Faux No Line Coloring

Hi friends!  Today I am sharing a card showing how to achieve the look of the No Line Coloring technique.  I recently got inspired by Amy R ( Prairie Paper and Ink) when she showed in one of her recent videos the Barely Beige Ink from Simon Says Stamp, and how when you stamp down an image, what ever color you use with your coloring medium, the lines of the stamped image will take on that color!  It is a very cool effect!!

I used a Clearly Besotted set that sadly I can not find online to link, it may be retired, but I love these rose images, and thought this would be a great set to try this look with.

I stamped my image down onto a piece of Canson XL Watercolor paper, and then die cut it with one of the Mini Scalloped Rectangle frames.  I stamped this main image using the Barely Beige Ink from SSS, and used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to do my coloring.  This is a unique look and different from any thing I've done before, but I think I like it!

Once I was completely done with my coloring, I set the panel aside to dry.  I did the rest of my die cutting, and die cut a piece of the Watercolor wash 6x6 papers from MFT, as well as a piece of Fog Card stock from SSS.  My card base is also Fog card stock.  This is a great neutral, and a great alternative to white.  

I went on and stamped out my sentiment from the Craft Friends stamp set from Altenew using the Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink.  I adhered everything onto my card base using either foam tape, or the Tonic Nuvo Glue (which I am testing out).  For final touches, I added some shimmer with the Clear Wink of Stella pen, and finished the inside by stamping the stamp rose image with Fog ink, and stamping another sentiment from the Altenew set.  

Overall, I think it turned out good, but I will continue to practice and see where my journey takes me with the No Line coloring technique.

Thanks for stopping by today!  All the supplies used are listed/linked below and the video is above if interested! Take care!

-Kari

Simple Water Color Resist | Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolor

How is everyone enjoying Spring so far?!  Today I wanted to share a simple water color resist technique using my Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colors!!  Such a nice set of water color!  Worth every penny in my opinion!

I used my Strathmore Ready Cut card stock for this tutorial, and I am still not sure how I feel about it, but I do however, like that it is already cut down to a manageable size. 

I also wanted to make a square card for something different!  All the supplies as well as the video tutorial is below!!

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LSC # 105 Watercolors

How's it going everyone!  So we have a brand new challenge over at Lawnscaping - featuring Watercolors.  If you love watercoloring with what ever medium - distress inks, pencils, traditional water colors, etc then this is a challenge you will enjoy getting creative for.  I don't water color all that often, but I do like to experiment when I do.  

For my card I used Distress Inks - and I went with a traditional "ROYGBIV" - and for those of you that do not know what that means - that is the order of the color wheel - RED - ORANGE - YELLOW- GREEN - INDIGO, VIOLET.

I love these rainbow set of colors - it is very pleasing to the eye.  I wanted to get ink up the stamp set Color My World ( that was a Black Friday special from Lawn Fawn) since I hadn't yet since owning it.  I stamped the crayons all over my die cut water color card stock piece, and used Staz On Black Ink for this.  Since I was water coloring over the top, I needed an ink that wouldn't smear when water came in contact, and Staz On is a perfect ink.  It is a crisp black ink as well.  So I used Fired Brick, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean, Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord for my Distress Ink Colors. Once I was finished water coloring and got it how I liked it, I used my heat tool to set it for a quick dry time.  You could of course let it air dry as well.  Then, I went in with some droplet of water to give it more of a water color effect and also heat set it. I added some foam adhesive to my main panel since we did use lots of water - there was some warping.

For my sentiment - I stamped the sentiment from the same set in VersaFine Onyx Black and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder onto a piece of vellum.  I didn't want to take away from my main panel so that is why I chose vellum. I adhered my water color piece onto a piece of True Black card stock, and then adhered that onto a piece of WoodGrain Card stock from SSS.  My card size is a 5x5 square card - I love this size!

You can't tell from the photos, but I did add a little shimmer with my Wink of Stella to some of the crayons.  Be sure to get your water colors out, and join us for this fun challenge!!  Our sponsor is the wonderful folks over at Ellen Hutson!  There's a chance to win a $25 dollar gift certificate!!  

See you all soon!!  

Kari

Hello, You

Hi all!  I just wanted to pop in quickly to share a new video tutorial that is now live over at my YouTube Channel!  I used some Distress Inks, and several products from Simon Says Stamp!  Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend!  

Card Collab with Christy from Christy Gets Crafty

Hi everyone!!  I have a fun and special post and video to share with all of you.  My sweetest and dear friend Christy from Christy Gets Crafty and I came together to do a card collaboration.  We used the stamp stamp set and color combination.  She chose the stamp set Gleeful Gardens from Lawn Fawn and I chose the color combination that we used.  I chose it from Pinterest.

  

YOUTUBE VIDEO tutorial

I think these two combos worked well together!!  I got brave and decided to do some water coloring for my card.  When I saw the color combo picture, I immediately thought of water color.  So - that is what I tried my hand at.  I started die cutting my water color card stock from Tim Holtz with the largest of the Small Stitched Square frame dies from Lawn Fawn, and then I prepped my card stock with my embossing buddy powder bag for embossing.  I embossed all of my images with my Hero Arts White Embossing Powder, and heat set it with my heat tool.  Then, I used 5 Distress Ink colors to do my water coloring - Evergreen Bough, Worn Lipstick, Old Paper, Gathered Twigs, and Shabby Shutters.  If you watch the video you will see I had a lot of area to cover, but I think the end result turned out pretty well!  Once I was done with the water coloring, I sprayed my piece with Mister Huey's Shine Spray Mist and it gave it something extra and it didn't look so flat.  I then prepared the rest of my elements by die cutting a piece of pattern paper from an older 6x6 pad I had.  I used the Neopolitan 6x6 from Dear Lizzy. I die cut it using the Large Stitched Square frame and I created my card base from a piece of Butter Mints card stock.  I cut it down to 10 x 5 and scored it at 5 inches to create a square card. I adhered my pieces together and called it done!  

I enjoyed doing this collab with Christy.  She is a dear friend and such an amazing talent!!  I am a lucky gal to have her in my life and as a friend!!

Please go check out her card HERE for this collaboration and there you will have a link to her video as well!!!

See you all soon!!

Kari

LSC #86 Watercoloring

Hello fans of Lawnscaping!  Welcome back to another new challenge!  We are focusing on the more than ever popular water coloring!  Do you like to water color?  For some it may be new, intimidating, or your favorite technique - either way - we'd like to see what you'd create!

Our sponsor is the super awesome Lawn Fawn!!  How awesome is that!?  Here is what I came up with for my project featuring water color.

I used the adorable mini set "Get Well Soon" by Lawn Fawn - I thought it would be cute and different to use the little band aid and spell out " Hi".  I used some of the Tim Holtz Water color paper and stamped all of my images in Staz On Ink since I was water coloring, and it is a water proof ink. I used Distress Inks to water color my background and birdie image.  I used Evergreen Bough, Wild Honey, Mustard Seed, and Worn Lipstick.  After I did my water coloring, and once it was dry, I die cut my piece with one of my Sizzix Circles Dies.  I thought the edge of the circle needed a bit of definition, so I added a bit of Black Soot to the edge, and it makes it stand out better against the Lawn Fawn card base I used - these are the Lawn Fawndamentals notecards - they are a 4 bar size which is 3 1/3 X 4 7/8. 

I added some Wink of Stella to my bird, and my "Hi" and added some glossy accents to the band aids.

Here is a closer look

Hopefully this card would perk any one up that was feeling under the weather :)  Be sure and play along!! There is a great prize to be won by Lawn Fawn!

See you soon!

Kari