So Sweet and Thoughtful - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post

Hi everyone!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, with a watercolored fruit card.  I've been really into lemons this year, in my decor and of course in my crafting.  I wanted to play around with my new Watercolor Pencils so I picked this fun and fruity image to work with.  The pencils come in two color groups, Jewel and Classic.  I used colors from both for this card.  When using watercolor pencils, I like to color the outlines and scribble in the center, blend with a water brush, then layer darker colors.  For the sentiment strip, I scribbled the pencil all over but then got called away and didn't blend it right away.  The lines didn't blur as much once the pencil had some time to set, giving me some awesome texture that mimicked clouds.  I can tell I'm going to be using these pencils a lot.

And we have some exciting news to share!!  Brea Reese products are now being sold at Target!!  There are some fabulous gift sets and they're the perfect way to jump into Brea Reese if you haven't already!!

Be sure to check out the Classic Watercolor Pencils and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

I Feel Lucky - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post

Hi everyone!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, sharing a lovely lucky card!  I wanted to make a green card that referenced St. Patrick's Day without actually being a St. Patrick's Day card.  Make sense?

First I created my background panel.  I thought of it as painting a rainbow, but all in shades of greens.  I used a combination of the shades in the Jewel and Classic Professional Watercolors and the Core Colors Watercolor Pan sets.  Then I took a scrap of Watercolor Paper and just literally dropped blobs of all the shades of green watercolor onto it, letting them blend and flow.  After it dried I stamped the shamrocks and fussy-cut them out.  I love how the different shades make them look almost glowy in spots. 

Be sure to check out the Core Colors Watercolor Pan and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Floral Thanks - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!!

Hi everyone!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, with a ton of fun thank you cards!!  I'm finding more and more that I don't have enough of them when I need them, so I wanted to build up an arsenal!  I couldn't really decide what I wanted to watercolor my cards with, so I used tons of different supplies!  Lemme show you all the cards together first, then I'll break down what I used for each one.

I wanted to just sit and color for a few hours, so I started out by stamping a ton of floral backgrounds and while they dried, I die cut the word "thanks" from watercolor paper.  Then I was able to color a coordinating sentiment to go with every background.

I wanted this one to be subtle, so all I did to the background was paint the outline flowers with Liquid Glitter.  I just love how they shimmer and shine.  The sentiment was painted with Watercolor Ink first, then I painted Liquid Glitter over the top.

This one is actually one of my favorites!!  I made the background paper for this one, too, with Violet Glitter Ink and Gold Liquid Metals.  The flowers are painted with Metallic Watercolor Pan set.

This one's pure Watercolor Ink, very little water.  It's so vibrant!!

I used the Jewels Professional Watercolors for this one.  I love how the colors blended.

For a different look I only painted the leaves here.  I used Watercolor Ink for them and for the sentiment.

I had a ton of fun with this one.  The silver flowers were painted with watered down Silver Liquid Metals.  I mixed the same Silver with Magenta and Pink Watercolor Ink for the other flowers.

This one is pure Watercolor Ink.  Love purple and that almost-teal green together.

I had a lot of fun with this one.  It's colored with Watercolor Ink and Glitter Ink.  I really love how the flowers pop against that blue background.

 This one I painted with the Classics Watercolors Set.

This I spotlight painted with Pink and Magenta Glitter Ink.

These are a combination of Watercolor Ink mixed with Silver Liquid Metals and the Metallic Watercolor Pan.

Time to fill a few of these out and get them in the mail!  Be sure to check out the Liquid Metals and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Lovely Trio - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!

Happy Tuesday!!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, sharing a trio of LOVE cards!!!  As we approach Valentine's Day, I like to make love-themed cards that don't have to be romantic.  I especially like the idea of Galentine's Day, celebrating close friendships between women.  I figured these cards all worked for several occasions.  I had a blast using the Heavy Body Acrylic Paints to create my marbled backgrounds for my heart die cuts.  I did a lot of blending with a palette knife and the following colors: Silver, Gold, Titanium White, Cadmium Red, Crimson, Rose and Magenta.  If you're new to Heavy Body Acrylics, you might try the Jewels or Brights sets, they give you smaller tubes of each shade so you can jump in and see what colors are your favorites.

The close-ups of each card help you see the marbled detail.  It's so much fun to play around with the paint to see what kinds of results you get.  They'll never be the same twice.

Be sure to check out the Heavy Body Acrylic Paints and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

DREAM - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!

Happy Tuesday!!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, with an inspirational card.  The first word that came to mind was "DREAM" so that's what I went with!  I've been so excited to play with my Tropical Love Resist Paper Pad.  I blended colors from both the Jewel Watercolor Set and the Classics set to create this background.  I just love how vibrant the colors are!!

If you haven't used a resist pad before, I'll explain how awesome they are.  These pads are made of watercolor paper with a pre-embossed design on them.  When color is added (I chose to use the Classics and Jewel watercolor sets but any water-based medium will work!), the embossed design resists the color.  I did take a wet paper towel and wipe the excess color off the embossed design after my ink dried, and it REALLY made the images pop!!

The letters I cut using Handwritten Uppercase Alphabet dies from Momenta, out of plain black cardstock.  The camera doesn't really show it but I painted it with three coats of Liquid Glitter. It's super shimmery in person!!

Be sure to check out the Jewels Professional Watercolors and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Our Own Beauty - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!

Happy Tuesday!!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, celebrating National Hat Day!  I myself am not a big hat-wearing person, but I really wish I was!  I always love trying them on, but they just never look like "me", so I wanted to make a card celebrating someone gutsy enough to wear one!

So ya'all know I looooove my Glitter Inks.  Violet, Ultramarine Blue and Lake Blue blended horizontally created the wintery background.  Now my stamped die cuts, I used lots of different products to color them.  Oh but first, I custom-colored my ribbon!  I used Violet Glitter Ink to tint my ribbon.  I used water to lighten the ink in spots, to create an ombre look.  This is a technique I haven't done in awhile but I think I should do it more often!

The sentiment tag, I colored first with the Metallic Watercolor Pan set, then I dropped on some Ultramarine Blue Glitter Ink while it was still wet so it would blend and wick, creating a bit of an icicle effect.  The girl was colored with the same watercolor set, except for the background which I painted first with Liquid Glitter and then blended Lake Blue Glitter Ink over it.  Metallic Brights Pens were used to add detail to her gloves and the snow.

I know it's hard to see in photos but this card just sparkles and shimmers, it's so pretty.

Be sure to check out the Metallic Brights Pens and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Elfin Tags - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!

Happy Tuesday!!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, with a set of Christmas tags!!   I know we're all busy for the holidays, but don't forget about the #MerryandBrightChallenge!!!  Simply create a card using each day's theme and your favorite Momenta, Brea Reese and or Art-C products and post it using the hashtag #MerryandBrightChallenge!!!  Be sure to tag whichever company you use, #breareese @breareese #mymomenta @mymomenta #myartc @my_artc with your creations!! Here's the calendar of challenges!

Today's theme is #FavoriteHolidayMovie and of course, mine is Elf!!  I knew I wanted to make tags so I grabbed some stamps from my stash and started watercoloring!

The first thing I did was watercolor my backgrounds.  I like to blend colors, so working with a combination of the Jewels Professional Watercolors and Classics Professional Watercolors sets for my backgrounds.  I blended some of the watercolors with Glitter Inks and Liquid Glitter.  I set them aside to dry for awhile and colored my sentiment background and the Elf legs and hats with the same watercolors.  (And yes I had the movie on while I made these!)  I used a waterbrush and the same watercolors to color in all the bells and let that dry again.  After the backgrounds dried, I took the Metallic Neutrals Pens and colored the ribbons on the bells.  If you use these pens last they're much brighter than if you watercolor over them.  I want to add that if you haven't tried these pens, you must.  You get a fine point and a brush in each shade which is awesome.

Be sure to check out the Jewels Professional Watercolors and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Season's Greenings -- Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!!

Happy Tuesday!!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, with a fun wintery card!!   You may have noticed that on social media, all three Momenta brands are having a #MerryandBrightChallenge this month!  Simply create a card using each day's theme and your favorite Momenta, Brea Reese and or Art-C products and post it using the hashtag #MerryandBrightChallenge!!!  Be sure to tag whichever company you use, #breareese @breareese #mymomenta @mymomenta #myartc @my_artc with your creations!! Here's the calendar of challenges!

It's already so much fun!!!

Since today's theme is #WinterGreenery I decided I wanted to use a bunch of die cuts to create a festive card.  I used some new items that are only available at Walmart Canada right now, and mixed them in with some Brea Reese and Momenta favorites.  I started with a piece of the new Watercolor Paper and embossed with the woodgrain folder from the Fall Cut and Embossing Folder Set.  I then colored it with Brown watercolor from the Classics Professional Watercolors set.  I die cut a couple of pinecones from the same Momenta die set watercolor paper, and after embossing them, I colored them with a mixture of the same Brown watercolor I used on the background and Brown Watercolor Creams.  I gathered various scraps I had of paper watercolored with Glitter Inks, Watercolor Inks and scraps from various Momenta paper pads, then die cut them with greenery dies.  I layered everything together and added a bow to finish it off.

Be sure to check out the Glitter Inks and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Spread Color - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!

Happy Tuesday!!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, and today I have a colorful mixed media peacock card!  I've been in a very artsy type of mood lately, and I was going to go a completely different way with this card when a friend mentioned a "marbled acrylics" technique she'd recently started doing.  Basically you scoop up Artist Acrylic Paint with a palette knife and just start spreading the colors around on regular cardstock.  I loved it from the minute I tried it.  Every single one comes out differently, and you never know how the colors are going to blend.  I wanted some shimmer so I did drip Liquid Glitter onto my paints before picking them up with the knife.  Such a cool technique!

The border piece of cardstock, I did the marbling technique on a piece of black cardstock.  The popped up accent piece that the sentiment and peacock are on was obviously blended on white cardstock.  See how all the colors blend to make new ones?  Love it!  You'll be seeing this from me again in the future!

The peacock is colored with my favorite coloring medium, Glitter Inks.  In person she just jumps off the card at you, she's so sparkly. The sentiment tag is colored with the same colors of Glitter Ink.

Be sure to check out the Artist Acrylic Paint and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

So Very Blessed - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!!

Happy Tuesday!!  I've got a new Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post for you today, sharing a Thanksgiving card!!  I like sort of non-traditional sentiments and such, and this card completely fits that bill.  I apologize that it's hard to see the Glitter Inks that I used on the leaves.  It's soooo hard to photograph shimmery things!!!  The background is mildly shimmery as well, I created it with a blend of the Watercolor Inks and Gold Liquid Metal. I cannot stress enough how amazing the Liquid Metals are, you need these in your studio!!

Be sure to check out the Glitter Inks and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Floating Bats - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!!

Happy Tuesday!!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post, and I'm still in the Halloween mode!  I wanted a really shimmery dimensional background for this card, so I pulled out my Gold Modeling Paste and put it through a Halloween stencil.  I love this stuff because it has kind of a smooth finish when it dries, but when you put the Glitter Inks over it, it becomes more textured and sparkly.  I blended Cadmium Red, Crimson, Medium Magenta, Orange and Cadmium Yellow over the dried background, and it just came to life.  I felt like the die cut sentiment grounded everything and made the bats stand out.

Be sure to check out the Glitter Inks and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Trick or Treat - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!

Happy Tuesday!!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese Brand Ambassador post, and even though it doesn't feel like fall (hello 80 degree weather!!), I'm READY for fall, so I made a Halloween card!  I used the amazing Watercolor Inks to make this card.  They blend so beautifully and allow you to make the colors bold or subtle without a ton of hassle or mixing.  I literally drop the inks on my palette and then just pick them up with my waterbrush and let the colors do all the work.

Be sure to check out the Watercolor Inks and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Blessed - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!

Happy Tuesday!!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese brand ambassador post, and now that it's "officially" fall (even though it's HUMID outside!) I'm all about pumpkins, gourds and warm colors.  My background was made with a combination of my go-to Brea Reese Glitter Inks for the background, dropping in Gold Liquid Metals here and there, then I added water to blend the colors.  I LOVE how you never know what you'll get when you do this!  The label sentiment was colored the same way with Orange and Yellow colors.  The stamped images were colored not only with the Glitter Inks but with Watercolor Inks and Fineliner Pens as well. 

Be sure to check out the Glitter Inks and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Bravery - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post

happy Tuesday everyone!  I know it's not the happiest of days, being 9-11, but I wanted to do something patriotic and uplifting for my Brea Reese brand ambassador post today.  I knew inititally that I wanted to hand-draw a flag with the Fineliner Brights pens, but the star portion was an accident. 

I had some scraps lying around painted with the Watercolor Inks, and I thought, those would make great stars.  I pulled out a Momenta star punch and made the stars. I did go over them with a second layer of watercolors just to deepen the tones and add some shading.  

Be sure to check out the Fineliner Brights pens and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Lucky Stars -- Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post

Happy Tuesday!!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese brand ambassador post, and today I've got a new take on a Galaxy background using Liquid Metals!!  These are available in Gold and Silver and they're an amazing opaque ink that can be blended with watercolors, inks, texture pastes and more.  I looooove how they blended to create this background!!!

I took a large acrylic block and dropped Gold and Silver Liquid Metals on the block in no pattern.  I then picked the block up and plopped it down on a piece of black cardstock, twisting and turning the block until I got the look I wanted.  I then stamped a few accent stars on top of the background piece and it was good to go.  I used a scrap of the same paper for the sentiment.  I loved the way putting more pressure on the block, like with the sentiment strip, made the background more opaque.  These inks are super versatile.

Be sure to check out all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Free Floating - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post

Happy Tuesday!!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese brand ambassador post, and yes, it's another mermaid project!!!  I'm so into them this year!!!  The idea for this card actually began from a piece of scrap paper I'd been watercoloring on top of.  The colors had seeped out in a sort of messy striping and I just loved how it looked!!  I used my artsy best friend, Brea Reese Glitter Inks for the background, and colored the card with the Glitter Inks, Watercolor Inks, Fineliner Pens and Glitter Water Brushes!

I didn't want really defined stripes, so I painted all the Lake Blue stripes first.  Then I filled in the spaces with Ultramarine Blue and semi-blended them together with Liquid Glitter.  That stuff is incredible!  The Sea Creatures die cuts were colored with Glitter Inks as well. 

Be sure to check out the Glitter Inks and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

I'd Rather Be A Mermaid - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!!

Happy Tuesday!!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese brand ambassador post, and since I feel summer is starting to slip away from me, I made a mermaid card!!  Ya'all know I love mermaids!!  I created my awesome oceany background by first applying White Texture Paste through a stencil to watercolor cardstock.  I let it dry and then painted over it with my favorite product, Glitter Inks!!

I used Ultramarine Blue and Lake Blue to create the ocean.  I didn't want a real clear blend between the colors, and I drug my paintbrush across the watercolor paper in a kind of scalloped pattern to create the look of crashing waves.

The mermaid I colored with Alcohol Markers, primarily the Jewel set.  I used heavyweight cardstock so the markers would blend like butter.  Love these!

Be sure to check out the Glitter Inks and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Watercolor Wow - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post

Happy Tuesday!!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese brand ambassador post, and today I wanted to showcase all the amazing options Brea Reese has for watercoloring!  I created four cards, each with the same stamp but colored with a different medium.

This first card was made with the Glitter Inks!  I painted with a Water Brush so I could control the depth of the color.  I used Ultramarine Blue, Lake Blue and Violet for the flowers, and a mixture of Gold, Raw Umber and Pthalo Green for the leaves.

Now my newest Brea Reese obsession is the Liquid Metals!  I mixed the Silver with Watercolor Inks in Medium Magenta, Pink and Violet.  By mixing the inks up myself, I can control how much metallic sheen I want (SPOILER ALERT: I always want a lot!).

See those awesome spatters?  I made those with the leftover inks when I finished painting the flowers.  Just load up your brush and flick it with your fingertips!

I painted this one with the Watercolor Inks.  Some with water, some straight from the bottle.  Crimson Red, Medium Magenta and Pink.  I love how you can get so many shades of each color.

And this last one was colored with the awesome Watercolor Creams!

Be sure to check out the Watercolor Creams and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Tag Trio - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post!!

Happy Tuesday!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese brand ambassador post, and today is all about Watercolors!!  If you haven't tried Brea Reese Watercolor Inks, you have to!!  They're so fluid and the colors are just gorgeous!  They blend together like butter and the colors are so vibrant while still maintaining transparency.  I've been really into tags lately so I made three when I was playing with these gorgeous inks.

I used different color combinations for each one and I love how they came out.

I used Gold, Neutral Grey and Violet for this one!  It looks like I used greens, so this is why I'm so impressed with the blending of these inks!  They just sort of melt into each other and create new colors.  And they're never the same twice!

Pink, Crimson, Violet and Medium Magenta made this awesome tag.  I see this color combination being used over and over again in the future!

This one is Violet, Lake Blue, Gold and Neutral Grey.  I looooove the way the Blue and Grey created a sort of teal color!

Be sure to check out the Watercolor Inks and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!

Everyday - Brea Reese Brand Ambassador Post

Happy Tuesday!  It's time for my latest Brea Reese brand ambassador post, and OMG I have a new obsession!!  Brea Reese Watercolor Creams!  These handy sticks have soooooo many capabilities, but my favorite (today anyway :) ) is to blend them with my finger on gessoed cardstock, then use a stencil and a baby wipe to remove some color.  Amazing results!  Check it out below:

Be sure to check out the Watercolor Creams and all the other Brea Reese products!!  Thanks so much for looking and happy crafting.  Laters!!