Watercolor Marker Background

Hello everyone,

Maria here with a quick tutorial. You can create your own artwork piece with just a few supplies. Today I am going to show you how to use makers to create a watercolor effect background.  For this you will need: alcohol markers: copics/promakers and alcohol.

If you already stamped the image, use a mask to protect the image.

To create the background, use a plastic sheet and colour the surface using markers. Start with the lightest color.

Spray alcohol over the surface. If you don't have a spray bottle, use a brush to add splashes of alcohol.

Place the stamped image over the background and press lighly over, with your finger tips. Repeat the process, until you are happy with the result.

Supplies:

Inktense pencils

Copics

Alcohol

Archival Ink Jet Black

White gel pen

Let your dream Fly High Rubber stamp - Whiff of Joy.

Hintergrung mit Wachsmalstift

Hallo zusammen,

Hello everybody,

Heute ist Donnerstag und mein Part für ein Tutorial

It's thursday today and it's time for my part for a tutorial

Ich möchte Euch heute zeigen, wie man mit Wachsmalstiften 

schöne Akzente im 

selbstgestalteten Hintergrund setzen kann 

Today I want to show you how you can put beautiful accents to your self-designed background, with wax crayons.

Wir brauchen diese Sachen:
we need those things:

Als erstes stempelt man auf ein weißes Blatt die Stempel für den Hintergrund. Ich habe ein Memento benutzt. Man kann aber auch StanzOn nehmen ;) 
First, you stamp everything on a white piece of paper, for the background. I used a Memento, but you can use StanzOn, too ;)

 Jetzt kommt der Wachsmalstift zum Einsatz. Damit malt ihr 
jetzt alles an, was Weiß bleiben soll.
Now it's time for the wax crayon. With this, you colour everything that should stay white.

Im Anschluss nehmt ihr euch eine (mehrere) Stempelfarben 
und wischt den Hintergrund.
Next, you take one (several) Stamp clolours and wipe the background. 

Die Stellen die ich vorher mit dem Wachsmalstift
 angemalt habe bleiben weiß

 The places I coloured with the wax crayon stay white

Und so sieht meine fertige Frühlingskarte aus

 And this is how my finished spring card looks like

aus der nähe 
from near

Ich hoffe Euch hat mein Tutorial gefallen .

Viel Spass beim Nacharbeiten.

I hope you liked my tutorial.
Have fun with trying it too.

big hugs
Sabine

You make life beautiful by Stephanie Schütze

Hi there, it’s Stephanie here again with a card I made with the stamps „Spirit of nature“ I designed for Whiff of Joy.

I hope you liked my card idea from last week and found some time to try it yourself. Today I have a nother inspirational creation for you.

 

  
For this card I stamped two motives from the „spirit of nature“ collection on a piece of watercolor paper and painted the motives with watercolor paint (yellow and brown).

After that I added some white highlights with a white Signo pen. I stamped a little bit of white acrylic paint and sprinkled little watercolor drops (red, black and yellow).

I distressed the edges generously with Distress Ink (vintage photo) and sewed this piece on canvas and cardboard. Finally I added a quote from a sentiment sticker. 
 

If you like my ideas and designs, you can give my stamps a try by ordering them at Whiff of Joy.

Stephanie

Sprinkle it with fabulous by Stephanie Schütze

Hi there, it’s Stephanie here today with a card I made with the stamps „Paper art“ I designed for Whiff of Joy.

Before I show you my project I want to introduce myself.

My name ist Stephanie Schütze, maybe you know me as scrapmanufaktur, born in Germany. For seven years now I am living with my husband and my two sweet daughters in Switzerland (Canton St. Gallen). Since the birth of my second child I have taken a time out from my job as psychologist in the usability field and enjoy the additional time to be more creative.

I am a scrapbooker with a great touch of mixed media and an art journaler with a passion to draw. Not one day passes without me being creative and even a puzzle peace is not safe from my creativity. I love to scrap with mixed media, draw cards and create all kinds of decoration. As long as color and paper are in play I am happy.

I gained DT and publication experience (with the Scrap-Art-Zine (german scrapbooking magazine), Scrapbook Adhesives by 3l, Ingvild Bolme,...) and have been published in several art magazines (Somerset Memories Stampington, Art Journaling Stampington,...). I love to teach classes to give away my fun and inspirations.

Stamps are my new adventure and I'm looking forward even more to draw, and then to see one or the other drawing on a stamp for you. Thank you Katharina Frei and Whiff of Joy for the opportunity and that they believed in me.

You can see more of my work on: http://scrapmanufaktur.blogspot.ch/

I’m so excited about my new stamps and I’m honored to show you some examples with it.

Usually I use stamps for mixed media backgrounds but sometimes the stamps are also my motives on my cards and are the focus.

This is a quick and simple card using the brushes stamp from the „paper art“ collection and several colors of Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels.

I stamped on a regular white paper and let drop some colors from Glimmer Mist on the brush ends and let it run. I cut the sheet and sewed it on to two different pieces of paper. Finally I added a quote from a sentiment sticker.

I hope I have given you some inspiration and you will give the stamps a try.

Stephanie

Mixed-media background – by Katharina Frei

Hi, Katharina here with a fun and easy mixed-media bachground idea – giving your neclected Twinkling H2Os good use ;) If you are looking for more ideas with templates – check out my latest craft video.

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Hallo, hier ist Katharina mit einer einfachen und schnellen mixed-media Hintergrundidee mit der ihr euren vernachläßigten Twinkling H2Os wieder etwas Beachtung zukommen lassen könnt ;) Wenn ihr nach weiteren Hintergrund-Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten sucht, dann schaut euch doch mein letztes Bastelvideo an.

 
I started off with 300g watercolor paper and cut my tags. I chose two Twinkling H2O colors (courageous rose & tahitian blue) and roughly colored the tags with a brush.
After drying the paper with a heat tool (also dry it from the back to get the paper flat again), I stamped over the color with the line stamp included in this stamp collection using black StazOn ink.

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300 Aquarellpapier bildet die Grundlage meiner Tags. Mit 2 Farben Twinkling H2O (courageous rose & tahitian blue) habe ich grob den Hintergrund angemalt. Nach dem Trocknen mit einem Heißfön (trocknet das Papier auch von Hinten, damit es wieder flach wird), habe ich mit dem Linienstampel, der in DIESER Stempelkollektion inkludiert ist, und schwarzer StazOn Tinte darübergestempelt.

Afterwards I used a template on top ot the tags, coated it with white crackle paint and carefully removed the template again. Let it dry for 20 minutes to 1 hour (depends on how much color you applied).

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Danach habe ich ein template über den Tags befestigt, mit weisser crackle paint eingestrichen und das template vorsichtig wieder entfernt. Das Ganze muss nun zwischen 30 Minuten und 1 Stunde trocknen, je nachdem wie viel Farbe ihr aufgetragen habt.

    

I hope you liked my tutorial, enjoy the day!

Ich hoffe meine Anleitung hat euch gefallen, habt einen schönen Tag!

Craft Video - 3 easy background ideas with templates by Katharina Frei

Hi everybody, it’s Katharina with a new video tutorial.
Today I am showing you 3 very easy and quick techniques to create selfmade backgrounds with templates. Those are so much fun! Enjoy :)

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Hallo, hier ist Katharina mit einer neuen Videoanleitung. Ich zeige euch heute 3 einfach, schnelle Wege eure Hintergründe mit Templates selbst zu gestalten. Das macht so viel Spaß! Genießt den Film :)