Helllloooo Friends! Happy weekend to you! I hope you are having some good weather and some creative crafty time this weekend.
Waffle Flower is having a hop to celebrate their new release and I am pretty sure you are going to love it. Waffle Flower is having smaller releases more often just to keep us happy & keep those creative juices flowing lol. To start at the beginning of the hop click here.
This is a nice and cozy little hop so you will be able to visit each blog easily and have more chances to win too. The hop list and giveaway will be at the bottom of my post.
For the Waffle Flower’s May release, They are celebrating motherly love with the layering Carnations (stamp, die, combo), the uplifting Always (stamp, die, combo), & the unique garden spirits set called Let Love Grow (stamp, die, combo). Also included in this release is Salty Kisses (stamp, die, combo) for the up coming wedding season and Sweet Ice Cream (stamp, die, combo) for summery everyday projects. Matching dies are available separately or with the stamps as combos. The stand-alone Sun Shine Panel Die works great with all stamps in this release or any other bright and happy images you may already have. I love each and every one of these for reals. If only there was more time in the day.
Look at this layering carnation… swoon. I decided to color it instead cause I just love to color. This is my new go to ink for “no line coloring”. Using some Tombow markers and this paper I was all set to watercolor. Dawn, who is an amazing artist, said that expensive or fancy brushes don’t matter the thing to spend money on is good paper .. so I thought I would pass that along.
In my video I explain how I created this background with one of the layering elements. I did this oodles of years ago and it’s a quick & easy background. I used this and this distress ink.
I really wanted the carnation to pop so I die cut two flower from black foam and glued them together. I love the bold graphic look the black gives to my card.
Yes I had to color some twine and I popped the sentiments with some foam tape. An easy finish to this card.
I colored in some of the nooks and crannies with my 0.03 super fine tip marker. Right now all Copic stuff like the blending solution & the must have 0.03 marker that I use all the time is 25% off at Simon. Use code MARKER. Yipeee!! I love a good sale.
Fortunately I was able to find a little time to finish coloring this beautiful stamp set called, ” Always” So uplifting and evokes such emotion for me. Later I will layer her up for a card hopefully soon.
I love hair like this because it’s easy to color instead of a helmet hair lol. She was colored with all distress ink in some what a monochromatic palette. The 0.03 was used to add small accents on the card and to draw the pattern on her shirt.
GIVEAWAY! Waffle Flower is giving away $25 gift certificates to THREE lucky winners. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the posts on this blog hop and will be announced on the Waffle Flower blog on 5/9/2018.
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The coloring on that carnation is amazing!! Is it wrong that I can’t stop looking at the stem?!
stunning colors ! really tempted to pick up some of those markers and give it a try. The black behind the flowers really make it pop!
Love the black behind the flower
Love your adorable cards as well as the great backgrounds! Thank you Kathy.
Oh Kathy… I’m about to watch the video. I love your coloring on this blossom!
Beautiful carnation and beautiful coloring on the girl, too! You rock!
OH MY GOSH, your coloring of the girl AND the flower–AMAZING!!! I can’t even hope to be that good some day. WOW
You have seriously amazing coloring skills! I’m truly stunned by how lifelike the carnation looks. Well done!
Love your cards and especially that popped up carnation card! Awesome!
This is stunning! Love carnations and this is the best carnation stamp I’ve ever seen! Your coloring really made it POP, it’s just gorgeous – LOVE!
Thanks for all the tips, can’t wait for June!
This is just amazing. What a gorgeous Carnation!
I can hardly wait to see the other one (“Always” piece) finished. I am looking forward to the video for that as well.
The orange tips on the flowers make them look so real. Nice job.
and, can we talk about how realistic is the coloring of the carnation, especially the stem?!?
The colors really pop with the black shadow and shading, blending.
Beautiful colored !!Swooning over the carnation !
Your carnations are absolutely stunning, and your video is so helpful! I really appreciate you taking the time to explain what you’re doing in such detail. It’s so helpful for beginners like me! Thank you so much!
Great cards! Love your colors! The black foam really does make that carnation pop! Such a great idea!
Beautiful cards, I love waffle flower products! Fun blog hop.
stunning cards – thanks for the great ideas:)
Your cards are amazing! Great video too!
It’s a good thing I’m typing, not talking, Kathy… it will be some time before I’m able to get my jaw off of the floor … pardon me, while I go watch again… and again…
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I just love your colouring. It inspired me so much. And I love the latest release of Waffle Flower too!
Beautiful cards! I love the ‘Always’ set the best! Such a pretty image of the girl and her bird (mine is sitting on my shoulder right now! lol). I just won a set of the Tombow markers; looking forward to trying them out.
These are beautiful, but the carnation card is to die for. The coloring is gorgeous and I love the way you popped it up with the black foam! So creative.
This carnation is just beautiful. The black really adds the final touch.
I love carnations and this is just gorgeous!!
Both images are stunning!! I learn so much from your techniques – thank you!!
Your coloring is always amazing! The carnation looks so real. I really like this stamp set.
I love both your carnations and the Always colorings. They are both spectacular! Enjoying your daily b?oh posts too. Cheers.
Kathy, seeing you do the nooks and crannies at the beginning was like a eureka moment for me. To see what a difference it made just in black and white and then to see it all come together. . . and the clarity of using the tombows to watercolor, I finally get it. Everything about this video was enlightening, approachable, inspiring. I love them all but this one — really tied it together with that sweet flower (that would not normally have called me but that now I must have). Thank you SO much.
Gorgeous cards – really love the carnations with the black!
Kathy I am always in awe of your coloring and these images do not disappoint! The carnation coloring is so realistic and I love the card design. The girl with the flower is just the sweetest, can’t wait to see the finished card. Love them both!
I appreciate your videos, and it was really interesting to see the nooks and crannies done before the watercoloring! I might try that as an exercise sometime soon; it seems like a good learning experience. And clearly this carnation has inspired many of you on this hop! I’m also happy to see that you got to color the girl and her bird. Such a sweet image, and I love how you did the hair; you’re right that that style of line art really helps with the highlights and lowlights. Thanks for sharing with us, and I can’t wait for June and the next coloring challenge!
Beautiful cards.
Thanks so much for sharing..
Love this card with the
popped up flower!
Carla from Utah
Echoing the others in praising your lovely cards and sharing some ‘much needed’ (for me!) tips/techniques for colouring! Your carnations, especially, warm my heart, as they spark memories of the abundant blooms that grew in my grandma’s garden. She had the greenest of thumbs when it came to flowers…and gardens, as well. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration today!
~carol
Fabulous cards! Your coloring skills are amazing.
Wow Kathy, a gorgeous card. The carnation is so realistic, great work. You can realy see in the video that you enjoying colouring the carnation. Love your background, when I saw you doing that, I remembered that I have a stamp in a kind of shape you used there and that’s what I am going to use the next time I need an interesting background. Thank you so much and I am looking forward to the 30 Day Coloring Challenge!
Beautiful cards, Kathy! That carnation is one of my favorite cards ever. Love the added black elements.
I love your coloring! This is beautiful.
Love this card. The shadow behind the flower really makes it pop! 🙂
The carnation is so realistic—beautiful.
Hello,
Absolutely a beautiful card. The black was a great idea for the back of the flower.
Love the look of the black fun foam. Showing the nooks and crannies first was helpful. The carnatin is so pretty.
Beautiful cards…love the black foam behind the carnation…it does make it stand out!
Beautiful card, love the black fun foam to pop it up.
Oh my world, Kathy, as usual your creations are out of this world! I love your work so much! Thanks for sharing your amazing talent!
Your cards are stunning ! I love both coloring, specially the addition of orange in the pink (fantastic) and of course all the details of the second card (the bird is amazing). Thank you for sharing.
Stunning cards!! Thanks for sharing your awesome inspiration!!
I simply adore your water colored cards. Thanks for sharing.
Wow!!! Gorgeous coloring and card!!!
Love how you did the background and the way you coloured the flower. It’s stunning.
Love both of these! The carnation though…wow what fabulously gorgeous coloring ♥
Stunning!
Wow! Kathy, both of your cards are gorgeous, especially the carnation! Thank you so much for the great tutorial and inspiration! That carnation stamp set is one of my favs from this release too!
Your cards are beautiful! Love how you backed the carnation with black card it made it stand out so nicely! Definitely will be trying that trick.
What a gorgeous stamp. Your coloring is beautiful — so realistic.
Stunning! The carnation is beautifully colored, and setting it on black foam is just the right touch!
Beautiful! I do love watching you colour (paint…). I know that practice makes perfect, but my colouring does not look anything like yours, lol
The stems on the carnation look so real, that it seems like you can feel the texture! Love it! Many thanks for all the videos and instructions!
Hi Kathy!
I saw the Carnation card you did, & HAD TO come over & see! The video didn’t work for me. 🙁 BUT, I LOOOOOVE your card! The carnation looks SO REAL!!! Fresh from the Florist! GORGEOUS COLORING!!! AND the second piece is STUNNING!!! LOOOVE how you did the hair!!! She is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOTALLY STUNNING WORK!!!! 😉
See, I would have stopped coloring long before you did and my results wouldn’t have been nearly as spectacular as yours are. Thanks for showing us how it should be done. 🙂 I love the carnations stamp set and think it will be a favorite for everyone!
Hi Kathy, Aww such BEAUTY, yes this is sooooo SWOON worthy!! I love it, it’s funny, I just came from their website, I was checking out their New release I didn’t even know they had a blog hop going on. It was just a tough pain day so those are the days I get on and keep my mind busy busy shopping 🙂 I really loved the Sun Shine Panel die and the Always. I also really LOVED your background, that was AWESOME !!!!
Kathy, I’ve got one word for your coloring, elegant! It’s elegant in your choice of colors and in your attention to detail. The outcome is always elegant in every thing you color. Of course I “take the time” to watch your videos, I’ve learned a lot from you. And thank you for taking the time to appreciate us!
Love your card.
The detail of your coloring is amazing, and I love how the black foam beneath sets everything off!
The flower card is amazing. Love it.
Love this you make it look so easy…
Love these gorgeous new stamp sets! Awesome coloring on your fabulous cards! I’m inspired!
Carnations are my favorite flower.
Love how you set them off with the
black die cut behind the colored
flowers. thanks for sharing
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Your carnation seems to just pop right off the card! it is so realistic that I would want to touch it and smell it to see if it’s real. Beautiful work!
Your cards are so beautiful and the flower is so realistic!
Your cards always make me smile! Thanks for sharing them.
So lovely and delightful. The black is fantastic.
Beautiful coloring as always. Love how you colored the little girl especially.
Your card is stunning! I can’t believe how life-like the carnation is! Pretty background as well, and the black fun foam really makes the flower pop. The other card featuring the Always stamp is gorgeous! I love the image and your coloring is perfection.
I love this new stamp and love your watercoloring! I need to practice more. I just bout the Gansai Tambi watercolors, so I’m excited about that and learning!
Love your painting of the girl!
Oh Kathy!! I your coloring blows my mind!! I’m always so excited to see what wondrous things you will do with a stamp set and you never cease to amaze me!
gorgeous background!!
Wow your coloring is always amazing.
WOW ! Your cards are ART pieces ! Whoever receives these cards are super lucky ! The Carnations and the Always are my favorite in this release. Thank you for sharing !
I love to watch your color. Your carnation looks so real that I think I should be able to smell it. Both of your cards are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing your time and talent with us!
I think I may need to get a set of good watercolors after seeing your gorgeous coloring and beautiful cards! Love the flower and sweet girl
Your work with the distress ink made this card spectacular…..awesome work. Thank you so much….
Wow! As always, your colouring is amazing!
I’m totally in love for the beautiful carnation! Great layered card!!!
Such wonderful work, as usual!!! I love the black foam — really stunning effect and the background is so interesting. Might as well use the parts of the stamp set for something if you are going to color in your flower, which, by the way, is amazing. Thank you.
I aspire to be as creative as you. Amazing!!
Your artistry is amazing!
Wonderful, love the colors and your coloring. My daughter’s faverit flower is carnation and it’s a must have for me. Thanks for sharing.
I love the background you created for the carnation blossom!! I will have to try that!! The colors you used are just gorgeous!! A fantastic combination!! I am also in love with the “Always” card which is so adorable!!! I love the background on this one as well!! I can’t get enough “adorableness”!!! Thanks for sharing!
Wow… Love your coloring, so real. Beautiful cards.
Your coloring is so realistic! I just want to pop this beautiful flower in a vase. Very creative and stunning background.
Awesome card, thanks for the video!
Stunning!!!
SQUEAL!! Such SWEET Cards!! I LOVE the NEW Products!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! <3 <3 <3
The carnation looks so realistic. The girl with the bird is very sweet.
The flowers are beautiful. I love the realness of the flowers. I love how you add colors I wouldn’t think of but they are so necessary to make the flowers come alive. I need to remember this. The little girl is so cute and love your colors.
Wonderful coloring on both cards. Love the carnation.
Your coloring is amazing! I loved watching the carnation come to life as you added detail after detail. Wow!
I love your watercolouring on the carnation. It is so pretty. And I like how you used the layering stamp to create the background.
I’m glad you managed to finish colouring the ‘Always’ stamp in time to put it on your blog. It is coloured soooo gorgeously. It is a mini work of art! It is one of my favourites from this release.
Such great detail! Well done!
Wooow! All is stunning!
The coloring of the carnations is amazing. It looks so real and the pop of black behind is dramatic.
Beautiful!! Love the layering carnation; the colors you used are gorgeous and I love how you backed it with the black; great touch!
Love how you created that background with the carnation layer, what a great way to stretch your stamps and the coloring/painting is just beautiful!
I love the black foam behind the carnations! It really accentuates the flowers!
Super beautiful cards!! Love them 🙂
Gorgeous! Amazing coloring on both the carnation and the girl panel. Love the background technique on the card – so clever and wonderfully effective. The black fun foam is a great highlight and adds such great dimension.
Your carnation is amazing and the girl is coloured so beautifully too, especially her hair!
Your Carnation card is so sweet and cheerful! Your girl on your card front is so beautiful!
Exquisite coloring, Kathy! Thank you for explaining how to use different colors to make th flowers pop! Have much to learn in coloring and you are such a great help!
The carnation looks like you took an actual carnation, pressed it and added it to the front of your card. Stunning.I love the way you colored the girl,blue eyeshadow forever!
That’s a fun technique and awesome results !!
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Kathy, you always blow me away, but that carnation left me speechless. It looks so real. Both cards are fabulous!
Love how you did the background. Beauitful card
I love these cards! Beautiful watercoloring, I envy your coloring. I love the Carnation Stamp set and the girl with the bird. I love birds. Thank you so much.