The challenge for
Summer Camp this week is to use an art medium. It's so much fun to look around at your stash and see what can be explored! I thought it would be a good idea to review a few simple things that you can do with watercolors that will help you gain points for your cabin and make some beautiful things at the same time!
Remember this fabulous
sheet of UM stamps from the Orient Express collection? I love that sheet, especially for masculine cards. That's what I'll use for our techniques.
Grab your watercolor crayons and pencils--my favorite art mediums!
Mist the unmounted stamp with water, and color directly onto the moist stamp with the heel of a watercolor crayon. You can use just one color, or mix and blend for variety.
Stamp onto a beautiful felt finish Ivory from Orient Express. Without adding color to the stamp, re-mist, and stamp again for a second image.
Use the image on a card panel or scrapbook page. Here, I just cut the art piece into randomly sized quadrants.
This is another image from the same UM sheet stamped with the same technique. The second softer impression of the image is on the base of the card panel. The first bolder frame was cut from the stamped sheet and layered onto the card with foam adhesive.
Here, I started by stamping the word onto a piece of smooth white paper first, and then covered it with a mask made of a Post-It note. Next, stamp the image over the mask, and remove the mask. Cool effect, eh? (It's helpful if the masked image has a defined area, like the frame around the word.)
Color the image with watercolor pencils. (I may be 40, and I STILL love to color, don't you?)
Blend the colored areas with a water brush.
My favorite part--use a really moist water brush tip and the watercolor pencil to create splatter on the stamped image. Speed the drying process with a heat tool.
Here's the finished card. So pretty! Notice how I stamped the Blue panel with that nifty splatter image from the same sheet of stamps.
What's your favorite medium? Post your answer in the comments below, and next week Tuesday I will randomly select someone to receive a super-fun treat from the clubhouse!
Hi Tricia! Love all your OE cards! I think some of my favorite art medium techniques involve embossing powders. There are so many ways to use them. Of all of those techniques, I love the resist that those powders offer. Such cool affects. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteEver since you introduced us to Faber-Castell Gelatos, I've been a fan. I love to use the gelatos and the watercolor crayons the most, I think. Oh, and spray mists with CS stencils. And....oh man, I don't really want to choose.
ReplyDeleteGreat technique - I do like using water colors - as well as the other - I think I like the different things you can do with water colors better....Thanks for a great card and chance to win. that's a kit I haven't been able to get yet.
ReplyDeleteClub Scrap has taught me to use watercolor pencils, crayons, and gelatos and i love them all! But I think my favorites are definitely pastels!
ReplyDeleteYou card samples are just great. I'm mainly into my scrap booking now and my favorite art medium is Crystal Effects. I love to use the Cricut to make letters then I have to make them POP by adding my Crystal Effects. What a difference.
ReplyDeleteI'm still a huge fan of water-based dye inks... so many great techniques with them, dilute them, mist them, salt them, press paper into them, stencil them, watercolor with them, create custom ink pads, distress with them... the list goes on forever!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite art medium technique has to be shaving cream and reinkers. I love the swirly soft look it creates. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteGreat techniques. I just adore watercolours(pan), I keep coming back to them time and time again.
ReplyDeleteLove your cards, I like water color penciles they give a wonderful look to any stamp I use. Thanks for sharing your work and the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteI like my Copic markers.
ReplyDeleteI'm really lovin' the Gelatos right now - just learned a cool resist technique with them & its showing up on everything I do!
ReplyDeleteLove the cards and love my Copic markers!
ReplyDeleteCan I just say "I love them all"? I tend to go in streaks -- I'll watercolor for a while with my little twinklers (can't remember the official name," and then I'll use markers and water-based ink.
ReplyDeleteThen I'll take a break, and use my prismacolor pencils and blending medium -- usually a pen, but sometimes I'll break out the odorless spirits.
I've got to use my Copic markers, too, and I love to do paper piecing when the stamp seems to call for that!
I love any kind of mister, either with one of Tricia's fab techniques or just a little most for pizzaz.
ReplyDelete*mist. Big thumbs little keypad.
Deletevery cool
ReplyDeleteMy favourite medium is watercolours. I have pencils, tubes, pans and (the latest) Inktense blocks and pencils. Can't get enough of them!! Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteDiane Young
empressoftheuniverse@shaw.ca
LOVE this, Tricia.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to choose a favorite art medium. I really like playing with anything shimmery - glitter pens and marker, glitter glue, glimmer mist.
Lately I'm playing with iridescent medium. Think I'll pull that out for Summer Camp!
Beautiful cards Tricia! I've learned a lot of different techniques from Club Scrap and for that I am forever grateful. I like watercolor pencils and my Prismacolor pencils. I also like to use my new distress markers.
ReplyDeleteArlene Plastine
Whoa, I won a prize - terrific - thank you! Love seeing Orient Express used in such creative ways - it is a kit that has stumped me a bit, but that usually means I land up loving it - you have given me some new ways to think about it!
ReplyDeleteI love the art media challenge - I am a big fan of embossing, but gotta say love watercolor - paint, pencils - doesn't matter!
My favorite thing is coloring with pencils and blending with gambsol. I usally color stamped images but coloring the embossed ones are easier. so I will use clear embossing powder then color.
ReplyDeleteGosh, so hard to pick, right now I have been using Distress markers on a craft sheet, mixing w/water. I made several cards and just need to post them in the galleria.
ReplyDeleteI love Orient Express stamps and kit!
Cathy
Great ideas - I have crayons and gelatos and pencils all floating around for this!! My favorite medium though is probably the mists because with minimal effort you can get something really nice and many of them are blingy on their own!
ReplyDeleteI love my gelatos and I also like my spray mists. Thanks Tricia
ReplyDeleteMarcia Coleman
Love the masking with the words! I love my crayons, glimmer mists, and embossing powders
ReplyDeleteRight now my favorite is spray mists with stencils. CS has such a wide variety of stencils so using my mists is easy peasy. Thank you for all you.
ReplyDeleteAnnetted
Thanks for the instructions!
ReplyDeleteI see the art medium challenge and get scared, because while, yes, I have lots of the mediums, I get intimidated and don't know what to do with them. I do like my mists, though. And glitter is fun, especially for my girlies' pages. I'm thinking it's time to crack open the gelatos, though. Or play more with my watercolors. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm another one who goes from medium to medium -- chalks, water color pencils or crayons, mists, stencils, gesso, crystal effects, distress inks and distressing in general, etc., etc. One thing I find myself incorporating into all of these is resist embossing. It's like "2 magics in one." First, you get the magic that always comes when the powder melts, then a second magic when the image appears bright and clear from behind whatever you apply over it. Thanks, Tricia, for another great look into ways to expand our thinking (and our images!). Can I count you as a favorite medium?
ReplyDeleteYou are too sweet, Lucy!
DeleteMy favorite is actually watercolor pencils! I was never able to get the hang of using watercolors without making a huge mess, but watercolor pencils are the perfect medium for me. I can get a sheer color, or a deep one, just by varying the amount of water I use. My other favorite is ink....which I love in all colors and types! Chalk ink, dye ink, pigment ink, metallics, distress....I love it all!
ReplyDeleteI started out with the watercolor pencils and still use them on and off but totally lost my heart to Copic pens. Very pretty card.
ReplyDeleteI love using sprays, mists, whatever you call them - love making my own with water and various things like perfect pearls, etc. So much fun!
ReplyDeleteI'm still into the old fashioned regular colored pencils. There is just something soothing about coloring-even as an adult ;)
ReplyDeleteRight now my favorite medium is ink, but I am recently trying my hand at some art journaling so experimenting is the game there so I love when I learn something new and then I pass that along onto an ATC, recently did an art pastel scribbling with india ink over top to make scratch art...it was great.
ReplyDeleteI love dye inks! I like to mix them with water and Pearl Ex powders to make my own glimmer mist. Also just like to use them as-is for stamping and edging!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your tips on using watercolors. I love the splatter technique! As for my favorite medium, that would probably be markers. I love stamping an image and then coloring it in and I have a big set of markers that I use all the time. I do want to learn how to do blending better though...but it's still fun!
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