Lasering on Watercolor Paper

Using my Glowforge Laser, I was able to laser this design onto watercolor paper. I used Canson Watercolor Paper that I happen to have on hand. I'm terrible at watercoloring, but for some reason I am obsessed with it and determined to get better at it. 😆 Anyways, below you get to see just how bad I suck at it and how I tried to fix it. Enjoy.

Here I lasered the svg file image onto some watercolor paper.

Here is my crappy attempt at watercoloring. 😂

It's so splotchy.

I switched to colored pencils (PrismaColor colored pencils Botanical Garden Set) for the lettering and llama, because I just couldn't any longer with the splotchiness. 😅

If you look to the side of the picture, you will see that I used some of the space for swatching. I ended up liking it and thought, maybe if I just did those designs all over that it would mask my horrible watercoloring skills.

It did!! Or I think so, at least to my satisfactory. 😁

I actually had so much fun that I may just print some other designs and have them ready to paint at any given time. If you are purchasing a Glowforge and would like a discount, HERE is the referral link for a little savings. Thank you for stopping by and until next time - stay safe! -Maddie

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Comments

Are we Sleighin' or Slayin' ?

I hope you are having a great start to this new year! As I was putting up Christmas I thought about how I had not shown this cute wood round sign. I love that it can go up in October and stay up through Christmas. This sign gives me all the Hallmark feelings. I've been contemplating making a few of these to list. 🤔 I will get back to you on that. Speaking of Christmas - Anyone feel like it just zoomed right by at a high rate of speed this year? I totally did. Materials used: Wood, acrylic paint, gold, green and red foil paper and some rope and ribbon for hanging. Everything cut on my laser. Thank you for swingin' by. Until next time, Maddie

Gold Leafing a Boutonniere

It was my first time to do a boutonniere and I thought I would try adding some gold leaf foil to a few roses and see how they turned out. They came out very nice, I thought. Some Supplies used: Add the adhesive where you want. You can put as much or little as you'd like. I was going for a bit of a drip on one of them. I played around adding some gold leaf foil to a few leaves. It was a big rose and a rather heavy one at that, so I decided to just do the one and leave the other rose out. It would have been too bulky. Using some floral tape, floral wire and some hot glue I put the boutonniere together. For a soft more vintage look I added some vintage lace I had on hand and finished it off with some ribbon. This boutonniere was a hit and it was a fun piece to do. Thanks for popping in, Maddie

Gift Tags

I have been "spring cleaning" because I feel I haven't done a good job at that the last couple of years - lol. I usually have banners for every holiday and put them up on the mantel in the living room. It helps me and the familyget into the spirit of whatever holiday is up. I had one I really liked but I know I will be doing something different this year, so I decided to make these cute tags. I love gift tags. I especially like to make some and have them on hand ready to use. I didn't take a picture of the banner before I took it apart, but basically it was just the string that I cut off. 😅 These cute snowflakes tags were purchased from the Dollar Store a couple years back. I removed the silver elastic string off of each snowflake since I will be combining them to the other snowflake from the banner I took apart. You can use a sharpie and write To & From on the back of the tags, a fun message or they look great as is. I love personalizing items when I can, a...

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