Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

coloring panels

Introducing: Boughs of Holly-Holiday Coloring Panels!

Hi there! It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, because I have been busy behind the scenes working on some fun new things, including this new holiday coloring panel set, called Boughs of Holly! I love combining unusual flowers with traditional “Christmas flowers” in holiday designs, so I made sure to provide both some traditional poinsettias and holly with some hellebore, anemeones, and ranunculus, all kept cohesive with lots of berries and foliage.

I have created four unique panels using these traditional and non-traditional flowers. I kept the flowers large (gotta make things fun to color!) so all you have to do is add a simple sentiment or sentiment die cut, and you have a holiday card that is easy to mail and full of handmade details!

The panels pictured were printed on the Jack Richeson watercolor paper using the no-line version of the panels, which prints a light gray outline. I painted these with Daniel Smith watercolors, and the paper held up beautifully to many (many, many) layers of watercolors and quite a lot of water! I have been very pleased with how well this lighter weight paper holds up to my relatively intense watercoloring.

You might recognize the full poinsettia background arrangement; I used one of the corner images from last year’s panels to create a full, super detailed background panel! I love how festive these images are, even using the non-traditional holiday flowers!

I also am offering the Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming panels, released last year, for sale again!

These panels feature more non-traditional holiday flowers, including magnolia, anemone, amaryllis, and of course, a poinsettia, with lots of foliage and berries to keep things super festive!

All of the coloring panels are available on your choice of lightly textured watercolor paper or alcohol-marker friendly paper, printed in outline or no-line style to accomodate your choice of coloring method.

Here are the details:

  • Pricing:
    Copic-friendly white cardstock-$9
    Watercolor paper-$10
    Shipping is included in the continental US for up to 3 sets of panels (twelve total A2 sheets). A surcharge of $3 will be added for four or more sets.
    International friends: add $4 to accommodate international postage (this may be increased slightly if more than two sets of panels are ordered to accommodate for the increased weight of the envelope.) Sorry, no tracking available on these, and international mail seems to be exceptionally unreliable these days, so I can’t guarantee how quickly they will arrive, unfortunately.
  • You will receive 4 panels in each set-one of each for four individual designs.
  • To purchase: please indicate which set(s) you would like, whether you would like outline or no-line printing, paper choice (i.e.-Copic-friendly white cardstock or watercolor paper), and whether you are located within the US or internationally. I will then send you an invoice via PayPal, to please be paid within 24 hours of receipt.
  • I will leave the preorders open for one week, until October 19, 2022. It’s just me printing, trimming, and shipping, so please allow 2 additional weeks for processing and shipping. I have four young kids here; please be patient with me! 
  • ***In purchasing these coloring panels, you agree that you will use the designs for personal use only. The designs belong to me, Emily Midgett, and are not to be copied or used for commercial gain. I appreciate your support in keeping my artwork safe!***

To order: email me at eamidgettsketches (at) gmail.com, and please be sure to include all of the information requested above!

Thank you so much for the support and kind words on my artistic venture! I appreciate each of you who have ordered previously, shared my panels on your social media, or offered a supportive comment so very much. You’re helping me to support my family in these stressful economic times, and for that I cannot offer enough thanks.

Have a marvelous day!

The Flower Challenge: Guest Designer

Hi there! I’m honored to be back as a guest designer for The Flower Challenge this month. The theme is Use A Sentiment, and so I dug out one of my older finished coloring panels (from a set called Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming) and one of the newer holiday sentiment die sets from Spellbinders: Mix & Match Holiday Greetings. These medium-sized sentiment dies are a great complement to the bold poinsettia flower on my holiday card. Let’s get started with the details!

I had already colored this image using Copic markers for my holiday coloring panel release last year (be sure to subscribe to my blog in the box in the upper left hand corner to be notified about my new coloring panel release later this month!), so I used some sharp scissors to fussy cut the image. It’s already helpfully tucked into the corner, so I just had to carefully cut around the bottom edge of the image.

For the greeting, I die cut the Mix & Match Holiday Greetings “Holiday Hugs” from Red Glitter Foam from Spellbinders. Spellbinders’s Glitter Foam is such a quick (not to mention sparkly!) way to add some quick dimensionality to your sentiment die cuts, and it comes in a huge range of beautiful colors. I find myself reaching for it constantly. If you haven’t checked it out, I encourage you to do so! You can see all wide variety of colors that they have available HERE.

I had a shiny foiled background that I had previously created with the Spellbinders Plaid Tidings hot foil plate and Crimson Stars hot foil tucked into my stash, just waiting for the right project. The red foil matched the red poinsettia perfectly, so I popped up the colored poinsettia corner using some foam tape, tucking a strip of vellum behind. The vellum helps ground the sentiment from the busy, shiny background. I adhered the foam sentiment die cuts using liquid adhesive, then added a few iridescent white pearls for some more shine! This project is quintessentially Christmas, I think!

Well, that’s all for my project today! To celebrate The Flower Challenge’s 6th Birthday, I am donating two sets of coloring panels to the winner of the challenge-winner’s choice! All you have to do to be eligible to win is create a project using the prompt (Use A Sentiment) and some flowers, then upload your project to the inLinkz list. The dates for the new challenge, as well as all of the details, can be found on the The Flower Challenge‘s blog post! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

New Coloring Panels Release: Peony Passion!

I have adored peonies for years. Dare I say… they’re my favorite flowers? (gasp, I can’t believe I just said that!) When my husband and I got married, our colors were blue and white, and I wanted nothing more than to have a big bouquet filled with blue hydrangeas and fluffy white peonies. Alas, peonies were out of our budget (why do they have to be so expensive?), but now I can create my own peony bouquets with my pencils and markers. Thus, the Peony Passion coloring panels were born!

I had no idea, before I started paying closer to attention to the more technical side of peonies, that the world has such a large variety of peony shapes, sizes, and varieties. These new coloring panels feature four different kinds of peonies, each in different sizes and with different flowers helping to create their bouquets.

All of the colored images that you see were colored with my OLO markers in a semi-autumnal color palette. I tried to keep the bubble gum pink peonies (my absolute favorite!) muted with other, richer, more jewel toned shades to make them more appropriate for fall. (Technically they’re “in season” in the springtime and early summer, but these are minor details, and this is an imaginary garden in which I am a successful horticulturalist haha!)

These coloring panels are available in both no-line and outline styles, on either 80 lb watercolor paper or 100 lb Hammermill cardstock for Copic coloring. Shown above is the no-line option printed on the Jack Richeson watercolor paper.

I am also making available a few of the older coloring panel sets:

Enchanting Anemones

Framed Florals, Vol 2

Just Add Fruit

Here are the details:

  • Pricing:
    Copic-friendly white cardstock-$9
    Watercolor paper-$10
    Shipping is included in the continental US for up to 3 sets of panels (twelve total A2 sheets). A surcharge of $3 will be added for four or more sets.
    International friends: add $4 to accommodate international postage (this may be increased slightly if more than two sets of panels are ordered to accommodate for the increased weight of the envelope.) Sorry, no tracking available on these, and international mail seems to be exceptionally unreliable these days, so I can’t guarantee how quickly they will arrive, unfortunately.
  • You will receive 4 panels in each set-one of each for four individual designs.
  • To purchase: please indicate which set(s) you would like, whether you would like outline or no-line printing, paper choice (i.e.-Copic-friendly white cardstock or watercolor paper), and whether you are located within the US or internationally. I will then send you an invoice via PayPal, to please be paid within 24 hours of receipt.
  • I will leave the preorders open for one week, until September 25, 2022. It’s just me printing, trimming, and shipping, so please allow 2 additional weeks for processing and shipping. I have four young kids here; please be patient with me! 
  • ***In purchasing these coloring panels, you agree that you will use the designs for personal use only. The designs belong to me, Emily Midgett, and are not to be copied or used for commercial gain. I appreciate your support in keeping my artwork safe!***

To order: email me at eamidgettsketches (at) gmail.com, and be sure to include all of the information requested above!

Thank you so much for the support and kind words on my little venture! I appreciate each of you who have ordered previously or offered a kind comment so very much. Have a marvelous day!

Introducing Enchanting Anemones-New Coloring Panel Release!

Hello, friends! It has been a bit since my last coloring panel release. Things have been so busy; between kiddos, creating new stamp designs, design team work, Flower on the Grain, and just general life stuff, I have not had a chance to finish coloring these new panels to help introduce them to you all! I decided finally that I should just go ahead and release them with only two of the panels fully colored, and hopefully you all would be able to visualize what they look like as a finished product without my samples. 🙂

So, I present to you:

Enchanting Anemones

I admit… I have had a long love affair with anemones. They come in such a wide variety of colors that I feel like they can be adapted to any color scheme that you like, plus the black centers are so very unique and simply stunning. They are graceful, with beautiful movement, and I find them simply beguiling.

This set of four coloring panels features four different arrangements of anemone, so that you can simply color and add a sentiment. A few of these would be super fun fussy cut if you find fussy cutting enjoyable-particularly that wreath! I think that would be lovely popped up to give even more dimension.

I added a few berries, a few impatiens, some campanula, a few ranunculus… a wide variety of “filler flowers,” but the focus is truly on the large anemone blooms. The two panels pictured above allow for some white space for your greeting, featuring a corner arrangement (left) and a swag (right).

The arrangements in the two panels pictured above cover more of the A2 card front, with a full background pattern (left) and complete wreath (right).

Pictured above are the no-line version of the Enchanting Anemones panels. I am now able to offer no-line panels in both the Copic-friendly cardstock as well as the watercolor paper.

I also am making available a few of my previously-released coloring panel sets in both outline and no-line for both watercolor and Copic coloring:

Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming

Framed Florals Volume 2

Just Add Fruit

Here are the details:

  • Pricing:
    Copic-friendly white cardstock-$8
    Watercolor paper-$10
    Shipping is included in the continental US for up to 3 sets of panels (twelve total A2 sheets). A charge of $3 will be added for four or more sets.
    International friends: add $4 to accommodate international postage (this may be increased slightly if more than two sets of panels are ordered to accommodate for the increased weight of the envelope.) Sorry, no tracking available on these, and international mail seems to be exceptionally slow these days, so I can’t guarantee how quickly they will arrive, unfortunately.
  • You will receive 4 panels in each set-one of each for four individual designs. To purchase: please indicate which set(s) you would like, whether you would like outline or no-line printing, paper choice (i.e.-Copic-friendly white cardstock or watercolor paper), and whether you are located within the US or internationally. I will then send you an invoice via PayPal, to please be paid within 24 hours of receipt.
  • I will leave the preorders open until March 22, 2022. It’s just me printing, trimming, and shipping, so please allow 2 additional weeks for processing and shipping. I have four little kids here; please be patient with me! 
  • In purchasing these coloring panels, you agree that you will use the designs for personal use only. The designs belong to me, Emily Midgett, and are not to be copied or used for commercial gain. I appreciate your support in keeping my artwork safe!

To order: email me at eamidgettsketches (at) gmail.com, and be sure to include all of the information requested above!

Thank you so much for the support and kind words on my little venture! I appreciate each of you who have ordered or offered a kind comment so very much. <3 Have a marvelous day!

November Coloring Panel Release-Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming! And More!!

Good morning! Happy Thanksgiving week! I am so excited to announce that I have a new coloring panel release this week, and I’m even more thrilled to announce that in addition to the black and white panels that I’ve been releasing, I can now offer a no-line coloring option, as well! My iPad Pro and I have been playing nicely together, and I finally was able to figure out how to do a no-line version of my drawings. I know that some of you have been wishing for the ability to color these in the no-line style, so I am really excited to be able to offer these to you.

The new panels for this month are, obviously, Christmas florals, named “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming.” I wanted to provide a variety of holiday florals instead of the more traditional poinsettia, so I have created four unique floral bouquets featuring some of my most favorite holiday flowers, all combined with a smattering of wintry foliage and plenty of berries!

First up: Amaryllis. The graceful petals on these bulb flowers are absolutely stunning, and let me just say… this panel might have been my most favorite one to color, especially in no-line style. The massive petals are great for really digging down into the nooks and crannies and achieving an incredible amount of depth. I have paired these two amaryllis with some silver dollar eucalyptus leaves and plenty of berries so that almost the entire panel is covered!

Next up we have a beautiful magnolia bouquet. I know that magnolias are technically “in season” during the springtime, but I saw them paired with holiday berries constantly when I was searching for holiday inspiration. The beautiful, shapely bloom is juxtaposed so nicely with the spiky pine needles and berry sprigs. That huge magnolia leaf was so much fun to color, too!

Next, we have the most traditional of the group: poinsettia. I kept the foliage and fillers pretty traditional as well, using some berry sprigs, twigs, pinecones, and boughs of spruce for a pretty swag to grace the corner of your card front!

My final addition to this quartet was a full background panel of anemones, berries, and foliage, complete with some added sprigs of pine. I’m not sure if I had more fun coloring this one or the anemone; both designs have lots of room for adding huge amounts of depth and dimension for your coloring.

I showcased the new no-line Copic coloring panels available this month with my own samples, but the black and white versions are also available on both watercolor paper and Copic-friendly white cardstock, so no need to fear if no-line coloring isn’t your cup of tea!

I also am super excited to offer a few of my previously-released coloring panel sets in both black outline and no-line coloring! Here are the sets that will be available for purchase during the pre-order week:

Framed Florals Volume 1– available in both no-line (pictured above) and black outline.

Framed Florals, Volume 2-available in both black outline (pictured) and no-line.

Just Add Fruit– available in black outline (pictured) and no-line.

  • Pricing:
    Copic-friendly white cardstock-$8
    Watercolor paper-$10, shipped in the continental US.
    International friends: add $4 to accommodate international postage (this may be increased slightly if more than two sets of panels are ordered to accommodate for the increased weight of the envelope.) Sorry, no tracking available on these, and international mail seems to be exceptionally slow these days, so I can’t guarantee a timely arrival, unfortunately.
  • Holiday Special: order 3 sets of panels or more and receive $5 off your purchase!!
  • You will receive 4 A2-sized panels in each set.
  • When ordering: Please indicate which set you would like (Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming, Framed Florals Volume 1, Framed Florals Volume 2, or Just Add Fruit), whether you would like no-line or black outline, whether you would like Copic-friendly white cardstock or watercolor paper, and whether you are located within the US or internationally. I will then send you an invoice via PayPal, to please be paid within 24 hours of receipt.
  • I will leave the preorders open until November 28, 2021. It’s just me printing, trimming, and shipping, so please allow 2 weeks for processing and shipping. I have four little kids here; please be patient with me! 
  • In purchasing these coloring panels, you agree that you will use the designs for personal use only. The designs belong to me, Emily Midgett, and are not to be copied or used for commercial gain. I appreciate your support in keeping my artwork safe!

To order: email me at eamidgettsketches (at) gmail.com, and be sure to include all of the information requested above!

Thank you so very much for your support. I appreciate your kind words, support, and shares more than I can express! Thank you so much for visiting today, and have a marvelous day!