Watercoloring with Ken Oliver Color Burst

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Hello everyone!! I’m here again for a second time!! Yes, two in a row. Once again I’m trying to get my homework done for MFT Summer School!

Lesson #8 – Primary Colors

Primary colors are the most basic colors on the color wheel!! They are Red, Yellow and Blue!! These colors create all of the other colors you see in the world around you.

They form a triangle, take a look at the color wheel above!!

Amazing right!! Now take a look at my card:

I used two primary colors to create that watercolor hello!! I love how it turned out.

I used Ken Oliver Color Burst Lemon Yellow and Alizarin Crimson which are primary colors. I added Pthalo Green which is a secondary color for added interest. I don’t have the blue color burst yet. I will get it very soon.

Take a look at that watercolor piece:

To create the card, I just used the My Favorite Things Die-namics TRANSFORM-ables Say Hello Die and cut out the hello and attached it to my card base that I previously cut out.

Super simple and easy.

So what do you thing of primary colors? I have to say this lesson really gave me a different perspective about colors.

What do you thing? Please let me know down below.

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Thank you so much for stopping by!

~ Kymona

21Jul2015

Playing with Secondary Colors

Posted in July 2015, MFT Summer School Lesson by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I popping in here with some homework for My Favorite Things Summer School Lesson this week.

Lesson #9 is all about Secondary Colors!!

What are Secondary colors you ask? They are the direct counterparts of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue. They are Orange, Green and Purple!!

Take a look at my card:

For my card I used 2 primary and one secondary color!! I love how my card turned out. I was able to combine two of my favorite products from My Favorite Things! The Adventure is Calling Stamp Set and the New Jumbo Peek-A-Boo Die Set!!

I used my Fuse Tool to create my shaker pocket and I added Lucy Adams French Lavender Sequin.

I colored the little girl with : R39, E23, E00, E11, E33, V15, R20.

I stamped the sentiment using My Favorite Things Hybrid Black Ink.

If you want to know how to make the shaker pocket, check out this post!

So how do you think I did with this lesson? Let me know below!!

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Thank you for stopping by!

~Kymona

21Jul2015

CASology 156 – Line

Posted in CASology Challenge, July 2015 by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! It’s CASology Tuesday!! We are back with another Cue Card for you!!!

This week’s cue card is super simple!! The shortest distance between to points is a straight line!!!

This week we are all about lines!!

Take a look at my card:

I went with Chevron lines!! Those embossed chevron lines are totally amazing.

The lines in the banner and the lines in the leaves are a plus!!

Here’s how I created this card:

1. Cut my card base to an A2 size card, 4.25 x 5.50.

2. I used Stampin’ Up! Chevron Embossing Folder to create my card panel.

3. I used Lawn Fawn Our Friendship Grows stamp set and die set to create my flower and leaves focal point.

4. I used Copic Marker Y32, Y35, Y38, G07, E33, E35, E37 to color the flower and leaves.

5. I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set and flag the end.

6. I adhered the card panel with fun foam to the card base. I adhered the leaves to the back of the flower with tape runner and the banner to the card panel with foam tape.

7. I added Clear Wink of Stella the flower. I added to crystal clear gumdrops underneath the banner for balance.

I love how this card turned out!! I hope you do to! Let me know below.

Now its your turn!! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

For more inspiration, check out my fellow Design Team members blog for more awesome work.

Kymona Tracey ←Me

Our Guest Designer this week:

Anita

I’m linking my card up to Addicted to Clean and Simple Challenge this week.

It’s all about Chevron!!!

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Thank you so much for stopping by.

~Kymona

19Jul2015

Muse Challenge #124

Posted in July 2015, Muse Challenge by Kreative Kymona

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Hello everyone!! I’m so happy to be here today. I’m playing with the Muse Challenge today. I haven’t played in a long time. I just haven’t had the time.

So it feels good to be able to play now.

The Muse this week is Ardyth and here is her card:

Take a look at my card:

I totally love this stamp set from Lawn Fawn. Its called Our Friendship Grows.

To create this card, all I did was distress the background with Distress Ink Broken China and Mowed Lawn.

Then I stamped and die cut three of the flowers. I used Copic Marker E33, E35, E37 to the center of the flower.

I attached the flower with foam adhesive and used my ruler and Copic Multiliner to draw in the stem.

I added Clear Wink of Stella to the center of the flower.

I stamped the sentiment using My Favorite Things Hybrid Ink.

I trimmed my card panel down and adhered it to the card base.

Super easy and Fun!!

You will see more of theses flowers this week. Such a pretty set of flowers.

Supplies used:

Thank you for stopping by!

~ Kymona

19Jul2015

TAWS July Guest Designer – Take Two

Posted in Guest Designing, July 2015, TAWS by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today Guest Designing for The Alley Way Stamps (TAWS)!! This is my second and last post for the month of July!!

I had a lot of fun work and playing with their stamp sets.

I have three cards for you today. So see back relax and enjoy!

Card 1:

Aren’t these ladybugs so cute!! I had so much fun coloring them. I used them to practicing my coloring with different colors.

I thought this sentiment was fitting for both of these ladybugs. There are times when we need someone to help us lightened our loads and that is what they are doing here.

Card 2:

So for those of you who follow me, you already know my obsession with shaker cards. This is a cute shaker card for the holiday season!!

There are a number of things you can do with this shaker card/pocket:

1. You can add a gift card before sealing it.

2. You can punch a hole at the top and add a string for an ornament.

3. You can add your message to the back of the pocket.

The possibilities are endless.

Card 3:

I totally love this card!! The colors are awesome!! I ink blended mustard seed and spiced marmalade together and stamped the bee with Versamark Ink. I used Hero Arts White Embossing Powder to bring out the stamped bumble bee.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set and added Doodlebug Sprinkles for added accents.

Super clean and simple! What do you think? Please let me know below.

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Thank you so much!

~Kymona

18Jul2015

Tag You’re It Challenge

Posted in July 2015, Tag You're It by Kreative Kymona

Hell everyone!! I popping in really quickly to play along with Tag You’re It Challenge this week.

Marybeth is the Designer this week and this is what she came up with:

I love the butterfly on her tag so I wanted to give it a try!

I created these watercolor background pieces the other day and want to use one of them to create my tag.

Take a look at my tag:

I love that watercolor piece and didn’t want to hide it so I decided to create my second tag using acetate to create my second tag.

You might be able to see it better here:

My sentiment is from Papertrey Ink Lunchbox Love Stamp Set and I stamped it in Versamark Ink and embossed it with Stampin’ Up! Gold embossing powder.

I punched out two butterflies using Stampin’ Up! Elegant Butterfly Punch and their Bitty Butterfly Punch out of the same watercolor piece.

I adhered everything with glue dots and added the Papertrey Ink Baker’s Twine Cream Cotton to finish off my tag.

Easy Peasy!! What do you think? Let me know below in the comment section.

Supplies used:

Thank you for stopping by!!

Kymona

15Jul2015

Top Dog Dies – No Stamping Card

Posted in July 2015, Top Dog Die by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!!! It’s Top Dog Die Wednesday!! I’m here to showcasing Top Dog Dies Pretty Petals Die Set #2!!

This die set is such a versatile set. You can use it to create some many different crafty things.

For my card today, I decided to use only my dies and no stamping on my card.

Take a look:

I love how my flowers turned out and this card didn’t require any stamping.

For the card panel, I used retired Stampin’ Up! Polka Dot Embossing Folder to create the dots.

I die cut each flower out of Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine pattern paper and attached them with foam tape. I used my Copic Multiliner to draw the stem. I added some Stampin” Up! Rhinestones to the center of each flower.

To add a sentiment, I die cut the Top Dog Dies Hello from the same pattern paper and used Tombow Liquid Glue to adhere it to the card panel.

I added my card panel to my card base and WaLa!!!!

Super simple and complete!!

What do you think? Let me know below!!

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Thanks for stopping by!!

~Kymona

14Jul2015

CASology 155 – Cupcake

Posted in CASology Challenge, July 2015, Top Dog Dies New Release by Kreative Kymona

Second Post for today

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Hello everyone!! It’s CASology Tuesday!! We are back with another Cue Card for you!!

This week’s cue card is so super cute, fluffy and good to eat! I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with.

This week’s cue card:

Take a look at my card:

Tell me that cupcake doesn’t look delicious!!

Well I have a secret for you!!

The die that I used is a super sneak peek from Top Dog Dies August release!! Its their New Cupcake Die. The set comes with 9 dies and its the cutest set I’ve seen!

They will also release 4 other die sets that will knock your socks off! Stay tune I will have a full revive in August plus a giveaway!! You don’t want to miss that.

This card was very easy to do.

I simply die cut all of my cupcake pieces out of different cardstock. I used Mama Elephant Femme Frames die cut to die cut my card base. I assembled the cupcake and adhere it to the card front. I used Mama Elephant Photo Bomb stamp set to stamp the sentiment. Finished under 5 minutes!! I love these types of card.

Super easy card!!

Now its your turn!! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

For more inspiration, check out my fellow Design Team members blog for more awesome work.

Kymona Tracey ←Me

Our Guest Designer this week:

Ksenija

Our Sponsor this week is STAMPlorations.

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Thank you for stopping by!!

~Kymona

14Jul2015

Creative Chick 10th BLOGIVERSARY Celebration!!

Posted in Blogiversary, July 2015 by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today celebrating with my good friend Jenn Shurkus!!! She is celebrating her 10 year Blogiversary!!! How fabulous is that!!

Let me give you some history as to how I met Jenn!! I first came across Jenn when she made the Simon Says Stamp Design Team. I when I had a chance to participate in the challenges, I did. Then one day while on Instagram, I saw a picture of a Loft Retreat in Rhode Island so I wanted to check it out. I check out and realized the blog belong to Jenn from Simon Say Stamp. So I looked further.

As I was reading all about the Loft Retreat, I was getting excited. I look up how far she was from me and when google map said 3 hrs, I knew I had to go. So I contacted Jenn via Instagram to let her know that I would be at her retreat. I was super excited. As time draw closer, I remembered that my brother was having an honors ceremony the very same day in DC.

I was trying to figure out how I could be in Rhode Island and DC at the same time or at least an hour late to one. Well, you know that wasn’t going to happen so I contacted Jenn and let her know that I can’t come she said don’t worry she will have another one very soon. Cool!

As soon as she put out the schedule for her next retreat, I was all on it. I contacted her and let her know I will be there. I cleared my schedule and everything. Jenn sent out the special invite for us to pay and I was happy. Well, I forgot to respond tot he email until THE night before and she had one sit left. It was meant to be.

I traveled all the way to RI by myself and boy did I have a great time!! I chatted, crafted and had lunch with a great set of women. I left feeling well crafted. Wait did I tell you, it was a Mixed Media class. Totally out of my element, but boy did I have a great time.

Jenn recently had her card retreat and I attended and had a wonderful time. Since I’ve been to her classes and to her home, we are officially friends, or at least I hope so, LOL!!!

Soooo, I say all of that to say CONGRATS Jenn on 10 years of awesomeness!!

Here are Jenn’s cards that I CASED:

Here are my cards that I made:

I choose these cards because if any one knows Jenn, they know she loves “happy mistakes”!!

Watercolor to me are happy mistakes. They are one of a kind, no restrictions just fun!!

I hope I did well with this task that I was given to me!!

Now on to the super fun part of this celebration:

You can also play along and celebrate with Jenn for a chance to win some fabulous prizes from the sponsor below.

To participate all you have to do is CASE one of her cards or projects from her 10 years of blog post and then link up your project on her blog. You have until August 4th to play along. The winner will be announced August 7th!!

I hope you play along with us!! You will not be disappointed!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!!

~Kymona

10Jul2015

CS Take It Make It: Take a Stamp Inspiration Photo

Posted in CS Take It Make It Design Challenge, July 2015 by Kreative Kymona

Second Post for today

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Hello everyone! I’m here today with CS Take It Make It Design Team for our CS Take It Make It: Take a Stamp Challenge. This is our inspiration photo!

This month’s theme is Take a Stamp!! That means take any stamp and create something, anything goes!! Now if that isn’t easy, I’m not sure what is!!

Take a look at my card:

This was a very simple and easy card. I wanted all of the focus to be on this awesome flower by Tim Holtz, its called Flower Garden.

The sentiment is from Tim Holtz and its called Handwritten Sentiments.

Here is how I created this card:

1. I cut my watercolor cardstock to an A2 size card, 4.25 x 5.50 scored 5.50.

2. I stamped the flower, stem and sentiment image with Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink.

3. I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor #43 and #33 to color my images.

4. I also used my Akashiya SAI Watercolor Brushes to add the brown to the flower, the green in the stem and the blue shading.

Super easy and relaxing to create!!

So what will you create for this challenge?

We have two prizes to offer this month, the first is our sponsor prize. This winner will be chosen randomly from all of the entries in the challenge! The sponsor for July is: Art Journey

Here are the prizes this month:

4 Plates!!

Sorry I don’t have an image but if you visit the store you will see the most amazing stamp sets!!

Our second winner is our Design Winner. This winner is chosen by our DT, who all vote for their favorite design from all of the entries. This winner will have their winning project published in Craft Stamper Magazine, they will have a GDT slot for an upcoming challenge, and will also feature in their very own Winners Profile blog post!

Now if that isn’t a reason to play along I’m not sure what is!!

I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

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