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Day 29. Ohhh flowers & giveaway

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Hellllooooo friends, How are you today? OMG tomorrow is day 30 and I am feeling a little sick about that. I hope I have time to make something special for you but, it’s a crazy day …. eek!!

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Today I reached for my Daniel Smith watercolors again. I am determined.

Today’s beautiful flower stamps are from Kennedy Grace Creations & they have lots of other beautiful stamps. In my opinion you can never have enough flower stamps. Check out their store here & their blog here.

During my watercoloring tonight I was baking a 2 layer cake from scratch….

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Getting the background down first is critical I think.

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While the cake was in the over I painted the flowers. Love the size and shape of these flowers. Soo lovely and how about that sentiment.

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While the cake was cooling I stuck these flowers in the oven to dry my paper hahah. The oven at this point was just warm and it worked like a charm. My paper was dry so I took a sharpie and outlined everything and drew a thick boarder around the flowers so they would stand out more…. plus it’s relaxing 🙂

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Using a white gel pen really makes the colors pop. You know how much I love adding white dots. That’s if for today. Time for the ….

GIVEAWAY!! TWO $15.00 gift cards to the Kennedy Grace Creations store. Thank You Kennedy Grace 🙂

To qualify to win just say “flowerpower” in the comment area. I will announce a random winner soon at the end of the challenge.

Have a great day and see you tomorrow. Hugs, Kathy

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  3. Denise Bryant says

    Flowerpower! Lovely card and beautiful design! Exciting to find a new-to-me company to investigate…. thank you!

  10. TracyM #6773 says

    Flower Power

    … I NEED to say MORE – LOVE your floral panel!!!
    Hope your cake turned out just as wonderful as your “baked” flowers!!!
    THANK YOU for adding sunshine to my day 🙂

  13. Tess Hackett says

    Hope you get feeling better soon. That Kennedy Grace stamp is so pretty. I like her stamps but I haven’t had the chance to buy any yet.

    Flower power!

  16. Becca Yahrling says

    Yes to flowerpower! lol These really are beautiful flowers
    and I think I could even w/c these decently. Thanks for intro-
    ducing Kennedy Grace Creations – they are new to me.

  20. Michele says

    #flowerpowerfordays

    This is so insanely gorgeous; I love how your details really change an image and make it POP; so amazing! I want to watch an entire video of you watercoloring; I just can’t seem to make it work for me; I don’t get good shading…blah, blah, blah, but I adore your flower power!!!

  23. Dee Earnshaw says

    Flower power – your card and coloring is amazing – I am in love with the white high lights – thanks for the inspiration:)

  27. Michelle N says

    FlowerPower! Beautiful coloring and I haven’t thought to use the white gel pen for the petal detail. I love it!

  31. barb macaskill says

    “flowerpower”
    Your flowers look so vibrant against that beautiful blue background and your trademark white dots add even more POP!!! TFS!

  35. Woendi Levitt says

    Flower Power!!! Your talent continually amazes me! TY for sharing and I hope your cake turned out delicious.

  40. Donna Rinckel says

    Flower Power! But I can’t leave it at that. The card is amazing! Your watercoloring and all the extras are just gorgeous. Someone will be very lucky to get this beautiful card. I hope the cake turned out just as wonderful! Have a great day.

  53. Bobbie says

    Love the flowers. I just purchased these paints and just pray I can do as well as you. By the way Kathy how do we know if we have won anything from your giveaways? I think you need to do a 45 day coloring challenge instead of 30 because we aren’t ready for it to be over. lol

  56. Jennifer K says

    Flower Power!!! Your watercoloring really is stunning Kathy and I love the beautiful colours that you used, purple and orange are two of my favs.

  60. Joyce says

    I love these water colors, and I love supporting small businesses run by women.
    And the stamps are beautiful! This is the first time I’m hearing of this company.

  77. Dawn Y. says

    Flower Power!! I agree ~ one can never have too many floral stamps! Thank you for introducing me to Kennedy Grace stamps today. I love your flowers against the dark background. I’ve never tried watercoloring the background first. Now I’m inspired to try it! Thank you so much for another amazing 30-Day Coloring Challenge, Kathy!! ♡

  89. Becky Partan says

    Flowerpower. I also watercolored some flowers for a birthday card, but I already mailed it, so I can’t show you. It was pastel around the arrangement, but the flowers were vibrant. Your colors are great. I will have to try darker colors next time for the background.

  92. terrie rodrigue says

    “flowerpower”
    Your card is so awesome…the flower that you water coloring turned out fantastic
    One day I will color like this…..like I said One Day.

  93. Lisa Tilson says

    Flower power! You make entering so easy it feels like a cheat. Beautiful colouring Kathy – I think Kennedy Grace does some of the most beautiful flower images around, they are stunning. And I totally agree, you can never have enough. I think I do, and then I see another one and I have to get it haha! One day soon I hope to pick up one from Kennedy Grace. I did literally laugh out loud when you put your colouring in the oven. I am glad it wasn’t too hot as we may never have seen it in it’s full glory 🙂 xx

  105. Jeanne-Marie says

    Flower power! Beautiful coloring! I love the effect of the outlining in sharpie. I need to give it a try!

  116. Karen says

    So excited to see you colour a Kennedy Grace Stamp. How absolutely beautiful. Thank you also for supporting such a wonderful lady to help her dream come true. xo Can we extend November a little…I’m sure it went by way to quickly.

  133. Sandra F says

    So beautiful…and love the oven idea…now I can tell people I’m baking when I’m really crafting…lol

  134. bev p says

    Flower power, indeed. I am old enough to remember when that was “the” slogan, even though I was way too geeky to be a hippie! These are lovely, and cake too!! Now I am way impressed. I have never been able to multitask. Even with a buzzer, If I am crafting, I cannot seem to respond until the smell of burning food penetrates my consciousness! Thanks for this month. Now, go and rest. You made something lovely for the last day, Well done!

  136. treen says

    Kathy, Oh my gosh! this is fabulous. I am having trouble figuring out why you think you are not good at watercoloring. You are fabulous. I love the deep background colors and the roses are to die for. I LOVE your dots!!! hugs, treen

  145. Traci Starkweather says

    FLOWER POWER!!! Flowers to the people, too! ; )

    Kathy this is delightful! I am curious, did you emboss the image before you painted it? I am curious how you see where to draw the black lines when you use such deep colors as in that deep purple for example. Can you still see the lines if they are not embossed? And, do you ever emboss–even with lighter colors, and can you emboss and then use your black pen and go over the powder, or does it ruin the pen?

    I can not believe tomorrow is the last day of your absolutely amazing and beautifully managed 30 Day Coloring Challenge! I am saddened that it’s ending, but know December will keep me more than busy! I wonder if we will still have access to the FB page with everyone’s art on display. I know i didn’t have a chance to see all of it.

    Kathy, thank you for all of the beauty you have shared with us. And, even more for all you have taught me. I will be following you after this challenge and continue to cheer you on as I try so many new techniques! God bless you and yours, Kathy!

    He IS Able!
    Traci Starkweather tracistarkweather@gmail.com

  157. Vicky H says

    Flower power
    Kathy, I so love the beauty you create with your white gel pen! Just makes the already gorgeous absolutely stunning!

  165. Sue Hain says

    Your flowerpower rocks! Great challenge and awesome inspiration! Thanks a lot for organizing this as I really know what it is about (though in the analogue world) and appreciate what you are creating! Communities!

  169. Linda Grady says

    flowerpower!!! You are so right, you can never have too many flower images. These are gorgeous.

  173. Nancee Purdum says

    FLOWER POWER! What a pretty card! I so love how you add the extra details to your cards with the sharpie and white gel pen! I can’t believe tomorrow is Day 30! I have had so much fun doing this challenge for the first time! I’m going to make it! Yeah! 1 more day to go…but then it will feel weird not making myself color every night…hopefully I can continue to color on a regular basis (at least 4 nights a week…that is my plan. LOL!) Thanks again Kathy for this great challenge!

  196. Beverly Jordan says

    LOVE Kennedy Grace Creations and will have to try these techniques with their gorgeous flower stamps!! Am using their Christmas digis right now preparing to send out cards!! Love your tutorials Kathy! Keep them coming!

  206. Tracey Magner says

    FLOWWER POWER, Oh yeah….. how Beautiful, I love your watercoloring. No mater how much I practice I can’t get that down. I even bought the exact watercolor set you use, no luck, just not my thing I guess, back to my copics, lol. Hope your cake was yummy, where’s the picture of that?

  221. Gail Plaskiewicz says

    I have been a flower power person since the 60s when I wanted to be a hippie. I’m glad I wasn’t one. However, I am a flower lover. I wish there was a way to stamp flowers and put them in your yard, like on wood or something. Those mutant ninja squirrels that are ruining our yard and flowers and garden couldn’t do that to my flowers. They wouldn’t have to be watered and they wouldn’t die and I could say that I created them. I wish I could make my garden a reality. I would put your beautiful card out front and center. I love how you colored that flower. Everything is so colorful but where’s the yellow? There’s no yellow! I need my daily dose of yellow! LOL I love how you used the oven to dry the paper but I wonder if you could have used you’re embossing gun? I’d worry about the paper catching fire. You really know how to color flowers! Flower Power forever!

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