Art With Heart Creative Showcase: Colouring Techniques
Welcome to the Monthly Art With Heart Creative Showcase.
This month the Art With Heart Team are featuring projects using different colouring techniques. The Stampin’ Up! range contains an enormous bevy of functional and effective colouring tools that include:
- Stampin’ Blends (alcohol markers)
- Stampin’ Write Markers (dual-tipped markers)
- Stampin’ Pads (water based dye ink)
- Stampin’ Ink Refills (dye based ink)
- Uninked Stampin’ Spots (felt Stampin’ Spots for use with Ink Refills)
- Watercolour Pencils
- Water Painters
- Stampin’ Chalk Marker (permanent white chalk-like ink)
- Sponges, daubers, sponge rollers and blender pens
With so many tools and over 50 colours to chose from I actually decided to do something different today and show you three different ways of colouring in white onto coloured card stock. These techniques work for any coloured card stock, but I’ve decided to use a favourite colour combination of mine: Whisper White and Crumb Cake.
All three cards that use the stunning Beautiful Moments stamp set – this is a stamp set that makes anybody look like an artist!
For all three cards I began by stamping and heat embossing my image and sentiment. To achieve a black embossed image I inked up my stamp firstly with Versamark ink and then Memento before stamping. I then covered the image in Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder and heat embossed it the image with my heat tool. I repeated this process for the sentiments.
My “Thinking of you” card is coloured using a Stampin’ Chalk Marker, which is a permanent white chalk-like ink.
I simply coloured in the dress and the flowers, adding more chalk marker if there were any patchy bits as the marker dried.
The sentiment was punched out using the Lovely Label punch to add some dimension to the card.
For card two I used my white watercolour pencil from the Watercolour Pencils assortments one.
You’ll need to press quite hard and layer your colouring to achieve good coverage with the pencil but I love the soft chalkiness the pencil gives to the image.
The white colouring on my final card was achieved using Whisper White pigment ink refill and my smallest Water Painter.
I squeezed a small amount of the pigment ink onto a dish and used a wet nib of my water painter to slightly dilute the pigment ink before colouring in the girl’s dresses. You could also use white ink from your Whisper White stamp pad for this technique – simply tap a small acrylic block onto your stamp pad and then use your water painter to lift the ink off the acrylic block as you colour in.
This card took a bit longer to dry but the effect is well worth the wait.
All three cards were finished off with a double bow of linen thread and I used my Basic Black Stampin’ Write Marker to re-define any black lines that had been covered in white.
I hope my cards have inspired you to try white colouring on coloured card stock as it is such a beautiful and timeless technique you can achieve with a variety of different colouring tools.
The next Art With Heart Team Member to share their colouring technique with you is the very talented Vicki Boucher.
If you have a broken link or have come to this blog hop midway, you can view all the participants below:
Catherine Proctor (you are here)
Thank you for viewing our Showcase tonight, we’ll be back next month with more inspiration for you.
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