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March 2025 Procreate Designs

Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work.  I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since.   While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad.  No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies.  This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation.  I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate.  My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process.   The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was.  There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table.  The other bonus ...
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Watercoloring to Clear My Head

At the end of last week, I kind of fell off the wagon of consistent blogging. I had a bit of an odd week with some things and I didn't plan far enough out to have a post for you on Friday.  To clear my head I spent Wednesday watercoloring and creating a few new pieces of art.  I got a custom order on Thursday, so knocked that out on Friday.  Then spent the weekend working on a color mixing chart and starting seeds for our garden this year.  So enough housekeeping, let's get to the meat of the post. I started watercoloring in 2019 when I found Let's Make Art.  I've talked about Let's Make art before and you can read about the start of my watercolor journey here .  I'm still learning and still love the LMA tutorials .   This past week I started my watercoloring projects with the duck.  Not gonna lie I struggled with this one a little, "painting" white animals or objects is never easy.  In the end, the results were satisfying, but only aft...
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Using Copic Coloring to Fake the Look of Fireweed

I think we've all spent some time going down rabbit holes, in pursuit of a certain type of stamp.  I've done it on any number of occasions, but this was a hole I had no luck going down.  I was in search of a Fireweed stamp, Fireweed being a type of wildflower here in Alaska.  It's called fireweed, as it's touted as the first flower to return after a wildfire.  It also grows like a weed once it's established.   Most of the fireweed stamps I found were not what I was looking for.  They were mostly small stamps with a sketched style to them.  Not something that would pop on a card front, let alone could I have much luck coloring them.  I gave up my search and decided to dig through my own stash.  I pulled out my retired set of Fresh Flowers by Clearly Besotted and started experimenting with color combos to see if I could get what I wanted.   I stamped my flower onto a white panel and used some Worn Lipstick Distress Ink to create a bit...
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Alaska Scene Cards - Part 3

This is the third and final installment of the Alaska Scene Cards, for now at least.  In today's card, I add some die-cutting, to the ink blending techniques used in Part 1 .   I only have one example today, but it will be enough to show you how fun these cards can be to create.  This is also a great way to get more out of those winter hill dies you might have in your stash.  I started this card by ink blending a setting sun using a small circle stencil, then I masked off the sun to begin building my sky.  I created my pink and orange sky with, you guessed it, my Newton's Nook Clouds stencil.   Step two of this card is to die-cut the panel you will build your hills on.  I used one of my stitched circles to create my window in the overlay panel.   Now we're ready to die cut some hills.  I used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Slopes and Hills die set for this, but any hills die set will work.  I dug through my green pap...
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