Psychotic Ramblings from a Serial Scrapper AKA Craft Room Therapy

Today I am excited to share with you this watercolor card I created with Dare 2 B Artzy Stamps. To create this card I started out by stamping the dock from the Dare 2B Artzy On the Dock set with Dare 2B Artzy Chocolate Chip ink onto watercolor paper. I then broke out my Tim Holtz Distress Markers (Old Paper and Frayed Burlap) and added some lines with the brush tip. You can see it doesn't look fancy just some marker lines.  I then blended the marker lines with my waterbrush. As you can see it blended so pretty.  Just like wood! I then colored the water on the bottom 1/3 of my card by using my Tim Holtz markers again (Weathered Wood) and a water brush.  This time I colored my marker onto my craft sheet and used the waterbrush to pick up the ink and just "painted on the color.  Remember it doesn't have to be perfect. Watercolors have lots of shades. I then painted some hills in the back ground using the same technique mixing ink colors from 3 diffe...

Today I am sharing my take on this week's sketch at Sketches in Thyme.    Here is the starting sketch I let the Bo Bunny papers do alot of the border work for me ::D  Hop on over to their blog to play along!  

Yep! You read that right!  Dare 2B Artzy and Canvas Corp. Brands have teamed up for a blog hop!!! I was so excited as I have been a long long time fan of Canvas Corp Brands!  And everyone knows I love my Dare 2 B Artzy stamps and dies and papers!!! If you are starting here at my blog, hop on over to the Dare 2B Artzy blog   and   Canvas Corp Brands   to see the full line up! So without further wait, I am pleased to share my projects for this hop. To create these cards I used the following: Dare 2 B Artzy Products Happiness Blooms Totally Blank Ink Canvas Corp Brands Products Seed Packets on Ivory Black and Ivory Print Dot Green and Ivory Lattice Yellow and Ivory Stripes Bikes and Baskets on Ivory Glimmer Baseboard Mist Paint - Fire Glimmer Glaze - Mellow Yellow Clothes Pins Hemp Rope Hank - Yellow Canvas - Yellow Other supplies: Waterbrush, Tim Holtz Markers (Crushed Olive, Mowed Lawn, Vintage Photo, Carved Pumpkin)...

Yep! You read that right!  Dare 2B Artzy and Canvas Corp. Brands have teamed up for a blog hop!!! I was so excited as I have been a long long time fan of Canvas Corp Brands!  And everyone knows I love my Dare 2 B Artzy stamps and dies and papers!!! If you are starting here at my blog, hop on over to the Dare 2B Artzy blog   and   Canvas Corp Brands   to see the full line up! So without further wait, I am pleased to share my projects for this hop. To create these cards I used the following: Dare 2 B Artzy Products Happiness Blooms Totally Blank Ink Canvas Corp Brands Products Seed Packets on Ivory Black and Ivory Print Dot Green and Ivory Lattice Yellow and Ivory Stripes Bikes and Baskets on Ivory Glimmer Baseboard Mist Paint - Fire Glimmer Glaze - Mellow Yellow Clothes Pins Hemp Rope Hank - Yellow Canvas - Yellow Other supplies: Waterbrush, Tim Holtz Markers (Crushed Olive, Mowed Lawn, Vintage Photo, Carved Pumpki...

Hi!  Today I would like to share my inspiration challenge over at Turtle Soup I started with the my "pinned" color pallettes at Pinterest.  I choose this color pallete from Design Seeds I thought it would be perfect for my flamingo pictures!  Hop on over to play along!

  Hello!  Today I would like to share with you this very summer-y greeting I created with Dare 2B Atrzy Stamps! I started by using the Sunset Yellow Artzy Doodles Paper to create my card base.  I then stamped the fruit slice from the new Flip Flops Stamp set using coordinating Dare 2B Artzy inks!  I stamped my Drink image  and greeting using Dare 2B Artzy's Totally Black ink. I brought my stamp to life using my Spectrum Noir Markers (BT1, BT2, CT1, GB5). I punched out my image and matted the image on another punched piece of Artzy Doodle Bright Pumpkin paper. After adhering the refreshing drink to my card I felt the card needed something more!............... So what's a crafter to do?   I raided our straws and trimmed a straw to fit the card and topped it with a coordinating bow!!!!  I then hand cut the greeting into a banner and added to the card with dimensional tape!   Hope you are inspired to try oout these new stamp sets!!!! ...

Hello!  Today I am sharing my challenge over at Turtle Soup and this month's Dare 2B Artzy Challenge ! This Month's Theme is Animals!!!!! Cindy has so many amazing animal stamps in the store!!!! I started with this amazing sketch from Bev at Turtle Soup. I rotated the sketch to fit my needs! and used the sketch as a focal point on my card! (All supplies are Dare 2B Artzy unless otherwise listed!) I started by using my Birds paper from the In Bloom Paper Pack as my card base. To create the background I added some coordinating cardstock from my stash.  I stamped the music notes from the Be Yourself Stamp set all over the cardstock using Versamark ink. I added the cutaway border strip from the Blue Sky Arzty Doodles paper and a punched border strip. To create the card's focal point I matted another piece of the Birds paper onto white cardstock and added jewels from my stash to the corners.   I then stamped my bird from the Be Yourself stamp set and used the Bir...