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Welcome to Art Impressions Design Team Reunion Blog Hop. I thank you so much for hopping by.  I have two cards to share . The first card is a Witch Spinner.(Art Impressions 4679) This card was colored using Copic Markers. Love my copics. 

Art Impressions Witch Spinner 4679

Art Impressions Witch Spinner Dies 4698

Memento Tuxedo Black

Spellbinders Labels 23

Copic Markers:

Skin E00, R12, R05

Hair Y04, Y17

Hat, robe, shoes T3, T7, T10, YR07

Broom, E04, E08, YR07, YR12

Punches Martha Stewart Punch Around Page

Neenah Solar White cardstock

My second version I made using Marvy Markers.  It is a watercolor using Bonnie's watercolor technique. She has youtube videos available and I have a link at the top of my blog. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did creating it.

AI Witch Spinner 4679

Archival Ink Jet Black

Art Impressions cloud line H-2724

Marvy Markers:

Skin No.2 Red, No.77 Pastel Peach

         No. 80 Victorian Rose

Hair No. 82 Mustard

Coat, Hat, Shoes.No.38 Ash Grey,

         No. 40 Brownish Grey, No.21 Dark Grey

Broom No.45 Sepia

Cape, trim No. 52 Yellow green No.11 Lt.Green

Clouds No.60 Salvia blue

No. 4 paint brush

Art ImpressionsWatercolor white pallet 

MicroGlaze paper protector

Watercolor paper

That's all I have to share today. Now please "Blog on" to the next blog.  I am sure she will have more examples to share with you.  Have a great day!

Here are the blog links & hop order:

Art Impressions Blog

Cheri Burry
Crystal Lopez
Dana Warren
Deloris Thiede
Diane Zechman
Isha Gupta
Jessica Griffin
Karen Day
Kerry Kung
Kirsi Kamppikoski
Maria McGuire
Marie-Pierre Capistran
Mary Witter              (you are here)
Piali Biswas
Reneé Matarese
Sharon Caudle
Soili-Maria Seppala
Tammie Koehnen
Tracy Gray
Tracy MacDonald
Trena Brannon
Zora Bergstrom

Next Blog
Piali Biswas

Birds on a Holly Branch

Here is another card using a newly acquired PSX I bought on Ebay this past week. Bluebirds have a special memory for our family. When I see something like this stamp I immediately think blue birds.  They are so fluffed out....it must be cold and lined up together for warmth.  I hope you and yours are cuddled together and warm this evening.  It's beginning to look like Christmas.....

Recipe:

Birds on a Holly Branch

Stamp:  Birds on a Holly Branch PSX K1884

              Rejoice Inkadinkado 96920MM

Ink Pad: Memento Tuxedo Black

               Distress Ink Peeled Paint

               Distress Ink Festive Berries

               Distress Ink Pine Green

Paper:  Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium Collection 8 x 8

Glossy Accents

Copic Markers:

YG01, YG03, YG63, R22, R29 (Holly and Berries)

B41, B21, B24, R000, R01, R20, R22, Y08, Y17 (Birds)

E21, E23 (branch)

BG10 (outline)

Spellbinders Curved Rectangles

They Who are Best Friends

Yesterday I pulled out two more retired no longer available (except on Ebay) stamps.  These are 2 more stamps that I have had for a number of years and had not used.  I hope you don't mind that I am using these nla stamps.  If you are serious about wanting a particular stamp and are patient, sooner or later it will become available on Ebay.  Stamps that I purchased just a few years ago for $10 are now selling for $30-$50. I believe that in the future all wood stamps will be scarce and hard to find and valuable....especially the good quality ones like PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange). Just go to www.ebay.com and search for psx rubber stamps and you will see what I mean.  There are still good buys out there but you have to hunt for them.
The stamps I used for this card are PSX but are a licensed product by the artist Suzy Toronto. I hope you like what I did. Thanks for looking.

Card Front

Card inside

Girlfriends

PSX Friends G-3460

PSX Friends F-3459

Art Impressions "All together" Picture Perfect Set 4130 Unmounted

Paper “it takes two” Lucy Rigg LLS105

Ink Memento Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers:

E0000, E02

YR01, YR16, YR12, YR18, YR23

Y13, Y17

YG01, YG06, YG07, YG09

BG11, BG45, BG49

R12, R14

E33

0

Perfect Pearls Mists Heirloom Gold

Enamel Accents Black

My Garden Angel

Yesterday afternoon I joined some friends at a local stamp/scrapbook store in Greenville, SC.  I wanted to share my finished classroom project and also pass on information about this class at The Whimsey. I enjoyed playing with all the different techniques and inks.  Thanks Carol!

My Garden Angel Collage

Angel Home Collage Class

Set your own time for this project! During this time of year there is so much to do I thought you all may enjoy the chance to do a class when it is the right time for YOU! The project will take about 90 min. All you need to bring is your paper trimmer and scissors! Everything else will be provided. You will make a plaque for shelf display or to hang on the wall. Choose a color scheme from provided paints (lots to choose from) and plan on getting a little messy! You will be using templates, modeling paste, paints, inks, stamps and more. Limited number of kits, so if you would like call ahead and prepay and reserve your time! $18.00 Heather and Carol Whimsy 864-987-1077 Sun. 1-5 Mon. Closed Tues-Fri 9-6 Sat. 10-5

PSX Royal Rabbit Christmas Card

I'm back on track.  So sorry.  Life just got so busy.  I do apologize.  I hope you will forgive my slackness by enjoying this card I created today.  Our Altered Book Club is meeting tomorrow and we are celebrating Christmas with food and gift exchange.  I wanted to make a special card to go with my gift.  The stamp is a vintage PSX created by Pamela Silin-Palmer and lists Santa Rosa, California as the location which really dates it. I first saw it when doing some volunteer cleaning out at The Mercantile Store in Pendleton, SC.  They no longer had the stamp but the sample caught my eye and it was a "must have" if you know what I mean.  We bonded. ;-) It took me 6 months until one became available on Ebay. The rabbit reminded me of when we would celebrate St. Lucia day with cousins in Texas. They asked our daughter to represent St. Lucia, to wear the crown of candles and pass around the rolls. It was a great memory.....and I just love this stamp.
If you have any questions on how I created, colored, etc....please don't hesitate to ask.  I am more than willing to share any small amount of knowledge I have.  Thanks for looking.

Recipe:
PSX Stamp Royal Rabbit K7104
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad
Copic Markers:
0, C1, C3
YR20, YR23, YR27
R01, R22, R29, R39
G94, YG03
E09
Graphic 45 Christmas Emporium Collection 8 x 8 pad

Altered Post Card Seashells

Next Saturday is our local Altered Book Club meeting.  One of my commitments is to do a postcard on the subject of Seashells.  This one took some thinking on my part. After stewing on the project for about 3 weeks I finally decided to do something totally different.  Now you know I love watercolor but when I do a watercolor project it is with stamps and markers.  When searching on the internet on seashells I ran across a children's book about collecting seashells and the artwork for the book blew me away.  So, here is my first watercolor where I DREW the image....not a stamp in sight.  Something weird happened while I was painting.  Do you see the image of a heart between the girls hand and her face?  Well I didn't do that.  It appeared on it's own I assume the way the water worked on the paper??? I decided to leave it. What do you think?

Front

back

Disney album

This summer in July we met our son, his wife and the four grandchildren at our time share near Disney World.  They were there for the whole week but we went for just a few days to spend some time with their family.  We had a great time....much too short....but it was a good trip and so much fun for the kids. When putting some of my craft stuff away this past weekend (not a pleasant duty but a necessity) I discovered a blank book that I had in the shape of a castle.....so I rolled up my sleeves and went to work.  Here's the results...an album for my daughter in law to put some of those favorite photos from the vacation at Disney World!  Happy Birthday Holly! I think you are a wonderful mother, wife to our son and the perfect example of the Proverbs 31 lady. Love you lots.

Castle album front

 

 

 

 

Inside view one 

 

 

 

Inside View two

p.s.  A big THANK YOU to my husband, David, who got these pictures posted inspite of the problems with Google and Blogger.  He is a GENIUS!

Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry 101

I am a little slow since March when Tim had this fantastic on line class.  Life just gets in the way of what you want to do.....but finally I got a block of time to work on this.  Ten days of classes, 8 of the days consisted of 3 tags 3 techniques and day 10 was only one tag but it was a great one.  A total of 25 tags using a tremendous amount of product.  Distress ink pads, distress stains, distress reinkers, distress markers, distress stickles, distress embossing powder, crackle paint, perfect pearls mist with reinkers, Stampers Anonymous TH stamps, Texture Fades, tags, sticky back canvas, watercolor paper, grungeboard, and Kraft resist...just to name a few. What a Blast! I did one day at a time, gathered my supplies, worked the process and then PUT EVERYTHING AWAY before starting on the next day.  So when I was finishd I took some pictures.  To do them justice I should of taken one picture for each tag but then what a post THAT would of been! So here goes....drum roll please!

1. Blended Distress/Spritz and Flick Technique
2.  Brushless Watercolor Technique
3.  Wrinkle-Free Distress Technique

4.  Alcohol Ink Agates Technique
5.  Archival Resist  Technique
6.  Stamping with Reflections Technique

7.  Water coloring with Re-inkers Technique
8.  Layered Misting Technique (I did not like using the template with the mist,  ran under it)
9.  Custom Stamp Pad Technique

10.  Stamping with Stains Technique
11.  Stained Draft Resist Technique (Too dark for my taste...but that's Mona Lisa for you)
12.  Marbled Stain Technique

13.  Watercolor with Markers Technique
14.  Blending with Markers Technique
15.  Stamping with Markers Technique

16.  Nostalgic Batik Technique
17.  Rusted Enamel Technique (didn't work for me)
18.  Distress Powder Resist Technique

19.  Paint Dabber Resist Technique
20.  Crackle Paint Resist Technique
21.  Shattered Stains Technique

22.Perfect Distress Mist
23. Perfect Distress (My Favorite...magic!)
24.  Perfect Splatter Distress

25.  Rock Candy Distress Stickles Technique

Vintage PSX truck with Copic grounding technique

Welcome blog hoppers to the second stop of the Oldies but Goodies blog hop. I went way back to get a really old stamp.  A PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange) that is no longer in business.  I love their stamps/images. The rubber is cut deep and there is a lot of detail in the images. I respect the art and talent that went into making these rubber stamps on wood blocks that were so well finished you could pick out a PSX stamp in the dark just by the touch. Now these stamps can only be found on Ebay and that is sad but fortunate if you are able to acquire one at a decent price.

Lately I have been working my way thru the Copic Coloring Guide Level 2: Nature.  This book is written and illustrated by Colleen Schaan and Marianne Walker and comes with a CD that lets you download the images in the book.  One of the techniques covered is "grounding" and it is the best I have ever seen.  I used that technique on my card. I used the suggested colors in my card (E43 and N3). I flicked out from the image for the road using first E43 and then N3 (no blending done here).  Then used the colorless blender and scrubbed to blend across the flicks until I got the look I wanted.  The next step is to add dots with the brush end of the pen of varying sizes using E43 and then N3. The last step is to add dots using the colorless blender.  Repeat the steps as necessary for the look and color you desire. I used this same technique for the grass using two greens and the colorless blender (minus the dots).

The image was stamped using Memento Rich Cocoa to get an aged and rusty effect.  The group of daises was stamped a second time, fussy cut and popped up.  The windows are colored using B0000 and then covered with Glossy Accents.

Enjoy the hop and kindly leave a word of love and encouragement for all the bloggers!
Mary

August Blog Hop List

1. Cindy Grigiski http://www.stampwithmecindyg.com/

2. Mary Witter http://www.marywitter.blogspot.com/ You are here

3. Maria Matter http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/

4. Barbara K. Wibel http://madeforkeeps.blogspot.com/

5. Sue Morris http://www.suessentiments.org/

6. Angie Williams http://www.angiesstampingspace.blogspot.com

Circus Clown

I'm challenging myself to enter more "Challenges" that are available to us.  Want to join the fun?  I made this card for the Outlawz Friday Challenge.  This is an old stamp from Art Impressions and is no longer available but he sure is a cute clown. (Art Impressions Clown M-1349)
Stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with Copic markers.  The papers are from Graphic 45. I used the Spellbinders Framabilities Classic Frame to make the entrance to the tent.
Hope you like it!