This week’s challenge over at Passion for Promarkers is ‘make your own embellishments’ [Week 95]. I’ve used ProMarkers as part of each embellishment as well as on the main image. Hope you like it!
ProMarker Embellishments Card
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Yellow ‘n’ Pink Birthday Girl
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.
Mop-up Tags
These two tags were part of a batch that I put together yesterday morning. I’d done the background colouring some time ago, dragging the tags through some dye overspray (mopping up) after I’d been colouring a cotton apron [Adirondack Color Wash: denim, cranberry and wild plum]. They’d sat on my desk for a while before I came up with the finishing touches: the flower is an Anita’s stamp inked with Stazon Opaque White, and the Laura Ashley [Dovecraft] butterfly and branch were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. These add layer and depth and form a lovely background for the white heat-embossed Penny Black letters and flowers [4035K] stamp. I used some as give aways and the rest I think will adorn cards or my art journal. Or possibly even some greeting cards.
ProMarker Butterfly Card
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 🙂
Embossed Metal Journal Faceplate
I finished this faceplate for my art journal this afternoon – I started it last night. The motif is an unmounted stamp from Paper Artsy, stamped onto copper side of Ten Seconds Studio’s double-sided metal foil using Stazon Black ink. I then used metal embossing tools to give the image some relief. The text was laid out in word processor before being printed out and traced through onto the metal. I then embossed the text. The embossed areas were filled with Ranger’s Glossy Accents before sticking the whole plate onto thick card with a smear of Glossy Accents over the flat surfaces. I let the plate dry overnight. Filling the raised areas with Glossy Accents stops them denting through wear at a later date as it dries to a structural solid – larger areas can be filled with lightweight DIY filler instead. The aging was a bit hit and miss, using black acrylic paint, a sanding block and lots of restarts. I also used Stazon Stamp Cleaner to remove the stamped outline. It’s stuck onto the Moleskine art journal with extra strong double-sided tape.
1930s Style ProMarker Tutorial
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
Clematis card
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 🙂
Glossy Background Variations
This is this month’s project for a card crafting workshop afternoon I teach on the third Saturday of each month in Leicester, UK. See my ‘about me’ page for more details.
Distress ink was applied to an A4 sheet of glossy card using a brayer: broken china, dusty concord and worn lipstick. I then cut the sheet into quarters and left one quarter as was [flowers]. The second quarter I sprayed with water and allowed to dry, giving a speckled bleached look [butterflies]. The third quarter I wiped some of the ink off with a baby wipe, before using a scrunched up vinyl glove to apply the same colour inks from the pad to the card to get a wrinkled look on a bleached out background [lily/gems]. The final piece was dabbed with a scrunched up moist baby wipe, again producing a bleached effect [tree]. Each piece was cut in half again (ie eight pieces from one A4 sheet). Images were stamped on with either black or opaque white Stazon ink, and matted onto bazzill cardstock. The tree foliage in this example was added after stamping the tree silhouette by dabbing ink on using the scrunched up vinyl glove (a scrunched up plastic bag or cling film would work as well). The gems on this occasion are dabs of Stickles glue in coordinating colours – but hotfix rhinestones or self-adhesive gems would work far better.
Colouring Clematis
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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