AECP Level 2 Creative Watercolor Media

 

Creative Water Color Media                    #altenew #atlenewacademy

For this course Jen Rzasa, Debby Hughes and Laura Bassen worked together to create 6 lessons around the theme of water color mediums.

Lesson 1  Quick Easy Watercoloring with Crisp Dye Re-Inkers  

This lesson narrated by Jen showed different way to use creative media to get fantastic water color results.  Here artist marker reinkers were used on water color paper using the floral stamps from the Tryly Amazing set.  White embossing powder was used for the flowers and Iceberg and Emerald were used for color.  The sentiment from the Beautiful Day stamp set was embossed in Black.  several White Satin sequins were used on this top panel.  The Tree Bark embossing folder was used to create the lower panel and foam tape adhered the two together.

Lesson 2  Metallic Shimmer Sprays

Debby created a card with Metalic Shimmer Sprays,  For this version The Wild Hibiscus stamp and die set were used.  These slowers were created using clear embossing ink and gold embossing powder then painted with Lavender Fields, Coral Berry, Lagoon and Warm Sunshine.  These flowers were put on a a background sprayed with Lagoon Ink Spray with bent up petals and foam tape.  A butterfly from this set was also added to the front panel.  This base was put on a piece of coordinating card stock.  The Happy Birthday sentiment was is from the Birthday Greetings stamp set and stamped in Clear embossing ink and white embossing powder.

Lesson 3  Painting with Ink

Laura's first lesson was a shakercard.  The card I created used a stamp from the Timeless Tulips stamp set in Obsidian Black ink on color card stock.  To paint this images the following inks: Buttercream & Warm Sunshine, Pink Pearl & Coral Bliss, Soft Lulac & Lavender Fields,  Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades & Moss and Eastern Sky.  When this bouquet was dry it was die cut out and adhered with foam tape to a piece of clearm film.  The top was created by cutting a large oval from the center of a piece of multi colored dotted card stock.  To create the shaker componenet foam tape and multi colored sequins were used to adhere the dotted card stock to a pink card base with space for the sequins.  The let's celebrate sentiment is from the Birthday Greetings stamp set.  A white piece of paper was cut down to fit inside to have a place for the message.

Lesson 4  Watercoloring with Ink Sprays

Jen's last card used an easy watercoloring technique using Ink Sprays.  Using Black Obsidian ink to outline stamp one Garden Hydrangea and 3 leaves from the Garden hydrangea stamp & die set; Lavendar Field & Coral Berry Metallic Shimmer sprays dropped on the wet flower and Lagoon, Forest Glades and Warm Sunshine blended the colored leaves.  Once the componenets were dried they were adhered to a light teal piece of card stock that was scored around the border.  The You are simply awesome sentiment from the Flourishing Zinnia stamp set was used along with 3 black enamal dots to complete this project.

Lesson 5  Crisp Dye Inks

Debby created a water color background with crisp dye inks.  Without access to masking fluid I chose to use black embossing powder then created masks for each flower and it seemed to keep the flowers clean and dry while the back ground was created.  The smoshing technique involved using Razzleberry, Moss, Warm Shunshine and Tanganite for the background and Moss, Orange Cream Andromeda and Warm Sunshine for painting the flowers.  The Congratulations sentiment is from the Beautiful Insights stamp set and the flowers and border are from the Hennah Elements set.

Lesson 6  Colorful Backgrounds with Re-inkers

This final lesson in this series was with Laura usng re-inkers to water color.  After preparing the watercolor card stock many blooms and leaves from t  he Queen Anemone stamp set were embossed in white embossing powder.  Here are Soft Lilac, Hydrangea, Midnight Violet, Coral Berry, Butrtercream and Moss.  This water on water technique was used to create four cards each with different sentiments all in Obsidian Black ink.  The sentiments were from the Birthday Greetings, Elegant Sayings, Layered Lillies and the Gracious Peonies stamp sets.

       

   

                                       

AECP Level 2 BEAUTIFUL DETAILS

 Beautiful Details                              #altenew #atlenewacademy

Marika Rahtu created this 6 Lesson Class in 2016 to challenge us to try adding coloring and details with different mediums to make our projects more interesting and unique.  

Artistic Flowers

This lesson involved using markers instead of inks to create an image.  The markers I owed didn't work well for using the second generation technique.  I used Stampin' Up's Bordering Blue Stampin' Write Marker with varing amounts of pressure and overlapping the images.  The point end of the marker was used to add detail strokes to the flowers.  The stamps used were just 2 flower parts from the Water Wonders Stamp Set and one of the leaf stamps.  The sentiment was stamped in Ultra Violet Crisp Die Ink.  The top panel was trimmed by 1/8" and placed on a coordinating piece of card stock with Violet dots created with Liquid Pearls.

                                

Detailed Leaves

For this project the leaf and flower from the Beautiful Day stamp set were used.   The leaves were stamped with a Grey Denim then colored with Black and Moon Rock Woodless Pencils.  At the end the white pencil was used for blending.  The flower outline was created with Obsidian Ink and Silver Glitter Embossing powder.   A light wash of midnight Violet was used on the left side of the top panel with Lavendar Fields splattered on top.  The sentiment is from the Beautiful Quotes set. 

                              

        

 

Majestic Bloom/Tree Peony

For this project the Tree  Peony stamp and die  set provided the floral component. The peony was stamped with Iceberg crisp dye ink on all 3 layers, while  Forest Glades was  used for  all layers of the leaf.  To add detail  Faber-Castell colored  pencils were used on bot  the peony and the leaf.   A watered down mix with Ultramarine was used on the background  and  for the  splatter.    A piece of  blue  washi  tape was added  for  some   contrast.   This  sentinment  came  from  the  With Deepest Sympathy die set.

Sunflower Daisy

Gracious Peonies was used for this project.  Versa Magic ink and Clear embossing powder sealed the design to the velum and  Arist  Markers were used to color  the image.  Mango  Smoothie, Warm Sunshine and Butter-nut for the peonies and Frayed  Leaf and Forest Glades were used on the leaves.  The back panel was blended with Caribbean Sky,  Sapphire and Persian  Blue.  This is a  large image so a large  oval  was  used  to  lift up the image with fun foam.  When adhereing the flower image to the oval the glue was  put  on  the colored  side not the reverse.  The Hello sentiment  was from the Elegant Sayings stamp & die set. 

Delicate Bloom

The fifth card in this session was created using the bloom from the Crown Bloom stamp & die set.  The flowers outline was stamped with Gray Denim and colored with a black Faber-Castell pencil.  An ujltraviolet pencil was used to color the inner sections.  A mask was created to allow for the flowers to overlap.  White embossing powder was used instead of the clear which would have looked better.  The sentiment came from the Hennah Elements stamp set and Ultraviolet crisp dye ink was blended onto the top and bottom of the card.

Flowers in the Water

To finish this final class the tree limb from the Vintage Flowers stamp set was stamped in Vanilla Cream Crisp Dye ink.  With Artist markers and Woodless coloring pencils the stem was enhanced.  The flowers were put on with Artist markers and details with the woodless pencils.  The water was water colored with paints and the sky was created using a blending brush.  The sentiment  is from the Elegent Sayings stamp collection.  Although not the most beautiful card it was interesting to create using different mediums.

AECP Level 2 Color Your Day

  

Inspired by Color           #altenew  #atlenewacademy

Therese Calvird created 6 in-depth tutorials to inspire one to add colors to projects.