiful Sunflowers!
Loved your sunflowers! Great 30 days!
The card is so happy with the sunflowers.
Lovely bright cheery images. Just what I needed. Too busy to have kept up with my own colouring this month so really enjoying sharing yours. Hugz
Hi Kathy, I love sunflowers and these turned out very nice. Thanks so much for the 30 day challenge, its very fun. Too bad my craft room is in a huge transition 🙁
Hi Kathy I am kind of working backwards but no matter which way I go your work is just so awesome. I really do like the video’s that really aren’t edited to much because it makes me feel like my work area isn’t the only one that keeps the extra items laying around.
I love sunflowers!! This is my favorite so far!!