Halloween 2017 Card Making Series – Watercoloring with Gansai Tambi feat Bugaboo Stamps for FFC #202

Hello everyone! Today I am back with two very really exciting things: a new challenge at the Jo’s Scrap Shack blog, and the first video for my Halloween 2017 card making series! Yay! I am planning/hoping to have weekly Halloween themed videos until the end of October on my channel! I have a few already shot and a few more more or less planned – and I am really excited to be sharing them with you guys! Hopefully you will like them too!
But let’s focus on today and on another Funday Friday Challenge! The sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps, and I got the chance to play with these adorable digis from the Cute Halloween Set 1. If you want to find out how to play for the chance to win  4 images of your choice from the Bugaboo stamps shop, stick with me ’til the end of this post, and I will tell you all about it! 😉
For this card I decided to pull out my Gansai Tambi watercolors, so I printed the images using my Canon Pixma on some Canson XL watercolor cardstock using the pigment ink that comes with printers in the Pixma category. I cut down my panel to be a bit larger than a standard A2 size card, and I taped it on a hard board using some painters tape.
I then started watercoloring the images using my Gansai Tambi – I have the set of 36. The watercoloring process is show  described in the video below, so in this post I will just list the colors I used for each element in the cards. Luckily the pans in the Gansai Tambi palette are numbered, so the identifying the colors I used in your palette will be pretty straightforward. 🙂
For the cat body and the spider I used black (number 20), for his ears and nose I mixed together brown (number 46) and white (number 10), and for his hat I used deep violet (number 38), orange (number 33), and lemon yellow (40). For the pumpkins I used orange (number 33) and olive green (54). For the grass I used olive green (54), ever green (58), and black (20). Finally, for the sky I used deep violet (38), persian blue (63), and black (20). To create stars I splashed some silver (95) all over my sky, making sure I covered the rest of the areas with some paper scraps.
After everything was dry I trimmed down my watercolor panel to 4 by 5 1/4″, and I glued it on my black A2 card base using some Tombow Mono multi glue.
I then heat embossed my sentiment with white embossing powder by Ranger on some black cardstock. The sentiment comes from the Clearly Besotted All In Onesie Halloween – which hopefully will be featured soon in my Halloween series 🙂 I trimmed a thin banner around my sentiment and I glued it onto my card base.

If you want to see a more in depth tutorial on how I painted and assembled this card, you can watch the video on my YouTube channel by clicking on this link!

And here is the list of all the supplies I used:

Bugaboo Stamps Cute Halloween Set 1
Clearly Besotted All in Onesie Halloween stamp set
Canon Pixma TS5055
Canson XL watercolor cardstock
Core’dinations Smooth Black cardstock
Gansai Tambi Watercolor – Set of 36
Lukas watercolor round brushes number 4 and 6
Flat 1/2″ watercolor brush
Painters Tape
Versamark ink
Ranger White embossing powder
Crelando Heat Gun
Tombow Mono Multi liquid glue
Tonic Studios Guillotine Trimmer

And that’s it for today’s post! I really hope you liked this card and found my video useful! Don’t forget that you can play along the Funday Friday Challenge for a chance to win 4 images of your choice from the Bugaboo stamps shop.
Just follow the challenge guidelines that are included below, and get crafty! 🙂

I will be back soon with another fun project, and in the meantime I wish you all a great day!
Ciaoo!

Challenge Guidelines

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your challenge entry project, using the link in Jo’s blog post

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo’s Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

3. Three entries per person are allowed for each challenge and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. For all entries no backlinks accepted. The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo’s Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements will not be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins, or any random wins by Jo. All random wins will be mailed within the US and Canada only.

You have until August 25th by 6:00PM (eastern, USA) time to link up.
All winners will be announced during the week of August 25th.
Have fun and we look forward to seeing what you create!