Jami’s Paper Creations

     Good morning!  I love Watercolor Weekends.  This weekend I have a scarecrow with sunflowers and a wash basin full of flowers for you. For the scarecrow card, I used the following stamps and dies:  5594 - Harvest Scarecrow, 4051 - Foliage Set, 5059 - WC Harvest Set, and 5724 - Nested Rectangle Dies. The Tombow markers used are the following: 026, 228, 177, 565, 969, 856, 933, 947, 977, 992, 526, 312 and 879 This little scarecrow always makes me smile whenever I see it .   I wanted to create a card that looked like a scarecrow in a field of wild sunflowers. First, I stamped the scarecrow using markers 565 and 969. After painting the scarecrow, I used a stamp positioner to line up the milk container below. I made masks for the container and the sunflowers to stamp a few layers of the sunflowers. While making the card, I decided the scarecrow needed yellow hay sticking out to look real. The grass/wheat stamp from the 5059 - WC Harvest set was perfect ...

Halloween Potting Garden Shed and Slimline Card by Jami Steiger Happy Watercolor Weekend!   My goodness, how time flies these days!  I know we are MONTHS away from Halloween but I was so inspired by Kim painting the Potting Garden Shed in a fall design that I wanted to paint one in soft fall colors and then I wanted to paint a Halloween Potting Garden Shed.  Well, I painted three!  I couldn't decide what color scheme I wanted to go with so I kept experimenting with colors and by the time I had all three completed I liked them all!  I had my family vote on the one they liked the best and the first card was voted number one.  I used the following stamp sets and dies to create all of the "Hello Fall" cards except the original fall card which is posted at the bottom of the Halloween cards.  5817 - Potting Garden Shed, 5487 - Front Porch Halloween (tree), 5601 - Halloween Accessories (ghosts and spiders), 5059 - WC Harvest (pumpkin and wheat grass), 50...

  Hello Watercolor Weekend Friends!  I hope everyone is enjoying the long, hot summer days.  It has been beautiful here in Ohio but rather hot for me and I am ready for fall to arrive as you will see in my second card. For my first card I received the beautiful 5937 - Bible Journaling My Trust Set, and when I saw the stamp set I knew immediately that I wanted to try and make an oval card using a technique that Bonnie demonstrated about a year ago using fall pumpkins.  I started by first drawing an oval in pencil on my watercolor paper to use as my outline.  I stamped 5 roses and painted them using Tombow 761, 772 and 817 markers.  To cover the painted roses I stamped the images on masking paper and fussy cut them.  Next after covering the painted roses with the masks I used various stamps from the same set to add the foliage and blue flowers.  The final addition was the beautiful blue bird.  I painted the bird using Tombow 401, 526, 947, and ...

  Good morning Ai Friends!   For the cards this month I was inspired by the beautiful weather we are having here in Ohio.  Although, it's pretty hot!  All of the flowers and trees look so full and gorgeous that I created the two following nature cards.  For my sheep card I masked off the watercolor paper to 3x3.  It is amazing what you can stamp and paint within this size.  I  used the following stamps for this project:  5378 - WC Stone Creek Scene, 5070 - Good Shepard, 5009 - WC Mini Flowers, 5008 - WC Flower Set 3, 4051 - Foliage, 5372 - WC Mini Foliage, and 5476 - WC Foliage Set 5.  I stamped the stone creek scene first using markers 565 and 969.  I stamped off twice with all of the images.  The sheep were stamped next and I painted in all of the details except for the bottom flowers and the sky.  Masking off the sheep and the mountains, I then stamped in the flowers and painted the sky.  When the painting was...

  Hi Watercolor Friends!  I hope everyone is having a nice weekend.  I am loving this spring weather.  It makes me dream of going to Paris, France.  I love the vintage French doors.  Those doors are what inspired my first card.  I enjoyed figuring out my layout.  There was a lot of masking done using Post-it Tape and Post-it Notes.  I stamped the bicycle first and then the blue door.  I used Tombow 403 to paint the door.  It's my new favorite color!  Next I stamped the pot with Tombow 565 and 969 stamping off twice first.  I did all of the stamping for this card using this method.  Next I added the wall texture and the cobblestones.  After I had painted all of the foliage and flowers I added in a quiet, gray kitten using the WC Mini Critter Set 5016.  For the decorative element on the door windows I used a stamp from set 5123 WC Decorative Jar set.  I have to be honest, I thought this was pretty clever!...

Happy Watercolor weekend!   This weekend I have 2 cards that would be perfect for a child's birthday.  My grandson turned one year old last month and I had him on my mind as I created these 2 cards. I used one stamp set, #5400 Baby Critters and one paper pack, #5873 Mini Birthday for both cards.  I challenged myself to use different patterns from the paper pack to layer and add dimension.  I had a lot of fun using dies and a paper punch to punch out the circles and add details.  For each of the cards I started by stamping all of the images on watercolor paper and then painting the images with the following Tombow markers: 312, 879, N55, N45, N35, 772, 603, 401, 569, 526, 026, 817, 177, 977 and 969.  Then the images were die cut using the matching dies from the stamp set and these critters are so cute!  When I assembled these cards I used decorative dies from my supplies.  On the giraffe card I popped up the bird using dimension dots to give m...

Watercolor Weekend with Jami Steiger Good morning Watercolor Weekend Friends!   Spring time is my favorite time of the year.  The colors of spring are definitely the colors I love most, especially pink and teal.  For my first card I really enjoyed painting and adding in many details to make the 5432 WC Foundations Chairs look ready for spring with some darling animals from 5116 Basket of Blessings. This card looks simple but was honestly a little challenging because I had to mask off quite a few things in order to add the eggs, chick, bow and rabbit.  I love how it turned out.  To start  this card I stamped the chairs first being careful not to color the stamp where the chick and rabbit would be sitting.  Then I made masks for all of the pots and bowl using the Post-it cover-up tape.  There were some places on the chair stamp that I had to draw in with a pencil such as the back of the blue chair and the legs on the pink chair.  The beaut...