Hello Stamplings!
Welcome on this fine fresh start to another week! It's so nice to be able to have the windows open and breezes blowing through. In fact, I need to get outside and tend to some neglected flowers, so I will get right to it.
This is D = Dies/Die Cuts on the I.D.E.A.S. Calendar. My cards are more suited for inky week, but as these designs show, any wee die cut on your card counts.
Onefer
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I'm starting with the star of the show. This is one of my favorite old-timey stamps from Penny Black called, "Perfect Pear." It lends itself to coloring directly on the stamp, but this time I stamped it in DI Old Paper for a no-line watercolor look and then I painted it with my Ziggies.
I had begun to paint the leaves when I went into the Big House for lunch and when I came back, I was quite taken by the unfinished panel:
Isn't that pretty just as it is? But the Color Hues challenge is orange and green, so I kept painting. Hammy and Stanley added schplatters and we called it a day. The frame and sediment are from Memory Box.
Twofer
I kept the sediment simple with a bit of bling, but it needed some umph, so I got out the ol' glossy accents for the fruit and blossoms and the lads winked the leaves.
I am also playing in the challenge at Allsorts where the brief is Birthdays/ Anything Goes.
Threefer
I was out of manly cards, so for this design I used a few NBUS stamps from Stampers Anonymous. I thought they were a good choice for keeping the orange and green and glossification going. The sediment is from GKW and the frame is from Mama Elephant. Besides the Color Hues challenge, I'm playing over at Krafty Chicks: Birthday.~~~
I.D.E.A.S. Calendar: D = Dies
I love seeing what you create, visiting you, and pinning your designs!
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Enjoy your week! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*
As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse!
*Life is too short!
Love how the pear turned out Darnell, that's a great idea. The other two cartds are great too, you were on a roll! My garden has been soaking up the rain of the last few days and I actually got the mower out on Saturday, think it may have been only the third or forth time this summer! Forgot, thanks for linking up at Color Hues too. :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, am I really here so early I'm one of the first commenters????
ReplyDeletei am in awe of your painting on the pear image Darnell - that is amazing... love the schplatters the lads have added
You peaches turn oranges are also wonderful, especially with the subtle blue background, and the boys did a great job winking the leaves - don't you trust them with the glossy accents??? ;)
Your party card is a pretty boozy one - well done on catering to all tastes.
Blessings'
Maxine
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Wow great painting! Super project!
ReplyDeleteLove the GAS gard and great beer-lover card!
You really show how different you can use these colors together! Hugs, Gerrina
The cards are all beautiful, Darnell xoxo
ReplyDeleteOh my Darnell, that pear is gorgeous! How grand that you achieved that with your Zig brush markers. All you cards look amazing. Thank you for sharing! I also loved the picture of the birds having fun in the birdbath. Have a great week. :)
ReplyDeleteThat pear is JAW DROPPING, Dolly! Your coloring is perfection! Your oranges are so shiny and juicy looking and you nailed the masculine card! You've outdone yourself with the orange and green! Thanks for sharing this with us at Color Hues!
ReplyDeleteLots of fun eye candy! Great job FTL with Ceal’s card! Thanks for joining in at AAA Cards
ReplyDeleteStunning! And by that, I mean that I am absolutely stunned by your watercoloring on the Onefer! Wow, during and after are both beautiful, Darnell. You have definitely mastered the Ziggies, something I have not been able to do well. But your other two cards are equally impressive and amazing too
ReplyDeleteGreat work using the orange and green colour scheme. Love the first two beautifully coloured fruits and the TH 'blueprint' stamps are favourites of mine and great for a manly card and to carry on the colour theme.
ReplyDeleteThese are all magnificent, Darnell, but how in the world did you paint those pears so absolutely wonderfully with Zig markers??? I really can't do much with them. Amazing! But, like I said, I love them all.
ReplyDeleteAll three cards are lovely, but I agree that the pear is just stunning! Your watercoloring took my breath away. It was beautiful before you added the color to the pear, but it certainly upped the ante when you did! Thanks for sharing with us at Color Hues!
ReplyDeleteThree gorgeous cards, I have that pear stamp! Any one of the 3 cards would be great for the Allsorts challenge that ends Thursday. https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteBrilliant cards, Darnelll, brief comment as 2.30am here I'll be back next week God willing as have another catch up post. Just checking its embossing. Im sure I'll have some on one card.. mm loads prob mostly dry but some wet too.
ReplyDeletePrayer hugs 🙏🏻🤗
Shaz xx
These are all fabulous, but that pear card... OUTSTANDING!! A new favorite, Darnell!
ReplyDeleteAMAZING watercolouring of your pear and leaves Dolly! You have mastered the zigs, my friend. This is a work-of-art in a card! Your oranges are beautiful coloured as well and I love them with the soft sponged blue background. And your final card is awesome. Such much fun!! Love, Lolly
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, Darnell, 3 beautiful watercolored cards. I must agree with everyone that the pear card is especially stunning. Fantastic. Thanks for joining us at STB.
ReplyDeleteI have to say I think that pear is one of the best things I've seen you do, Darnell. It is so perfectly colored it should be in a frame. Yes, I know it has one but I mean a wooden one to hang on the wall.
ReplyDeleteYour pear card turned out great and I love your oranges card and how you blended the light blue ink with a mask. Thanks for sharing with us at Seize the Birthday.
ReplyDeleteDarnell your zig watercolouring is amazing! That work needs to be framed, your other cards are gorgeous too but that one has me swooning, Cathy x
ReplyDeleteOH. MY. Gorgeousness, D! I don't know whether I could have risked adding anymore ink to that fabulous pre-lunch painting - but I have to say you made it even better after lunch! You've just shown us all the benefits of walking away for a bit, my friend! [is it too late for a frame?] Your happy little oranges are very pretty, too!
ReplyDeleteLastly, thanks for sharing your wonderful bathing, Bluebirds! Are they Mountain bluebirds? They are gorgeous!
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These are all great but I absolutely LOVE your pear card for our Seize the Birthday challenge. Absolutely stunning painting/colouring. Thanks so much for joining us.
ReplyDeleteThree wonderful cards, Darnell. The painting on your first card is just amazing!
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A wonderful Threefer! Your colouring of the pear is exceptional and very inspiring! Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday:)
ReplyDeleteLet me just say that the pre-finished and the finished product are both just stunning! I am not sure I could have had the courage to continue when it looked so well at the start. You did an incredible job, Darnell! Thanks for playing at Seize the Birthday and Color Hues. I also thing your CAS oranges card is lovely and the beer and bottle card too. So much to enjoy on this post.
ReplyDeleteOh, my goodness gracious, your pear is a show stopper! After I gasped and fainted and Sophie revived me with some rescue slobbers, I had a chance to admire the rest of your cards. Your peaches make perfect oranges, and you've made the ideal masculine card. A fabulous line up, Darnell!
ReplyDeleteThree amazing cards, Darnell - love the orange pear on card one, the pretty oranges in the masked rectangle on card two & the fun beer party on card three!! Thanks for the inspiration with dies!!
ReplyDeleteYou did well with the orange and green. Your pear card is a stunner!
ReplyDeleteYour coloring of that pear totally blew me away! It's beautiful! I'm not sure you should have put it on a card; it belongs in a frame. Your other cards are wonderful, too. Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning cards Darnell the pear looks so edible colours beautiful as is the orange with that glossy essence and the beer card such fun xx
ReplyDeleteI agree, your coloring is superb on the pear. Well done!! I also like the "before" one. Hugs to you.
ReplyDeleteGreat set of cards and fabulous follow of our leader's card. Thank you for playing at the AAA Cards Challenge, we have a new on Sunday and hope to see you again.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on a well-deserved win at STB! 👏 Your painted Perfect Pear card, partly and fully finished, is gorgeous!… wish I could watercolor / paint half as good. I predict another win at TCH! 😉
ReplyDeleteThree fantastic cards in orange and green Darnell and I love that beautifully coloured pear and such a pretty shiny frame shows it off wonderfully. The oranges on the second look great inside the blue ink blended rectangle, and your last more masculine make with the bottles and frothy beer are perfect in the orange and green and another fabulous frame keeping the colour theme going. x
ReplyDeleteOh my word, your shading on the pear and its leaves is so fantastic! And I love the holographic frame. Twofer and Threefer are great too, but don't capture me the way the pear does.
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