Two-thirds Way Thru 30-Day-Coloring Challenge

See my first ten days of colored projects during this 30-Day Coloring Challenge.

See my 2nd ten days of coloring projects.

Day 21:

Kathy's Stockings

 I was over at Stephanie Ackerman's blog last night,

catching up on all her latest news,

when I ran across a post with her directions

on how she watercolors using watercolor pencils and an aqua-brush, 

so knew that was the direction I was going next,

to color in a house,

a gingerbread house,  to be exact, by Stampin' Up.

The colored pencil practice was a good prelude to coloring in with watercolor pencils,

however, when it came time to actually get the Strathmore

watercolor paper wet, I had a hard time getting some of the pencil pigment

to dissolve and smooth out like a marker.

I was using a "light" hand, as per Stephanie's instructions,

 but had to re-color over the dried sections.

The sky finally puddled after the second coat,

but the clouds and the house still wouldn't,

so then I had to look at the pencils.

I keep all my watercolor and colored pencils (various brands of both)

 separated in school boxes, so. . .

when I tried to find them on the Fantasia Pencil company website,

there were no photos of individual pencils to compare them to, so I decided

they must be coloring pencils, not watercolor ones. =0(

So to finish off the scene, I added stickles to the roof and gumdrops

and glossy accents to the little gingerbread man's heart.

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Day 22.

Kathy's Post

Tonight my son was in a car accident with a motorcycle

that totaled his car; he's at the hospital getting checked out as I type this.

When I tried to call my husband to let him know

about the accident, his boss answered my hubby's phone and said he had

fainted and medics and an ambulance was on the way.

So tonight I elected not to color, but take care of my guys.

I hope you understand.

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Day 23:

Kathy's Lawn Fawn Christmas Card 

I decided to do another watercolor card, but in a different technique

with the watercolor pencils.

I got inspiration from this Art Impressions tri-fold card video.

I love the look of watercolor and

followed the directions from the video of measuring and marking the card,

however, I didn't have the Art Impression stamps to make it with, so used what I had.

I think if I make this card again, I would move the car down so it is not hiding the house

and move the evergreen tree up and to the left side of where the car is..

I felt a little out of my element as it involved moving the pigment

from a "palette" to the paper

with the waterbrush; I have more control with the above watercolor technique of scribbling

the watercolor pencil pigment directly on the paper and wetting it with the waterbrush to puddle it.

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Day 24:

Kathy colored a kitty.

Well, I played with placement today after I visited Michaels.

I was looking for Tim Holtz's Distress Micro Glaze fixative, but they didn't carry it.

You wouldn't believe the amount of coloring books they were carrying. WOW!

Right in time for Christmas shopping!

I thought I had a tree stamp, but all I could find were evergreens, so

I ended up buying a little 8 piece Inkadinkado tree set, but am still not satisfied

with the placement on the left side of the card.

The perspective isn't quite right yet, but I'm tickled with the shadows,

esp. the one of the car.

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Day 25:

Kathy's Grey Roses

This crazy bird ATC is dedicated to Judy Cantrell,

who not only sent me stamp-off's of Tim Holtz's Crazy birds,

but also suggested how to color them in with watercolor crayons.

Did you know the term "jayhawking" is said to have been invented

by Patrick Devlin, an Irishman, who had emigrated to the Kansas territories 

during the Border War between Kansas and Missouri?

I couldn't resist adding the green polka-dot tie and bowler hat to the bird

along with the google-eyes.

He even has a little shamrock (confetti) next to him.

I have a plastic paint palette somewhere, but couldn't lay my hand on it,

so grabbed a plastic package bubble to use instead. The crayon scribbled easily and dissolved quite readily into paint and it didn't require the effort to get it transferred to the

image as the watercolor pencil scribbles did from the paper. 

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Day 26:

Kathy's Cute Little Watercolored Houses

Wise Old Owl

This coloring challenge is a two-fer; I'm getting

 shopping bags of supplies that I moved out to my craft barn

put away before I get down to business coloring, so

yesterday I found two palettes of watercolor paint;

one was a generic kids brand and the other was an Pearlescent

USArtQuest Stargazers palette that I had purchased at a thrift store

for $3.00 which had never been used.

I took that water brush in hand and painted up this wise old owl --

first layer was the generic brown - squirt one drop from water brush into paint,

mixed it a little and lightly painted it on and heat set it with my heat gun,

then went back over it with a darker brush on the shadow areas.

The bow-tie, cap, & pencil were all colored in the Stargazer paint.

It's more opaque than the generic watercolor paint. Then I went back over the bow tie

with lime green gel pen polka-dots and google eyes and he was done!

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Day 27 & Day 28:

Kathy's Spots

Me bad.

I totally blew off the coloring challenge yesterday.

Got involved in genealogy and didn't want to leave it, so

tonight I made two atc's.

I wanted to stamp the Celtic Cross in black, but could not find the stamp,

so had to rely on a stamp-off cut out of a "Ka-Ka" card.

You don't have a "Ka-Ka" card stash, do you?

I do. I keep unfinished and ugly cards in a shoebox.

Never know what you can dig out or find a use for from time to time.

I water colored both of these atc's with a paint box and water pen.

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Day 29:

Kathy's Poinsetta Card

I'm tired tonight.

We're almost done with this 30-day Coloring Challenge.

I had a list of things to get completed and

have some things almost accomplished like the cleaning of my craft barn. Woo hoo!

I've  also learned that I like coloring with coloring pencils

and watercoloring with a water pen!

So here's my atc for today!

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Day 30:

I made an atc-size envie  from a Asian treat bag I've hung onto like forever as a template 

and had to wait for the seams and the shamrock die cut on it to dry.

I was trying a new glitter glue which I got at a dollar store that I don't think I'll get again.

Had trouble getting it to come out and when it did, it came out in a big glop,

ACK!, so had a mess to clean up.

Here's the envie and the template.

The front of the envelope is 2.5" x 3.5." Score along dotted lines then fold and glue. .

I appreciate my friends and your lurkers out there

for coming back to read my blog every day

and commenting. 

Also, kudos goes to Kathy Racoosin for hosting this 30-Day Coloring Challenge.

Thank you.