Watercolor pencils used to be my all time favorite medium for coloring. I would use them to teach classes, do demos with them -- I loved the gradation of color and the soft feel. Sadly, my watercolor pencils have been ignored a lot lately for my Copic markers and watercolor inks. :-(
For this card, I stamped the Dream Butterfly using Black Versafine Onyx ink and then heat set before starting to scribble in the color. I say scribble because I love to color and leave white spaces so that the color isn't uniform....
If you look at the image above, you might be able to tell that I use a couple shades of the same color. The leaves are colored with two greens, the petals two yellows and the barn two reds. Then, when it comes time to blend, I simply use a Tombow blender pen and blend the colors, cleaning my marker tip in between colors. I love the results! After that, I paper pierced, added an embossed edge, and some antique linen distress ink around the edge and... voila! the rest is really just matting it up with some fun decorative paper, some burlap twine and a button.Ta da!!!! And that, my friends, is it! Hope you're enjoying your week so far. It's been so nice and sunny that I am actually feeling like spring might just be around the corner! Hope the same for you in your neck of the woods!
See you back here soon!
11 comments:
This is fabulous, Jewels! Love that stamp ... and your coloring technique. I have to give it a try ... tfs!
oh my! What a wonderful stamp ... what a wonderful card!
Sandra
That's an interesting concept of like a stamp within a stamp. Made up into a great card. mom
this is so impressive! the matting is amazing. love it!
Hey there sister!! Love your card... It is SUNNY here too. Just a gorgeous day and I am so hoping that spring is here soon.
Hope all is well with you and your family!!
This is FANTASTIC and I love this concept!! I'm sure when I try this it's not going to be this beautiful but I'm still going to try it!! teehee!!
Still very "white" outside ... and dreary today!! Uuugh .. I'm so in need of sunshine!! Send some my way ... okay?? I'll be watching for it!!
Hugs to you my friend!
What a gorgeous card. It seems like the butterfly is really flying :) Thanks for sharing.
LOVE this design and the butterfly negative overlay! Wonderfully done, Julie!
How true to weathering paint on wood your coloring is for that deal ol' red barn, Julie. I see that weathering on our lower wood house trim now that snowmelt is well underway. Only ten more feet of two inch thick ice to melt before our driveway is total mud connecting to joyously solid, dry, 'clean' asphalt.
89 days of snowcover has been a fourth place to all time record for this area and that was at Logan International Field not our shaded yards and outdoor work areas where winter remains intact.
Today is another water diversion from buildings day so that promise of spring you scribble stroked into butterfly beauty will be a bright reminder of things to come. Thanks.
Keep Looking UP!
Very pretty. If I could do water color as well as you, they would be one of my favs too. Lovely work girly!
AWESOME-- beautifully done!
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