I'm back from Simon Says CREATE in Columbus, and while I haven't caught up on sleep, it was so much fun to catch up with a room full of all my favorite crafty peeps.
I was helping with the Create & Takes at the Picket Fence Studios booth, where we had tons of fun ink blending and using those AMAZING Foiled Impression dies that deboss and foil with one pass through the Gemini. This was positively my favorite thing at Creativation. I'll have some projects with these soon.
But at my March class, before I hopped on a plane, we did the coloring technique with acrylic blocks I showed in this video Thursday on a perfect card for the Easter season - I love these little lilies. You can see my colored pencil work on this stamp here.
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But in the meantime, enjoy this beautiful spring stamp - we did this one in this month's card class using just three of these water-based markers. I hope it's starting to show signs of spring where you are. We've got bluebonnets for days.
I love how the coloring with blocks becomes abstract and grunge. I couldn't deliberately have done that with my markers if I tried, and I've always loved that look.
Sometimes in my classes, I teach quick ways to color. I have a mix of experienced and new stampers each time, and so I try not to super complicated coloring techniques. We only have about 90 minutes, and we make three cards, so I have to keep it moving along.
This month, I did one of my favorite coloring methods. It breaks your brain the first time you do it but it makes sense after that. I'll have another card with this technique on my blog next week from what we actually did in class.
But after I got home, I filmed the process and I used three different variations to get three different looks, which you'll see in the video.
But first - let's start with the background. If you missed it, the video for that technique is at this post.
I cut that up into card panel sizes, and first I used it here, which you might have seen.
But for today's project, I wanted to have the sentiment be sort of foggy in the background. Whenever you stamp on top of white paint, that paint will resist your ink - so I knew that my sentiment would sort of weave in and out of background and foreground, which is what I wanted - almost a graffiti look. I also wanted my flower to remain the focus, so I stamped the sentiment from this set in Morning Mist, which was perfect for the look I wanted. Then I stamped the flower from this set in Nocturne, and then did the technique you'll see in the video using these watercolor brush markers - this is a new set of colors, and it has the most perfect cyan and magenta in all the land - they mix to make that beautiful purple on my flower. I cut it out with the matching dies and glued it to the card front.
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So leave me a comment with which of these is your favorite color.
