"Sweet Smiles"
by
Judy Cantrell
by
Judy Cantrell
For Technique Tuesday, I'll share my card and tutorial that was published in Rubber Stamp Madness Spring 2011.
Supplies:
Stamps
Speedball brayer
Cushion pad
Glossy kromekote cover cardstock 10pt.
Watercolor crayons
Niji waterbrush
Archival Black or Sepia ink
Tim's Tiny Attacher
Adirondack Alcohol inks; Pearl,purple, and yellow
Alcohol felt applicator
Paper glue
Clear rhinestones
Black cardstock
White china plate
Cotton cloth
Instructions:
1. Before inking new photostamps lightly scrub with soft
nail brush and dish soap. Rinse well, and then dry using a lint free cloth.
2. If the photostamps image still won’t give a good stamped
image, it might need a light surface sanding with emery cloth under running
water.
3. Just before inking your photostamps make sure they are free
of pet hair, lint or dust. Rinse with water and pat dry with lint-free cloth.
(I use an old cotton sheet cut in small 12" squares, when they are soiled they can be clean with work clothes or tossed away.)
(I use an old cotton sheet cut in small 12" squares, when they are soiled they can be clean with work clothes or tossed away.)
4. Ink your brayer with a forward rolling position on Archival black or sepia ink
pad. Keep rolling the brayer in the ink until well covered.
5. Roll the brayer in one direction onto the stamp until well
inked.
6. Place glossy paper on cushion pad shiny side up, press inked image down,
smooth fingers over the stamp, leave image down on paper and start counting 10-20
seconds and then lift off stamp.
(If you are new to this is might take you several times to
find the right pressure to get a perfect image.)
7. Set image aside to dry. For best results; let the stamped
image dry overnight.
Coloring
8. My palette includes 6 colors; pink, green, orange, blue,
yellow and brown watercolor crayons. From these colors you can make all colors by
mixing two or more colors together.
9. Use a clean white china plate for your palette. Scribble each color around the outside of an 8” plate. You will have plenty of room to
mix these colors on the plate. Leave the center for mixing flesh tone
watercolor.
Note: when you finish water coloring let the colors dry on
the plate, and then cover with plastic wrap until the next time you need to color
an image. Add more color as needed before wetting the surface.
10. Use a wet waterbrush to swipe a very small amount of
yellow, orange, pink and several swipes of brown in center of china plate add
droplets of the water to a runny consistency. Picking up more as needed to get
the color you need for the face, arms, neck and hands.
Note: Test the coloring on a scrap piece of glossy
cardstock. My preference is to color the face first. And then add color to
other areas.
Note: if the image looks too wet, blot with cotton cloth.
Actually I keep the cloth in one hand and waterbrush in the other hand.
Blotting as needed, adding more color as needed.
11. Use waterbrush with orange mixed brown or yellow mixed with small amount
of brown for the hair.
12. Use a waterbrush with blue and pink for a purple color for
clothing.
13. Use waterbrush to mix yellow mixed with brown for the flowers. Highlight
some of the flowers with a little orange watercolor. Set aside to dry overnight.
14. Trim image leaving a white border or mat to white
cardstock.
(Note: Create the look of a real photo by polishing the
watercolor image with a soft cloth.)
To complete this card:
15. Load pearl, purple and yellow alcohol ink onto felt applicator.
Apply to 4” X 5 ¼”
glossy cardstock. Don’t over mix. Leave some areas light. Let dry.
16. Adhere photo images to alcohol ink piece.
17. Apply mini-staples to corners
18. Adhere rhinestones.
19. Mat to 4 ¼” X 5 ½” folded card.
5 comments:
This is an adorable card. Love your colored photo images. Great job.
very beautiful. Thanks for sharing the Tutorial
That is really awesome. Thank you for sharing
So so lovely! And what a great technique that can be used in so many ways.
Sande
Thank you for this technique. I know I'm going to try this one, especially since I have been hoarding my last few pages of glossy card stock. Now, to find the stamps....
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