The techniques I was showing on these cards, besides the easel card, is how to use markers to color, then stamp your image, and then use an aqua painter to carefully blend the stamped image in to make it look watercolored, without adding any extra ink. You want to make sure your aqua painter tip isn't too wet, or the image gets destroyed -- so blotting it on a paper towel worked pretty well. I think this poppy looks better stamped in black and watercolored the more traditional way, but was trying to show something different. In addition, I was showing the brayered embossing technique -- here I embossed the 2 x 4 1/4" white strip at the bottom of the front of the card with the Delicate Designs folder, then used a brayer and cherry cobbler ink to brayer over the embossing, making the ink stick just to my embossed design.
To make the card base for the easel card, I started with a 4 1/4" by 11" strip of card stock. I scored it at 5 1/2 and 9". You fold the card in half on the 5 1/2" mark, and then you attach your card front just to that 2" strip at the bottom front of the card -- below that 9" fold line. To make the card stand up, attach a sentiment to the inside of the card up on dimensions, so you have a little "ledge" for the card front to stick behind. You can, of course, make a much more involved easel card using many other die cuts, etc, but this was designed to show how to do it in a more simplified way.
Products used on this card: Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, Rose Red, and Whisper White card stock, Delicate Designs embossing folders, small oval, and scalloped oval punches, Gumball Green stitched satin ribbon, Window box framelits, brayer, and two way glue pen with Dazzling Diamonds glitter.
The second card below features another stamp from this set -- which looks like a Larkspur flower to me, or perhaps a Delphinium. Whatever the case, it is so pretty. I colored it with Elegant Eggplant and Garden Green markers and then stamped it and blended a little with my aqua painter, then added a touch of yellow to the centers of the flowers and added some Dazzling Details sparkle glue to the centers. So elegant and pretty!
Now for a wee spoiler about the new catalog!..... I have seen it online (just another awesome perk to being a SU demonstrator), and I love so many of the new stamps and accessories in it! One new accessory that I am SUPER excited about are the new Blendabilities markers -- they are an alcohol based marker that is kind of like a SU version of Copic markers -- you know, the super expensive artsy, fartsy markers that you can spend a fortune on, take classes on to get "Copic certified" etc. I actually went to a Copics class once, and didn't feel like I loved the results of what I made enough to justify the cost of purchasing all those markers -- AND the huge range of colors to choose from was overwhelming. And here is where I can see a huge advantage with these SU ones -- they come as sets of three (for $11.95) -- three shades of the same color! so there is no guess work as to which marker to choose for your lighter shade to darkest shade. I have pre-ordered these babies, and CANNOT WAIT to get them and show them to you! If you like to color at all, then these will be your new best friends. The new catalog goes live on June 2nd. I will be doing a New Catalog open house in late June, where I will be selling off a bunch of my retired stamps and accessories, as well as showing off the brand new, amazing catalog. Can you tell I'm excited about it? :) There is an amazing peacock stamp in it that will be awesome to color with my new markers..... You're gonna want to be there, I'm telling you!
Oh yes! One more great thing that's coming -- a Memento black ink pad. It is a non-smearing, perfect stamping, black ink pad. For those of you who have purchased a SU basic black ink pad and had issues with how it stamps, try this new Memento black ink pad. I can't believe the difference.
Ok! off to enjoy the day with my family!
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