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watercolor technique video

Check out this fun watercolor technique video using Distress Stains featuring Shari Carroll!

 

 

If you don't own Distress Stain, and you only have Distress Inks I thought I would show you how to get the same look using your Distress Inks. You need a few colors, white paper, background stamp, and a water spritz bottle.

 

Ink up your stamp starting with lightest color first. Followed by medium and darkest color. Use the very edge of the ink pad to get into smaller areas of your background stamp, this way you don't have boxes of color on your stamp. When you have the colors where you want them, spritz with water.

 

There should be enough water where the surface is evenly covered, but not dripping wet.

(TIP: mist the water about 6inches away from the stamp moving back and forth across as you spray)

 

Press your paper on top gently. Move fingers across gently and quickly. If it sits on the stamp too long it will tend to bleed. After I quickly stamp on my first piece, I throw on a second piece of paper so I can get a second lighter image. This one I press firmly. This way you can two card backgrounds.

 

 
Next I did a coordinating gray plaid paper, my white embossing border and phrase, added ribbon and a flower with a rhinestone. Now what will I do for the second card? Don't forget to leave comments with links where I can see what you made! I'll pick from the top three, post them on my blog and send each three a surprise present!

 

Cricut Repeat Technique

So you all loved the Cricut distress ink technique that I've been asked to show it again! I love this and I'm truely addicted to it!

You'll need a few different Distress inks, a blending tool and sponges for each color, and two background stamps. First cut out your Cricut image using white paper. After it's cut out, leave it on the sticky sheet and take it to your workspace.

Cut your image out on white cardstock. Start by inking up your blending tool. (make sure to use a different sponge for each color)

 
Then start blending working from the outside of the image and moving in. Use very light pressure. It's better to start out light, because you can always add more.When you have the first color the way you like it, add more colors.

 
Repeat the same process with your second image(usually the background cut out or overlay)Next use your background stamps to create some texture. Stamp on cut outs.

 
Now peel off your mat, and glue your pieces together.

 

Next I stamped a background on a coordinating piece of paper, added a flower, rhinestones, a stamped phrase, for a complete card!

 
 

A work of Art

I know you all want more crafts, and I promise There will be, but for today I need to give a shout out to my 19 year old son. He deals with Autism, OCD, and seizures. Everyone who knows him just falls in love with his sweet spirit, present company included! I want to celebrate because after years of teaching him, today we mastered drawing!!! He drew the Statue of Liberty, and I could not be PROUDER!!! A milestone to celebrate indeed. If you all wouldn't mind leaving some comments regarding his artwork...I think together we might be able to convince him to keep drawing!

Thanks art pals ; )

 

Happy Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day to all the wonderful Dads in the world. In a 3 year period we lost ALL the men in my family. I desperately miss them all, so for me....Make sure you take time to love on yours, spoil them, and tell them how much they mean to you!

Have a Great Day : )

Light and shadows with Copics

I'm going to share this technique I learned to create light and shadows on your stamps using Copics. I absolutely love how this really brings the images to life as if they were drawings in a children's book. I used a bing image for a color sample to decide what direction I was going to take my palette.

 

Get out some white cardstock with a cute stamped image stamped on it, your favorite Copic colors (If you want to use my color sample for your colors you'll be needing: V09,V06, RV04,R22,R21,E11,E01, and for shading B00, Y11) I'm using a super cute stamp called "Time for a Cuppa" from Lili of the Valley.

 

Let's get started . . .

I like to color a simple little sun to remind me how and where my light source is coming into my picture. You can see my light is coming from the top right corner.

 

I color in my image remembering to use darker colors on the left side, and the lighter colors on the right side.

 

Repeat this with every part of your image. Remember to look at your sun and let your eyes follow it down to your image. The light won't hit some places, for example: the light might hit the bottom right side of her face, but not her hairline because the sun would be blocked by her head scarf. Because she's in front of the tea pot, the light would only reach the top right of the teapot, etc.

 

Now she's finished, and it's time to move on to shading!

You'll need B00, and Y11.

 

I like to start with my shadows. Take the light blue and go over the edges on the left or anywhere the light won't reach.

 
do the same on the other side using yellow for your light

 

I make sure the yellow is really heavy on the top of her head

where she's closest to the sun. 

 

Look at the side by side comparison : )

 
 
 
  I really love the differnce in the images and how it really makes your image POP!

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back into Craftin'

So....Since "Stacy's Scrap Shack" has decided on taking a summer break from their blog, that means I get to post and play more on my blog! Yipee! I'm so going to get my craft on . . . and I am going to continue to do the color samples, and tutorials! Let's kick things off with a fun card made with an image from

"Mo's Digitl Pencil"(She's one of my favs)

I absolutely love this little Housework Fairy. I colored her using my copics, and finished it off by highlighting my light source side with pale yellow, and my shadow side with a very light blue. I created her duster with lots of stickles and a few feather strands. I love how she turned out!

Outside Card:

 

Inside Card:

 

Feather Duster:

 

Light and Shadow Shading: