We are traveling for the rest of the month and while I knew I would go into withdrawal if I didn’t have some paper crafting to do (I miss being able to enter challenges, etc.), I never know what to bring. It always seems as if I pack the wrong stuff and there’s no way I’m going to try to brave the horrendous traffic by the University to go to Michaels to buy what I ALREADY have back home. So… I asked my friend Janice, who ALWAYS takes something with her when she travels, what would she recommend. Well, she steered me to two YouTube videos, one by Jennifer McGuire and the other from a blog called Joggles, where there is a video on creating backgrounds using alcohol inks and deli paper (I need to find deli paper somewhere...)
Anyway... I packed relatively lightly: several kinds of paper/card stock/tags, my Copic Markers, my Inktense Pencils, a white pen, a Tombow blending pen, a water blending pen, some stamp sets, stamp cleaner, a pair of CutterBee scissors, an acrylic block and my Misti (which really isn't performing as well as I had hoped...)
I started playing around about three days after we arrived here in Florida. I decided to try the Jennifer McGuire technique first. It involved stamping in white ink on colored stock and then “shading” with a white pencil. I used Heartfelt Creations background stamp called “Bella Rose Lattice” (HCPC 3396) in Color Box “frost white” on various colors of Graphic45 6x6 “Patterns & Solids” (4500694). After selecting one in a kind of rusty brown color, I used my Inktense “antique white” (2300) for the shading of the flowers and leave, leaving the trellis untouched.
Anyway... I packed relatively lightly: several kinds of paper/card stock/tags, my Copic Markers, my Inktense Pencils, a white pen, a Tombow blending pen, a water blending pen, some stamp sets, stamp cleaner, a pair of CutterBee scissors, an acrylic block and my Misti (which really isn't performing as well as I had hoped...)
I started playing around about three days after we arrived here in Florida. I decided to try the Jennifer McGuire technique first. It involved stamping in white ink on colored stock and then “shading” with a white pencil. I used Heartfelt Creations background stamp called “Bella Rose Lattice” (HCPC 3396) in Color Box “frost white” on various colors of Graphic45 6x6 “Patterns & Solids” (4500694). After selecting one in a kind of rusty brown color, I used my Inktense “antique white” (2300) for the shading of the flowers and leave, leaving the trellis untouched.
I have several more sheets of this card in different colors, as well as a few refolded cards from DCWV “Card Stack” (Earth) similarly stamped so I might try this again in a few days. Here’s hoping that pencil holds its point because I didn’t bring a sharpener with me! AAACK!
While I had that Heartfelt Creations stamp out, I stamped two manila tags with Archival “Jet Black”. On the same day I played with the shading, I colored in one of the tags using Inktense pencils (“antique white” 2300, “ink black” 2200, “apple green” 114, “teal green” 1300, “leaf green” 1600, “tangerine” 103, “poppy red” 0400,and “cherry” 0510) and a water blending pen:
While I had that Heartfelt Creations stamp out, I stamped two manila tags with Archival “Jet Black”. On the same day I played with the shading, I colored in one of the tags using Inktense pencils (“antique white” 2300, “ink black” 2200, “apple green” 114, “teal green” 1300, “leaf green” 1600, “tangerine” 103, “poppy red” 0400,and “cherry” 0510) and a water blending pen:
I will reserve the other tag for playing with Copics…
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