As part of my OLW, COMMIT for March, I’m still playing with watercolors. Over the next three days, you’ll see three cards that resulted from one afternoon session. I’m learning quite a bit: I need to work more slowly, and I’m better off with a good #4 watercolor brush. Patience, too, is important. Waiting for one section to dry before moving on is also important. All the flowers I watercolored came from the same Simon Says set, Delicate Flowers, which was part of the May 2019 card kit.
Here’s the first card, another for the birthday stash.
I used Altenew’s 36 pan watercolors for these flowers. It’s one of my favorite watercolor sets for painting flowers. Almost no mixing needed since the colors are so fresh and bright.
Because I wanted to play along with the Addicted to CAS challenge: Circle, I used a PTI Shape Shifter Circle #2 die as a backdrop for the flower. I think most CAS blogs now accept a color as the “white space” and this one is Spring Rain, also from PTI. The blue cardstock is its truest color in this photo.
I’m entering this in the Addicted to CAS Challenge: Circle.
The Flower Challenge: Anything Goes:
And the AAA Birthday Game: Flowers:
We made an early grocery store run this morning, needing to purchase a gift card for RAIHN (Rochester Interfaith Hospitality Network). My friend and I provide dinner each time our church hosts families from RAIHN. Needless to say, during this time of seclusion, we are not hosting families. We are, however, providing dinners for a family that is residing in the RAIHN apartment. We arrived just as Wegmans opened, and were pleasantly surprised to find the shelves reasonably full. A week ago there was no meat except for a few packages of hamburger, no salad dressing, no bananas . . . you get the picture. Today I was able to pick up ingredients for several of our favorite meals as well as some cleaning supplies we needed. It was relatively easy to stay appropriately distant from other shoppers, too. We go to the Wegmans flagship store which has wide aisles and ample cashiers so I feel as safe as I could be under the circumstances. We won’t need to return again for at least a week, if not longer. I am a fan of fresh produce so am likely to make a quick run once every week or 10 days.
Hope you are finding good things to occupy your time. Sarah gave Tracy a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle for his birthday, and in three days, he’s just about completed it. I’d like to say I helped, but if I put in 50 pieces that would be saying a lot. Granted, I also have not put in the time!
Stay safe!
Such truly lovely cards! The fresh blue is a visual delight with the white and green. Getting some watercolour practice in every day sounds calming. I’d hoped to do the same but not managed it. Glad to hear that food supplies are available to you – last time I was out, the fresh produce was almost non-existent in the supermarkets and lots of empty shelves … :(.
What a beautiful card. I particularly like the happy birthday script. I will need to go to the grocery store probably next week, I’m just trying to delay. Mr Man will go out on Tuesday to get our drinking water refill. I think we are going to buy a second container & fill to reduce the number of times we need to be out. Good for Tracy getting that 1000 piece puzzle together in just 3 days. My daily walks cannot be in the parks – all parks are now officially closed which includes the community playground parks & our large conservation park. This makes it difficult for many who keep their sanity by walking in the woods & along the trails or taking the kids to play outside. Necessary but sad.
The spring rain blue is so soothing in this stressful time. You nailed it with the circle challenge using one of my favorite dies. We’re shopping once a week. Fresh produce is plentiful although no baking potatoes again. The frozen section is bare of veggies as well as the baking aisle. I find a daily nap is necessary along with a walk.
Oh how very beautiful! The doily die cut and the soft blues are gorgeous. Thanks for playing at AAA Birthday, hope to see you join in with future challenges too. Keep safe, stay home and craft!
Such a beautiful card, thanks for sharing with us over at ‘The Flower Challenge’ 😉 Viv DT xx
Such a lovely shade of blue for that card & you watercoloring is perfect!
We’ve found most everything we’ve needed at our local grocery store as well & are enjoying lots of puttering & crafting time. (Well, Robbie’s working every day, too.) We have a 3,000 piece puzzle we’re planning to work on … as soon as Robbie gets his trading cards sorted & off the big table. 🙂
I love using colours as white space too. The delicate flower and leaves you’ve painted go so well with the background die. Thanks for playing along with this month theme at AAA Birthday.
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