All Occasion Card | Free Nature Image | Guest Designer Spot - CAS on Friday Challenge "Nature"

Hello!

Woo Hoo! I am so excited to be the Guest Designer over on the CAS on Friday Challenge and the theme is "Nature". I had an idea for a small woodland vignette and decided to draw my image for today's card! I have included the sketch in this post for you to as a free image to copy/paste below!

Using a large oval die as my basic shape, I sketched my scene in pencil to fit within that oval, inked and then watercolored it. The image panel was die cut with a rectangle die just slightly smaller than my top-folding A2 card base, backed with a craft foam panel and glued to the base. The oval window frame panel was adhered on top in the same way. I die cut the word 4 times from heavy black card stock, glued/stacked the cuts together and attached it to the front. A few clear droplets from Lucy's Little Things finished up the card! 

We can't wait to see your CAS "nature-inspired" creations over on the CAS on Friday Blog!

Here is the free image for you to copy/paste! Have fun!

Additional challenges:

Crafty Creations #412 - Anything Goes

Through The Craft Room Door - August 2020 - Anything Goes

Try It On Tuesdays - Words and/or Numbers

Crafting Happiness #60 - Anything Goes

Make My Monday #128 - Clean And Simple

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes

Dare 2B Artzy - Anything Goes 

A Bit More Time To Craft #120 - Anything Goes 

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #49 - Anything Goes

Thank you so much for joining me today and for taking the time to comment! 

Rachelle ♥

All Occasion Card | Free Gardenia Image

Hello!

I pulled out my ancient Speedball Ink Pen this week to do a bit of actual drawing with their Super Black India Ink! I love this ink because once it goes down, it is a rich black line that is totally waterproof! I began by sketching the large gardenia flower in pencil from a photo and then inked the image with the #513EF extra fine nib. This nib allows you to get a slight variation in line quality.  

Here's what I used : )

After the ink dried for about 15 minutes, I was able to clean up all of the remaining pencil lines with a white Staedtler Mars plastic eraser (one of my favorite crafting tools) and then watercolored the image.

I didn't use a specialty paper for this project - just #110 Neenah Solar White, which works really well with Altenew Watercolors. I know that gardenias are usually white but I went with a rosier peach palette instead - so this ended up somewhere between a gardenia and a magnolia bloom! I added a pale blue background wash, some pearlized spatters and a stamped sentiment from Ellen Hutson's Mondo Succulent Pot Stamp Set. 

Here is the line drawing of the floral image for you to copy/paste and I hope you have as much fun coloring this as I did! Enjoy!

Challenge Submissions:

 A Vintage Journey - Watercolor Wonders

Color Crazy Challenge - #29 - Anything Goes

Creative Knockouts #360 - Flora & Fauna 

Time Out Challenges - #166 - Peaceful

Mix It Up #39 - Anything Goes/Open Technique - Watercoloring

Allsorts Challenge - #581/582 - Flowers All Over

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!
Rachelle ♥