I’ve seen several ways of storing ProMarkers, but few of them seem to be easily portable. With my need to move my ProMarkers from workshop to workshop as well as from craft room to in front of the TV and back again, I decided to make my ProMarker storage portable.
This week’s theme over at Passion for ProMarkers is the theme ‘Yellow & Pink’ [Week #94] – and here’s my submission. The image is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and is available from Kars stockists [Dawn’s Stamps/Nellie Snellen DAWN-003]. Pens used: Skin – Blush/Oatmeal/Apricot; Hair – Gold/Sunflower/Pastel Yellow/Caramel; Dress – Cocktail Pink/Baby Pink/Pale Pink; Berry Red; Flower -Lilac/Orchid; Ice Grey 1.
I’ve been busy this afternoon… I’ve finished this greetings card ready to enter into this week’s Passion for Promarkers Challenge (#93, ‘Bugs’). The butterfly [generic] is mounted onto a background [Personal Impressions Flower and Butterfly Background, PIRM002]. Both have been coloured with ProMarkers, and the flowers on the background have been decoupaged for depth. Paper Artsy Grunge Flower die used to construct the flower with Leone-Em punched shapes for the centre. Stamens were coloured with Gold ProMarker.
UPDATE: I was in the top five for the challenge 🙂
I’ve done some more ProMarker colouring, and thought I’d post the steps and pens used. Let me know what you think and if you’d like any more. The image is a stamp from Circa Designs, VA-IM-11 1930s lady in frame (big), available from their website which is listed on the suppliers page. Apologies for the photo colouring – I’ll find my tripod and decent lighting next time.
Completed image
Remember the clematis pictures? Well, I worked out how to mount them to make a greetings card 🙂
I marked and then cut a rectangular frame (green section), and cut out all the background outside of the frame. I then matted that onto black card with a narrow border. That was then matted onto hand-coloured glossy card with wider margins, before mounting the whole thing onto a square, textured white card. The glossy card was sprayed with Adirondack Color Wash (cranberry, wild plum and denim), then water to merge and activate the colours, and then a sheet of kitchen roll laid onto it and then pulled off leaving the quilted texture in the wet ink. I’m rather pleased with the results 🙂
Clematis ‘Carnival’, ‘Oh la la’ and ‘Nelly Moser’
My evening project – finishing off these beauties. One stamp design, three different colour-ways using Letraset ProMarkers to colour. Image is stamped in Tsukineko’s Memento Tuxedo Black, and I use Ryman’s Bright White coated card. Colour reference came from photos of clematis on a quick Google image search. Each took around 30-40 minutes to colour. Not sure yet how to mount these to make greetings cards, but I’ll be sure to share in due course. The stamp is from Circa Design (XM-IM-49 POINT) and was sold as a second for a bargain £1 at a craft fair, though I can’t see any blemishes. Confusingly they list it under Christmas as an image of poinsettia…
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