Hi there and welcome! I’ve been working on a lot of cards and although I’m quick about photographing them and posting to social media, I’m a bit slower to get a blog post written to share the details! Yesterday I decided to paint a watercolor using the beautiful Dahlias set by Penny Black. I began by trimming a sheet of watercolor paper down to 6X8 inches then taping off one inch on all four sides, leaving me with a 5X7 space in which to paint! I dusted the surface with my anti-static pouch then began to stamp, then emboss with Brutus Monroe’s Gilded powder, mask and stamp more blossoms and leaves until I had an arrangement I liked. Next, using my Kuretake Zig Clean Color Brush markers, I started laying in the background with black, then some shades of blue, moving the ink with a wet paintbrush. I dried with a heat tool between each layer and built up a lovely, dark base of color. Moving on to the largest dahlia bloom, I used several shades of red and orange markers, and also a lighter brown to fill in the petals, adding water to soften and blend the ink. I colored the rest of the flowers using shades of orange and yellow, a little brown for shading, then a little gray for shading. I love how vivid they are against that background even though DO they look like flowers floating in space! 😀 To finish my panel, I spattered on droplets of water then patted it dry and finally a spattering of white craft paint. This painting makes me very happy and I can’t wait to mat and frame it! I may keep it, but it’s more likely to be sold! Check my etsy shop to see if it’s there in a few days! Here’s a final peek at the finished painting; I’m really bummed that my paper tore a bit. I don’t know why that happened; perhaps using the heat tool so much made the painters tape really adhere more than usual. Thank you for visiting and I hope my post encourages you to get out your watercolors or Zig markers and have some fun with them!
Welcome friends! I’m sharing a non-traditional autumn card made with only blue and black inks and my new Simple Blends Circle stencil by Brutus Monroe! To begin, I placed the frame part of the stencil onto a piece of Bristol Smooth watercolor paper and lightly sponged Faded Jeans distress oxide ink around the edges of the circle cut-out to outline my moon, then added a little Black Soot as well. Using a cool texture stamp (pictured below) I added the “moon shadows” with the same colors of ink. I stamped the line of geese with Raven Detail ink.Next, I placed the circle stencil over the moon to cover it up, and heavily sponged Black Soot and Faded Jeans oxide around it to create a night sky. It’s barely noticeable but I also lightly sponged a teeny bit of Zest just above the horizon line! This wonderful tree is made by Stampendous from their Nature set and I heat-embossed it in black right over the panel. I then added fine spatters of white craft paint to depict stars.Once my tree was in place, I got really excited for how awesome it looked!! But it needed to be grounded, so I used a paper mask to create the hillside with Raven Detail ink then stamped the line of geese, also from the Stampendous set. After cutting the panel with Stitched Rectangle dies, I mounted it to a piece of fun foam to lift it up and then onto an off-white base card.I LOVE how this card turned out! I’m not sure if I’ll add a sentiment, but in the meantime, I’ll just enjoy it’s striking simplicity! Now, I’m off to find yet another way to use my cool new stencil! See Ya! ***I added photos below of the texture stamp I used to create the shading on the moon. I’ve had it for many, many years so am not sure it can still be purchased. Made by Magenta.
I’ve created this tutorial to help show you how I created this beautiful card. Be warned! I am super comfortable in the world of stamping. Video Creation and editing? Well, that remains to be seen!
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