Guest Designer Four Season Challenge

Hi friends and welcome to the Spring Challenge for Four Seasons Challenge and I am honored to be the guest designer!

When I think of Spring, I think of Easter and decided to go with my most comfortable medium, watercoloring. I started with a digital stamp from Whimsy Stamps called a Cup Full of Happiness:

Isn't this image just so cute? I resized 2 images and printed it through my Brother Laser Printer using Ranger Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper. I almost always color more than 1. Why? My first image is my practice image for colors and also gets my "hand" warmed up. When I color the second one, I am usually more comfortable with the colors and style. 99% of the time I use both images for cards in some manner:

I used my favorite watercolor pan palettes (usually of a mix of the 2): The Stamp Market 24 Pan Color Crush Palette and Altenew Watercolor 24 Pan Set:

I always use my Silver Brushes - Black Velvet usually the size 8 and sometimes the 6. The 8 holds more water and although larger it is actually easier for watercoloring. Also, I always try to leave white: if you notice the carrots those white areas are "sparkles" - I very seldom go back with a white gelly roll pen, but leave the white in the design while coloring.

The cups were fun! Once the watercoloring was dry I masked off all around the cups just with post it notes. Then I used this wonderful stencil from A Colorful Life Designs called Bunny Garden Stencil to ink blend parts of the design with some Ranger Distress Ink:

I used Ranger's Detail Blending Tools to get into the small areas:

The sentiments come from 2 different sets. I thought about the sentiments for a long time...what sentiment fits a bunny staring at a cupful of carrots? I was happy with the 2 I finally choose. The first, a simple "love you" come from this Hero Arts/Gina K collaboration stamp set called Friendship Blooms. I love this font and have used both the floral and sentiments many times:

The second sentiment came from Spellbinder's Sunday Drive All-Occasion Clear Stamp Set from Liberty Collection (longest name ever!):

I want to thank the folks at the Four Season Challenge for inviting me to be the guest designer and I hope you enjoyed my cards! Come play along with the challenge...they are always fun!  

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