Make it Colourful Challenge~USE WATERCOLORS

Gorgeous Flowers Blooming just for you!

Happy New Year! We hope you have had a wonderful time over the holidays and wish you an amazing 2015! Today we are excited to be sharing a new release of beautifully illustrated flower stamps from Make it Crafty. They are intricate and delicate with lots of detail and are the perfect choice for many occasions. 

These gorgeous new flowers are available in both digital and rubber and the rubber stamps also come with a hand written sentiment, which of course you could use between all the different flowers.
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These are the rubber/digi stamps being released today:
Birthday Daisies Rubber Stamp 

Magnolia for Mum Rubber Stamp 

Roses of Love Rubber Stamp 

Sympathy Lilies Rubber Stamp
New Digital stamps will be available HERE!
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To celebrate the arrival of these amazing and beautiful flower stamps, we are having a BLOG HOP! In addition, there are prizes hidden along the way so you'll definitely want to make sure you leave comments on everyone's blog! You only have 24 hours to leave your comments so hurry!

BLOG HOP ORDER
ANDREA – Magnolia for Mum

JENNIFER – Birthday Daisies
ROSEMARY – Roses of Love
MARIKA – Sympathy Lilies
STEPHANIE – Roses of Love
FAYE – Sympathy Lilies
Special Guest ELAINE 

DORINDA – Magnolia for Mum
CARLA – Birthday Daisies
DELPHINE – Roses of Love
SANDY – Sympathy Lilies
Special Guest ELLEN
ZOE – Magnolia for Mum
FORGOTTEN SCRAPS – Birthday Daisies
KAY – Roses of Love
RUBY – Sympathy Lilies
STORE BLOG
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 Zoe challenged the team to use watercolors for our flowers for the monthly challenge on the Make it Colourful Challenge Blog. Once again this was difficult for me! I've never used watercolors, and since I'm visiting my mom I didn't have anything with me. I ended up buying Crayola watercolors at Walmart...probably not the best for a professional result, LOL!

I learned some things throughout the watercoloring process. 

1.) I don't have the patience to watercolor, haha! Waiting patiently for layers to dry before adding more paint was tiring. However, my fellow DT sister, Andrea, said to use a heat gun to speed up the process! Yeah...that would have been nice to know ahead of time, hahahaha! 

2.) It helps to watch some videos first. 

3.) I found if I lay down a dark area first, let it dry, and then spread some of that color lightly outward, it works better for me. I didn't do that on the roses part. I figured that out when I did the leaves. I think if I had used watercolor pencils I would have liked it better.

4.) It helps to color in the background first. 
5.) If you lay down too much color, you can re-wet the area and dab a napkin over the area to pick up the watercolor!
 

 Now don't forget to head over to Marika's Blog to continue on with the hop! And we hope you join us in our month-long watercolor challenge HERE!

Hugs,

Rosie :)