Category: Watercoloring

Water coloring on cards

1/13/2019

Using Watercolor For Card elements and backgrounds

My latest post is exploring the use of embossing powder with watercoloring flowers as well as using ink sprays as watercolor. To showcase some of the watercoloring, I’m using the Altenew Adore You stamp set because the flowers are large, open images perfect for coloring. This post was inspired by the Altenew Academy class, Creative Watercolor Media. In the class, the instructors used different ink types as watercoloring mediums. When I watercolor, I typically use my Distress Inks so I wanted to try Gansai Tambi watercolors. I also have some metallic ink sprays and wanted to see how they worked as watercolor inks. I also stamp the image in archival ink before painting but this time I wanted to see the difference in the image if I emboss the image in gold versus clear powder. Please read on for how my cards turned out.

Ink Blending Class

12/10/2018

Altenew Ink Blending Techniques Class

Todays post is on my inspiration from Altenew’s Easy Ink Blending Techniques class. I’m not new to ink blending but still have trouble with dark edges and selecting colors. My go to ink for ink blending is Distress Ink although any ink would do. Using a dye based ink helps if you’d like to do watercolor or water techniques after the blending. For today’s cards I did an emboss resist, ink blending and then added watercolor for extra detail. I was really inspired by this class and made three cards using the Altenew Botanical Garden Stamp Set.

Different coloring mediums

8/20/2018

Watercolor vs Colored Pencils

Recently I’ve been using colored pencils as my go to coloring medium because I can take them on the go. I love the look of watercolor and have wanted to increase my practice of this medium in coloring my stamped images. In this post, I make two sympathy cards using the same stamp sets but coloring the images in with different media. Let me know in the comments which medium you prefer.

Christmas Inspiration I

11/3/2017

One Layer Holiday Cards

On my continued kick to spread kindness, I thought that the holiday season was a great time to whip up some quick one layer cards with hand written from the heart sentiments to let people in my life know how much I appreciate them. I was looking for some simple designs as I needed to make a lot of these cards. I came up with 4 designs that I will share with you today.

Globe Greetings 3 ways

9/25/2017

Concord & 9th stamp sets

The new Concord & 9th stamp sets are absolutely fantastic and I was so excited for them when they came out. The designs of the Globe Greetings stamp set made me think would be great for masculine cards and for all occasions. For this card today, I wanted to try out flocking which I haven't done before but I thought would give great texture to the land forms on the earth image.

Altenew August Challenge

8/22/2017

I am enjoying the Altenew Monthly Challenges because they are helping me grow as an artist. I also really enjoy seeing other ways people have taken the same inspiration photo and colors and turned them into art. As artists, we all get stuck in a rut or are afraid what we are making just wont turn out well. My mindset with these challenges is just to have fun and to try new ways of making a card. So here is what I wanted to do when I first saw the inspiration colors and image from Altenew.

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