Don and I visited Lynette yesterday. As usual, we had a wonderful time visiting! We took a nice walk to a nearby restaurant. Then Lynette and I worked on some fun stamping techniques! In the evening we walked to a concert in the park and we really enjoyed that too.
Our first project was to try out a product called Ken Oliver Color Burst. We each made six panels using it. We spritzed the panels with water. Then sprinkled the Color Burst granules on the wet watercolor paper. It was fun to see the vibrant colors "travel" and fill the paper.
Lynette added some Color Pour to the panel on the lower right. It gave a metallic look.
Above are my panels. It was very fun trying out different color combinations and having some backgrounds to use in the future.
Below are watercolor panels using Natasha Foote's YouTube Dropping Color Technique #1362
We wet the watercolor paper with a fine mist of water. Then we "dropped" various colors of watercolor onto the paper in the areas that will become a vase and flowers. Talk about a HOT MESS...
the plain black outlined leaves
and outlines of the flowers and petals
and dots and lines inside the flower blossoms
and more dots in the white space!
This was a very fun exercise!
I love hearing Natasha give us permission to work on a "loose, happy, free watercoloring project with no plan"..."it doesn't have to be perfect"... It really gives a person permission to just have fun with the process. I will admit that I was stressed a bit with trying to work through this.
Below we followed another of Natasha's YouTubes: Make Your Own Little CUTIES DIY #1230
We made a circle template by punching a 1-1/4 inch wide circle punch into cardstock. You trace the round bird using the INSIDE OF THE CIRCLE and LEAVING an open area where you will draw the tail feathers. Again, we used a 0.5 Fine tip black PITT pen for drawing. We used Jane Davenport brights watercolors, a scrap of printed papers for the wings and bottom of the birdies.
I messed up when I traced the circle, first by using the circle itself. I should have used the "stencil" part with the circle opening! Then I did not leave an open area in my circle for the tail feathers. My birdies survived me!
Our sunburst cards were inspired by Nicole Nowosad's card on her August 30, 2012 blogpost, Jillibean Soup-Grandma's Lima Bean Soup! It's the fifth image down on her blogpost.
Supplies used:
Vicki Boutin 6 x 8 inch Storyteller Paper pad by American Crafts
Reflections set of 6 heart dies
Crimper
Love to Craft die set #2560377, a gift from my friend, Hetty-white lacy circle
Black and white twine, paper flower from Lynette's stash and paper with "friend" stamped in Versafine Onys black ink
& Friend stamp
Image above shows the template we made, estimating the widths at the top and bottom of the strips of printed papers. It took quite a while to cut each strip. I could not think of another way to be sure the strips would be long enough when cut at various angles.
Today I decided to try again, without a template. I cut longer strips than the 5-1/4 inch height of my base paper. Then I tried to estimate the approximate widths at the top and bottom of the strips. You can see today's sunburst panel below. I think it worked out ok and was much faster to create than the template.
When this panel is turned into a card, I will share a blogpost of it.
Thank you for wading through this LONG post.
Wishing you
Peace and all Good
