Garden Girl Stamp Set with Water Coloring Tips
August 08, 2017
After yesterday's masculine card, today we're doing a 180, over to the darling new stamp set called Garden Girl.
These cheery summertime images lend themselves to any kind of coloring technique you can imagine, but today I'll be sharing a card using watercoloring along with some tips . The line art on these sweet characters will definitely bring a smile to your face!
Watercolored Garden Girl
- Ink up girl image (Garden Girl stamp set) with Versamark ink, then stamp on Memento Tuxedo Black Ink pad. Then stamp on 3-3/4" x 5" piece of Shimmery White cardstock. Cover with Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder, then melt with Heat Tool.
- Create a "mask" by stamping girl again on piece of thin scrap paper or large sticky note. Cut out image just inside the lines. Place mask over stamped image with a tiny amount of adhesive. Stamp fence on either side using the same stamping/heat embossing as described in Step 1.
- Watercolor using Aqua Painter & Ink Pads, as follows (see tips below):
- So Saffron=Hair
- Powder Pink & Crumb Cake-Skin
- Sweet SugarPlum=dress, bows
- Always Artichoke=basket
- Peekaboo Peach=carrots, sentiment
- Pear Pizzazz=carrot tops, grass
- Soft Suede=fence
- Emerald Envy=boots
- Smoky Slate=shadow around girl
- Soft Sky=sky
- Once dry, adhere to 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Sweet Sugarplum cardstock.
- Wrap Sweet Sugarplum 3/8" Grosgrain Ribbon around panel and tie in a bow. Adhere completed panel to folded 11" x 4-1/4" Shimmery White card base
- Stamp greeting (from Wood Words stamp set) with Peekaboo Peach ink. (a sweet greeting to coordinate with the "bunch of carrots"!) Die cut with 1-1/8" shape from Layering Circle Framelit Dies & Big Shot. Adhere to card with Stampin' Dimensionals
Watercoloring Tips
- I like to heat emboss images so the watercoloring doesn't bleed into other parts of the image. Gives me a little more control.
- Tightly squeeze closed ink pad lid into bottom of pad. Open to find a "pool" of ink in the lid to use for coloring.
- Let one area dry before coloring the area next to it - also helps prevent bleeding over.
- Take a clear block and stamp one half onto Powder Pink ink pad and the other half onto Crumb Cake. Blend inks together with Aqua Painter to get a skin tone color.
- I like to water down the paper first for sky and grass then go back and add color, to get a more muted and even look.
- A gray outline makes your image pop off background.
- Take your time with watercoloring and you'll be more satisfied with the results!
Here's another Garden Girl sample created by Stampin' Up! with a little bit of a Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz vibe to it...cute!
If watercoloring is your thing...this sweet stamp set is a must-have. Be sure to add Garden Girl to your shopping bag today! See supply list below for shopping online.
Enjoy~Dawn O
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