Archive for September, 2008:
An In-Depth Look At Painting With Gel Pens (with a colour wheel in hand)
Yahoo, I’m really excited today. Why? There are two reasons: 1) You gave a tremendous thumbs up for my painting with gel pens. Because you did, I decided to take a more detailed look into the technique, 2) I found a format that works well for posting my tutorials on Wordpress. Simply by centering my photos, I saved myself one to two hours of work. With the discovery of my new format, I can increase my photos to 10+, once again–giving you better detail.
Supplies:
Gel pens
Paint brush
Versa Mark
Embossing powder
Heat gun
With VersaMark, stamp out image in preparation for embossing.
Heat emboss image.
Pick a main colour for your image. When you set your colour wheel, determine what colours are complimentary. Colours beside, or directly across, are considered to be the most complimentary. My main colour pick was pink, and my complimentary colour pick was purple.
At your starting point, colour a very small area along the edge of the image and quickly spread the colour, in a circular motion, with a damp paint brush. Do not stop your brush until you reach the end of the image. It may not appear that there is any colour remaining on the brush, but there is. If you do not continue drawing out your colour, there will be a visible line. Once the area is completely dry, Repeat. Continue repeating until you reach the deep colour achieved to your liking. I drew over my darkened area a total of 3 or 4 times.
Next, colour over the same area with a complimentary colour. I picked purple, and deepened the area in that colour.  You can see in this photo the finished sleeve on the right, and the first coat of pink colour on the left.
Opps, a little blurry. Sorry.  You may choose to stick with the same colour, as I did here, or move on with another colour. Experiment and play. Most of all, have fun!  This photo is an example of how I use a variety of colour shades. Look at the right side of the dress. See how I deepened with lots of purple? Now, look at the left side of the dress. It remains deepened with pink.
With so much pink and purple, I wanted the next layer of the dress to have a new colour, so I pulled out my colour wheel and focused on the colour directly across from the pink. The green/gold was a nice compliment so I decided to colour with the appropriate colour of gel pen. To skip ahead a little bit, I used the green/gold for my main card as well.
Again, deepen the edge of your image and keep the opposite edge light. This will give your image real punch and draw the viewer in.
My image is almost finished, and look how I ruined the cardstock. Ugh! There is an easy fix for that–embellishments. Focusing back on my image, let me point out the ruffles. Notice how there are areas of very dark purple and pink, and a very pale pink. Again, a variety of colour and depth.
When deciding on the colours of cardstock, I referred to the colour wheel. And look, those cute little flowers hid my mistake–wink, wink. There was a lot of white space on the upper right side of the bird, so I added little gems to help balance the card.
Thank you for stopping by. If there are any questions you have regarding this tutorial, or on the colour wheel, please let me know and I’ll do my best to help you out.
Supplies:Â Stamp:Â Odd Bird Planet; Paper:Â SU In-colours; Cuttlebug polka dot folder; SU scallop punch; Prima flowers; brads.
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Cuttlebug Highlights
This is another background technique from this month’s
Paper curls are very thin strips of paper cut with an exacto knife.
Stamps:Â Hero Arts
Fresh Out of the Oven, mmmmm
One of my favourite things to do in the fall is get back into the kitchen
and cook comfort foods, including baking cookies.
What do you like to do in the fall?
Stamps:Â Whiff of Joy; Coloured with Prismacolour pencil crayons
and painted with Twinkling H2O’s.
It’s An Army Life For Me
Look at this cool new technique. How perfect for my army stamp!
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Bear Stamp:Â Darcie’s; Tree Stamp:Â Odd Bird Planet
Tutorial Tuesday – Painting with Gel Pens
Yahoo, it’s Tutorial Tuesday and today you’re in for a treat. Can you believe that you can paint with Gel pens? Yup, that’s right! And what goes better with Gel pens than Peel-Off stickers. My previous Peel Off tutorial will show you another example of how to work with these embossed-like stickers. Because I love these stickers so much, I am busy experimenting with various mediums for future tutorials. In the meantime, pull out those gel pens and have fun!
Supplies:
- Peel Off stickers (may substitute with another brand)
- Gel pens in a variety of colours
- Small paint brush
- White cardstock
Gently, and carefully, place your sticker onto white cardstock. Press firmly to ensure sticker is well adhered to cardstock.
Can you see that the small body was coloured? Colour just a very small area and blend the colour outwards. Colour in sections to avoid the gel pen from drying out. If the gel pen dries out, it will not blend. You do not need a lot of water on your brush. Swish your brush clean, and blot it onto a paper towel until most of water has been removed.
The left side of the butterfly demonstrates the areas that were coloured with the Gel pen. The right hand side of the butterfly demonstrates what the Gel pen looks like blended with paintbrush and water.
The image has now been completely painted. The image is now ready to be transformed into a card.
Because I wanted to make the butterfly the focal image, I used coordinating soft coloured cardstock. I referred to my colour wheel to determine what would work well with the pink butterfly.
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Just Like Me, House Mouse Loves Sunflowers Too
Today’s card was inspired by Cathy’s photo for this week’s
Garden Party.
Image was coloured with Prismacolour pencil crayons
and painted with Twinkling H2O’s.
Odd Bird Planet Pirate Challenge Now On
This was created for the Odd Bird Planet Pirate Challenge going on this weekend
at Splitcoast Stampers. Click here for details.
There are prizes to be won.
Whiff of Joy Guest Designer Call
As promised, I am posting some information about Whiff of Joy. This darling company is looking for guest designers, and I am applying. This is one of my submissions. For another view of this card, you can read the post below. If you are interested in applying, you can visit their blog here.
This image was coloured with Prismacolor Pencil Crayons and painted with Twinkling H2O’s. For those of you who are new to my blog, you can see my tutorials explaining how I did my colouring here and painting here.
Thank you for stopping by, and for the wonderful comments on my card yesterday. I’m sorry I had to put a spam filter on where you know have to type in the alphabet, but my spam was too out of control. Last weekend I had over 200 spam. On a daily basis it is numbering 40. Now it’s all contained.
Get That Butt In Gear and Quit Pumping Out The Cupcakes
Over the past 18 months of blogging I have depended on my sister, Cathie, for critiquing my work. Just knowing she will remind me to start posting regularly keeps me in check. Well, you all know I’ve been really slacking off, so I got my butt kicking from my dear ol sista because she’s afraid my viewers will leave me. That is a fear that bloggers have all the time, and I come to expect my sister to get me moving, and I wondered why she left me alone for so long. Well, not only did I get a butt kicking this evening, but it came with mandatory rules. Oh, she is going to kill me when she reads this, but personally, I think this makes for the most entertaining reading. Want to know what she said? No more cupcake cards, and no more tye dye looking cards. I think by tye dye she refers to what I created just today–hours before my telephone call. I don’t have the heart to tell her I have 10 more tye dye images waiting to be made into cards. I just bought four Whiff of Joy images because I love them so much. I don’t even have the heart to tell her how much I enjoy colouring these fun images and then painting them with Twinkling H2O’s.  As a stress reliever, I colour my images on my lunch and coffee breaks at work, then I come home and blend with OMS and then paint with Twinkling H2O’s. Sound fun? You betcha! I’ll share another pic of this card tomorrow with some news from Whiff of Joy.
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