Had a fabulous time on Saturday morning teaching and meeting some new ladies! We focused on watercolour pencils for this class and everyone had a go at colouring an image and then using it to make their cards. These were the two samples cards I made:
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| The image is from Flourishes Orchids. The orchids and leaves are dry watercolour pencils on dry watercolour paper then wet using a waterbrush. For the background I have scribbled some orange watercolour pencil onto a scrap piece of cardstock, wet the background of my image with water and picked up the colour from the cardstock and "painted" in the background close to the image. I then used a flat waterbrush to draw out the colour so that it fades to light orange. |
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| This image, daffodils (in case you cannot tell) is drawn by myself in black Copic multiliners 0.1 and 0.3 mm. I then used dry watercolour pencils on dry watercolour paper for the daffodils and leaves and wet using a waterbrush. The background is similar to the card above - wet paper and picked up the colour from watercolour pencils scribbled on a scrap piece of cardstock (my "paint palette" I called it). I used 3 different colours for the background - they kind of "blend" together due to the paper being wet first. |
As you can see I'm not big on the "washed out" watercolour look - but in the class I showed a range of different techniques to give everyone some ideas / options.
These are the cards the ladies made:
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| Image from Crafter's Companion - Strawberry Kisses - Little Miss Gorgeous little cat and love the purple theme throughout this card :-) |
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| Image from AnnaBelle Stamps - Lil Monster Gone Fishing I think this one is absolutely gorgeous! She has done a great job and I love the water! |
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| Image from Flourishes - Sunflowers The colouring is beautiful and I love the blue washed background. Always love her additions of Stickles and pearls/rhinestones :-) |
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| Image from AnnaBelle Stamps - A Beautiful Day This is one of my favourite images from AnnaBelle Stamps and I love the colour combination this lady has chosen. Also love the stickles and glossy accents as raindrops! |
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| Image from Flourishes - Berry Sweet At first she said "there's no way I can colour an image with watercolour pencils" and look what she did! Fantastic job - absolutely love the colours on the berries and the leaves - gorgeous! |
Well done ladies! Hope you all had a great time - I know I did!
Materials list (for my cards)
Orchids:
Watercolour pencils: I used Rexel Derwent watercolour pencils (in of 72 colours)
Orchids - Numbers 10, 25, 23, 26 and 33
Leaves - Numbers 20, 43, 45 and 48
Background - Number 10
Stamps: Flourishes Orchids
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink Seedless Preserves
Cardstock and DP: Quill XL Multiboard - purple and black, Ranger Ink heavyweight watercolour paper, Grace Taylor Blossom
Other: AnnaBelle Stamps natural hemp twine, Beutron Craft Buttons, double sided tape, foam tape and Helmar 450 quick dry glue.
Daffodils:
Watercolour pencils: I used both Rexel Derwent watercolour pencils (tin of 72) and Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle pencils (mix and match packets neutral, yellow and blue)
Background - FC numbers 141, 143 and 153
Daffodils - petals - FC numbers 141, 108 and105
Daffodils - centres - FC numbers 141, 115 and 111
Leaves - FC numbers 143 and 153 and Derwent numbers 45 and 48
Image: Hand-drawn by Elizabeth Whisson (myself) using Copic black multiliners 0.1 and 0.3 mm
Ink: Distress Ink Dusty Concord
Cardstock and DP: Quill XL Multiboard - purple and black, Ranger Ink heavyweight watercolour paper, Grace Taylor Blossom
Other: Liquid Pearls Lavender Lace, double sided tape and foam tape.
How awesome that you are teaching others to do a craft that we all love so much Elizabeth!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful samples and inspiration you provided. These ladies should all be SO proud of themselves! Gorgeous work!
Thanks Charlene - I was very proud of all the ladies - they did such a great job! And I always love to see their creativeness come out in their cards :-)
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