I haven't taken these out for the longest time, and as soon as I started playing around, I really loved it! 

For my mother-in-law's birthday this year, I decided to create a set of cards for her with a wine theme. I wanted to keep the cards fairly simple and found some inspiration on Pinterest from Francine. I decided to use my MIL's favourite colours on each card - purple and green.

I came across this half-painted image in my craft room that I started over 4 years ago in 2015 during a trip to see my Auntie in Ontario! I love this fall scene and thought the pumpkins and grapes fit in with the circle theme over on the Art Impressions Blog! I really enjoy colouring with my Tombow markers and using a watercolour technique. I am also linking up with the STAMPtember Art Impressions linkup over on the Simon Says Stamp Blog.

I came across these beautiful squash at Kootenay Farm to Folk today and just HAD to put them in my picture along with these lovely pine cones I picked up on a neighbourhood walk.

It is my dream and goal to one day paint my front door turquoise. I think it is such a beautiful and calming colour and would love seeing it on my front door. For now, I'll settle seeing it on this beautiful wooden door from Art Impressions! I love painting this door. The original stamp is a snowy scene but I omitted some elements to make it an everyday door. I did one of the doors in a more turquoise tone and the other more blue. I can get frustrated, at times, while watercolouring with my markers thinking things aren't turning out the way I want them to, however, oftentimes when it finally fully dries (hours later) I am in love with the results! I wanted to keep the cards clean and simple and played around with the sentiment placement. I am linking up with the current watercolour challenge over on the Art Impressions Blog!

I was in the mood to watercolour this weekend and pulled out this cactus set from Art Impressions. I followed along with the instructions on the back of this set while substituting a few different colours that I had. I decided to keep it pretty minimalistic and just mounted the watercolour paper onto this beautiful heavyweight Lawn Fawn paper with some foam tape. I am linking up with the current "outdoor scenes" challenge over at the Art Impressions blog.

This week I set out to make a card for my friend who just moved into her new house! I thought this Art Impressions door would be great for the front and used this Irish blessing on the inside from Verve. I put it all together using Freshly Made Sketches. I am also linking up with the Art Impressions challenge of using layers.

After getting inspired on Pinterest to get out my distress inks again and checking out the photo inspiration over at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, I decided to create a fall scene using one of my favourite Art Impressions stamps.

Here's a card I put together today to play along with the "flowers and foliage" challenge over at Art Impressions. I created this scene last summer with some helpful tips from my aunt and love how it all came together. A good reminder to the benefits of keeping it simple! It was a gorgeous fall day here so I just had to take this card outside to photograph amidst the trees!

I love this watercolour tree set from Art Impressions and it has been my goal to create a card with this tree for each season this year! Here is my winter tree and my spring tree from earlier this year. I thought I would challenge myself to incorporate the Art Impressions challenge of creating an orange and purple card - not two colours I use very frequently! I am also linking up with The Paper Players challenge of CAS colouring. I made two versions of this card - one with a purple background and the other using an orangey-red background.

I was at one of my favourite all time spots on the weekend - Kootenay Lake! While out in the boat with my aunt and uncle we came across this cute little lighthouse:

Photo Credit: Diane Matlock

I decided to create my own watercolour scene with these Art Impressions products. I am linking up with the "Oh the Places You'll Go" challenge over at Heart2Heart. I wasn't sure that the sketch over at Fusion would work for me so I was just going with the beach inspiration, but once I paired the right papers I found the sketch came together for me as well. The sky doesn't really come through in this picture but I did keep it a light blue (a shade lighter than the water) so that it looked like a sunny summer sky to link up with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

It is the second day of my summer holidays and I felt like creating some Christmas cards to start off my stash! I love this snowy door from Art Impressions! I created my own subtle background (so that I did not take away from the image) by stamping in VersaMark ink and then embossing in clear powder to link up with the current Art Impressions challenge. I used the layout over at Freshly Made Sketches and am linking up with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge of "anything goes" which is also featuring Art Impressions products this week.

It's that beautiful time of year when the blossoms are out and things are starting to fill in. I was inspired to get out my Art Impressions watercolour tree set while sitting out in the sunshine this weekend. I decided to colour right onto my stamp with my Tombow and Marvy markers and then use a brush pen to blend it out a bit. I am linking up with the Art Impressions "stripes and dots" challenge and used the sketch over at Mojo Monday. I am also linking up with the ribbon challenge over at Heart2Heart. I loved the inspiration photo for this week over at Inspired By All The Little Things which just screams spring to me, and although these flowers aren't tulips, I just love the pink colours :).

It was a beautiful sunny day today and what better to do than sit on the deck with some watercolour projects! I took out this Nurse set that I got from my Aunt to make some birthday cards for my two nurse sister-in-laws. One birthday is in the spring and one is in the fall but I thought I may as well make them at the same time. I just love those Lawn Fawn plaids and luckily I had both sets to fit my needs! I am linking up with the Art Impressions "dots and stripes" challenge. I added "a bit of sparkle" to my cards with some embellishments to link up with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge and used the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.