My Inkie Fingers: Watercoloring

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Friday, March 27, 2020

Water Colors & Shaving Cream

Watercoloring is so much fun! I love trying out all the different ways to watercolor.

Whether it be with pencils, liquid, or in a pan, I love them all!

Today I brought out both sets of the Stampin' Up! Watercolor pencils.

They are sooooo easy to work with. If you can color, you can watercolor with these!

I really love this floral arrangement from the "Ornate Style" set, which might I add is a NEW RELEASE in the upcoming Annual Catalog. When I finished watercoloring it, I noticed that there were going to parts of the inside that would be very very difficult to cut out. So I figured if I colored them in I could create a background that matched and hide the fact I didn't cut out the 'inners'.

For the background I created, I used a different type of shaving cream technique. It's probably been done before, but I wanted to come up with a way that allowed me more precision when applying the ink. I think it worked out perfectly and looks really cool!

I did create a video for you to watch. I sped up the watercoloring. I'm not a watercolor instructor, so I didn't want to attempt to go on and on about what you should or shouldn't do. So I sped it up and just told you what works for me when I watercolor.

Here is the VIDEO for you

Question: Had you seen that Shaving Cream on a block Technique before?

Let me know in the comments below if you plan on trying this. I love hearing from you!

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Watercolors on Embossed Images | CAS | TUTORIAL

While I still won't profess to the best watercolor'er (is that even a word? lol) in the world, I do love playing with them. I couldn't 'not' pull them out for this particular card, as it's my card for the K Werner Mail Call. I absolutely adore Kristina and have learned so much from her. She is a Master of all card making. Truly, she's amazing. When I grow up I want to be just like her (among a couple other amazing people that inspire me lol)

Kristina's theme for March is "Just Because" so that's the sentiment I used. In fact, you can watch me make the entire card, it's a pretty fun video. I even chat a little as you guys have told me you would prefer I chat with you rather than speed it up and add music. So that's just what I did, coz I love ya all! xoxo

So what do you think? Will Kristina be proud of my efforts?

**Here is the link to my Shimmers & Splatters Video I mentioned in the video**

I did end up doing an envelope. It's nothing like the envies Kristina does, but I was happy with it!

I don't have any little 'snail' stamps, so I opted to use a sticker and matching flowers for the "i's" in her name.

I'm sure glad I took a photo of it, as I still had pencil marks from drawing the lines that I couldn't see but they showed up in my photo! Phew!

I sure wish I had the same penmanship as Kristina! *Sigh*

Question: Can you write in Brush Script? How did you learn?

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One lucky person is even going to get a card in the mail from me!

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Friday, March 6, 2020

White Gouache Blossoms - Monochromatic Card

I think my favorite way to color is watercolors, I seem to gravitate towards them most often lately. I won't profess to be good at it, but it's my new thing! For this card, I pulled out my new Royal and Langnickel Gouache Watercolor Tubes, swatched them, and gave them a home in a new pallet.

I nabbed these babies off the Amazon Warehouse Deals (Canada) and Oh boy!, did I get them at a screaming deal! I've been dying to try them out. Now, one would think, that for my first time playing with my new gouache paints I would go to town, but no, I only used 3 colors! lol. I used the white Titanium White to paint the flowers and leaves, then mixed White into Burnt Umber to create the shading color for the flowers and leaves. Such a rebel Cindy-Lynn!

What is Gouache? Gouache is basically a mixture of Watercolor Paint and Acrylic Paint. It provides a more opaque color, and even looks awesome on dark papers.

I wanted to keep this card very simple, and very monochromatic. So I stamped the flower from "Forever Blossoms" on a Sahara Sand Mat with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I chose that ink because it will not bleed when wet. I did use 2 coats of paint as I think I mixed too much water into my gouache and it wasn't opaque enough for me. Once I was done painting, I put a little bit of the paint mixture on the end of an acrylic block then 'splattered' the paint onto my paper. I did this with both colors I had mixed up. Added a few sequins (my favorite things!) and a couple pearls. And that was it! I wish I had of made a couple more of these at the same time. It was so easy to do, and the result is so pretty. But, as I only have one, I may hoard it in my stash for a long time before I part with it! haha

I did enter in a few challenges for this card.