22 November 2008

Watercolouring Part 2


I've already done a post showing this delightful wee girl (she's one of my favourites) coloured up on water colour paper using markers. She does work really well. Tonight's class was inspired by a left over Pretties flower that I was going to use for my BLING card but it was too big. I'm a great believer in waste not want not. So it's a bit dark as it started off white - then coloured up to Blue Bayou - then coloured up with Almost Amethyst & yes now a lovely cornflower blue.

Class attendees were shown the easy peasy way that Tracee Jones from Waihi showed us how to colour up the Pretties. Tracee's technique is:
  • place your hand inside a small self-sealing bag
  • turn inside out with hand hidden inside like a glove
  • rub bag on ink pad that you want to colour the flower up with
  • turn bag inside out again (so ink now inside the bag)
  • spray a few times with a water mister
  • throw in the Pretties flower
  • seal & scrunch it all around till the dye is even
Yes Tracee is right - really even colouring, clean & dries fast

Stamp sets: Summer By The Sea, Looks Like Spring,Think Happy Thoughts
Ink pads: Black Stazon, Certainly Celery, Whisper White
Card stock: Water colour paper, Almost Amethyst, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery Prints DSP
Other: Markers (Soft Subtles, Earth Elements), Pretties Flower, 1-1/4" circle punch, Spring Flower Bouquet Punch, Dimensionals, Silver brad


5 comments:

  1. Thanks for passing on the Pretties colouring tip Karen :-).

    Have a great weekend,
    Sam.

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  2. This is SO pretty, great colouring

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  3. Yes she does look gorgeous.

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  4. thats lovely must get my water colour crayons out today thanks for the inspiration

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  5. such a pretty card, and your coloring is fab!

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