June 12 Stampfest at Lynette's

Lynette and I had a great time at her house on Monday. 

We spent time visiting, making cards and working with watercolors.

She found a new toy at a garage sale: a Cricut cutting machine!

After a little trial and error, we figured out how it works

and found that the highest setting for the cutter worked best.
Her machine takes paper that's 6 inches wide by 12 inches long.
We cut tiny "ladies" and made cards using doilies, printed paper, dry embossing and ink sponging.

Here is Lynette working on our cards.

Using 140 lb. watercolor paper that we cut into card sized layers,
we sketched faces with a drawing pencil then used watercolors.
Our inspiration came from Jane Davenport's book,

Drawing and painting beautiful faces.

It was fun and relaxing to draw and then paint the faces
in the Jane Davenport style with her watercolors.

You can see we used her neutrals and brights pallets.

By Lynette

By Laura

By Lynette

By Laura

By Lynette

By Laura

I'm always amazed at how relaxing it is playing with papercrafts and paints!
It was a lot of fun using Lynette's "new" Cricut machine too.

Materials list:
distress peacock feathers ink,
will have to find name of Cricut cartridge with lady cutout
dry embossing folders
Faber Castell Pitt pen-black
Sakura microperm pen-black
Canson 140 lb watercolor paper
Jane Davenport watercolors, neutrals and brights
aqua brush pen

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