Color my world

Hi Hermine here! Made 3 different cards with the color wheel.

3 cards in a row

Card 1:

step 1: take a square piece of card stock and start from the middle. Take the solid color wheel 19339 and color it with Lyra crayons, spray a little with water and put on card stock. Stamp with Stazon jet Black the color wheel lines 19338, Bulls eye target solid 19196, bulls eye target open 19193 and the tekst You Color my world 19344

step 2: take a piece of Kromecote and stamp with Stazon jet Black the man and dog sitting 18968, color it with distress ink and a water brush and cut out. Glue at the bottom of your card stock.  Glue this on a double card with miracle tape.

Card 2:

step 1: Take a square piece of cardstock and stamp with Lyra crayons and water the solid color wheel 19339  on it starting in the middle and filling the rest of the card. Stamp the color wheel lines 19338 with just one color, I used sepia.

step 2: stamp with Stazon jet Black Barn Scene 19331, mask this off and stamp Flower book plate 19335, stamp I believe 19347 in the upper flower book plate and You color my world beneath the barn scene. Color the barn scene and the flowers with Lyra crayons and waterbrush.

step 3: glue this cardstock on a double card with mircale tape

card/tag 3:

step 1: take a piece of cardstock and stamp with Lyra crayons and water the solid color wheel and with Stazon jet black the color wheel lines. Do this on both sides.

step 2: take another piece of card stock which is smaller then the previous one and stamp with Stazon jet Black Not in Kansas Anymore Otto 19353 and color in with Lyra crayons and a water brush. Splatter with the water brush and one color.

step 3: fasten the little card on the background card. I did this with a stapler without staples.

step 4: (see below) use a Tim Holtz alteration dy and make the stand.

 

Hope you will be inspired with these cards. have fun playing around.

Warmly Hermine

Used materials:

Solid color wheel 19339

color wheel lines 19338

Bulls eye target solid 19196

Bulls eye target open 19193

You color my world 19344

man and dog sitting 18968

Barn Scene 19331

Flower book plate 19335

I believe 19347

Not in Kansas anymore Otto 19253

Stazon jet Black

Kromecote

miracle tape

Christmas Card in Black #VLVS #VivaLasVegaStamps #VLVS #ChristmasCard

Black isn't a color you usually associate with the holidays but it works surprisingly well as a base when using metallic or glittery gel pens.

Supplies

VLVS! Stamps Used:

Santa Smoking - Item 19314 Plate 1411

Sakura of America Gellyroll Pens
     Stardust: Red-Star, Lime-Star, Green-Star, Sky-Star, Golden-Star
     Metallic: Green, Gold, Blue, Red
     Standard: White

Tim Holtz Distress Markers: Barn Door, Peeled Paint

Elmer's Paint Pens: White, Black

Kromecote A2 Cardstock
Strathmore 140 lb cold-press watercolor paper 8 x 10
Golden Black Gesso
Miracle Tape
A finger or blending tool

Fold the sheet of watercolor paper in half so the more textured side is on the front.

Paint the front with black gesso, leaving a white border around it.  Don't worry about crisp  or even edges.

Stamp the Santa on a piece of Kromecote and color him with the Distress Markers.  
Place enough Miracle tape to cover the Santa.  Leave the strip on the back side of the tape for now.

Cut him out.

Remove the back strip from the Miracle Tape, and place the Santa so he is flush with the bottom of the card and outside the black area.

Add some blue metallic around the Santa and smudge it with your finger or blending tool (I really find the finger does a better job.  The oils I think).  Smudging must be done immediately while the ink is still wet.

Use the Gold Metallic pen to draw a border around the black, but keep a black border around the gold.

Continuing with the gold pen, outline a simple christmas tree, each section a triangular shape with three loops on the bottom.  Keep a line of black between each section.

Add the gold ornaments.  Simple again--just round and oval blobs.

Outline the packages, still using the gold pen..  Don't worry about perspective.  This is a primitive-style drawing so simplicity is what counts.  Make one large package next to Santa, and then draw 2 small packages behind him and the tree.  If you can fit another small one between the large package and tree do so, but don't sweat it.  

Fill in a stripe around the boxes for ribbon, and draw loops for the bow.

Color the area around tree, packages and Santa with the Red-star pen. Throughout, while you are coloring, leave a thick, black line between your color and the gold lines.  The black does not have to be an even thickness. It's more interesting if it isn't.

Use the red metallic to place stripes that run from the edge of the card toward the tree.  They won't show much, but will add a little depth.

Switch to the green metallic pen and color each section of the tree completely.

Switch to the Green-star pen and draw stripes from the bottom of each section to the top (same reason as with the red stripes)

Now switch to the lime-star and add similar stripes.

Switch to the Golden-star and make dots along the center stripes.

Use the blue metallic to draw the strings for the lights. Use the Red-star to color the lights (simple ovals), then use the Elmer's paint pen for white highlights.

For the rest of the black (except the border on the outside of the gold) color it with blue metallic.  Rather than making it solid blue, color a section about the size of your fingertip, and then smudge it as far as you can.  Keep doing this until the black is covered, but hints of it show through in places.

In the white border, on the left edge, color a dot of blue metallic about the twice the size of the pen's tip, and smear it in a fan shape.  Go down 1/2 and inch or so, and repeat this on the right edge.  Continue doing this around the entire border. Just skip over Santa and continue on the other side of him.

Use the black Elmer's painter pen to adjust your black lines.  If you have places without a black line around objects, add one.  If you have an area where it's just too, too uneven, even it out a bit (don't get to fussy about this.  It's a primitive-style, remember?).

In the white border, where you created the blue smudging, draw a line or two and smudge.

Finish by using the black Elmer's to thicken the Santa's outline on one side.


I hope you've enjoyed creating a Christmas Card in black!

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More melted crayon fun

Last year I showed an ATC I made using the Melted crayon technique that I learned how to do from Martha,Seeking for Art(Martha's ustream of this technique). Today I'm going to show you 2 more ATC's I did recently with the melted crayon technique, this time using Kromecote.

I wanted to see if the Melted crayon technique would work using Kromecote. So, I started playing around with it. I did 2 ATC's using both sides of the Kromecote. The glossy side (left side) and the matte side(right side). You can see the different results I got.

I'll start with the left one. The glossy side

I stamped on the Kromecote with the Brick background stamp with Black Versafine ink pad. Because I stamped on the glossy side The ink is still very wet, so I embossed with the Ultra High gloss embossing powder. Yes, more experimenting. After it was embossed I  took some crayons in blue hues and with my craft iron melted the crayons and wiped them on the Kromecote. When I was done I heated the back of the atc to get the way hot. I turned it back around to wipe off the wax. But I was starting to wipe off the color off as well(even some of the embossing). So I left it alone. i like dhow it looked anyway. I stamped the Boy in cape on white cardstock. and colored him in with my Prisma's. I used foam tape to put him on the ATC. I stamped the all my Heroes sentiment and cut the words apart and glued with glossy accents because there is wax where I was putting the words at I had to hold there a little bit to make sure it didn't pop off. 

Now to the Matte side

I stamped the Harlequin Diamond background with the black Versafine ink pad. I used magenta and purple crayons with my craft iron. I turned the paper over to heat the way. then I took a paper towel and wiped the wax off leaving the color.

On white cardstock I stamped with Black Achrival ink pad the Writing Arrow, coffee pot inn. I painted them with my Pearlesent water colors. The arrow smudged a little, but I was fine with that. I used Miracle tape to the coffee pot on the ATC. The arrow I made it like a tree and used foam tape to put it on the ATC. I stamped the A morning without coffee sentiment. and cut out the words. Glued them on with glossy accents. 

Stamps used
brick background
Boy in cape
all my heroes
Harlequin Diamond background
Coffee pot inn
A morning without coffee

Items used
Kromecote
Miracle tape
Black Archival ink pad
Black Versafine ink pad
crayola crayons
foam tape
glossy accents
pearlesent water colors
water brush

Never Too Early to Start Christmas Cards

It's never to early to start creating Christmas Cards!!!  This is a design I created last December, but never was able to post to the blog. 

This round on the DT is coming to an end and a new one to start soon!!!  I have so loved my time on the team, the other DT member artists were so great to work with and be on the team with.  Such talents inspired me to the max with my own art.  I want to thank VLVS for picking me for this round, and hope to be on the next round!!!

Christmas cards do not have to be complicated or overly busy!  In fact, this is a card you can make up a lot of, working here and there, creating each step. 

VLVS Image - 10783 Poinsettia, Large

This image is so pretty and perfect for Christmas cards.  This image comes in both small and large.

The image is stamped with permanent ink on Kromecote cardstock.  Copics are used to color in the leaves, and glitter pen for the center.  Little lines and dots decorate around the poinsettia, and glitter pen used as well on the dots.

Card mounted on cranberry cardstock with metal "Noel" embellishment and Season Greetings word sticker.

I have one more post for the end of this round designing!  The last piece is going to be a Wayne Gartley piece, you will NOT want to miss!!!!

Cre8tiveLea Yours - Lea

The Early Bird Gets the Worms!

Good morning everyone! I'm sharing with you this fun card front that I've created using the fantastic Kromecote cardstock, alcohol based markers and a wonderful Mary Vogel Lozinak stamp! Kromecote has a shiny finish and makes creating backgrounds with your alcohol inks and pens fun and easy...long strokes can mimic grass and tree bark textures, short tapping can mimic leaves and large swirling can mimic cloud movement. The early bird was stamped and also colored on kromecote and then fussycut and adhered to the foreground. I hope you enjoy my project! Thank you for looking~

For this project

Spectrum Noir Markers

Beacon 3in1

Mix'd Media Inx Black
Kromecote Cardstock

Bird with Worms 

Stamping with VLVS! Kromecote!

VLVS! Kromecote Cardstock is my paper favorite to stamp on. On a piece of VLVS! Kromcote Cardstock 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 I lightly sprayed with SmoochSpritz, then cut to size for each card.

"Don't Follow Your Dreams"

The VLVS! Follow Your Dreams (Plate 893) and VLVS! with Wings (Plate 893) were stamped with black ink on the VLVS! Kromecote Cardstock spritzed earlier. The images were heat embossed with VLVS! High Gloss Embossing Powder. The wings and dress of the girl have been tinted with Tim Holtz Distress Markers. Stamp the seeds only from the VLVS! Dandelion & Extra Seed-Susan M. Brown (Plate 918) using ColorBox Raspberry Ink. Attach a bit of May Arts Fiber to the bottom of the card. Layer on a red cardstock base.

Supplies for "Don't Follow Your Dreams"
VLVS! Dandelion & Extra Seed-Susan M. Brown (Plate 918)
VLVS! Follow Your Dreams (Plate 893)
VLVS! with Wings (Plate 893)
VLVS! Kromcote Cardstock 4 1/2 x 5 1/2
VLVS! High Gloss Embossing Powder
VLVS! Miracle Tape
SmoochSpritz Pink Sprinkles
ColorBox Raspberry Ink
Memento Black Tuxedo Ink
Red Cardstock
Tim Holtz Distress Markers
May Arts Ribbon

"Worn Clock Face" 

On the "Worn Clock Face" card the VLVS! Harlequin Diamond Background is offset to the left. This is one of my all time favorite stamps, it measures 4 1/2 x 5 3/4. Perfect for an A2 Card (quarter sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 sheet). The VLVS! Worn Clock Face (Plate 918 was stamped with black ink on the VLVS! Kromecote Cardstock spritzed earlier. The image was heat embossed with VLVS! High Gloss Embossing Powder. The center of the clock face was tinted with Tim Holtz Distress Markers. Add a bit of May Arts Ribbon with VLVS! Miracle Tape.

Supplies for "Worn Clock Face"
VLVS! Worn Clock Face (Plate 918)
VLVS! Harlequin Diamond Background 

VLVS! Kromcote Cardstock 4 1/2 x 5 1/2
VLVS! High Gloss Embossing Powder
VLVS! Miracle Tape
SmoochSpritz Pink Sprinkles
Memento Black Tuxedo Ink
Tim Holtz Distress Markers-Yellow
May Arts Ribbon
Red Cardstock

Note: All stamps used maybe purchased individually mounted or unmounted. They are also available on plates as notated above.

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No Masking the Fact

Supplies:
VLVS! stamp Double Masks With Fan - Item 16258
2 sheets Kromecote A2 Cardstock 4 1/4 x 5 1/2
Miracle Tape 3/8 inch x 55 yds

StazOn Timber Brown Ink pad

May Arts Crochet Ribbon-Brown

May Arts Solid Ivory/ Woven Check ribbon 407 38 32

May Arts Sheer / Frayed / FLlowers / Wired ribbon 393 25 01

Recently one of my friends moved to Hawai.  When I saw this series of Masquerade stamps I immediately knew they'd be perfect for a 'Missing You' card.

I wanted a chocolates in a porcelain dish ambience, so I went with glossy white Kromecote paper, with dark, chocolate-y brown, and cream-colored ribbon.

One sheet of Kromecote I folded into a card.  I cut two pieces from the other sheet--one just a little larger than the Maquerade stamp, another piece about 1/2 inch larger. 

After stamping the image on the smallest piece with Timber Brown StazOn, I taped it to the larger piece, and bordered it with the brown ribbon.  I stuck this whole assemblage onto the card with more Miracle tape.  

I finished off by trimming the card with the Woven Check Ribbon, sticking on the white flower and more of the brown ribbon.  The flower was a bit too white, so I brushed it lightly with the Timber Brown StazOn.

The inside of the card reads 'There is no masking the fact that we've missed you!'

VLVS! has a series of these stamps, so if you like this one, you might also like--

Mask With Fancy Headdress 

Mask With Bow

Masquerade Person Looking Up

Double Masks

Two Masked People 

Masquerade Lady

Sunglass Masked Lady

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Stamping can BEE so Much FUN!!

It's finally the weekend!!!! Welcome to Viva Las Vegastamps!!! Susan here today bringing you some inky inspiration ... straight from the beehive.

 

With my last order from VLVS!, I completed my collection of bee stamps so I am ready to play. You might notice that my paper is stamped with the "Six Hexagon Background #19076" and also looks embossed. Well, it is. I made my own embossing template using the stamp. If you attend my weekly demos at the Saturday Crafts Fair on Linqto, I recently shared how I make custom embossing template for my stamps {CLICK HERE to view demo}.

I started by using several Ranger Distress Inks to add color to my Kromecote cardstock base with the faux airbrush technique. After heat setting ink, I ran the paper and handmade embossing template through my Cuttlebug. I rubbed some more ink over the high points gently to accentuate the embossing, then stamped the "Six Hexagon Background #19076" randomly in places. Now my honeycomb background is complete.

I stamped the bees into the background using Jet Black Staz-On Ink and also stamped each bee onto clear acetate. I also stamped each bee's wings onto a Miracle Sheet. What is a MIRACLE SHEET??? It's a full 8 1/2" x 11" page of MIRACLE TAPE - perfect for making all sorts of projects, die cut shapes and making DIY Washi Tape, too. On the backside of the acetate, I colored the body and head of each bee using a Sharpie Gold Paint Pen. I trimmed out the wings out of Miracle Sheet, then gently peeled off backing and applied to backside of acetate to corresponding stamped wing sections.

After burnishing down my miracle tape wings, I remove backing and dust adhesive with Perfect Pearls in pearl to give wings a glittery iridescence. I fussy cut each bee out of the acetate and slightly bent each wing. I adhered each bee to the background using Diamond Glaze - only putting adhesive behind the bodies and legs. I left the wings free to have depth and dimension.

To finish this off I'm placing this in a black wood frame from the Dollar Tree. It's a bit rough and rustic looking and will be the perfect home for my "Hive of Bees".

Supplies used: STAMPS - Six Hexagon Background #19076, Bee Facing Left #1708, Bee Facing Right #1820, and Bee Wings Open #1926; Also used Kromecote cardstock; Miracle Sheet; Jet Black Staz-On Ink; Clear Acetate; Sharpie Gold Paint Pen; Sakura Gelli Stardust Pen; Diamond Glaze; Ranger Distress Markers, Several colors of Ranger Distress Inks {Old Paper, Antique Linen & Frayed Burlap}; Ranger Embossing Ink, and Ranger Perfect Pearls {Pearl}.

Thanks so much for dropping by. If you have a little time... check out what the rest of the Viva Las Vegastamps! Design Team has created. There's a few more days left of the SUPERBOWL SALE at the Viva Las Vegastamps! store - CLICK HERE for the details.

If you would like to see more of my creations please visit my blog, sbartist : painting in the dark HERE. I'll be back with another stamping adventure real soon! Hope you have an inky day! Sb

Girl Feeding Cat

Today I’ll share a card using these adorable images

#1285; Girl Feeding Cat

And

#7779; I can’t imagine

With an alcohol ink Tutorial!

1.  Use a straight edge ruler and craft knife to cut clear packaging 4 ¼” x 5 ½.”

{This is the clear packaging that embossing folders and dies come in. You can also use acetate or transparency.}

2.  Cut one piece of card stock and a piece of aluminum kitchen foil 4 ¼” x 5 ½.”

Run card stock through Xyron with permanent adhesive. Peel of adhesive and apply aluminum foil to card stock.

3.   Use felt applicator to apply alcohol inks to aluminum foil.  The colors used should coordinate the finished stamped piece. I used purple, green and gold.

When the alcohol ink is is dry, run the alcohol piece through the Xyron. Peel off adhesive and apply the clear packaging over the alcohol piece.

4.  Place your alcohol inked piece in an embossing folder and run through an embossing tool.

5.   Set this aside.

6.   Ink a brayer with archival black to ink “Girl Feeding Cat” stamp on Kromecote paper from VLVS.  Set image aside to dry overnight or heat set to dry. I prefer to let dry overnight. 

7.   This is my favorite part of the card, using a portable waterbrush or paint brush with watercolor crayons to color image. I like to make the image look as real as possible, something I’ve done since 1998. When the image is dry, take a soft cloth and polish the image. Trim leaving a narrow white border around the image similar to a real photo. 

8.   Adhere gold trimmed paper and then watercolor piece to alcohol piece using Miracle Tape.

9.  Stamp sentiment “I can’t imagine” on Kromecote paper, trim and then use distress ink with foam applicator to coordinate the main stamped image.

10. Apply Miracle Tape to sentiment and alcohol embossed piece to pre-fold card.  

VLVS:

#1285 Girl Feeding Cat

#7779 I can’t imagine

Miracle Tape

Kromecote paper

Supplies:

Pre-folded card

Ranger alcohol inks

Ranger felt applicator

Ranger foam applicator

Brayer

Music embossing folder

Ranger archival black ink

Niji portable waterbrush

Ranger distress ink

Xyron adhesive

Gold paper

Aluminum foil

Watercolor crayons

Embossing and die cutting tool

Clear packaging

Straight edge ruler

Kraft knife

Thanks for viewing my tutorial

Viva Las VegaStamps! Design Team ~ Judy Cantrell