Peppermint Patty's Papercraft: August 2016

Butterfly Reflections Ink: Congratulations

Hi Everyone! Butterfly Reflections Ink:

I'm sharing inspiration on the Butterfly Reflections Ink today and for today's card I've played with some adorable products from Lawn Fawn. I know, I'm waiting for the new release too but was inspired to use the adorable fairies!

I diecut my stitched rectangle and then simply stamped a little scene and colored with copic markers. I stamped the script sentiment but had to mask the edges of my rectangle so the edges of the script didn't go all the way out. I then I matted my rectangle to some pink cardstock before adhereing to my cardbase with foam adhesive.
For a little dimension I created a little bow from pink cardstock and adhered at the top.

Supplies:

Stamps:
Lawn Fawn Fairy Friends
Scripty Sayings

Dies:
My Favorite Things : Beautiful Bows
Stitched rectangles

Paper: Lawn Fawn

Ink:
Tuxedo Black ink
Adhesives:
Foam Adhesive
Dot Gluetape

Coloring Mediums:
Copic Markers

Pop over to the store to find the products I've used for this card; Butterfly Reflections Ink

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Sunday Watercolors; Greenland

Inspired by a watercolor art exhibition and a beautiful picture I saw on Pinterest I painted this little scene from my head:

Have a nice Sunday, Hugs, Karin

You can view more of my watercolors HERE if you want to!

I also share them on my Instagram account HERE

Friday, August 19, 2016

Post for Lawnscaping Challenges

Hi Everyone!
It's Karin here to share some inspiration for the Lawnscaping Challenge blog.

I started by making a cardbase from dark orange cardstock and then matted some plaid paper to the center of it.
I then diecutted a square with a circle window in the middle.
I used the same circle die to cut through the center of a slightly larger scalloped circle and that way created a little frame for my window.
After adhering the frame I used foamadhesive to tape my window to the cardbase.
With the window in place I could center my diecut love and add some sprinkles.
And then to the fun part - stamping, coloring and fuzzy cutting the adorable little faries! I just ADORE them! They are adhered to the card with foam adhesive.

The Lawn Fawn supplies I used for my project:
Stamps; Fairy Friends
Dies; Scripty Love
Paper; Let's Polka mon Amie and Perfectly Plaid

Pop over to the Lawnscaping challenge to be inspired by my talented teamies or play along in the latest challenge.

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Monday, August 15, 2016

Lawnscaping Challenge # 136 Punny Time You are all I knead!

Hi Everyone!

I'm here today to introduce a new challenge at Lawnscaping. This time it is a Punny Sentiments Challenge!!!

For my card I used the following Lawn Fawn Supplies;
Stampsets: HERE
Dies: HERE
Patterned Paper; Pint sized Patterns

Our fabulous sponsor for this challenge is; Lawn Fawn!!! You can win a stampset of your choice YEAH!!!

Pop over to Lawnscaping for all the info you need and to join the challenge and to check out some Amazing Projects by my super talented teamies! Hope to see you there!

If you want to see more of my Lawn Fawn Projects you can follow my LF board on pinterest; https://se.pinterest.com/peppermint42/lawn-fawn/

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Sunday watercolors; Want to paint looser watercolors? A little tip.

For today's Sunday watercolors I have a Little tip if you, like me, want to loosen up your watercolor painting. I started with the lion below and wasn't happy with the result - there's no excitment going in it - I Think you can tell it's a lion, but the masked whiskers and hairs stand out too much - it looks too planned. Instead I skipped the drawing underneath and started painting right away. You are forced to work faster and just try to caprute colors and shapes instead. I'm so much happier with the second one (above) and think that if I could combine the two ways of aproaching a subject I'd be really happy (-:

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Happy Painting, hugs, Karin

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

I'd Slay a Dragon for You!

Hi Everyone!

I'm sharing inspiration on the Butterfly Reflections Ink and for today's card I've played with some adorable new products from My Favorite Things.

I started out by inking the background with distress ink and then spraying water onto it with a mister. When it had dried I diecut some Clouds that I adhered with glue tape Before I cut my panel. I stamped, colored and diecut my images and adhered them with tape and foam adhesive Before I put my panel onto a miniscallop covered cardbase.
Since my bg was quite dark I diecut a cloud for my sentiment.

Supplies:

Stamps:
MFT: Magical Dragons

Dies:
My Favorite Things: Mini Scallopped Rectangle Stax
Magical dragons
Stitched cloud edges
Puffy Clouds

Ink:
Tuxedo Black ink
Rangers Distress Ink Milled Lavendar, Dusty Concord, Seedless Preserves

Tools:
x-press blending card
Blending tool

Adhesives:
Foam Adhesive
Dot Gluetape

Coloring Mediums:
Copic Markers

Pop over to the store to find the products I've used for this card; Butterfly Reflections Ink

Have a great day, hugs, Karin

Friday, August 5, 2016

Blue Raspberries!

I'm still super excited about Charie O'Shields feature of my watercolors on Doodlewash and had to sharethis painting that I made for it. You can read the feature here; https://doodlewash.com/2016/08/04/guest-doodlewash-the-love-of-crafting-and-painting/ and if you've heard enough of me (-: he's interviewd so many fantastic artists with interesting stories and inspiring art - I promise you will spend a lot of time there once you get there (-: and leave inspired to take out your Paints!!!

https://doodlewash.com/2016/08/04/guest-doodlewash-the-love-of-crafting-and-painting/

With only hours left of the super fun 30-day coloring challenge that super talented Kathy Racoosing is hosting again this year. Kathy has so many great tutorials and the gallery is full of super inspiring Projects - so if you haven't been be sure to pop over there right away! #thedailymarker30day

If you want to view more of my watercolors you can follow me on instagram.

Have a fantastiv week-end, hugs, Karin

Thursday, August 4, 2016

EXCITING NEWS !!!

I think you can guess how chocked and honoured I was when Charlie O'Shields of Doodlewash.com and founder of the World Watercolor Month and the Facebook Group World Watercolormonth asked if he could do a feature of me on the Doodlewash blog. And now I'm so super excited to share that it is live and you can read it HERE .

If you like watercolorpainting and haven't joined yet, you just have to check out this wonderful Group. There are people from all over the World who share their art, their love for the medium and who support eachother and eachothers' development. It is just wonderful and such an inspiration and great reason to paint.
In the feature I mention a wonderful teacher that introduced me to watercolorpainting and made me fall in love with it, back when I was working as an au pair in Lexington, MA -90-91, Mrs Norma Regillo and wanted to share a picture of her here. Unfortunately, I found out that she had passed away last year.

And here's a painting of mine from back then:

Please pop over to Charlie's Blog and read about his art and all the amazing artists that have been featured before me, so many interesting stories, inspiring tips and wonderful art!

Have a wonderful day!

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Going bold with my watercolors: Waterlily

Hi!

The World Watercolor Month is over but I am so happy because it made me start painting more regularly again and knowing that the facebook group will continue is a dream come true!

Today I went out of my comfort zone and used some bright new colors I've been wanting to try; Quin Magenta and Green Gold. This is not really me, but I had fun!

Here's the pic I used as reference. You are more than welcome to use it if you want to.

What isn't over yet though is the super fun 30-day coloring challenge that super talented Kathy Racoosing is hosting again this year. I'm not sure if there's a limit to how many entries you can share there - this might be my 5th... Anyway this is the most bold and colorful I've ever gone with my watercolors and the way I painted this is more coloring than painting...

#thedailymarker30day

If you want to view more of my watercolors I've collected some on my Watercolors page HERE

or you can follow me on instagram

Butterfly Reflections Ink: Thinking of You dear friend

Hi Everyone! Butterfly Reflections Ink: Thinking of You dear friend

I'm sharing inspiration on the Butterfly Reflections Ink today and here's a little sneak peak:

Pop over to the Butterfly Reflections Ink to get the details!

Hi Everyone!

It's Karin from PeppermintPatty's Papercraft, here to share some inspiration. For today's card I've played with some adorable products from My Favorite Things.

I stamped the image with Rangers Archival Ink which is perfect if you want to watercolor your images!

I then colored my image using watercolor pencils which is a fast and easy way, no mixing colors just color and add water!

I created a frame from red cardstock and the diagonal patterned paper is one I created using MFT's diagonal stencil. Fast and easy and you'll get the exact matching color if you want to!

Supplies:

Stamps:
My Favorite Things: You have my heart

Dies:
My Favorite Things Inside out stitched rectangle ;

MFT Stencil; Split diagonal

Ink:
MFT Electric red
Rangers Archival

Tools:
x-press blending card
Blending tool

Adhesives:
Foam Adhesive
Dot Gluetape

Coloring Mediums:
Derwents watercolor pencils

Pop over to the store to find the products I've used for this card; Butterfly Reflections Ink

Have a great day, hugs, Karin